Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-06-17
RICHMOND TAKES BOTH
GAMES FROM HUsTLERs
Excellent Demonstration Of Why
Baseball Is tho Great American
Game-Scores, q to 8; 4 8.
SENSATIONAL PLAY IN BOTH
First Goes Twelve Sessions, Eibel
Winning II After Much Opposition.
Reynolds Parks Ball, Winning
Last Fracas-Unusual Features.

Ask the ardent fan why he neglects
business to follow baseball; ask tho
office boy why his grandparents hap
pen TO bid farewell to this mundane ,
sphere so frequently during the base
ball season and how ne accounts for
the fact that he generally mourns their
demise In bleacher seat ask the
fannie why she will sit through n
game during n broilinE August after
noon. and all will give ready response.
Most OF them will back up their rea-
sons with statement that 1t is the
great American game they are follow
Ing. And then you may ask them why
II Is the great American game.
That question would be a foolish one
TO ask any one who visited Boulevard
Field during the afternoon yesterday.
ANY one who was present would never
ask such a question. The answer was
selfevident; it was demonstrated, rather
than explained. in the double header
which Richmond took from Mike Doc
Ian and his Rochester Hus,lers after
two OF az pretty games as have ever
been staged in this city.
They were the kind that filled
with interesting situations and brill
liant play. games featured by the
spectacular and the unusual and ones
replete with critical situations some
Of which aroused the fans to high
state Of excitement. because they were
OccaSlOned by DTS OF or
errors Of commission.
But Richmond won them both in the
good old fashioned way of banging out
tallies when they were NEEDED badly.
taking the initial battle by n score OF
6 to 5. after twelve frames of dcspe
rate battling. and the second with n
great cloutIng rally in the last session
OF the seven-inning fracns by score
OF to }.
The uncertainty, the results that
$r,
frame by the narrowest Of margins.
the unusual incidents which marked
the play as the contests proceeded. the
efficiency OF team work and the value
Of individual spectacular work all were
exemplified and all combined TO send
the crowd from the park we'll satisfied
with the result and thoroughly con-
WINGED. II at any time during the recent
disastrous slump they had doubted the
fact, that baseball is the great Amer
lean game and always will continue SO.
Ethel md Reynolds Responsible.
The men who swept the games into
the local basket yesterday. or rather
those who figured most prominently in
the clinaScs. were EIbel and Bill Rey-
nolds. Eibcl was responsible for driv-
Ing In the tally that landed the open
ing fracas. After having been walked
in the tenth session at Mike Dooan's
command, in order that he might not
have an opportunity OF connecting at
crucial moment and while facing eS-
actly the same situation in the twelfth.
Eibel managed to come through.
Al Schacht had been sent in and was
endeavorinE to pass Hack in order that
he might take chance less dan
gerous battcrs. Eibcl took three balls
making desperate efforts TO get into
swatting distance OF the sphere on each
delivery. Then Schacht threw one that
passed to one side Of the piasc. bur
not too far away. Eibel seized the
opportunity and hit. The drive car
ried the ball through Mike Doolan with
the speed OF a rocket and Wild Con-
roy romped home. ending the set-to.
The second game. shortened TO seven
innings by agreement. went up to the
last frame with each club securing one
run. Then Jack Enrght became slight
ly wild. allowed a couple OF singles
and a double, and with them Mooers
mixed an error and Rochester took
the field with pair of runs TO the
good. Rodriguez made corking stop
and toss 10 Schacht. retiring Eibel.
who first up in Richmond half
George Distell pounded one to right
held, though. and koehler sent in TO
bat for Mooers. drew pass. Han
ford took the bag to run for him and
Bill Reynolds stepped up to the plate
Lott had been pitching UP to this
time and doing very good work indeed,
but the passing OF Koehler caused
Mike Doolan once again to call upon
al SCHdCnt IN an emergency.
Schacht wasted three balls in an ef-
fort to make Bill hit at bad one
Reynolds retreated from the batting
box for a minute and looked askance
toward Manager knabe on the bench.
Should he hit II the next one was
good ball should he accept the
base on ball and fiji the sacks? Knab.
signalcd Reynolds to maui it, Maui
1t he did. The next one was over tho
outside corner and Bill connected wien
one of those contest ending smashcs
for which he has gained fame. The
tinued to climb higher into the
heavens. When ii nnally began TO
drop. Schweitzer, out in left field saw
his chance was hopeless and logged
toward the doghouse The ball dropped
lazily somewhere in the fields beyond
the fence and before il fell both Dis
tell and Hanford had scored
Garry Bni to Clubhouse.
Just to complete the work he had
started Bill made the journey around
the cushions. So long as Hanfori
had come across with the deciding
robbed of a home run, SO far as official
records will show. But IL ne was
robbed of tat he was not robbed OF
all the praise that crowa OF lunatics
could bestow upon him. They had
become about half crazy when Eibel
won the opening game. but when Rey-
nolds reached home. after making the
swat that landed the second contest,
they were fanatics, individually and
collectively.
They laid hands upon the catcher.
Bill was puzzled he couldn't quite get
their meaning. But before he was able
to make n move to escape them husky.
yelling lunatics had hoisted all of
Bits hundred and seventy pounds to
their shoulders. No thought was given
OF the new straw hats or OF the half
holiday clothes. They disregarded
everything and everybody in making
the demonstration. and they carried
Bill Reynolds to the door of the club
house. and they allowed him TO escape
only after a bashful expression Of ap-
probation. 1t probably was the great
est demonstration made over n pro-
fessional ball player in this city in