The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-24
YANNIGANS LOSE
TO VIRGINIA Nine
Charlottesville Collegians Land
Hard-Fought Game from Ma
tional Youngsters, 5 to 4.
ERRORS PROVE COSTLY
BY WILLIAM PEET.

! Charlottesville. Va. March "a
Grih's Yannigans suffered a double
/ dose of defeat here today. losing to
! the Regulars this morning, to =, and
! dropping the afternoon contest to the
/ University of Virginia, to 4.
| The Virginia game was rip snort
/ er. Almost everything that could pos
sibly happen on the diamond was
damned into nine innings. The college
boys usually manage to sneak over
one Victory while the Nationals ara
| here, and today was the appointed
time this spring.
/ Having worked his regulars until
they were about ready to drop in
their tracks the Old Fox trotted out
his Yannigan bunch for the Virginia
game. with Ayers and Goodwin slated
/ to do the pitching.
Errors proved the undoing of the
professionals, no less than eight
/ boots" and bum heaves being re-
corded. Doc Ayers was also batted
a right smart in tine early stages but
Goodwin stopped the run getting when
he entered the box in the fifth inning.
J The Griffmen unleashed a vicious bat
ting rally in the first half of the ninth
( telnS the score and missing a chance to
win when Galloway stopped a sizzling
! line drive Off BARRIERS bat. retiring the
side with double play.
/ Hager and Galloway, Virginia's best
! pitchers. had a lot of stuff and while
many of the hits registered Off Ayers
were OF fluky nature no alibis are Of
! fercd for the defeat.
| Four hits in n row to start Virginia
! first inning together with an error by
Schwab netted two runs Another boot
! by Schwab and singles from Stearns and
! White added tally in the third.
! The YanmiGans got two of these mark
ers back in their half Of the third Moell-
er got life on Humans error and
stole second. Sawyer walked. Then
came singles by Barber and Horace
Milan scoring Moeller and Sawyer.
! Ayers was nicked for another marker
I in the fourth. errors again paving the
way for the run. Then came Goodwin
tand there was no more scoring until the
hinlh' which was opened by the Nation
! ais. who promptly knotted the count
! Schwab started with a single to left.
Parks batting for Goodwin followed with
| a clean drive over Berkley's head
Moeller doubled down the first base line
! scoring Schwab and Parks, a pretty bunt
/ by Swayer put Moeller on third, and
then came the original hard luck kid
| Turney Barber. who smashed one of
| CallOway's shoots back at the pitcher so
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the way. The ball stuck in his paws and
all he had to do was to toss it to Stickley
and get MOeller, who had started for the
plate with the crack of the bat
| Having substituted Parks as a hitter for
| Goodwin, Griff found himself without
a single pitcher in uniform. so Howard
| Shanks, who once gained fame as a twirler
for the Monaco High School team. was
pressed into service. AS a pitcher Shanks
! Is a great little OutfieldCr
White greeted the MonaCan by driving
( the first ball pitched to left field for a
! double. Thurman walked and SticEley
! famed. Morton also walked, filling the
bases. Then came the trick which
worked with reverse English. Danny
MOeller came dashing in from center field
to catch Thurman mapping off second
! base and drew throw from Charity.
/ Had the peg been true Moeller would
undoubtedly have. sniped the Virginian,
: but the ball hit the dirt bounded over
Moeller's shoulder and in romped White
with the winning run. Score: