The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-05-25
RICHMOND TEAM HOME AGAIN FOR
WEEK END GAMES WITH DANVILLE

first corner. Cowan is catcher.
His place is behind the bat. To be
sure, he has done excellent, at times
brilliant, work at first, but Cowan
has the gift Of playing any position
where In the infield or outtield and
Cowan will be right on the job. He
plays the game for all he Is worth
and is working to win every min
ute.
The boys are glad to get back from
Danville. To be sure, they only drop
ped one game, but they are of the
opinion that three belonged to them.
One or two are inclined to blame the
umpire, but the umpire has to be
reckoned with In every game.
1t may be that there Is an odd
atmosphere in Danville that has an
effect upon the arbitrator. There
may be a home-bug. one of these
bugs like a kissing bug, that infects
His Jumps" Ask an old base pail
player. however. and he Will tell
you the home-bug Is a humbug.
Danville won the first game and
tied the second because of lucky
drives on the part of Catcher Smith
Richmond won the last game by
banging the hooks Of Nancy Hanks
hard and timely. The boys also
pitched into Tone, who succeeded
Mr.. Hanks, and made him sing small.
Two OF their hits were for extra
bases, Barker and McCabe getting
two baggers.
Tone the Danville relief pitcher,
90 hon s.S ~.
liar Danville outfeld. Ordinarily the
hit might have been good for a dou-
Bile. but 1t rolled down hill so fast
McCabe couldn't catch up 10 it. Nor
gan got q two-bagger and Kaufman
triple.
Jack Barker who is the utility
man at present, was sent in at short
field owing to the indlspostion Of
Martin. Barker was four times IN
officially, scored a run. made two hits
had two putouts. two assists and no
errors. He stole base, helped In a
run with a sacrifice fly and one OF
his two hits was a two-bagger Pref
ty good work for a utility man who
can play the outheld as well as
pitch.
Some Of the fans are asking why
Barker hasn't gone into the box OF
late The reason Is that his arm II
troubling him. He couldn't get any
thing on the ball. had little strength
and seemed to be all run down. Man
ager Sullivan laid 1t to the wea Their
and Bakers inability to become ae-
climated. He decided 10 let him rest
up a bit. Then Wallace fell i'll and
Sullivan was obliged to use Barker
r. IL
no one 10 substitute for Martin he
had to put the pitcher in at short
field when the regular Infelder laid
off.
Incidentally Sullivan played the
first bag in the last game in Danvtlle
while Cowan went behind the bat
Suily had nine putouts and two as
sists without "a wabble.
cowan caught good game ard Por
Egan, Baker and Wallace were prom
inent In the defense. Pierce was fairly
steady. Hct weather agrees with the
hig pitcher. To be sure he walked
four men but that Is n small number
for Pierce In the course OF full
game. He has passed as many as -four
In an inning. Pierce Is rounding into
shape all right and when he ~eta GO
ing few pitchers will have anything on
him.
The race in tho Virginia State Lea
que Is close enough to stir up the most
pessinistic fan. Only eight games
separate the leaders from the tail end :
ers. There Is a change in the standing
of the teams nearly every day and
this sort OF work IL going to keep the
followers Of the game interested.
he hague should prosper, with the
teams punched and each going along
for all il Is worth Norfolk is making
the running now but next week II may
be Richmond or Roanoke.
There have been one or two calamity
howls but the only mistake made by
the league. up-tod date. has been the
signing of outlaw players from the
Tidewater League and 1t looks as il
that practice had been stopped effec-
tuafiy. AS far ar President Williams
is concerned he appears to be working
all the time for the good of the league
according To his ability. He certainly
is a great Improvement over an alb
sentee president Ike Jake Wells.
As for syndicate ball. there is a
whole lot of rot written about that
The average fan does not care a fig
about who owns club. II the news