The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-04-15
BY RALPH DoMBROWER.

the hlcHmonu GFep-ScHOOl League
season. John Marshall High Schools
baseball team yesterday defeated that
of Benedictine College in Broad Street
Park, by q score of 4 to 3. The
game was not decided until the last
man was put out in the final inning,
and the somewhat Sensational fielding
of the members OF both teams made
the game fast, snappy and interest
ing enough TO keep more than Low
fans and fannies awake.
The game yesterday vas Of vital i'm
portance to the great number of peo-
pie in Richmond who have watched
with earnestness the teams In the
Prep. League. Benedictine, tho cham
pion aggregation of last year with
much strengthened team. was gener-
School or put up better fight than
they did.
High school fans knew of this be-
lief and fully realized that the game
was to be hard fought Consequently,
the whole school was represented yes
tefday by holiday crowd. a hearty
bunch who kept up an uncessant chat
ter and song throughout the contest.
this crowd of loyal root
ers aided the Marshall!tes in winning
the game.
Benedictine was also represented by
a noisy bunch and were helped in this
way TO a reasonable degree, but not
so much az were the public school
lads.
Game Late in Starting.
The game. which was scheduled to
begin at 4 o'clock promptly. did not
begin until nearly half hour later.
because suitable umpire could not
be found Buck" Hooker was sup
posed to do the urnpiring, but failed
to make his appearance. After the
long wait the two umpires that were
secured proved to be generally unsat-
isfactory. Decisions on balls and
strikes. as well as In the field and on
the bases. we're rank and resulted
fatally to both teams.
Coach Hedgepeth, decided to send
Woodland 10 the mound against the
Cadets. while Overman twirled against
the public school lads. High School
won the tossup and took the field.
Switzerland, the first man to face
Woodward. took a free pass to first.
Asher, the next man up went out
on short hit TO Woodward. who
threw to first. but could not catch
going TO second. Cheat
wood went out on "a fly ball TO center
field. Hierz0eu was safe on an error
by Psndleton. Pollard flew out to
center.
In their half of the first inning. John
Marshall secured "a hit. but failed to
put a man across the rubber. Tur-
ner knocked liner to Switzerland.
and was put out at the initial sack.
Sales secured the only two Dagger In
the game when he slammed the ball
through second and short. He died
~ ha "a nd
were put out on a pop fly
and via pitcher to first, respectively.
The Cadets put a man across the
plate in the second frame. Floyd
was out. Sales to Percival. Overman
secured single into the right garden,
stole second. went TO third on an error
and came home when williams hit to
shortstop. Sales did not have time
TO catch Overman coming home. but
caught Williams at ffrst. Francis
struck out,
High school Scores.
The High School team came back
with a vengeance in their half OF the
second and secured two taIlies. Pull
liam led OFF with single. Wharton
sacrificed and Oyerman threw the
bail wild TO first base. putting two.
men on the bases for them. Percival
also sacrificed, nut out. Overman to
Cheatwood. Woodward was out on
q pop ny. Stumpf then secured "A sin
gle through tho shortfeld and Pull
liam and Wharton scored. Nothing
else was done In this inning in the
way of scoring.
Although Cheatwood secured a hit
In the third for the Cadets, they failed
to put man across the plate. In
their half OF this inning. John Mar
shall scored two runs. Pendleton was
safe at first on an error by Asher.
Tinsley struck out. but was safe when
Floyd dropped the ball and threw
wild to hrst. Pendleton was later
put out going to third. Pullian Sc
cured his second hit in the game and
both he and Tinsley scored when
Wharton slammed out a single Per-
cival and Woodward we're put out
on grounders.
In the sixth inning John Marshall
showed signs of again scoring. Stumpf
slammed out the pill for three base
run. but was esueht Off third .ater
IN the inni s. and Woodward. who
him at the bat and Turner
went out on fly balls.
In the seventh frame the Cadets
scored run. Hierzolen was given
credit for thfes base hit. although
the ball hit outside of the foul line.
the umpires were asleep.
and could not help but give the de-
cision favorably to the batter after
they awoke from their Stun Der. Whar-
ton was sure the ball was foul
and hesitated in throwing the ball