The Washington times., 1913-03-13

CHARLOTTESVILLE Va, March 1S
When the Virginia varsity team blew
up in the second inning. committing er-
rors Of omission and commission. allow
ing three hits to crack out upon the
misty air, keeping the bags crowded
with gray-suited Climbers, why, ma
turalIy the big leaguers romped away
with the whole darned works, scored
eight runs in a row and won easily by
a score of 10 to 1. After that second
session Grant, the southpaw collegian
Ginger, pitched good ball and was never
in danger.
In the eighth inning, with the score
10 to o against them, Stickley cracked
one over Nick Altrock's head IN center
field for an entire circuit Of the muddy
base paths. This powerful blow COM
pletely wiped out the pain In the hearts
of the home boys. They had scored.
Right after that Clark, the pitcher,
slammed one on the nose to right center
for three corners, but Boehling pulled
himself together, famed Ed Finlay and
forced Neff to sky to Altrock. The
lone run was all Virginia got.
But who cared. anyway, about the
score of the contest? 1t was only an
exhibition game and the fair-sized
throng of students and others greatly
enjoyed the antics of Nicholas Altrock,
the other half of the comedy team of
Schaefer and Altrock. Nick had a won
derful Afternoon, filed with boxing and
wrestling. speech-making to the gall
lery and a military drill that was a
perfect scream. To make his afternoon
absolutely fawless the gargoyle came
up to the platter in the eighth inning
and slammed out a single to right and
in the ninth. bringing the contest to a
sensational close. he speared a liner
from Fitchett's bat with that marvellous
gloved paw Of his. II was n great day
for Altrock.
The fireworks of the battle were GEN.
tered largely In that second inning when
the winners showed eight juicy runs
over the dish. With Laporte safely ou,
of the way Hank Shanks drew a pass
Mcbride burned single to left and
when Ainsmith showed a slow one a,
Neff he threw too late to third, filling
the sacks When StickIey booted Engers
roller. Shanks tailed
White grabbed Moeller's roller, and
Ftnlay pulled bone" but trying to tag
the sliding Mcbride and taking his feet
OF the plate. OF course the run count
ed and the bags remained jammed. Fos,
ter's walk scored Ainsmith and Milar
sent Engel home with a single to left
1t remained for Chick Gandil, the
ciouting first sacker. to clean up the
sacks. He hammered one of Grant.
slants to the far depths OF left field
for two cushions He might easily have
made three had he not been bothered
by big blister on his heel, but Moeller
Foster and Milan all tramped over the
platter.
Laporte walked. StickIey pulled down
Hank Shanks' fly over toward the line
and then Mcbride burned one through
Landes' fms. Phillips grabbed the bal
too late to get Gandil at the plate, bu,
in time TO get Laporte trying to slide
into the dish, and the awful nightmare
was at an end. Eight runs had trickled
across for the Climbers. and not ono
student in the house yipped
Virginia's pitching was too good from
then on for the big leaguers to get any
more runs, both Grant and Clark doing
yeoman service on the hill. However
with the eighth came another couple OF
bingles through the cIouting of Foster
and Altrock, the latter replacing the
tired Milan. With one down, Moeller
stopped one with his short ribs. Fos.
ter's wallop to left was good for two
cushions, and Moeller scored when
Neff's relay was luridly wild. While the
ball was being retrieved Foster annexed
third. and scored on Altrocks single to
right.
Virginia scored her lone tally in the
last of the eighth, Stickley polling one OF
Joe Boehling's fast ones over Altrock S
head into the next county. easily max
ing the entire circuit before that estima-
BILE gentleman from Cincinnati could
gather In the pellet. Clark tried to fol-
low suit, but got only az far as third.