The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-08

rirginians made their fnal bow OF
he season 70 the sport-loviug popu-
ace of this city by administering the
Harrisburg Indians by TO / defeat.
Ind Incidentally breaking Walter
emaliwoods chain OF straight victor
es Walter once pastimed for the
Richmond Colts back in the days
Fhen Sir stephen Griffin was at the
helm. Steve thought he wasn't good
Enough for the v'rglnian League aud
1e sent him on his way Smaiiweod
Immediately took train for Savan-
bah. Ga. where ne joined Perry fipe's
Aggregation OF hafl-tosscrs He
pitched great hall for that club. In
TACT. he has been pitching so well
hat Harrisburg bought him few
lays ago. Up to yesterday he had
won every game he pitched in the
nfernaticnel League However there
ssas enc big obstruction separating
fim from a clean slate for the pres
mt season. This aforesaid ohstruc-
Ion was The Richmortd team. and be-
ore the game had progressed very
ar It was apparent that the elongated
Exponent Of the siippery-elm was des-
ined to meet his Waterloo
Start Scoring I'm First.
The vi 'ginians dtin't ios" any time
r getting right down 20 business for
he's were anxious tn show the fans
list what was III them on this fare
ve,i daV That started after this
raehe shaped yourgster no later
ian The INITIAL inning and before they
II brought their runs getting 10
eae antH three pairs Of black stock
gs ha' reached fhe much~eoveted
II. s''haueh the NI@sinians hit the
All nj intervals, M more runs came
ri tie eighth when they put the
-" 1~ touches on good days
.~s fr - q ne9pter the local boya
roF.. -" taf hard 10 add to Waller
weeds Humiliation and they
~ no less than j quartet OF
~+et was a grand old ball game
nj II should be long remembered by
- 'Nva' fans WIN Witnessed the
Na5pe sncenn'er Ne!the- side made
- t~'nb'aGCe ~ a miseue. while on
rse q her hard Tho fielding was brill
AT al times The Richmond out
I'D HAD ss-fist- day Heee ftfHs W,
SO than nine chances, some OF which
-ere rather hard ones
The hirtirs ~ Angelo Arragon, Cot
hell and Everett Bankston was the
liz feature Of tho game. Bankston
0nt-.hutnd double and two sim
.es !. Arragou col tected for three one
ase wallops while Ensign Cottrell
~ two perfectly good two base ciouts
II Of hts system.
The local tn0eld also put up a great
xAinitton. and two fast double plays
Tut crimp in Haisasburg's chances
or scoring en- two occasions.
How II Happened.
The Ffrginisns started in after
mai'wood in the opening fra me Ar
agon led off with single. and
wombley WAS issued a free pass.
fuiiin Sent both of them home with
double To left field Pick and Bates
rent out and Bankston singled TO
enter scoring Mullin. Thompson
valked but Sweeney ended things
popping up.
Harrisburg scored in the second In
ing on Zimmerman's walk and Hick-
nger's triple The Virginans had
mother good chance to score In the
eccnd when Cottrell led off with a
ouble However he was cought try
az 10 score on an infield bali. IT
boxed as II the Indians were des-
ned to score In the fourth. when
kroft drove one to the left field fence,
ut ne tried 70 stretch II into a home
IN and was thrown out at the plate.
In the fourth. Richmond got three
hen on bases after two were out,
ut the necessary hit was not forth
oming and none of the runners
ounted.
In the eighth Mensor led off with
single TO left He stole second and
dvanced to third on Moves !ntield
ut Tooley made it the second out
y popping one up To Arragon. Kraft,
he heavy smuggling firsfsacker. end
the side by striking out for the
kcond time during the game, In
tchmond's half Bankston singled TO
eht and Thompson duplicated it.
chaufie was issued free pass, FILL
hx the bases. Cottrell doubled to
II. scoring Bankston and Thompson,
rragon singled to left. Shaufie count.
hg. Twombley went out, thinner
han to Kraft. Cottrell got Rich
nond's flnal count of the game on
[ullins sacrifice fly.
The tabulated score: