The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-10
.ROTUMD SOLOMS ARE
GOING AFTER BLOOD.
Radcliffe IS Huskies
Ready to Scalp Law
Making Orioles.
no MEET DOCTORS
NEXT WEDNESDAY,

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Star Engagement in Baltimore.
Heavy Players Rounding In
to Form Like Giant of
Moana Springs That
Was.
Like the seven-times conquerors OF
ancient Rome, who, before beginning
| the campaign which would put the
1 flags OF eight countries in the temple
of Mars. did great exercise upon the
Campus Martius, SO have the Senators
of Richmond begun the campaign OF
| exercise which will place. the rela-
| tiyity between paunch and shin in
more graceful and human proportions.
and are training the eye and hand so
that those members and organs may
! more completely put to rout the Bal
| timore Council baseball team when
the representatives of tho two cities
meet on the diamond.
The battle, which will go down in
history as the second defeat Of Baiti-
more, Will be pulled off In the Bait.
more ball grounds, or some ball
grounds. and by the time the event Is
ready for the starters word, the
Richmond gladiators believe that they
will be In a position to put a mortai
lock on the hopes and aspirations Of
the Orioles and bring back steam
boat full of scalps to show for thefy
| trip.
| Last summer the Baltimore Council
team, with great hurrahs and cheers,
accompanied by newspaper men to
chronicle the defeat of the Richmond
/ ers, descended upon Richmond and
! was utterly routed. So great and de.
vastating was the defeat that the Bal.
timoreans plead for another game. and
with the knowledge that 1t would but
be another slaughter. Manager G. p.
Davis. of the Richmond team. acQui-
1 esced.
Rounding Into Form.
Since the latter part of June, al
Il though they know that 1t Is hardly
4 necessary. the Council players have
Il been working off the useless adipose
tissue in the Broad Street Park On
Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
And the way the adipose tissue is be-
ing put to rout is matter to make the
great Jeffries take notice. 1t has
rolled over in rivuIets and cascades.
Councilmen who went into the game
i hale and hearty. with pronounced ro-
tundtty of form, have finished the ar
ternoon's practice pale and wan and
{ crying for food.
II ~ OHueEs slHS ulTeCliOu OL4sGlyQ6a ftdt-
cliffe. the Councilmen have taken great
strides toward the key, and they have,
almost become finished players. AT
least Sunset Rogers stated last We'd
nesday afternoon that he was all
tagged out" and when he is in that
condition 1t would seem that he is;
about finished. Il
Among the veterans of thousand
| speeches who will figure, and they will
have to figure humorously. because
they have comedy figures. are Clyde
Radcliffe, catcher and field general:
i Beautiful Powers and Kid Melton,
4 pitchers: Douglas Richardson. frse
base; Good Paving Atkinson. second
base; Non Curvilnear Cutchins. short
stop; Hofbrau Boschen and SluggarS
4 Batktns. third base, and Jeff Powers
Jones, Workman Lumsden. Fred Pow-
ers and Sunset Rogers, felders. In
case he makes the team Rogers has
A declared that he would take Judge Ma
/. pier. the presiding genius of the home
plate and the foul tip, to catch the fly
balls. is
\. With such an unparalleled aggrega-g
ton OF brains and adipose tissue, tho
proposition is simple one at hrst.
glance. There can be nothing but q
funeral procession for the Orioles. and
the Richmond players will have to be
the pall-hearers. 1t is a shame to do
1t, but It must be done. and with grim
resolve lighting up their classic coun.s
tenances. the Richmonders ore going
to Baltimore to do 1t.
No later than week ago Rogers
actually caught a ball and returned
~ to second base without spill. Pow
ers mas thrown three benders over
the plate in foursinnlngs, and not one
OF them was touched by the batsmansE
or course. the batsman was slightly
VI nervous and all that kind of thing
. because he knew the reputation of tho
[ twirler, but even then the balls wen,
|, over the plate.
3 From Baltimore comes the news that
/ the Orioles have a full team--it is to be
! hoped that the word full will not be-
!, misconstrued-and that the team is
.. thirsting for gore. And the Richmond
} ers are ready to be bled Ii Baltimore
J can Withstand the shock.
Incidentally the Baltimoreans have
planned junket for the Richmonders
} that Will be thing OF beauty and q
Joy until the moning, Auto rides
: through the city, luncheons, wet
and dry, visits to points OF interest,"
and trip down the bay are all in-
cluded In the junket. Mayor Richard
son Is slated to go and see that the
boys uphold the honor OF the city,
and the Mayor of Baltimore.wiI be
on hand to give him the happy mitt
Later-special eXtra--It is rumoreds
that the Orioles are panic stricken over
the Richmond lineup and are con-
y siderlng putting a City Hall janitor in
the pitchers box. 1t will not do. Nee,
1t will no do, and the rules and regu-1
llations are being hunted up.
The Council team will devastate the
Richmond Doctors. team in the Broad
). Street Park on Wednesday Just by way
of getting the hands of the solons
in working order. The line-up will
j be as follows:
City Council--Ratcliffe. catcher; John
T.. Powers, pitcher; Melton, ntcher;
Cutehins, short stop: Richardson, first
base: Atkinson, second base Batkins,
! third base: Jones, third base; y. G..
Powers, left fleld; Rogers, centre field i:
\ Boschen, right held, Substitutes
! Workman. Butler F. III, Powers. Lums.
den,
Dictors-H ulcher. catcher: Htnch-s
!. man, pitcher; Smith, short stop, Bag, Y
by, first base; Parker, second base.
Z Gill. third base. Lewis. left field Pitt