The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-04-27
Bill Colina and College Hill
Boys Stingy With Runs
and Get Two for Them
selves.
TRAGEDY IN THE SIXTH
Vordenburg Gets in Several
Bad Holes But Manages to
Extricate Himself Without
Much Disgrace.
Cincinnati, 2; Richmond o.

Bill Colina & Company, otherwise
known as the College Hill team of
Cincinnati, administered Dick Ken
neys Richmond nine beautiful coat
OF Wh1tewash yesterday afternoon be-
fore some 1900 appreciative fans, at
Athletic park. Inability to connect
with the assorted offering of Mr. Co.
lima was the one big cause for the
Quaker downfall
Although the Richmond team failed
to do anything startling with the will
low and in the field, chalking up but
five hits and counting three errors in
the field, if it had not been for the
fact that Merkle's drive in the first
session just missed clearing the right
field fence and had Sheppard hung on
to Reuters fly in the fatal sixth, the
teams might have been playing yet as
both teams seemed to be going at
about the same clip.
Ascension in Sixth.
With the exception of the sixth
frame, the game was a peach. Rich
mond and Cincy had both been going
along in good shape and it looked
like the game was bound to go into
the extra sessions. A couple of time
ly swats however, combined with
boot of the Quaker fielder sewed up
thlhSo III Tie buChoyeS DIS fllcuInOnU
could do nothing at all in the count
ing line in the remaining> stanzas al
though they succeeded in holding the
visitors to the same fate.
Clncy threatened in the initial stan
"a but some fast fielding on the part
of the Quakers prevented score. al
though two safe hits were garnered
by the Buckeyes. Richmond, on the
other hand, drew the same count, al
though if Merkles' terrific drive had
gone a couple of feet higher and
cleared the right field fence the final
result might have been different
Merkle received but two sacks out of
the hit however as he was nailed at
the third station.
For the first five rounds both teams
annexed a successive row of goose
eggs. Both sides counted a few hits
in these rounds, but when it came to
showing them home there was abso-
lutely nothing stirring. Big Popkins,
the giant first baseman of the locals
hammered out a rafting double in
the second frame for a starter, but
Sheppard. Gushing and Lenniger were
retired in one-tWo-three order. The
visitors, too, became dangerous at sew
eral stages of the game, but Vorden-
burg managed to pull out of the bad
places without score Delng made.
How 1t Happened.
The tragedy came in the sixth
Turner, first man up, lined out vic
ious drive right over the second sack
Turner managed to reach second and
romped home a minute later when
Franks drove another to the center
garden. Right here is where the gen.
erous spirit of our center fielder, Mr.
Sheppard. came to the fore. Reuter-
lifted a fly into the outer garden and
Mr.. Franks, of the visiting team, as a
matter of course, as there were two
down. started for the home pan. Slow
ly the sphere arched into center and
then came toward earth, where Shep-
pard was waiting For some reason
or other the ball failed to remain in
our fielder's hand and the score was
20
And there it remained until the end
in spite of the fact that the Richmond
nine made some desperate attempts
to even the count A near rally in
the final frame was nipped in the bud
by the fast going Cincy crew, which
gained the first sack on a liner that
went through the Buckeye shorts |
pins, sending Novack on ahead of him !
The succeeding batting order failed |
to produce, however, and the game !
came to an end when Gushing lined
to third and was counted out at the |
initial sack Lineup and summary: /