The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-21

chronicler OF the acts OF and nap :
penings TO the Council baseball team
absolutely no pleasure to tell the ex-
pectant. GREATNESS, suspense-racked
public. II told you SO" Johnny Pow
ers. the poet, came back. There Is
no doubt about his coming back. ev-
erybody saw him. But he only stayed
back for two innings, and six OF the
nineteen runs scored by the Doctors
of Richmond yesterday came across
the plate in those two innings. Also
etgnt hits were contaminated. Tho
Conciliatory Councilnlen managed to
slip Ave runs across during the course
OF the game.
Not since the Old Guard went down
to utter humiliation on the field OF
Waterloo in a vain attempt TO wrest
monarchy out Of sunken road,
not since Pickett's Inmortals charged
through the leaden hail on the field
of Gettysburg. has q more glorious
sight been seen than the CouncilHen
OF Richmond taking their lives IN
their hip-pockets and going forward
with the grim light OF determination
in their eyes to utter defeat on tho
diamond of the Broad Street Park.
NOT a lip tremoled, not glance was
averted, not quail was shown; they
saw their duty and took their medi-
cine.
Couldn't Stay Back.
When the game started with the
hitherto peerless twirler. Johnny Pow
ers, In the box. the grand conooufse
that came for to see was full OF con-
tidence. No bunch OF sawbones, no
callow youths who have only just
come out OF the dissecting hall, could
put the shoulder Of the solons to the
mat Then came the shock. AWFUL
shock.
Johnny Powers couldn't stay back.
He looked good from the outside and
acted we'll for a few minutes-end
then. it came. Slews OF hits and
hurricanes OF runs: batsmen switch
ing to base runners and base runners
switching to scorers SO rapidly that
they couldn't be counted. So fast did
the runs come home that at one stage
of the game there We're two Doctors
fgh,ing like terriers for hold on
third bag. and they even had the
nerve to protest when one OF them
was called out for numbering the
bases
After the second inning Peetical
Powers was relieved of active duty,
and went to the centre field. while
Jones took his place in the box.
Jones confessed that he had not
pitched a game Of baseball for TWEEN
ty-odd years, but something had TO be
done, and he went in the box.
Then things began 10 happen sure
enough In the third and sixth IN
nings the Doctors could not score, but
in every other box there came from
one to six runs across the plate IN
the ninth inning the runners looked
like procession that had no end
Then 1t was that Jones's delivery was ;
solved discovered, worked and oatteu
out beyond hope OF repair Also there
were some errors that would nave maze
the shade Of Casey at the Bat weep
for JOY.
What They Put Across.
incidentally. by the grace OF proVl-
dence and the errors OF the Doctors
the Councilmen managed to put across
three runs in the first four innings.
Then, in the ninth inning, things nap
pened. Parker. who had played through
the innings with but three errors
slipped and fell and the ball danced 70
left field One man came in on tnat'
and a minute later another error
brought home two slices OF bacon,
which by way of remark, was not
enough to stack UP against the great
sides Of hog that the Doctors mad lad
away on the Ice.
SUFFICIENT to say that the pride OF
Richmond and the hope OF the CITY .E1all
was yanked from the hoping stone ana
fed on the dust of defeat at the hands
OF those who had looked SO easy 1t
seemed a shame to take the money.
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