The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-12
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OF the teams for Thursdays great game
and they are receiving praise on every
side for their performances that caused
the contest to 60 twelve innings with
out victory for either side.
Few persons, however as is usually
the case. have stopped to think OF the
great piece of work done BY Umpire
Bob Pender in handling the indicator
through twelve close and hard fought
innings, with the score tied most of
the time. and all this without decis-
ion questioned
Ii Is seldom that an arbter can go
Through even nine inning game with
out protest from somebody, ard when
= one oficiates- for twalre- innings IN &
close game such as that of Thursday
he has done something if there are no
protests
Ii is no easy matter for an umpire
TO so it. alone and cover every play
on the field, and the best of them are
glad TO have company. Pender's per-
Torrance Thursday was something to
talk about. and IL Is indeed pleasure
10 see him work.
Speaking of the matter Friday, Man
ager Lawlor OF the Colts said: Pen
der worked In splendid form Thurs
day and few people can appreciate his
great work with the indicator. II there
were any protests from anybody 1 did
not hear them
Pcnder also did great work in the
recent series In Petersburg and in
each game there was perfect in about
every decision rendered.
Thursday he covered every base de-
Cision perfectly and on balls and strikes
he seemed perfect, no murmur of pro-
test coming from either batteries or
batsmen.
Umpire Westervelt is i'll in bed at
Roanoke and has not worked tor two
days. Secretary Gregory was not ad-
yised in time to send another man up
there to work and two games have
been played with players umpires.
Mr.. Gregory did not get word OF
the matter until Thursday night and
II was too late then to get a man
away he received a telephone call
from Westervelt Friday stating that
he Is better and may be able TO work
but Gregory win send either Mace or
Dav~7 TO Roanoke to work with him
or TO officiatei f Westervelt is una Bile
10 appear
Westervelt had rather a hard day
OF 1t Tue~day IN the close game be-
tween Norfolk and the Champs and
IL was thought at first that he had
quit his job Those VINO know him
however. do not consider him a quit
ter and unless sickness intervenes
WesterVeH VIII be on the Job when
the gong taps for the last game of
the season.
This is the last series Of games this
season between the Shoemakers and
the Colts FOR this reason they are
both straining themselves to get the
bigger share of the games Thurs
Gay game was d good staEtaE-s4.a
makes possible q double header for
Saturday.
In a way it Is lucky that 1t hap
psned so as the two clubs had no
postponed games and only a single
game was scheduled for Saturday.
Aefeiie- be ised In one or the
games and either Nerbout or Morris
Eey vii be used in the other. II Ia
Very likely that Sexton viii be on
the mound again for the visitors and
Grih1n may work in the other game.
In Fridays game Salve will work
II ne warns up we'll and If the south
paw Is not feeling well Nerbout Will
be on the mound. Messitt will be
~ the receiving end. For the visitors
II il likely that Brandon will do the
1Wiriing while Lucia will catch
Cowan caught q wonderful game
Tor the Colts Thursday and some nice
compliments are coming to the Irish
LAD for his performance. He has
picked up remarkably of late and
has been mixed up in many of the
Colts best plays. lie is hitting the
paii probably as hard as any OF the
other players and is showing speed
on the bases
Lawior Is now working his two re-
ceivers alternately. giving them a day
OF rest every other day. He figures
tnat IN this way the men are able TO
put up better game and that the
rest KEEPS them always in good shane.
Baker returned to the game Thurs-
nay and showed his best form. To
see him play IL would seem that he
had never seen a sick day IT was
expected that the little shortstop
would not be able to speed uu on
account OF a lingering soreness In the
region OF his appendix but IL he felt
any pain he did not show 1t.
Baker pulled on several remarka BILE
plays and cut off more than one nj,
BY fast fielding Ezekiel was with
the squad In uniform and had Baker
been forced TO quit the youngstey
would have bene showed in his place
Gordonsyfile Defeats Louisa.
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