The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-08-02

Jack Grim is the champion hard
luck manager. He is more Of hard
luck manager than Parson Perrynian
is hard luck pitcher. Grim had
baseball game practically won yes
terday The score was to ,, the
seventh inning had rolled around ana
Manager Ste Griffin was 80 suce re
would lose that ~ had sent green
pitt her tu The mound for tr!oEt,
The green pitcher. named Lt". per
formed very nicely from the time he
stepped into the. box AMI. enruura ged
ky, the Colts proceeded to resel with
Pitcher Rrveile. When the reVei Gas
over the Colts were leading, 20 4.
and Manager Jack liri mhad addi-
tional statistics to prove that he Is
the champion hard luck manager.
Manager Grim Vet his teeth, spit
words through them at his merry
men all and sicked them at the new
pitcher in the eighth. They failed
70 score. Neither did Richmond. for
that matter. but in the ninth the new
pitcher wabbled, Maths went out on
a hot shot to Willie McComas. who
relayea II to first. But Carney drew
a pass and then stole second. Lusky
drew a pass- -lnnl1 Ga- If I'M
pfre Mcbride was making the Kid
split the paa but Mcbride was nearer
10 the plate than the folks in the
grandstand who criticised him.
Bussey Saves Game.
Griffin waived the youngstcr 10 the
bench and the crowd gave him
round of applause as he walked there
Bussey went to the mound. Brown
was at bat and the veteran counter
signed pass for him, This would
naturally have brought Revelle to the
bat. bat Jack Grim sent Lake up.
Lake proved only d puddle. lie
famed.
This brought Johnny Bates up.
Bates. the pride Of the Peninsula fans,
Bates IS dangerous man TO have
at the plate. bat In hand. with three
men on bases. Any old kind Of hit
would tie up the game and possibly
win It.
Bussey looked at Bates, IIe shot
one over.
strike" howled Umpire Mcbride
HusSey shot another near the outside
corner and then another over the In
side corner.
strike" yelled Mcbride
Strikes Out Bates.
Bussey teasod Bates With another
On the outside aud then shot "a fast
one, breast high Bates swung at 1t.
missed aud the game Was over.
To say the fans were relieved Is
merely stating bald fact.
Aside from this thriller In the ninth.
the great features we're the rally Of
tine Colts In the seventh. the hard lack
pitching OF Perryman. the revenge of
Matty MATHS on Manager steve Grit
I'm. and the undoing Of Dutch Re-
velie when he had his game won
Pcrryman appeared To lee In fine
gppFH and the ETEa
20 the ball Was sharp and decided,
He started off as II he would pitch
fhut out bail, bat in the third couple
Of raps went where there wasn't any
one to field them and between hit
hy Brown a sacrifice by ReVelle.
,Are4-4.4Rser by Bates. n walk ttffva
g sacrifice fly by Hooker, two runs
came across.
Four Runs Arc scored.
A hit by Mattla Carneys out, ana
I.nsky's single brought In another In
the fourth, and in the 9th a double
hy Dutch with tive down, and Bnrke's
bungle on Rockers long drive
brought in the fourth.
In justice 10 Burke il must be said
that he made a great try and has
error appeared to be due To the fear
that Carter would interfere with him
Burke. besides was not in the best
OF shape YESTERDAY and only his pluck
sept him in the game.
But here was Richmond. fotir runs
to the bad. The seventh inning came
around with no change
Griffin sent Perryman to the bench
and called on young Eby WHO comes
from Washington for a try out kbA
struck out MATHS, the first man up
showing nice speed and q fancy break
Carney got To FIRST on Grtfhn : error
but Mace and Griffin nailed him when
he tried 10 steal Lusky sent 81 ny
TO Carter
Then came the fireworks
All along II looked ns i buten W"s
due 10 ger 4 pounding. Tor h{s OLD
time speed was missing and II
was only occasionally that his jump
ball worked properly In the seventh
came a deluge az hits.
How Richmond Won.
Raley went out. Carney 10 Elthh"r-
ger Tenant drew IL pass, tommy
Mace whaled ont a triple and Ten
nant scored. Willie Mc,omas hit safe
~ and Mace came In. Met omas drew
a throw from Revelle and the ball
went wild past first base and Nc
Comas went To third. Eby famed. nut
Carter smashed one nj Bates too not
TO handle and Mccomas came home,
Carter making first
Charley Strain was on the third base
coaching lines, roofing as well as
coaching. He got the boys IN the
hleachers all stirred UP and the din
was fearful Umpire Mcbride sa"
Charles stirring up the young enthu-
siasts, and sent him 10 the bench. vi
lie McComas trotted out and ne had
no sooner got there than he waived
his hands and the boys turned their
lungs loose again. Mcbride sent VIII
lie to the bench. and Remnant took
his place. Just as Fred Graf whaled
n double to the club house. Carter
misunderstood Tenants signals and
pulled up at third. He could have
scored easily. and steve Griffin was
mad enough to bite nails as he picked
up his piehald bat and threw 1t In the
dust.
Steve had batted in hard luck, Twice
Maths had waited for Steve's special
brand OF foul flies close TO the line, and
twice Matty had sent his old chief to
the bench by going over the line after
two long flies.
Waiting for Griffin.
Come on, Pm waiting for You,