The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-05-08
Games Today.
Fl. Wayne at Richmond.
South Bend at Evansville.
Grand Rapids at Springfield.
Muskegon at Dayton.
Games Today

sure, inc lIIbu uoV0T IdII III u pinch
A.. for instance, the case of B. Dona
hue, an employe OF the Richmond Cen
trail league team.
Yesterday afternoon the Quakers
and the Fort Wayne Railroaders, that
other baby" club Of the Central cir
cult, defying . rain soaked field and
almost freezing weather, gave battle
at Athletic park. Hart pitching for
the Quakers. and Peterson. on the
mound for Fort Wayne, had been SO
stingy with their base hits that when
the first half Of the eighth closed Rich
mond had acquired only one run while
the Railroaders had two to their credit
and that one run lead looked as big as
the Liberty Loan.
Peterson Lets Down Bars.
Then, Unexpectedly, Mr.. Peterson
began to let down the bars of his hith-
erto alright defense. Very unfortun.
ate for Mr.. Peterson. BossolOni. first
man up for the home guard in the last
of the eighth, drew walk. Rapp ad-
vanced him on sacrifice. Wilcox
popped out to first base.
Kreg. the stalwart Quaker catcher,
was purposely passed. filling the bases
cunning Peterson had figured it out
that 1t would be safer to work on Hart
for the third out than to trifle with
Kreg. But right here Manager Myers
crossed the foxy Mr.. Peterson.
Our Hero Now Appears.
Ladies and gents, the stage is now
set for the appearance Of our hero. Mr..
Donahue, for Myers had ordered Dona-
;~h 80
Hart. With his mighty war club Big
Bill stepped to the platter.
A curve shot past him and he calm
ly looked it over. Then came a Sec
ond curve in the same groove. There
was q terrific crash. When the ball
was retrieved in deep center Bossoloni,
Wilcox and Kreg had registered three
runs and Mr.. Donahue. pinch hitter de
Donelson flew out, but the game had
Quakers in the ninth. retired the op.
position with ease after the first man
up had gotten on through an error.
About one hundred and fifty bugs
shivered through the contest but from
the uproar that arose after Big Bill
had delivered one would have thought
the park was inhabited by ten thous-
and maniacs.
Single Error Allows ecore.
Fort Wayne's single error, by Seig-
frid, in the second, was responsible
for Richmond's first run. Wilcox got
on through this error after one out.
Kelly put him on second with q sacri-
fee then big Kreg shot out a slashing
single. scoring Wilcox.
In the first OF the fourth Fort
Wayne scored for the first time.
Rooney led off with a hit. Brown
rolled one to Hart. who uncorked a
wild heave in trying to get Rooney at
second, with the result that Rooney
went to third and Brown to second. M.
Kelly was retired on an easy chance.
Schlenker hit to Evers who tossed
out Rooney at the plate. Powers then
singled, scoring Brown. With two
gone in the seventh Fort Wayne scor-
ed It's second run. Seigfrid was walk
ed and at once stole second. Evers
mussed up vandagrift's hard offering
and Seigf1d counted.
Hart pitched excellently. Only five
hits we're made off his delivery and
they were widely scattered. He would
have shut out Fort Wayne except for
his own error and that of Evers The
fielding Of J. Kelly for Richmond was
one Of the pleasing features.