The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-07-05
Nv ERNEST POLLARD.

by ERNEST POLLARD
pennant-winning aspirations which
David Shean and his Providence stall
warts have been fondling for the past
three or four weeks. were rudeiy shat
tered yesterday within our Broad
street baseball enclosure. when Skip
per Billy Smiths Richmond Virgin
JAMS came from behind in both the
morning and afternoon engagements
and succeeded in placing both of the
holiday attractions on the right side
of the ledger. The morning encounter
went to our boys by a score of TO 3,
while they emerged victorious In the
afternoon tilt by count OF to 3,
franks to most opportune blow to
lett fels bp Mickey Keliiher in the
eleventh inning.
That's a greedy bunch. those Rich
mond boys. They were not satisfied
I'm taxing the contests Friday and
yesterday morning. but had to coma
back yesterday afternoon and spread
some additional gloom over the Provi-
dence camp. A new broom could not
have made n cleaner sweep than did
the Nirg.niana in their series with the
gentlemen from the land of CLAIMS.
Yesterdays appearances on the local
pa&,iming grounds were the final ones
before the extended Northern inva-
sien. aad they left something in the
minds of those two multitudes that
VIII remain there until they return
three weeks from now.
They were two spectacular exhibit
'ions or our national pastime---the
kind In which the mythical Frank
Nierriwer '.- To participate. The
Nirginians . 70 the two games yester-
day by scr#pping every minute, by
fielding SENSATIONAL and by coming
through with their clouts when they
were most needed The Nirxinians
were ~ their best and they exhibited
everything they had, thoroughly dem
enstfatiHg that they have plenty of
aood baseball left In their systems AT
times the Nirgtnians were behind in
both Of the encounters but di haunt =
ed by their opponents leads. they con-
tinued hghting until thev had finally
registered a couple OF victories and
sent the thousands that witnessed the
engagements home with something TO
talk about for some days TO come.
Leake and Ross Winners.
II took Albert Leake, premier hurl-
er of the Virginia State League last
season. to pilot the Richmond boys 10
a victory In the opening s~t-to. The
former Tarheei hurled himself d real
ball game, yielding only seven mngles
and causing four of the hard hitting
Rhode Islanders to whiff the ozone.
He had one bad inning. the sixth. dur
ing which chapter he gave up q quar-
aet OF 5afeties which enabled the
visitors to garner a duo of counters.
and, incidentally take the lead. How
ever. the Nirg5nians came back with
q vengeance an their half OF the same
etAn3a and made him feel good by
going rust two better than their
guestA sending four runners across
the plate. After this Leake was In
yfncible. only two more hingies being
recorded against him
Peters. the Providence HEAVIER. also
pitched nice game. but he was far
from being air-tight at the critical
moments He yielded but eight hits
and all save two of them counted for
something.
1t WAS Rebel Ross. RICHMOND s
spaghetti-shaped portsi der, that
brought home the bacon n the clos
ing conflict. While at times bingles
BY the visitors got him in trouble. he
pitched great ball and generally der
Kicked hamself in fine style. His
greatest piece of pitching during the
afternoon was On the eleventh inning.
9ut before Kellher slammed the
pellet into left held that brought VIC
tory 70 the Richmond club In this
inning. after Eayrs. the first man up.
had gone out. Blackburns tripled.
Things looked bad for the virginians
for = run for the visiting aggregation
md, dncidentally, q victory seemed In
evtable. But Ross pulled himself to-
gekher and struck out Shuftx the next
batter, and then Yelle drove one to
The dnfield that Angelo Arragon grab
ned and tossed to first base. heading
on the runner and tally.
Chie6 lineup, one Of the Philltes'
fe6alar hurlers hast season. was on
the firing line for tho Grays. but the
big Indians was touched for no less
than fourteen safe hits by Billy's
charges
It would be no little task to pick the
the fielding star for the two games.
We refer you 70 the entire lineup.
Those fellows who did not do anything
q the sensational variety in the morn
tng contest made UP tor It in the
afternoon. 80 there you are. Every
man in the club put up a great ex-
ktbition.
Grays Break Ice.
The Grays were the first to count
IN tho opening game. Errors by Nc
permott and Arragon put men on nrst
and third. Brainard's sacrifice fly en-
Ablod them to cav flrst blood. The
vlrginians came back In the same In
Ming and knotted the count by send
ing runner across the pan after two
were out Captain McDermott more
dian atoned for his uiiscue by drawing
soet T. two-base hit after Clemens and
Danketon HAD grounded out. ARA
p5oA then came through With chs single
Um4 sent him across the plate.
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