The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-07-30
By ERNEST POLLARD.


Although Manager Billy Smith 3
proteges tried desperately to vanqulsh
Dave Shean and his cohorts and In
cidentally send them away from
Richmond with three defeats hang
ing over their heads, the Nirginians
had to content themselves with only
half OF the double attraction staged
Yesterday afternoon within the BROAD
Street enclosure. The local FASTENERS
emerged victorious IN the opening en-
counter all right, thinks TO the in
vincible hurting OF Rebel Ross hut
BaumRartner, formerly Of the pen
nant-winning philies, was the one
big obstruction thar stood between the
Richmond club and a victory In the
sunset tilt. The initial conflict went
to Richmond by count Of 70 !,
while the closing engagement was
won by the Rhode Island aggregation.
to 2.
The virEinians didn't mince mat
ters al all In that fret game and went
TO work and sailed II safely away no
later than the first chapter OF
course. they didn't know that those
runs were sufficient to WIN the game
and continued their scoring until af-
ter the third inning They would
have been scoring throughout the
game, but this fellow Peters, who WIS
offering up his henders TO them.
thought that the Joke had gone far
enough and he proceeded to tighten
right then and there But the dam
age had been done and all of the dis
aster had occurred before he was
able to bring the Nirginians' onward
march TO an abrupt end.
Ross Hurts Great Ball.
Ross wasn't as kind TO the visiting
hatters as Peters was to the Rich
mond club. OF course, he made them
feel good at intervals by allowing
them to place one in safe territory
here and there. but with men on the
bases he put the lid on just about as
tight as IT IS during these days OF
Blue Sundays and things He was
just invincible in the pinches and the
best ball club in the world could not
have defeated him YESTERDAY The
spaghetti-shaped portsider was right
and there's no getting away from the
fact He allowed the invading ag-
Gregation only six hits and they were
scattered among five innings. two of
them coming in only one frame The
youngster had the visitors eating out
Of his hand during the MAJOR portion
OF his sojourn on the mound.
In the second game Slim McKenrv
wouldn't break right; the visitors
lambasted them hard at times. and
everything In general went wrong for
the elongated one. At times he
pitched great ball and at others all
he had was a prayer. After the sixth
inning Manager Smith deemed IL ad-
gisable to make change and. Rebel
Cooper, late of the Buffalo Herd. was
sent to the mound. For the first two
Innings the big fellow cut the Grays
down in fine style, not a single one
~ tharo PeaThinu ha y "a,
However, in the ninth they got to
him for a couple of bingles.. one OF
which was rank scratch from the
bat OF Eayrs. He frightened at this
juncture and they didn't get near
the home plate. 1t was his first ap-
pearance in a Virginian uniform be-
fore a Richmond audience and he
made very favorable impression
with the baseball enthusiasts here.
He came to Richmond with the repu-
tation of being as wild as the pro-
verbal March hare, but the March
hare to which these people had re-
erence must have had her legs cut
of. or else she was tied to a tree.
He didn't look like a wild man by
no means. It's true he uncorked one
wild heave. but the best OF them will
do that at times, and II didn't amount
to anything after all.
Baumgartner Is Winner.
Baumgartner was right and he is
one Of the few left-handers who has
succeeded in administering the vir-
ginians drubbing this season. As a
rule the local FASTENERS literally feast
on the offering Of these portsiders,
but things were different yesterday
While 1t times they succeeded in
placing one In safc territory. no gen.
orally frightened at tho crucial mo-
ments, hence tho defeat.
Dave Shean. who was elected from
the gAma Thursday. for engaging In
= verbal combat with their umuirati-