The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-21
STANDING OF TEAMS.
DY GUS MALnERT.

BY GUS MALnERT.
In addition TO causing Mcssrs. Brad
ley and Ryan to stage the first extra
session pastimc OF tho 1914 season, H.
Z. Busch. manager OF the Cockado City
Baseball Corporations baseball team,
proceeded To demonstrate q few new
set II al straight. MIR. Busch was
some two runs short OF a tie score
when the ninth canto was being
this: hlchtnond, o; Petersburg. ). BY
evolving that new theory at which
we nave merely limited, Mr.. Busch
10 an AFFAIR OF most sanguinarv por-
tent. driving 1t TO full ten frames,
with finai result never attained, The
count NJ the tnish standing ., all.
II isn't the nrst time that Mr.. busch
mas tried out his new theory. lie ala
II down in Norfolk last season, ana
20 TINS day aver and avow that Air
| Busch is really the direct cause OF the
smaller. Top was manager of the Tars
then, and Busch, unu-r much Tn. same
Somdltions as obtained out in our al
iaifa farm yesterday. paraded Mcssrs.
vance, HedScpcth, Brooks and Cooper
All IN n row and all being pitchers az
nthSn hltters in another fatal ninth.
pected, plus, followed All four OF
them hi, safely. and won a ball game
'i'te had peer, counted az lost.
coming back to that little affair YES
tcraay, Commodore Busch hove in sight
OF the harbor with very little wind in
nus ms, s:.i ~ lie had about given up ali
nope 'oi successfully making a landing,
and had dictated his alibi for the benz
NJ 1on OF the folks back home. Scribe
ION Who narrates what happens for
and was looming his linen buster pre-
pnratory To making the return trip to
In purest Latin. it was all gone but the
| big whoop. Then Heinie busch started
TO do little sasshaying on his on ac-
count.
"Wassamatter, wassamatter"' yelled
the trate Heinrich. "Wassamatter. we
amt begun TO tight" Mynheer Johann
Lauthin the only German Tad extant.
Justify out TO Lefty Snyder and an
inSre9 ha saIe az hpoI r the first pillow DID
| catcher snitc at the pellet?
lie did--not.
Int othe breach was flung Jacket the
lad with just one good leg, and Jacket
walked. pushing Johann a block ahead
and making Two on. Bill Pearson. who
n MAJ been heaving n fairly, crcditable
ms stead. Harvey Brooks. pitcher
pirchbuntcr, was thrown in as u stop
gap. iarvey hunted. and wh"n 1t sub
Jacket were on third and second re-
spcc;iVely.
simmons. late OF Troy. " V. and one
| OF the fastest men In this League on the
/ paths. was due TO knock one out Of
the lot. but icinic said "nuy." Instead,
Give Richmond, another hurlcr of abil-
Ky, was given the cue To pinch hit
CilVc Is the greatest natural wildpitch
hitter in the land, next to Clarence
Berger. so Give picked out for him
self a nice waste ball, on tho outside
of the platter and shot it far aticId
just far enough afield so as 10 send
coaXing BERGER in, making two trying
for that same ball. AS Is usual under
such circumstances, neither succeede 4.
! IIauShlin score. and Jacket was on
] tnlrU, with lust.
| When our Mr.. Grimes raised his arm
to throw the ball at Bill Laval. next
tho tieinS run. and Bill. though no hit
! and-run was on. entered into the spirit
Of the affair, and rolled ono down to
! Dave Bunting. dying at first, but dying
to good purpose. as the tieing run
counted.
Iieinie Busch failed to score Rich
inon'. who was on third by this time,
and the ninth ended with the knot Sc
curcly pulled together.
The Colts threatened to break 1t up
IN their hale OF what should logically
have been The closing frame, but Dolly
! Gray spoiled all chances by being
caught mapping while on third base
/ through Damraus boot and Ncwton's
neat sacrifice. 1t was a chance, but
the big fellow was shot to death when
Lowe threw perfectly to Damrau. Rich
mond held the G. It's safe in their half
of the tenth, while Grimes did the same
TO the Coolers, though Keller. first up,
! beat his infeld knock TO Bunting I'm
that frame. 1t was entirely too dark
/ thereafter and Honest John Jay Kelly,
who made Shamokin, Ia. famous, called
| play.
altogether. it was by far the most
interesting performance witnessed here
nus sea son Hcinie Busch deserved TO
! baseball. and scored those two runs on
sheer plucy, plus baseball sense. 1t is
douhttul whether another manager in
/ SANG plays in just the same way that
Busch did True. all of the breaks
e eame h ns W., way bra but il is Usually the
every other kind OF game, go TO tho
men using. Intelligence with ability.
II looked like Richmond was to win
between the two clubs for the season.
/ An early lead was established when a
base on balls to Robe, his stolen base
allowed one In the first.
, Bus, Busch's boot of Raley's chance.
aynns in Out 1be and asdoo GrimHss hit scored
! bunting and Raley, with two sfoien,
pas &C., counted twice in the. nth. and
| from Dolly Gray's triple and Newfnn's
blow in the seventh. '0''
wb mg.eTTs h1ir scored FIRST in the second.
zone. stole second. and crossed on
Barnetts wallop 10 Gray. They waited
Until ID me 81, sixth to count again. Keller
Gray; the big fellow dawdied with the
s saIi long enough to let Keller cash. a
s''.. NV, ~ leT loves MT In the
en'h aided by John Raley's bad piay
on Iayals tap. gave the third alien
score. and then came the lurid ninth
ana the tie that WAS unbrokcn
Glover defensive play marked tho
game throughout. Everybody entered
almost creepy ut times-the umpires
were much ut fault for this Ueinio
Busch and Doc Newton speared knoclls
in their direction time and again that
looked safc. The game was brought
to sudden close on n lightning double
play from Barnett to Jacket Incl
dentally that lad Jacket deserves coolies
of praise. With one leg ready for q
crutch, he got into the game and really
pulled the star play when no nabbed
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