The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-07-11
By ERNEST POLLARD.

Besides witnessing two hotly con-
Tested exhibitions OF our national
pastime. in which the virginians and
Montreal Royals divided honors. the
! four thousand baseball enthusiasts
who graced the grandstand and
|bleachers yesterday afternoon at
.Broad-Street Park were rendered an
opportunity to see farce comedy, en-
titled when An Umpire Is Not An
Umpire" enacted, with his royal nihs.
|"Umpsie'' Harrison. playing the lead
| ing role. This big fellow who has
| been thrust upon us by President Ed
ia. Barrow. gave very novel exhibit
| tion OF umpsring, and those who fall
ed 70 attend the games yesterday
missed a regular Funniest. notwith-
standing the fact that some of his
ruins proved disastrous to the viz
ginians and, incidentally. lost the sec
| nd game for them.
In the second inning OF the second
game Johnny Bates. apparently with
out any provocation whatever. was
hut but Of the game by the afore-
mentioned holder of the indicator.
There were two men on bases and an
Iinfieid ball would have scored at least
| runner, ard when 'Rube" Meadows
was substituted when the local CENTER
|ncld was banished by the arbiter he
X0fQEE&QGQ III HlifNBS puA- VIM sb1t y
during the game did he come up and
lon q like number of occasions did he
whsfY the ozone. leaving men stranded
on the bases Had Johnny Bates been
| IN The game at least four more runs
would have been scored by the home
| club.
Others Are Banishcd.
Sending Johnny Bates to the club
house did not complete the work.
| however. for shortly after he chased
Manager Dunn and Morrisette. In
| the opening game he sent Allan Rus
| seH 70 the clubhouse and pulled Man
aver Dunn OF the sidelsne. Neither
/ Of the Richmond players provoked
the umpire to any extent and Umpires
Cleary and Carpenter would have
ignored 1t. but not so with the afore-
said Harrison. His exhibition was SO
| bad that a telegram was cent by some
al the fans to President Ed. Barrow.
protesting against Harrison's pres
snce here any longer. asserting tnat
they would cease to lend their sup
port to the local club II he u sent
here any more. Stockdaie's work was
fAiriy good in both games.
Morrisette hurled against the
Royals in the opening game, and dur
Ing the major portion of the contest
Ne had the Canadians eating from the
palm OF his hand. He hurled air
tight ball. save in q couple of frames.
when they succeeded In registering
their only two runs Of the encounter.
Morrisette,s great hurting. combined
with fast fielding and opportune hit
ting gave the virginians this opening
game.
Russell, despite the fact that ne
lost his game. established an inter-
rational League record for the season
81 1918 by striking out fifteen men.
This IL three better than In any pre-
yioue game this season. twelve being
ma nnxt highest number to his credit.
RusscH pitched great ball at times.
but II others he was hit hard ana OPP
portunely, fourteen bingies peins
reris{ered from his delivery.
rielding honors OF the day belong
IN Thomreon and whitman. both 'of
vhcaa made sensational catches. IN
~ first game Thompson saved the
k3A1ne FOR Richmond twice In success
hon. while in the closing contest ms
neldinE was spectacular. In the iast
9ame Whitman made catch OF .
long drive from Thompson's bat that
| looked impossible. The ball went al
most to the clubhouse. but the visit.
! tnx centerholder managed TO gel
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hand. Whitman'a hitting In the sec
ma contest helped defeat the vir-
Tanians, Tor ne occurred four hits and
drove IN about ave 81 the visitora'
runs, besides scoring trio OF them
himself The hitting Of Thompson,
pick, Jordan and Schaniie featured
III Richmond: sl.ss "
|Sss E1rot Gauue.
|ssss forrfsettA gnt 4 bal start. Nash and
frelan. the first two men 70 face him,
sfn9fing TO left. Whiteman. the home
MN cloufet, lifted high one 70 A.
faeon. Nash and IrelAn pulled on
4 double steal. but Morrisekts pro-
Sooded 10 strike out Flynn ana Devlin
4 n rApid succession. thus preventing
/ \ tally. The virginiAns started On Ia
Z raost auspicious manner, ono run
~ crossing tho rubber. Thcmpecli
"a On with N infeM hit, advencef
W second on pasped bali ana came
h0n& On Picks single 70 len. Pick
Srox1t to second on the throw ~, but
49, called out trying 70 pilfer third.
M the second inning Gspikh I'D ~
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