The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-30
No stopping Those Colts.


However. there was no way to stop
the Colts after the third inning, Until
that time both teams had played July
4 baseball. Three up and three down
prevailed, and only eighteen men faced
the pitchers. a rather pretty double
play pulled by the doctors, snuffed out
"a possibic score for the Colts in the
opening session. For tho college men,
not the scmblance OF n safe clout was
made. Five hits. OF rather question
able character, with some daring base
running. brought three counts for the
pros i'll the fourth, and from, then
on it was merely question of how
many the professionals would run UP.
The NJ. c. V. had taken the lead in
their half OF tho fourth, which seemed
to fire the Colts to extra cAertions.
They put on pressure, opened the throt-
tle and with this extra cNertion, the
collecians proved unable to cope. They
began tossing the ball around, booting
easy chances. misjudSinG others and
in many ways defeated their own pur-
poses AS for those two runs charged
against Frey, good, clean knocks,
brought them over. Young beat his
hit toward second, Summcrcr VAS
walked and White and Lewis each
came over with solid clouts 10 safe
territory. scoring Sunmcrell and
Young That was all the scoring for
the doctors and in only two other boxes
did they advance runner as far as
second base.
strain Relieves Frey.
Frcy was relieved after four innings
of work, and Charlie Strain assumed
the role of dccinator. Just three hits
resulted from his five innings of toll
He was in grand form, bending the
ball nicely and showing perfectly
good slow one But his speed was
what counted Incidentally Charles
pulled the one bright play of the game
when he grabbed McCrarys foul tip
after a hard run.
IL: each of the remaining boxes after
the fourth the Colts counted. Three
were added in the fifth; one in the
sixth; two in the seventh, and five
in the eighth. It was good workout
for the Griflites. 1t gave them a
chance TO run the bases, and they took
advantage Of the opportunity with
zest which indicates that speed is TO
during the coming campaign. All man
ner OF chances were taken, and two
runs were cut off at tho plate because
of these tactics. Newton and Bresna-
han each tried to stretch efforts into
counts and nearly succeeded. Connie
would have made good, but that his
spikes got caught in the hill Just at
ton was caught on deliberate steal.
In all. the locals grabbed eleven bases
through the steal method. Brcsnahan
leading with three. while Eberts, Hur-
ris and PieZ had two each TO theil
credit Even John Ralcy stole. II
didn't seem to make much difference
which sack it was, second or third
being equally easy of achievement. II
was this base-running, coupled with
the solid clouting. that gave the fans
hopes OF a pennant
1t wasn't a pretty game to look at
for the reason that the Medicos failed
10 measure UP to their ability. They
started we'll enough. but went sky
ward as the game proceeded. During
those initial innings the club gave
evidences of being able to put up {;
brisk defense. while several of TIE
men walked to the plate and showed
that they can stick. But they failed
10 hold the stride. 1t wasn't thai
they were expected to win. Under nor
NAL conditions they were bound to lose
still, there was no apparent reason
why their heartG should have cracked
at little strong offensive play. AZ
least half of the scores credited to thu
Colts could have been prevented. ant
third more had no right &c ge
started.
or the twenty hits coun,e,
against Ayers.and TcCrary surely te,
were fly balls allowed to drop harm
lcssiy between ball players, in eacl
'nstance carrying Il penalty of an cNtr:
base. When ground balls were felde,
tile man handling the play seemed he
wildercd. tossing aimlessly. It's pit,
That so good "A ball club should 20 s.
far wrong. On the other hand tn
Colts were out TO win, and would hav