Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-09-06
RICHMOND TAKES
AMATEUR HONORS
Defeats Washington in Inter-
city Base Ball Series
for First Time.
kLC0S LOSE FIRST GAME.
BUT TAKE SECOND. 6 TOP
Even Break, With Previously Won
Double Header, Gives Them
the Margin.
By H. c. Byrd.

Richmond has won the amateur
base ball championship OF the
south. The team representing
that city was only able to break
even with the Washington title
holders here in the second double
header OF the intercitv series. but
that was sufficient to give it the
honor for which it has struggled
for years. The scores of the two
contests were 5 to 2 and 6 to 2.
Washington winning the first and
Richmond the second.
The play of the two teams was
at times surprisingly good and at
others was rather mediocre. Both
were in to win, and they did not
show lack of energy at any
period. The pitching was much
better than is ordinarily seen in
such competition. that of Pierce
in the second game being excep-
tionally good. There also were
occasions when brilliant bits of
work attracted applause from
both sides of the partisan crowd,
and other exhibitions were so
poor as to cause groans among
the supporters OF the offending
club.
Makes Brilliant Play.
Perhaps the most brilliant play OF
the day was made by Flanagan and
Tignor in the fifth inning of the second
game Harris had gotten on when An
derson had thrown his grounder wild
to first. and had gone to second on the
error. King then struck out. but Kel-
ley drove liner to right Flanagan.
who was playing that part of the out
field. picked up the ball in rather
deep position, steadied himself and
made a perfect throw to the plate.
His heave got to Tignor in time to
catch Harris by five feet. The perfect
peg kept Ninth from scoring and start
ing a rally that might have won for it.
The three players who distinguished
themselves more than any others.
though. were Pierce. who pitched the
second game for Richmond; Cheney.
who won the opener for Washington.
and Tignor. who did the -backstopping
for the visitors Pierce worked so nat
urally and easily that it was plain
from the start the local aggregation
would have trouble in connecting with
him effectively. He struck out thir-
teen men. and. though he eased up
sufficiently at times to allow the Wash
ington boys to hit him with apparent
ease, there was never a period when
real danger threatened that he did not
tighten up. Cheney did some splendid
work in the first game. which had to
be Won in order to keep the Washing
ton representatives in the running. He
measured up to the mark very well.
Richmond's best amateurs making only
three safeties in the nine innings they
faced him. TiSnor caught well for the
visitors in both contests his steady
play behind the bat doing much to aid
his pitchers and prevent his team from
slumping.
pected turned out to watch the games.
There were hardly thousand persons
in the stands. and fully half those Were
Richmond enthusiasts who had made
the trip here especially to encourage
their team. and they. did to the full
extent of many extraordinarily large
mega phones, automobile horns and all
kinds of noise making contraptions.
Local Team Wins First.
The first game was brilliantly played
until the sixth inning. when the local
nine got good lead by timely hit
ting. Richmond scored first, it get
ting a man across in the second period
Amos was safe on Harris error and he
stole second. He scored when Bigbie
drove the ball into left field for a sin
gle. That was the only run gotten
until the sixth. when Washington had