The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-12
By G. hi. MONTGOMERY

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but CharfiB ID by no means the en-
tire reason for the 4 to l defeat which
Buck Presaley and his aggregation
handed tho Grifnnites Connie Bres--
nahan. John Ralay and Johnnie Mace
we're the other members Of the local
team who assisted in the downfall.
while a young fellow in a dark gray
uniform who twisted and turned his
arms and legs into a worse mixture
than al ordinary mortal would dare
tempt a Provtdence to deliver him
from. and who In officially recognized
by the namasof Gardin, was the chief
block over which tho Colts attempted
to stumble their way into the lead.
Such a thing was not possible. how
ever. Tor that young man was az
stangy wdth his hits as a big league
scout rs with tips tor the newspaper
men He allowed them only few
opportunities to start something, and
when they did 30 banged down the
lid and sat SO tight upon 1t that the
severest waliops hardly caused a. trem-
Bile. and the feiders had no trouble
in holding the offerings sent their
way. These offerings were few, it
must be admitted, for the greater
number of the players gave the OPP
posing inf,elders easy chances. and
most OF those who did not. famed
Colts' Fielding Was on.
1t was simply a case of the Colts
having an of day and the Tigers being
in such form that the shoots OF Char
lie looked to them like the first am
httous, efforts to- an amateur. The
lads support. as has been observed.
was fierce. and was enough to have
almost defeated him had he hurled
hitless ball Ronoke. on the other
hand. made but one Slip, and this did
not avail them anything like run.
At critical times tney were on the
job in the most convincing style. and
what the Colts got they had to land
by clean swatting unaided by the bun
giles of the Tigers Unfortunately their
clean swats were somewhat scattered.
while their bungles were slightly uni
fed, connected, punched. or aggre-
gated. as the expression goes, and
these facts. to say # again, caused
the downfall.
As was the case In the opening
game Of the series. It was mighty
good ball game until the final frame,
when. instead of the Colts coming
across with the winning talites. the
cards were stacked the wrong way,
and the dole took all trumps into the
Tigers claws. UP to the opening OF
that frame II was a good bet that the
game would go into extra innings. and
the crowd was being kept interested
because OF the several feature plays
which were being pulled.
Charlie Strain in the third inning
got a slow one down the third base
line in extra fast order, and by speed
ing the ball managed to beat Press
al x-o% xAr4
a classic himself an tho second, when
he snatched Newton's hard chance
while running backward into foul ter
ritory and 30 did Riley, a second later.
when Carter popped a twisting. spiral
ing foul behind the plate which he sue
ceeded In hitting. But Doc Newton.
who. regardless Of his broken nose
ana discolored optics. played one OF
his stellar games, delivered IN true
Colr Style IN the NTH when he sprint
ed from second on Ebertx slow roller
to Noel for the plate. and managed
to land the only tally which Rich
mond chalked up.
That wAA the way in which we
scored our only run. and after this
occurred the Colts had no chances to
turn q duplication Of the stunt The
FIRST man up in several frames landed
4feS out th0 OtnefS C0utu9 not CON
meet. and there was nothing doing to-
ward the defeat of Gardin.
Although Charlie strain never lost
heart and worked his best through
out, the men behind him fell down in
the nnal frame, and the winning runs
were scored. Irmscher landed for the
only extra base hit 81 the game. driv-
ing the ball to right-center for three
sacks AZ an opener for the frame.
Maths was purposeiy walked, but
Summers, alias Hinton. formerly OF
the Norfolk team. landed safe and
Irmscher logged home. McCraaken
banged ono At Strain. who threw for
a force out to BresnAhan. Connie
allowed the ball TO escape from his
glove, and all were safe. Noel famed,
but Riley safetied to center, Maths
and Summers scoring. McCracken
spent several minutes SEARCHING about
for the second bag before continuing
his way to third, and was thrown out
at the three-quarter station as a re-
suit Gardin famed. ending the
The Tigers FIRST run was the d.