The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-06-24
Standing OF Clubs.
Games Today.
Montreal I'm Newark.
Toronto in Providence.
Buffalo in Baltimore.
Rochester In Richmond.
BY ERNEST POLLARD.

Once more the Rochester Hustlers
got victory within their grasp only
to see the Virginians come from be-
hind with a vengeance, tear the VIC
torious wreath from their brows and
then bury 1t beneath the peaceful
sod in Broad Street Park.
In the eighth chapter of yesterdays
engagement on the local ball lot the
Hustlers took the lead by one-run
margin, and with Hill. the specialized
hurting wonder, steaminE them across
the plate with speed that would have
made Walter Johnson turn green with
envy had ne been among those pres
emit defeat for Richmond seemed
inevitable to everyone save the Viz
ginians themselves. However. before
Richmond's half of the same chapter
had been drawn TO a close the wish
tors visions of victory had vanished
as quickly as they had appeared. for
Billy Smiths charges started after the
gentleman with the ''apecs' and be-
fore they stopped pounding what he
had to offer the game had been safely
stored away In the refrigerator.
It was a great ball game--one that
kept the fans on edge from the time
the first ball was tossed until the
curtain had been drawn on the inal
act. Fast fielding and spectacular
pays ana llt iAbIb1 =
were divided equally among the two
teams as far as this end OF the game
Is concerned.
Rhoades Starts Out Well.
While the score may not indicate
as much, the game was hurting duel
between Hin. late OF the Pittsburg
Pirates, and Dusty Rhoades. who
came to Richmond from Patsy Mo-
rams Philadelphia Quaker outfit For
the first six innings Rhoades was In
great form. not yielding anything that
resemhled a hit. while not single
Hustler had heeh advanced as far as
the third sack In the seventh he
let up a bit and permitted the visitors
10 get four hits in a row from his
benders and incidentally knot the
count. In the following frame he
gave up another duo of safeties and
two more of the visitors trotted across
the rubber. Dusty started the ninth
but after he had walked the first man
10 face him in this stanza he eaN
way to Rebel Ross. who distinguished
himself by making the first man be-
fere him drive a slow roller In front
of the plate and then proceeded to
bring the afternoons enga cement to
a close by striking out Tommy Leach
and McAuley In rapid succession.
Dusty had displayed the best form OF
The year and Ii looked as II he was
destined to let the visiting aggrega-
ton down without single hit being
gathered from his hurting offerings
But 1he old bad Inning had to come
But Even at that the Hustlers, whose
regulations as siuggers are known by
this time all around Mr.. Edward Bar
rows circuit managed 10 get but six
safeties from his benders. Rhoades
not only hurled a good game, but he
drove in Richmond's first two runs
OF the game by singing to right field
after two men were out. For long
time Ii looked as II those two tallies
would prove sufficient to store the
garne safely away. but one never can
tell about Manager Tommy Leach and
his coho -, for those fellows like to
spring things when they are entirely
unexpected. They sprung something
all right In yesterdays game. but It
wasn't enough OF it to- win the game
from Richmond.
Hill who. by the way, IS the first
hurler to perform at Broad Street
Park with glasses, hurled great ball
for the Hustlers until the seventh,
despite the fact that the virginians
had scored on him prior to this time.
He yielded ten hits. Aand six of these
came in the seventh and eighth
frames.
Both teams played great game in
the fieid, and throughout the contest
Richmond's reJuvenated infield work
ed together with machine-like pre-
cision.