The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-21
WEARY BALL GAME
WON BY COOLERS
IN EASY FASHION
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enough to win any ball game in any
league. Fourteen mon left stranded ir
mldocean Is tho countup and comes
pretty near telling the story. Ofron.
sively, tho CLUB looked as strong a,
tho Athletics. Defensively. It wds
about the poorest Offset to the ad.
vanoes of tho enemy which has repro.
sented this town in many moons. I,
was ono OF those on days. In which
every man on the club. with tho pos.
aible exception OF MATHS, managed to
blunder.
Again IL may havo boon the numb
myers of tho players. though tho cold
didn't quito affect the Coolers SO
much as It did tho locals. Cambrun
! failed to 1.-Two up to his reputation. and
In tho frst inning walked two. heaved
wild onoc, which, helped out by couple
OF errora on the part OF John Flour
noy. counted i've times against him.
He struck out Busch in tho opener,
but tho ball ut which Hein,c smashed
was way over Lucfas Head, and
counted rs much az II O double had
been slammed TO tho fence.
Another auartetto of counts came
In tho fourth. when Camburn again
Carolan. IIowedcll and IIcdgepeth
each hit, tho lattor for royal triple
to centre. scoring finally on Simmons
out. Tho final duct oc 1aIiies camo
in the last Inning. when NcComas and
Gran managed TO break into tho
error column on comparatively easy
chances. giving lifo to Busch and
Barnett. Spencer hit TO right. scoring
Busch. and Barnett came over on
<lnlhonys out.
The telling Is easy enough. but thu
actual occurrences didn't look quito as
good Is tho story roads. When q ball
game covering but eight innings goes
two hours and twenty-five ninutca
, something is wrong. and something
was wrong yesterday.
Clicked Snckn Twice.
Twice during that ball gama tho
Colts had. tho sacks chokcd Without
being able to cross once. In tho
second. with nobody down and with
hits from McComas and Burke follow
Ing each other. a base on halls and
Griffin hit by tho pitcher. not run
counted. Baker managed 10 got mix
cd up with the poppics at second, and
100 Laughlin caught him city
block Lucia had died On ground
ball to first. and Graft WAS retired on
a great stop by Hcinlo Busch.
Almost tho same thing happened In
tho third. Flournoy led off with a
smack to left. Tho hit and run was
tagged. but Matty got 1t not. and
Flournoy was off with Iicdscncth'a
nrm. Ralph lot tho ball go by with
out even offering at 1t. and John was
caught. Then Mats hit for double.
Naley was out on j fly bali to right,
Burke and AIocomas walked. and
JGack9a, substituted for lucia,
popped to tho pitcher.
Tho fourth, after hve hits and ba 5 )
IN balls. counted three times. Incident
ally, Manager Busch hoistcd Hedge
9eth. tho cX-University OF North Car
olina portraw. and brought In Cr.iger.
the fellow who won tho opening game.
lie was never In danger, though he was
scored upon twice in the sixth. Ralcy
doubling and going to third while Me
Comns was safe on Busch'S error on
his hard chance. Flo stole second. and
both boys scored on Thackera'a punch
TO left.
1t was n bad ball samo, not worthy
OF the Colts. They can put UP n bet
ter article. and they should have done
II yesterday. 1t Isn't the game lost so
much it is the laXncss in offensive
play which hurts. No one can criticize
the combativcnesS of the men. They
were never whipped until tho gamo was
over. But they failed to take advan-
tagc OF the opportunities offered.
Harry Mace had a run-in with Davic
at morning practice. and viii not 20
with the team to Roanoke. Coates will
be taken and will probably be used in
the outficld. Griffin Is not very pl eascd
over the fact that the cork centre ball
which was thrown out of the big
leagues Is still being used i'll tho Nir-
Sinia League. liz feels that this 3 re-
sponshlc for the free hitting which has
marked the opening games. However.
the Colts outht the iuobcrs on the
s.rIes. even though they lost two out
OF three. which seems to show that tho
locals have tho best of II so far as
the ball is concerned.
The score OF the frigid entertainment
follows: