The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-31
COLTS GIVE D
LEAGUERS
Newark Has No Easy
Pulling Out Victory 3
Richmond NJ
BOTH TEAMS POuME
BALL OVER FIr
Mc( ,innlty and Nerbout
Battle, Which Delight
Crowd At Broad
Street Park

Win the beginning Of the
waiting IN tn" wings and
rehcarsa!s on the boards, The
mated colts. uAder the IeadersM
Generalship, note the cap Ga
steven Griffin almost played 10gs
GInnitS's collection Of -bisr1eq
Ia. Il standstill and missed tyiG
score by the lnconsiderable fMC4 M
TWO runs. In other words, 1&
nifty and his ex ma iors pulled
I've runs, while the Colts coun
gallop4e'a long 70 the tune OF IT.
And even then II. us the SENT
remarked in telling the story II
dog and the uncaptured ribhfts
had not discovered ton late
second inning that his finger&A
turned To thumbs, his eye into q
glass bulb. and other minor ana
"ai trdnstigts-u tiuns. the score l&0(
have been tied, In that saYn4s$
"nd inning Graf managed to-
across three errors, Nerbout g3N&
two bases on balls, and the MI
bunch scored twice. 10 the tGTE{
AIRY but complete eclipse. of the "a y
Crowd Was Hocift.rOux. W.
While the crowd Of this. fAauX
which gathered To see what wssl
pected to be q slaughter, but tAix4
out to be an honorable defeatN T.
not Of Fourth of July proportfs3s
was voeiferous.. elamorous. enthu
tic. sareststicalIy critical Of the III
pire and loyal to the Colts. NosN1
lenee was observed from the "a 70
stand and, as the country corresr6f|
ents So aptly aud clearly put ii.
pleasant time was had by all ,eAssssss..lss
The chief feature of the ganlzs
the quickly fading propensities tsfhT
pitchers on both sides. Starting
with plenty of room, the scorefw
fore the game was half played An
entirely out of space for more bI1I
and If, as it seemed probable I'LL
ninth, the game had gone intST4
extended inning column, there, Nei1t
nave been trouble. 49,
That ninth WAS the prize inning
around anyhow The Colts had ~
trailing along for the better part
the game with ii minority OF onar1s
10 the visitors five. Then. Mace.
one man down, clouted out d t3dolSI
/
snow storm Muster. who had
cocded Brady. followed with the Aa1
brand of goods, which scored -
and put himself in a position to H<j
Coates flew out to centre field II
advanced Muster to third. and SIR
brought him home with at1
t1ournoy singled. but was not stf
enough to do real damage been
Hinton flew out a moment later.4U2
ting the side To the bad. s'ss2
McGinnity and Verbout. sass
The game started with McGtx|
and Nerbout doing the honors ;.
pitchers box FOR their respective MI
Verbout lost his wind in the seS
inning. however. and Brady to0lES
place. He made the first three
up knock out easy flies. and n n
not really his fault that Graf rUpl
three errors in the second. MC4a
nifty allowed three hits in the
two innings. but it was not UNTIL
third, when Sperry slammed 605
double- Dagger. followed by
gaining fly and hit. that the n
scored. After that little furry MS
nifty settled down to cases and Ntl
let the young man score aEaim.s
he YVES In the box. ssfs
In the fifth inning. with BraS1
the box. McGinnity's men 4uty5
gether for another tiutter. and
means of a base on balls, Il
and sacrifice fly landed two
across the goal. Collins starte}e
trouble by getting base on
Gable failed To handle one that s&{
his way. and then E. ZimmS{5
soaked out single. which brit
Collins home +. ZimIseJ
scored later on an aut.w
Everything was quiet Afte
until the ninth, when Collins ct09
out a three Dagger. which d1 d.
harm, and Muster saw his hit
one in the same place In the
part of the inning. With Mnsta1<
came two singles by Sperry and IT.
noy that brought in two runs, N
rally stopped there and the croW
home.
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