The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-04-08
BY JAY LEWIS.

Weather permitting. the Athletics
Junior. will play the Richmond Pc.
MES in Broad Street Park Saturday
evening. In announcing ball games
these days il is quite necessary to
say weather permitting" for there
is no telling what the weather will
do.
sometimes ii Is just as sweet and
smiling as a pretty girl with q box
oil fudge AT other times IL Is as cross
ana gloomy as dyspeptic bach elor
1T breakfast time, And again it Will
do more weeping than a small boy
denied the right TO go to the circus.
Consequently 1t Is with the usual
reservation of weather permitting ii il
announced that the little old home
team will tackle them Athletics
Saturday evening
IL they do a. young man named Bar-
ker Will pitch fer Richmond. Bar ker
1s a boy picked up by Connie Mack.
and whom the gentle manager be-
lieves will make 81 real good pitcher.
Captain Topsy Hartsei, Of the Attn
Ietics, Junior. thinks so. too.
He was only hit once during our
trip, said Topsy in praisins Barker.
How many times did he pitcn ,"
Bouex for Barker.
oh. two or three tiInea,' declar ed
the descendant OF the Vikings, as he
strolled on 20 get the lineup OF the
Richfaoad team feF Tepsy and one
or two Of the demon Mackmen are
war correspond ents for Philadelphia
newspapers. Evidently Barker is some
pitche r---but who hit him?
Barker transferred himself from
The vtsitors' coop to tho home bench
Friday evening and watched his late
playinates maui his new companions
to 3. There may be those who Will
try to tell you that the score should
have been to }. or 8 to IN favor
OF Richmond. but they have no con-
sideration for Pop" Egap's feelings.
How Four Runs Wery, stn lie.
Topsy Hartsei. the fair haired juve~
niie--he Is having a second iacarna-
sion-stung O single to right field
Hessler bounced one that Boyce and
Egan went after while Pfahier COW
cred first Boyce got the assist and
Pfahler got tire out HArtsel moved
To second MeTr nes danced a dinky
little hunt hunt at Boyce and died.
BGyce to Egan. Hartsel foadled 10
third.
Then Mr. Hauser, Who Is under
studying Harry Davis for a leading
role In the Mack company IF play
ers, sent a rather fast one N Pop
Egan. Pop" stretched forth his
hands with q come to muh arms
muh ehee~id" gesture and ths ball
ieaped for them. 1t ieaped too high
and went to right field. Mr.. Hartsel
strorled home, hunirning the latest
and most popular song Of tina day
and Mr.. Haus-r went to- second.
Up came MIR. Derrick and derrtck ed
"a twe-saEEA-. Mr., Haaser tEotted
home. Then Pitcher Krause, who is
left handed. but who bats from the
left side OF the plate looking field
ward found one OF Mr.. BoyCe ofter-
ings and smacksd it sore, The bali
scared over the left field fierce. Four
runs iE---Hartsel. iiauser, Derrick and
Kraus.-and all because "a bad bali
took "a bad bound
Came Won Early.
What matter@d II IL the son %
Mack, whose gwen name Is Earl.
floated one oul TO McCabe? Tho ganae
was won right there, IN al intent
and purposes
lust 10 pot it beyond sill reradven-
ture OF a doubt the Athletics got busy
In thu third Inning
Slr. Hauser soaked the bali on the
gar. Snd il went to iefs fiesd Ia get
out of the way Two nases wac "tnt,
yield OF that su1ite Derrick tried To
sacrifice, but when the ball was toss
ed to Egan. Pop forgot to hold IT, WI
Derrick was SAT IS. Derrick darted for
second and drew "a throw from Sui
Ivan 1; WAS short and iaEser came
home. krAusS singled and Derrick
came around. Mack went out. E,gan
10 Royce- Omen laid down Il bunt
and krause seccred rcr ths plate, bur
nj ri
in skiea one 10 McCabe~
In the NTH Derrick got q life on
Bakers misl,'ay. Krause Hery
promptly whaied out IL two-hs-se- hit.
and Derrick tailed.
Mack went out Baker to Egan.
krause going ~ third. o'Neii laid
down n bunt and again krause made
Il dash for the plate. only to be pat
out Baker to LIZ dge, vine had taken
Sully's place.
Griffin got a single and Hartsel
walked. hut Hessler kindly obliged by
taking the count on three OF Mr..
Halls benders. Tor Hall had succeed
ed Boyee.
Last Run for Athletics.
Mc1unss scored the last run for the
juvenile Macknen in the sixth, Nc
innes was safe because Baker didn't
see the ball coming. He kept on to
second. iauS@r put hlfuseI on tha
altar, at which sacrifice Ekan Off
ciated Mcinnes, the bold. went to
third and when Derrick went out
Martin TO Egan, he came on home.
yerder, who had followed krause In
the box. went cut via the same route
In the next two innings Mr.. Hall
pitched nice ball, allowing q hit in
each inning hut no scores came across.
Hall really pitched a very good game.
and looks to be- AZ good a pitcher az
Sullivan has on his team. unless Bar
ker proves to be the long-look ed for
boy wonder.
Hall liz cool, has a good arm.
nice cross fire and has fair control. AL
together Mr.. Hall is looked upon by
the fans as a mighty good pitcher.
The Athletics got only four hits off
him In Ave Innings. He struck out
one man and gave one base on balls.
How the Colts Scored.
1t was not until the sixth inning
that the ponies scored. The top OF
the batting list came up to face Mr.
Werder who had relieved Herr
Krause Mr.. Werder Is a protege of
Socks Seybold. that stalwart athlete
now carrying weight with age. II may
be we'll to state right here that Mr..
Werder Is no wonder. But, anyway,
Baker patted little grasser to
Mr.. Werder and was tossed out to Herr
Hauser 1t was now the turn of Mr..
Wallace.
That beloved one endeared himself
for the entire game by banging the
ball for a two-bagger. He trotted
right around to home when pitcher
Grimm. who was galloping around the