The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-17
Brooklyn at Chicago.
New York at Cincinnati
philadelphia at st. Louis
Some Baseball Talk
By HALF NELSON.

By HALF
The Colts went after that much
coveted second place In the percent
age column yesterday very much like
a crab. They had as much chance
against Shaughnessy's men as q pauper
in gambling house and that Is no,
considered to be anything to bank on
Andrada and Cefalu had everything
their own way. and verbout and Nor.
rissey didn't. Incidentally the games
helped Roanoke somewhat
Roanoke, by the way. is scheduled
to play twelve games with Petersburg
during the next six days. There Will
be three double headers In Roanoke on
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and
the same program in Petersburg dur
ing the latter part of the week, which
is going some If all the games are
played. The games are the result of
the rains several weeks ago. (which
flooded Roanoke and then followed the
Highlanders to Portsmouth, which was
the sea.
Manager shaugnessy let catcher
go yesterday and wired Walter Doane
who was with the Cleveland Ameri-
cans. to come at once. That will put
five pitchers on Shaughnessy's staff.
and Doane is expected to lead the
bunch. With Doane. the High
landers will have about as nifty
a pitching staff as can be found in
league of the Virginia League class.
Cefalu. Andrada and Doane will form
trio that can do things. and the
other two are no slouches.
Jack Lawlor is still looking for
batter to put with the Colts. but there
seems to be very little hope Of get
ting such rara avis for the Rich
mond team.
Titman pulled off as pretty a piece
of work in the first game as can be
found anywhere Spratt slammed out
liner that looked fine, but Titman
came upon 1t like a whirlwind and
caught it just at the top of the grass
Again in the second game he pulled
off another. A liner found him on
the first bound and he whipped u
TO Bigbie in time to nail the runner
Roanoke. by the way. has some bat
ting pitchers. Cefalu3 picked out
hit that started things in the second
game and Andrada banged out two
clean singles in the first.
Burke showed that he had the
throwing arm with him when he
caught a long fly and whipped 1t
home almost in time to catch Press
ley, and which did keep Newton on
second base. And he got one OF the
hits that decorated the Richmond
score. f8&s
Jack verbout was In bad for two
innings. Not slightly bad. but
real simon-pure bad. He was, dis
covered and batted hard and then be-.
gan to give bases on balls. Three OF
these gifts arrived in one inning, and
that inning was slaughter.
DOYLE made great stab for
double play In the third inning ~ the
second game when. with Blgple on
first. Cowan scratched. Doyle caught
the ball and tried to tag Blgaie OUT,
Rigbie went to second untramMeled'
cowan died at first.
wallace had time Of it IN the
second game. Cefalu had the pleas-
ure Of tanning the bigMboy twice IN
the same game. and that IS soihs
some also.
uolland was the high card on the
ROANOKE team in the second game. ~
seemed that every time q ball was hit
Il wouId 20 by third base. The way
he snagged them and sent them over
TO first base is also worthy OF COM
ment. He didn't make an error IN
twelve chances. and some OF tnem
were difficult ones, too.
Shaughnessy also did great work IN
the field, catching what looked Ike
hits In two Instances he BOT Mes
that looked absolutely safe. and which.
had they not been caught, would nave
brought runs home. But tAey We're
caught
pad Pender was somewhat peeved
during the dast inning of 1.-The second
game, when the crowd Insisted on
both leaving the grandstand and see-
ing the last gasp. The gates IN the
front part of 'thes stand we've opened.
and men Were packed along me ont
side ten deep. There was nothing 70
be done, and although Pender yelled
at them and stopped the game while
he did SO, there was nothing -dolnRa