Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-05
T STRIKES ME
By Tim Patch

By Tim Patch
Jack Dunn is going after two games
from the league leaders to-day. and
with his inheld again intact there is
n good chance for the Climbers to wal
| lop the Providence Grays in both con-
| tests. Should they be unable to turn
/ the trick. however, 1t can be depended
| upon that two rousing contests Will be
staged, and that the visitors will have
| to extend themselves to the utmost to
/ beat the locals.
, While 1t Is not positive, the possibil-
tiles arc that Sammy Crane Will be seen
in the short field this morning. which
means that Angelo Arragon will get
back to second and Charlie Pick on
! third. AL Russell and Buck O'Brien
/ Will bear the twirling burden, with AL
/ Reynolds doing the receiving in at
least one Of the games. With Crane
+ again in the lineup. Reynolds behind
/ the bat, and with either Of those twirl-
/ ers in the box, Richmond will have a
I strong offensive crew, as we'll as de-
I fcnsive one.
! The morning game will start at 1890
O'Clock, and the afternoon clash will
! get under way at $3.50 o'clock. Carpen-
/ ter and Cleary. whose officiating has
I been of such caliber as to gain them all
! sorts OF compliments. will be the arbi-
/ tiers. There will be no change in the
/ scale Of admissions.
! Local ball lovers. if they hope to see
a continuance of Double a ball In this
! town. must begin TO patronize the team
/ better In addition to going out to
Broad Street Park themselves, they
! should induce others to do likewise. An
far nm 1t,h
I the patronage given the Richmond
I, team.
! Manager Wynne Clarke is securing
/ the woods for several pitchers who will
/ be able TO hold their own against such
| pitching as the Newport News and
/ Rocky Mount teams have developed
! during the past month. Clarke knows
{ he cannot stand far up in the race un.
( lcss he IL able to bolster up his mound
/ staH considerably.
I During the first half Of the season
! the Virginia League teams played
! nearly twenty-five extra inning games.
I These long affairs have been thick ct
i this year than has been the case usually
+ IN the past history of the circuit
/ Bieachery rumors relative to the
I lack Of harmony in the players of the
/ Newport News team have found their
/ way into print In Norfolk. as well as
! Newport News, and there arc rumors
/ which tend to indicate that some radi-
! cal shake-up is TO be expected in the
| shpbuild!ne city ere long. Rameo
J Seglie, Cuban innelder, has been
! suspended indefinitely for run-in
| with Manager Carncs, after which the
! Cuban is quoted saying he would
! like 10 remain with Newport News.
! but he would absolutely refuse to do
| so If he had 20 play again under the
| direction of Manager Carncs Other
! members OF the club are said TO have
! made objections to the treatment they
! have received At the hands OF Man
! ager Carnes. The matter has gone to
( the point Of being discussed In the
! home papers.
! After tho Petersburg Coolers had
! pounded him without mercy, Pitcher
/ Tolson was given his release by Man
/ aSer Welcher OF the Suffolk team.
! During the game 500 fans, who were
I watching the game al home at an
( electric scorchoard a telegram was
I sent TO Manager Welcher requesting
{ tInat Tolson be relieved from the slab.
( To!son was jerked. and after the game
/ &c was given his release.
! The number Of protested games dur
! Ing the first half Of the season has
J caused the sport writer's OF the cir
! cu, TO call upon the managers of the
4 Virginia League teams to cut techni-
: ea!!ties in tbs second half and play
/ baseball The prediction Is freely
( made that a repetition of these tactics
{ IN the latter portion OF the season will
Z greatly impair the chances of the
league playing ill the end OF the
! schedule.
/ Pitcher Nicks. who halls from Mis-
I or Oily
! nended by Rumnhries. OF the Tars, has
| joined the Norfolk team for trial
! on the mound.
one of the best indications OF the
] popularity OF Wynne Clarke's present
/ portsmouth aggregation is shown by
( report that ut recent gamo fully
. half of the fans present rooted for
! the Rocky Mount Club. despite the fact
/ mat the game was played in Ports
! mouth.
rope, the strong man of the Rocky
/ Mount pitching staff, recently struck
! OUT -FOUR men in one inning when
( wiring against Portsmouth,. Catcher
/ Ulrich fumbled the third strike on
strain. and the player was safe. The
! other men famed in such a manner as
! 10 give the catcher credit for "A put
! out
| Newport News recently held a Dol
| lar Day" TO boost along the finances
! OF the club. and that day the Ship
builders lost 10 Norfolk by big score
| This was rubbing it in three-ply The
! fans didn't mind paying the dollar
and ordinarily they wouldn't mind los
| ing an occasional game. but to lose
| it to Norfolk was enough to cause
a number of suicides in the Shpbuild-
| ing City.
! Lee Garvin. the veteran. who is hack
! with the Portsmouth Truckers once
! again, is loud and continuous in his
/ praise OF the proves of Craft. the
/ Portsmouth schcolhoy, who Is making
/ good in the role OF pitcher with the