The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-08-17
Standing of Clubs.
Games Today.
Montreal in Richmond.
No other games scheduled.
BIZ ERNEST POLLARD.

Ladies and gentlemen, the hero this
morning is Samuel Ross, better known
In local fandom as Rebel" a lean,
ianky, spaghetti-shaped youngster who
nails from jackson. Tennessee.
Rebel held the hard hitting Roches-
ter Hustlers to five scattered bingles
yesterday afternoon out at the West
End baseball field . which enabled the
Nlrginians TO capture he closing game
with Tommy Leach's underiings and !
incidentally get away with the big end
OF the series Richmond won the
game by score of to !.
Ross had his twisters working in
great style and in five OF the nine in
nlngs he cut the invading FASTENERS
down in rapid succession, only three /
men facing him in each of the frames
IT was the third inning before man
finally reached first on him. that be- !
ing the result OF a free transportation. +
ana It was the fourth inning that the
visitors managed TO get next TO his
wicked Blenders for a safety. In only
three innings did the visitors have
the slightest chance of sending "A rum
ner across the rubber, ana In two of
those the Tennesseean managed to
derrick himself in easy fashion. In
the fourth frame TWO Of the Hustlers
contributed bingles. but the elongated
youugster pulled himself together and
prevented any talAes resulting. The
visitors only marker VAS forthcoming
IN The fifth. when. after the first man
had been retired, Hale singled and
kirmayer surprised himself by hit
ting one OF Ross hurling offerings
fer three sacks Although IL was bat
one o8t when he contributed this
three-ply wullop. he was stiil hugging
that third lag when the inning was
brought 60 a close, for the local hurl-
cr tuhut8cd an assortment Of baf-
fiue thlnEs that kirmayers team
llates were unable to drive out OF
3he sufivkd, He made another bad
s.4rt In The following chapter by walk
ani, man and later on in th,, frame
u man singled. but his good pitching.
coupled with good fielding, prevented
BaX additional counters Tor the Hus-
tiers. After that Ross had everything
his own way. Not only did Ross pitch
"a good game, but he contributed two
siuf les out Of four trips 10 the plate.
one OF them came IN the sixth in
ming with a man on second base. The
lanky boy also scored couple OF runs,
putting the finishing touches on II
most successful afternoon work
kirrnaycr II Hit Hard.
kirmayer did the major portion OF
the hurting for the visiting club, but
after he had been touched for a total ,
Of nine safeties in six innings he gave
way to Dutch" Hersche. who gave
up a duo OF safetles and an additional
run.
Although Clemens and Eibel sin
gled In succession in the initial stan
"a, they failed to count. In the fol-
lowing inning the locals were cut
down in one, two. three order, but
the next inning proved il big one from
"a Richmond standpoint. Ross started
things of with Il single and Clemens !
walked. Eibel moved them up peg
with neat sacrifice and Hendryx
walked, filling the bases. Bankston
then drove a safety into right field
that sent both Ross and Clemens
across the plate. Hendryx took third
on the play and was caught out on
an tntield ball driven TO Arthur Dew
lin by Captain McDermott. Stein
brenner grounded to shortstop for the
third out. Richmond added another
run in the fourth when Johnny Priest
led off with a single. Reynolds sacri-
ficed him to second and he went to
third on Ross infield out. He scored
on Clemens safety. Eabel aeroplaned
10 left, ending the scoring The sixth
frame was another big one for Rich
mond, two more runners crossing the
rubber Priest walked and Reynolds
again sacrificed him to second. Ross
then contributed single TO left, scor-
ing Johnny Ross took second on a
throw in to catch Priest. Clemens
struck out, but Eibel drove Ross In
with a safety. The Nirginians' last
count came in the seventh, Bankston
walked and went ~ second on a
passed bail by Rec in. who had
succeeded Hale the bat.
Bankston was caus third base
vhen McDermott II to sacrifice
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second on Steinbrenner's infield ball
and the later then proceeded to steal
second Priest walked again and Bill
REYNOLDS singled. scoring Steinbren-
ner. Ross grounded out to first, end
ing the side.
Despite the sogEy condition OF the
fed. not single error was recorded
against either side. Richmonds in
field PLAYED spectacular ball, and the
work OF Captain McDermott and
Gtefnbrenner was far above the or
binary. Captain McDermott handled
eight ground balls. all of which were
az the difficult variety, without sim
gle error being registered against him.
He went over to third base on one
occasion and made a phenomenal stop
Of q high bounder just over the bag
ana then proceeded to make a per-
feet throw to the initial sack, getting
the runner. Steinbrenner also made
a beautiful stop when he went over
n second base and grabbed n hot one.
Thu work of the team as whole
was very good.
The box score follows:
RlehmOnd.
Players. ABB. r. II. o. A. T. |
r,,emena IL .,..... 2 0 oil
ushei III. ...4 % 315 el
Eandryx Of .... Q 0 8 0 OIL
fankston RI. .......3 0 Q oil
McDermott. sb. 49,. i OIL
eteinbrenner. 30. -. ] OF
priest, %. ........ 2 OF
pevnolds. G, .....z o l oil
Ross, p. ......s....-, VI
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