The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-06-20
BY c. M. MONTGOMERY.

BY e. M. MONINiOMNN1.
Inability to hit EGrd in tho pinches
of yesterdays game with the Tigers
might be- accounted the real reason
fer the. 8 'to.< defeat. which the Colts
suffered In the opening setto OF the
present series. However. this Was
not the .only reason. IL such bits OF
history are to,be related. There were
others. several OF them. ana the
principal one OF which was that Buck
Pressleys aggregation simply out
classed the locals in about every de-
partment and won because they
&c ught Harry Grimm in an on day
when his benders seldom failed to
hit any of the bats which were held
UP as targets.
Enrd was found sufficiently often to
have lost a couple of ball games, but
the hits were scattered and after al.
lowing the first man up hit in several
instances he frightened and the Colts
were unable to connect. This in
ability to connect With the ball at
these times rather questionable uses
or misuses Of the signals and the re-
markably good fielding game which
the visitors put up formed a combi-
ma ion which 1t WIS impossible to
beat
Many Of those present were heard
to remark upon the luck which pur-
sued the Presley bunch, but 1t SEEM
ed to be rather more OF good baseball
than luck which figured in their play.
They iost no opportunities to increase
their advantage and the CLASSY field
ing which Irmscher. Maths and
PRESLEY did. played considerable
part in the final result Through
CUT the game Irmscher WIS eternally
on the lob and handled several Of as
difficult chances as have been offered
fielder mere this season. Presley
rlade q enchanted STAB OF q grounder
near the foul line and a throw to
Enrd completing ths death Of Harry
CEatfin mat brought sMnS
applause.
Ralph MATHS spent q most delight
fully full day out In left field. 1t was
full. in that he was offered half
dozen chances to distinguish him3elf
and avaiied number one ct each OPP
portunity. and 1t was delightful be
cause three Of the chances ware pre-
scented by Steve Grimm The local
ton each time he was at the bat, ex-
cept on his last appearance. when he
hit to center. One Of them was foul
and II was only by the hardest kind
Of running that MATHS managed to
get it, He did so and laughed con.
siderably at the discomforture Which
he caused his former leader.
There was nothing Of special note
IN the playing Of the Richmond team
Harry Grim astounded the as
sembled hundreds by clouting the pill
through Ohm and McCracken. the
hrst time up. to the fence for a. three
sacker. Piez. Raley and Bresnahan
celebrated the return to the home
grounds by landing trio OF hingles
each and Sandy took care of the
eight rockets which we're touched on
to him, All three Of the Tigers who
batfed in the sixth inning went out
from Newton to Raley.
Although they had managed TO ge,
q number of men on the bags and
had Ave left stranded. 1t was not
until the sixth that the Colts man
aged TO get a man over the pan. Piez
hit to left and made third when Raley
safstied to center. Pier scored on
,BresnAhan's infeld hit ana Raiey
romped over when Newton died. third
to frst.
Laval nix to LEFT In the following
frame, stole second and third. and
scored when Piez banged the ball &c
center. The last run was made in the
ninth when Mace hit through shor,
and scored on Eteve's double to center
Roanoke started the scoring In the
initial frame OHM walked. Preseley
and Irmscher hit and McCrackcn
clouted one to the pitcher for two
bases Remai kable. isn't II. but true
nevertheless. He drove the ball some
hundreds Of feet UP into the air and
Grimm. Newton and Harry Grimm al
failed to get there In time to catch
II, the runner continuing around te
second. Three othsr tallies were
garnered in the eighth, on q double
by Maths. two clean singles. and q
couple Of inneld taps: while the las
run was landed on the east s:de O
the plate in tho last frame. aftel
| Maths had singled ana rrmscher hat
doubled. The score.
Richmond.
Players. Alb. r. n. o. 4. E
Grimm. -. ....s !
Pier. X. 500. ...4 I.
Raley., Id. -. ....S I Ill o
BrcsnAhan. Sd. - ;
Eberts, e. -. ....4 Q 0 .
Newton, 81. -. 80 0 0 8
Mace, q, -. .....4 Z