The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-02
ny ERNEST POLAR.

ny ksnSESI TOLAAH.
The Virgtntans should consider them
selves exceedingly fortunate whenever
they emerge. victorious in one game of
. double bill. when the contests are
being officiated over by this fellow Har-
ftson who claims umpiring to be his
occupation, whom President Ed. Bar
row, OF the international League, has
thrust upon us several times this sea
son. Despite the fact that Harrison
assisted Umpire Freeman In calling his
decisions, Richmond managed to get
one OF the gamea Montreal got the
large end of the initial setto. while in
the sunset tilt the virsinians srasped
the major portion OF the counters when
the dark shadows OF evening began to
hover over Broad Street Park
Harrison has been In our midst three
or four times this season. and each
time he has grown worse. We thought
that some Of those umpires in the yir-
ginfa League were bad when this city
was represented In that organization,
bat tA4-week- OF those Clasa e. a hifera
was great compared with that OF Har-
rison. Monday his work was bad Tues
day II was worse, and yesterday--well
Il was the worst exhibition of -'un-
ptring that has ever been witnessed
In Richmond. even In this contests be
tween Rtchmonds youngest sandlotters
Marriss~ May Leave.
( II Harrisons exhibitions in the other
grounds around tho Barrow circuit has
been in any way similar to what the
fans Of Richmond have had to put up
with. We desire TO extend our sympat ny
to those upon whom this umpiratical
afdictlon has been wished. Some have
II that Harrison has been drafted by
the National League Tor next season
but 1t looks as IL he Ia destined to
handle the Indicator In the Limberger
circuit.
Shs-this 10 a secret--we saw Har-
rison leave Broad Street Park yes
terday afternoon with his grip packed
This probably means that President
Barrow has thrust HIN upon some other
fans We don't like TO wish other
people around the circuit any misfor-
tune. but the departure OF this fellow
would certainly be welcomed by all of
those who have seen hts exhibitions
In the opening encounter Ii was
Marty" McHale, late of the New York
Yankees aKainst a youngsser named
Fullerton-he Is no relation to the ia
nous cartoonist who bears the same
name--and II was a battle royal from
start TO hnish. The actual loss OF this
contest 10 the Montreal Royals cannot
b altogether attributed to Umpsie
Harrison. but he certainly held Rich
mond's scoring down to certain ex-
tent Errora galore came in this in
ming. coupled with a trio of safstfes
and a walk after the inning should
have been retired. gave the gentlemen
from Canada six tailies, and incident
ally lead which the vireinians were
unable. to cut down in their half of
the closing frame. Up to this disas-
ffous stanxa the local boys had a Z to
) lead on Dan Howleys pets The
virginians took the lead In the fourth
inning. In which frame they sent over
the Initial count OF the game In the
0fth the Royals came back at the To-
Gals and sent q trio OF counters across
the rubber. only to have Richmond
come back at them In the sixth and
garner four more. making Ave In all
70 their three. Things sailed along
smoothly for the Dummies until the
ninth. when the local fans saw Rich
monds chances for a double victory
over the invaders gradually dwindie
~ runner after runner circled the has
socks.
vfrgiaia.s Wallop Rail.
In the closing conflict the boys from
the far of province Of Quebec Just
could not hit our Allan Russell at on
perfume moments. while the virginians
1aabasted the cid 9IebHfe to ti,e-m most
remote corners OF the local pastiming
grounds. The local bali -tossers laced
out . total OF fifteen safeties. which
were converted into seven staIlies. More
counts would have resulted from this
bunch Of safe blows. hut Harrison---we
had to use HIS name again--just
wouldn't let the locals get any more.
Richmond took the lead in the third.
then Arragon singled. stole second,
vent TO third on wild pitch and
- hpsfIf ~s
WaIk by Bates. and hits by Rankston
ehd sweeney resulted in another count
TOT the virgintans In the fourth Six
eate waliops in the sixth gave the
Dunnites an additional quartet of runs
N the sixth and In the following chan
ter they concluded their scorin~ for
the afternoon by getting the seventh
tally.
In the opening game little Ar-e,o
Arragon. the clever little c.mhar 80
halls from that far-off tropical rar,on
started with the willow. H rot thrns
hits out Of hve trips to the platr n
WAS George Mullin who shone r,,th
the stick In the closing setto Th,s
big fellow connected just four times
during the. engagement, and ON on1
occasion II was n two-ply tap.
The fielding OF Richmond's inne,A
In both games was brilliant. ali ~
che fellows wha cavorted around the
enter gardens contributing Something
'ap3ctacular to offset the performance
81 the Jumps" We have Just been speak
,lng about. Charlie Pick slapped down
several hot ones at the ''peep-in" COR
ner, ana several Of his stops prevented
doubles probably triples, while they
nnly resulted In one-base blows.
Anything that we haven't said about
the dcubls attraction can be found In
the following tabulatsd scores:
FIRST GAME.
viratnians.
Players: ABR H. o. A. =.