The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-08-16

Norfolk stopped the Richmond club
IN Its advance toward the pennant Fes-
terday chiefly because Iron Man Fin
neran was Very stingy with his hits
after the first inning.
In the opening ira me- 1t looked ae
If Griffin and his men were going
TO ciout Bits hest stuff sill over the
yard bat the time the third inning
came along the fans agreed that the
lone tally scored by the colts N the
first frame was very much better than
a shut our.
Finnersn had the Colts right where
he wanted them, He used round
house curve and = fast one. Once he
struck out Burke on three Of The
round house variety. without attempt
ing TO mix en- up at all. After the
first inning no two hits came n the
sa me frame until the ninth. when
Burke and Tenant got singles. with
two down, Rogers then put one in
the air and Dodge took 1t for the
third out.
BY the san token this man Dodge
Is some baseball player, He covers
lots Of ground and he throws from
almost any old position. lie is pretty
fair batter and disputes with Fred
Graf and Bates the right TO he re-
gar deu as tue pest mira baSt man IN
the league.
Graf to ST. Louis.
Graf SO st. Louis dispatches say
has been bought to play third for the
Browns A certain party named
Austin PLAYS that bag now. and If
Graft dispiases Austin he viii have
10 hit trife harder tina his wont
Austin is fully as speedy as Graf
4. 10
also. he has the experience. so Fred
will have TO whale the bali properly
to get the job of holding down the
third corner
After the game news came that
Bill Ftnneran had been ordered IT,
Norfolk, from where he Will SO At
once to join the Philadelphia National
league team. 1t ia too bad he did not
get that telegram a little earlier
Richmond might have won the game
with Bill absent
Frank Blouut Battle Axe pupil,
practiced with the Tars Rtount was
the biggest sSsaier boy OF the lot and
he did great hornpipe around the
first bag. Stanley Bigbie giving him a
chance to shine. That boy can throw
the ball around He has a whip Ike
Walter johnson or Big Ed Walsh. He
practice, or he might make a great
catcher after learning The fine points
OF the game from behind the bat. He
La fact man around the first bag
bat he does not look like a third base
man, although that rs the position Re
has played with the amateur cham
pions
Hlount and Charley strain.
Bloants appsa rance with the Tars
may have been the jlnx that broke
up Charley Strain. strain had been
slated TO pitch the game bur when he
and Perryman started warming up
Griffin called for the parson
Perryman started Off In fine shape
He had lots of smoke and break To-
his ball that promised great results
besides. a new umpire. name Of
o Brien. was on deck and he seemed
able to call them right
Griffin, watching the pnrson closely
from second, seemed to think that he
lacked control. for in the second in
ming he signalled Strain 10 warm up.
/ The Tars were not hitting Perryms n.
but Kireher had walked In the frst
inning and Finneran had drawn n pass
in the third. Only q great stop by
Graff. OF kircher kept Ffnneran from
scoring. Graf went into the air
pulled the high bound down with his
left hand. shifted and threw kircher
out at first. 1t was a great play.
Perryman was going along like a
house afire and might have won his
game had not Burke dropped a fly
from Hinton's bat. In the fourth. TIE
ball was over In Carriers territory,
but Carter was laying for MIN over to
the left, so Burke went after the fly
He got under II. caught 1t. dropped
1t. booted 1t and by the time the hall
got to third base Hinton was there
too. Even then ne might have been
caught hut Graf dropped the throw.
Wallace followed with single and
Hinton scored.
Griffin Shifts Pitchers.
Griffin sent Perryman TO the bench.
That was his privilege. He might
have sent Burke. for that matter. but
he has more pitchers than hsidsss
Strain went In.
In this nsxt Mnnine Braun singled.
rinnsran sacrificed Ana Keller oauae