The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-03
{ RESULTS YESTERDAY.
Rich mend. =; N"rfulk, q.
ltonnokc. .0j PETERSBURG, =.
l.snchburS, q; Dnnvitlc, =.
STANDING or rHE CLUBS.
WHERE TnEY PLAY To-D.,Y.
NorfolIl al Richmond.
i.!nchburg ut DnIviiIe.
g' Petersburg ut Ronnukc.
ny GUS MAI.l,l!I,r.

II Gather round. brethren and listen
once mere to the sad Will Of tae hone
luis Richmond again lost 10 Norfolk
+ yesterday at the lot now given over
40 the Slaughtered Colts. ana this lime
- WAS due entirely to the fact tina
Z Charley Babb and his eight assistants
ffimnly played better ball than the To-
+ Gals No excuses; no r'epinings, no
blame attached. sullivan simply stack
led up against team which has got
omethins on the locals. That's all
there is to II. The score was Ito >.
few side remarks apropos of the
work of Umpire Henderson, His bat
TING average for the present series is
nothing divided by many. He is not
unfair. simply incompetent Ills work
Yesterday was Il joke and but for tho
jfnct That he played no favortc might,
have led to something serious 4 laich-
mond crowd is usually good -naturcd
and the crowd yesterday was no cN
ception to the rule. II simply laughed
which was about all it could do. 7
Henderson Right mctimcs.
sf Of pure regard for Mr.. Hender-
son. who evidently intended 10 do right
his shortcomings will not be i,cmiEeo
Indeed. 1t were far easier to mention
the few, the very few instances in
which he was right. in Justice TO him
II should be confessed that occast opaIIv
on balls and strikes, he guessed right
and also. in fairness to him he did
the same thing on base decisions. This
con fession is no more than right and
is cheerfully made,
* However the negative value of the
unipire's services yesterday had nom
ing wha tevcr 10 do with the Colts de II
feat, thought II may have had some
thing TO do With the exact score
Moreover. the game WAS so wearisone
and spread itself out through so many
tiresome minutui. that had not Mr.
Henderson done something 10 rt.,,,..
the tcdiousness Of tho occasion the
crowd might have left beroie II cla
Looking back over the game. even
though II was disastrous for our Side
~ produced some thing new in the art
of umpiring, and for that much we
should be thankful Ii is said thar
Henderson got an awful hard wallop
on the ankle in a game In Petersburg
~ this De true. the jar may have had
something 10 do with the working of
his mental machinery, and--but what's
the use, He is the umpire. and as long
as he Is. a'#trip to the ball park Is
worth making,
Colts Couldn't hit.
Contributing causes to The defeat OF
the Colts We're the effective pitching
OF Walsh with its corrolary-the incf-
fective hitting of those same Colts. as
witness the nine men left OH bases
anu the timely sticking of the visitors
7 VINO managed to find johnny Nerbout
Tor safe swats just when they were
most needed. Both Walsh and YER
bout were trifle wild. each passing
4 nve men, hut both struck out the same
number, also Ave. Liberal scoring LET'S
the Tars down with one error and the
Colts with none, but remember that il
Is liberal scoring. E
+ Roth boXmen gave a most excellent
41mitationof the tortoise doing a Mara
thon against time. and both ,ploddcd
! on Just as.'rnathodically and persistent
fly as that speedy e~emplar of speed
test. 1t was largely due to the slow
ness of these two operators that the
game went so long. when II should
have been played easily in fully one
half an hour less time.
Opportunities Wasted
To chronicle the game inning by
inning is to tell of opportunities wasted
\ and of scoring possibilities blasted.
q because none OF the smiling Johnnies
could connect properly.
+ Beginning with the second Inning
for in the FIRST Baker, Wallace and
McCabe were out in order-Richmond
got man as far as third base and
another on second, with only one down.
but at second and third they re-
mained. Cowan and Nerbout being
easy victims The only interesting
thing in this frame was the aboriive
sacrifice of Mattiss which developed
into pop-up, retiring the batter even
though Law and Phclan ran together.
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