The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-04
Richmond Slabman Lets In
dianapolis Visitors Down
With Two Hits, Winning
Game by 81 Score.
1000 FAN S ATTEND
Whitehouse, Opposing Heav-
er, Tightens up After Sec
Ond Round and Stops Scor-
ing by Quakers.
Richmond, s; Indiana polls, 1,

An assortment of choice errors, two
OF timely bingles and the tight fling
Ing OF Vordenburg, local slabman, is
the story of Richmond's 81 triumph
over the Indianapolis Specials yester-
day afternoon, at Athletic park
In the first two innings, when the
Quakers did all of their counting, the
indianapolis team gave symptoms of
being a back-lot aggregation. Errors
OF commission, errors of omission and
plain "bone-headed errors featured
the work of the Hoosier Capital crowd
in these large stanzas.
AS to the UNCONSTITUTIONAL there
were nine of them accredited to the
Quaker batters, proper support to
Whitehouse, the visiting HEAVIER, would
have held this number to a much
smaller count. Whitehouse pitched a
rafting good game and should be with
better company. He retired Richmond
batters via the strike-out route and
issued no passes.
"Vordy' was effective against the
visiting batsmen at all times; holding
them to two clean hits and issuing no
free TRANSPORTATION to the first sack.
Had 1t not been for an error of Lenni-
gam Quaker third-sacker, Vordenburg
would have BANKED his opponents. In
the pinches he was always there with
the goods
Errors Help Quakers.
The visitors went down in order in
the first but not so the Quakers Will
bur, first man up gained the initial
sack on slow fielded bali Voltz
dumped a neat sacrifice and Wilbur
continued his journey on the paths.
Mccain and Merkle failed to produce
but Novack gained third on Willifords
boot, Wilbur advancing on the play.
Big Popkins, as the william, took his
part well for the first ball served him
hit the soil in the vicinity of the CEN
ter field fence. Two runs.
Not satisfied with this start the
locals continued the work of annihila-
ton in the second frame. Lennigan
opened the program by lacing out
beautiful double. Cushing was gen.
erously spared by Doremus, who drop
ped the sphere on a wide throw of the
Specials short. Vordenburg proceeded
to fill the bags by rapping out safe
one. Wilbur relieved the crowded
condition of the bases by smashing
out clean one past short Voltz
followed the example set by his team
mate and another Quaker came gallop-
infield taps but Novack brought Will
bur in on a vicious drive to left Four
run.
This ended the counting of the Quak-
ers. A few times Richmond scores
seemed certain but the wrok of White
house proved the stumbling block of
the scoring machine. In the seventh
the locals succeeded in getting run
ners on second and third with no one
down but Whitehouse brought the
rally to an igominious end by whiting
two Richmond batters and causing the
other to lift pop fly.
indianapolis annexed their lone tally
in the eighth frame. Reed opened up
festivities by gaining life on Cushing s
failure to field the ball accurately.
Whitehouse advanced him sack on
an infield tap. Williford famed but
Kraft lined wicked grounder to the
Quaker third sacker. The sphere
bounded off the glove of Lennigan
and Reed continued home. One run.
The succeeding frame was one-two-
three.