The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-08-02
T,ARS VICTORIOUS
IN BOTH CONTESTS
Colts Ehratio Ball in Field and Allow Norfolk Outfit to
Capture Both Ends Of Double Bill-Cos
Twirlers Pitch Good Ball.
By RNmr POLLARD.


Jubi1ant ovor capturing the gon-
talon In tho flrst half of the season.
which 09Oood with tho games yester-
day a&tnrnon, and taking advantage
Of The Colts errRt1n fielding and fire.
quent dlapaAy Of poor headwork. Buck
prsMlys underiingB from the city of
Nex1olk proceeded to take botn ends
1arday on the local paatiming field
The opening conflict went to tho Wis.,
ittne clAn by'A Z to . count, while the
anal hattie WaS won by q B to 2 SCORE.
IN tho two contests three local
kW1pies1 fRned the Mary Jane Crew
and. while they were hit hard and OPP
portunely at intervals, 1t was certain
" not altogether their fault that Rich
uaond did not bring the bacon norne
h both Of the games. Macarthur. the
smiling younggter. who came to us a
Few dRys ago from the Pittsburg Pi-
rates. opposed the league leaders in
this 0urtain-raiser and for five innings
II looked az II he would be a sure
winner. Ono bad inning, the sixth.
killed his chances for winning. three
hits and two costly errora allowing the
visitors to amaas a quartet OF counts.
Both Of the mon who Got on as re-
suit Of tho Colts miscues scored, while
they also figured materially in the
other two men crossing the pan. AZ
tor this bad inning Macarthur retired
In favor OF Tod Sloan. who allowed
them but four hits and one run during
tho remainder OF the game.
Mickey OBrien. the latest acqu'sl-
ton to the Colt squad. arrived from
the wilds OF Portsmouth just In time
70 attire himself in a Colt uniform and
toss q few over before the Jumps"
called the second game. Mickey pitch
"a q good game and he should have
easily won his game from the Tar
Babiee, evan II he was opposed by Ciin
Markle, Norfolks star mound artist.
The visitors got but ten safe swats
from O'Brien's offerings, while the
Colts garnered eleven off of the Tar
HEAVIER.
This youngester who has won TWEEN
ty-one Victories this year. Ia the pos
SCISSOR OF an assortment OF Blenders
which are apparently easy. to hit, bat
he gets by with them in some mex
piainable way. That old horseshoe
continues to DOM his brow and day
after day he continues TO break into
the won column.
The fielding that the Colts displayed
yesterday was far from being as good
as their usual exhibitions. and IL was
largely due to this fact that both Of
the contests went to the visiting out
at.
First Game.
Norfolk started scoring IN the first
inning, after Cleveland. the frst man
up, had fiied out TO Berger Stein hit
to left center for a double and scored
on Thraaher's long single to left The
Tars again threatened to cross the rub
Der in the second when Alexander led
OF with an tnfield hit He was sacrt
Need to second by Ulrich. bat Stewart
and HUMPHREYS popped up to Snyder.
retiring the side
The Colts garnered their first tally
in the ecoond. Berger sprung sur
prize by laying down neat hunt and
beat II out. He went TO second on
Dolly Grays sacrifice and scored on
al Schweitzer's long triple to center
field. However. the scoring stopped
here, tor Snyder knocked an easy one
to the infield and Woerth struck out.
Tho Tars added another when Thrash
ar hit one 10 the left center fence for
Tho circuit In the third
Gotta Tie Score.
Richmond again tied the score in
mo third when Dave Bunting got a
three-base hit after Macarthur had
rome out. Dave scored on Doc New
toms tnfleld out. The Colts forged
ahead In the following stanZa, after
Dolly Gray singled to center. He
6chweitzers second hit OF the game.
and crossed tho goal on Snyders IN
fleld ball. Another was added In the
NTH when Macarthur drove one to the
center garden fence and scored on
Buntings long sacrifice NY to Alex
andes After this HUMPHREYS was
drtvon 10 tho dcghcuse for the second
tiu1e In - many days and Steve Cas-
ION suCoeoded him on the mound.
Three hits combined with two bad mis-
CUES gsvo the Tars four runs In the
x1xth. after which Macarthur was re-
moved in favor Of Tod Sloan. Sloan
pitched good ban. tallow1nE the Tar
Babies only four hits. two Of which
wsre o( the scratch variety. He was
pcored on but once, this tally coming
b the closing frame.
Ooa0 Ghxow Scare.
The Colts threw . big scare In the
Tar oaup when they scored two runs
IN the ninth and then threatened TO
~ the SCORE. Berger beat out an In !
held han and Gray followed with
single to- right fiead- The ball got
throurn Alexander and Berger scored. |
Gray going 70 third. Snyder knocked
ono 70 CASTOR. who tossed him out at
ART, holding Gray on third. Grimes
WAS oent in to bat for Woerth and
knocked . hot ono to Cleveland. who
threw Wild to nrst. allowing Gray to !
score. OfBrten then went IN to bat
for Sloan, but he failed to get hit
and the same ended with a score Of
I TO Z, favoring the visiting clan.
The opening same Was featured by |
the smuggling OF Thrasher. Norfolk's
fast center gardner. He got home |
run, a triple and two singles out Of
Ave trips to the plate. Gray, Berger
ana Schweitzcr featured for the locals. /
each getting two.
Second Game.
The Tars again started or good In
the second game. two hits in the first I