The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-09-02
BY ERNEST POLLARD.

would have grown dizzy and fallen
PROSTATE to the ground from
ovcrcxcrtion yesterday afternoon.
and as 4 result Of their ovcrwork
the largest aSscmblage that has,
Witnessed an exhibition Of the ma
uonai game In Richmond in eight
seasons, SAW Chief Charley Bender
and his Colts continue merrfly on
their way rennAntward and trail
Andy McConnell's Coolers In the
dust for the second time during
tho day. Manager Bender did the
hurting and the Colts won 3 to 2.
Conservative fellows estimate
the throng ut six and one-han
thousand. but when the official
figures arc given out II Will pos
sihiy show that as many as seven
thousand people witnessed the
encounter. Long before the game
started the grandstand was pack
I'd So were the bleachcrs, for
that matter. and many Of the fans,
ard few OF the fair ones faiso,
had TO content themselves with
sitting and standing space around
the right. center and left field
fences. II was q great asserublage
the largest that has ever been
seen In Boulevard Efeld---and ne
speaks the nAttbuiti paSeiiHS
great como back In Richmond.
Coolers Fight Hard.
Though the Coolers lost this game,
they should have lot OF consolation
even in their defeat of knowing that
hey gave the Chippewa the hardest
fight he has experienced this season;
ave when he dropped his contests to
suffolk and Norfolk. The boys from
the hanks of the peaceful Appomattox
started after the game no later than
the initial frame ana before IT had
pean brought to a close they had hung
IN a rally~~the run that kept them in
tbs lead until the seventh inning. In
this, the lucky frame, the Colts
startHt psppering the field with their
sare clouts and managed to not only
wiggie from under, but to take the
lead themselves BY the same margin
the visitors had held II for six long
innings. In the following inning the
Colts hung up one more, bringing
their total UP to three, but even that
did mo, serve to make the visitors
quit. They continued their fight and
came within narrow margin of
evening the count Just before the cur
tair@was drawn on the afternoons en-
terfainmeut Had IL not been for
hasty throw ON the part OF Jimmie
PaanlH. catching Filler at the plate. the
score would have been tied. When
t-n,p Orth called the visiting third
sacker out At the plate loud howl
from the Goohertown players rent the
air. However, crowd shortly con-
-yregated on the field and put stop
To The argument and no damage was
ioae
But the cockade City contingent
las not the only club that put un 81
a~r1I,snt fsht 1t was only the com
s.nv~ns plugging Of the Cots that
h-rnrht then, a victory over the Wis
mrs FOR six innings the "noster" os
efre Eurnhan1. Petersnurgs smiling
farmer lad. caused a lei of trouble in
tba Richmond camp. In the seventh,
however theve sputzfi1g twfstae.rs were
solved 10 the entire satisfaction OF
ver-ene attendant unon the after
DON affair. save Andy Mcconnell his
nalltosse and the Petersburg fans
who made the trip from the land or
.,eEnuts ~ witness the contest. II was
,,sf nure and simple fight and lot
n n that gave the Colts the victory.
min Starts Nuts Trouble.
ra Gustavius Pluto Hill goes the
nonars for starting the rally that gave
,,tcnuond the game. The erstwhiie
,fs,tixsri of McKeesport. Pa. banged one
right field to start the humiliation
eor Andy Moran's infield out and q
lot Of speed on the path got Gus az
.ar as second base. Then George ray
I,stfn auished himself ny driving one
---stn rrutrr field that enabled Gus
,ayins Pluto to scsmper across the
olnte with the run that knotted the
count. On the throw In George went
Is second from which base he scored
a. Tommy Abhotts single. Bender
hen proceeded TO drive one at Hitler
thas,~was hard enough to knock an
Urinary third baseman down, but
fhe Goober grabbed It with one hand
End completed double play. One
~ orr was annexed in the eighth wnep
yveS less Baker started off With n
single. Brown got him to second with
sacrifice and he moved to third on
Poole's infieli out Lee Gooch's third
Fit Of the game sent him across the
n,ate Hill got another hit in this in
ainr but Moran drove long fly to
left held.
the chief. though he got off with a
had start. gof tight with his hits and
FROM the first to the ninth he gave the
xlsitors but two hits. They got two on
him n the opening inning and did
IN ewise in the ninth. From the 9th
through the eighth inning the chief
struck out seven men. Hitler was the
AMY man to do anything with the
chiefs twisters. This fellow got a
couple Of two-baggers and single
ont 81 three trips to the plate. Parker.
Iurseil and Mcconnell got the other
three.
~ Gooch hit the ball hard for the
coits. getting three singles out of four
tripa to the plate. Hill and Abbott
fniiuwed him closely with two each.
n Too Much MagAHs
petersburg. va, Sept. 1.--More than
,thras hundred loyal Richmond fans
.av,s the Colts wade into the Coolers
q TIA morning affair here and COM
,sietstv outcIass the Mcconnell con-
tinrent. The same three hundred
sfans completely outta1ked the rest OF
me Eoobertown grandstand while the
f.oks. we're breeding along. in fine style,
ina Cockade City fans had lots Of
snconsiC;,s ID get up and shout. but
erss41t pitching on the part OF Masalis
~ naaae piece OF spectacular fielding
aiwsevs caused them to sit down. Az
11x tIrA sixth, when the Colts broke
fNn .Sce and stored the contest safely
kMxY ouietude reigned In the home
eSS1Ieyl cf the grAndstand and bleach
ISQ1 n il the nlnth frame they had an !
y q ~ oetunity ~. Get all excited
= - iYYsir ycInb rot three men on
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