Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-06-20

INDIANS TROUNCED BADLY
SHlPBUllDERS SLUG LIKE
DEMONS AND TRIUMPH. 14-4
Land on JoliiT In First Inning for Four
Hits and ON FnERn for Four
teen SnfctiCs.

All the good spirit shown by tho
! Rotary Club in attending the game in
a body and boosting loudly could not
transform the Indians into winning
, ball team yesterday. Newport News
/ won Ivy the score OF II to 4, forcing
Joliif To retire at the end OF the first
/ inning, and hammering Pagan. his sue
! CcSsor. merCilcSSly during the remain
| ing eight frames. The visitors slugged
to every part of the field almost at
will, and by pilinE up nine runs in the
I first three inning established an over
whelming lead which the locals We're
unable to even cut down TO half its
proportions.
Brannigan, first man up. Knocked a
single. and DauGhton followed suit.
Allen get on first on Il ticldcrs' choice.
and both lie and DauEhton were scored
when Hengas slammed one OF Jollin's
choicest 10 the fence for three bases.
kuntzs hit scored HcnEeS, and left
the Indians with the problem of re-
trieNing those three tallics. which prob
lem was never solved until the end Of
the fifth inning, when it was too late
for the Bendcritcs to rescue themselves.
Fngnn Also Treated Hndiy.
When taEan. who has been secured
from Norfolk. went in the box in the
second inning. he received the same
treatment that had been given .Iolliif.
The first two haitcrs facing bim. Jones
and Brannigan. secured >Tase hits
Wilson's binrle completed the trio of
swats. and gave the Newport News
team a total Of five runs for two inn
ings' work, not bad at ALL But It was
In the third that Pagan met his
Nemesis. The Shipbuilders. evidently
thinking that they had let him off
light in the second. landed on him Tor
one hit and secured four runs. The
disparity i'll hits and runs is accounted
for by the generosity of Pagan himself.
who issued three bases on balls, and
the errors of Gilliland and Abbott.
the disapprCNal of Chief Bender. and
he was replaced at third 1T the be-
ginning of The fourth by Abbott. Jones.
q new catcher. went behind the plate
and stop those which he did not sue
coed in placing quite so we'll
One in Eighth and Ninth.
One more run in the NTH, two in the
ninth tell the whole story of the tally
ing Of Newport News. They would harc
been slamming Pagan around y.;, no
doubt. ii the game had not come TO
an end after the usual nine innings.
With eleven hits, Richmond only sue
cceded in making four counters. The
first came in the opening frame. when
passed ball by Brennan let in GILL;
land. who had been walked and stolen
second. Abbott and Pagan led off with
hits in the fifth and We're scored on
was registered in the eighth, after two
hits and an error by the left fielder.
The Richmond batting rally in the
ninth might have been productive Of
IcSuIlS ndh IL not pccii cut rather 81 II
by a double play. Pagan, Jones and
Bass made singles. but Pagan and
Jones bit the dust in the double. and
Poole ended the Newport News ::ulic
by knocking a long ny TO right field.
Hrnnniwnn star of Game.
AS Il pitcher Pagan WAS Il fine hitter.
| He connected with three for singles
| in four times up. Batting honors in
the slaughter go to Branniran, how
ever. In six times up he made four
hits, got base on balls and was sal
on Il iieldcr's choice. not TO mention four
runs which he scored. His playing
was as much feature as his switting
He accepted Il number OF hard chances;
without Il miscuc, and ran the bases
like Il veteran.
Despite the drubbing. the Indians are
stu nshtins, and viii battle hard for
the remaining two games OF the series
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