Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-06-07
LOCALS EMERGE WINNERS
LONG GAME FINALLY WON
BY INDIANS BY 6-3 COUNT
contest MARRIED by Weak tmptrinr
ana tncr>>aut WtnnSlinS lie
tween Rival Players.

By scoring half dozen runs after
two hours and forty-nvc minutes OF
ball piaymE. generously interspcrseG
Richmond Indians won from Newport
News yesterday AFTERNOON TO tho tune
of 10 3.
The time used up in the staging OF
the n.nc-inuinG game probably will
establish new baseball marathon re-
cord Mhout thirty minutes OF the
empires in their attempt to arrive at
their decisions.
Martin. on the mound for Richmond.
hurled good ball although he got him
self into several bad holes by walk
Ing men at inoppOrtune times. In the
eighth Il looked At ono time as If
he would be jcrhod when Newport
News scored two runs Bcndcu HIM
self. went out 70 warm NJ. but Mar
I'm took himself in hand and hc.i
ne ,sh;;Ribnilders in check. lie allowed
Charlie strain, who played short for
the visitors.
First Run by GiliiInnd.
The Richmond team scored is first
rot on base on Strains error. went 10
second on browns perfect sacrifice
Bass was hit by kuutz. but died on
tho bag when PAYS fly was taken in
by Wilson, the Newport News first
Giiland scored the Indians second
RUN also He led off in the third with
~. And 5Gili. semen M IN line S"i fog q" an
easy irot across the home plate when
Bass Knocked one deep into lief; con
of the game when he got the sphere
after rum Tor II. Pooles hit turned
The trick, however. and brought G!lli-
land across the rubber again.
Two more runs We're mad. in the
eighth inning after the total had been
iP }[i 70 four by talIies in The
Brown led off with hits. Browns going
Tor two sacks, and both were scored
down after these tallies and Pay ana
Hin went ont. Martin having previously
tanned.
Strain Hang, Out Homer.
The visitors made their first run in
the fourth inning when Charlie Strain,
former Richmond amateur and profess
sional ball player, landed on a hcuu-
, ,fn % 9ne and sent it SAILING far 22noye
They scored no more until the eighth.
making their last two then. sykes
Mar,n 'S rro r'; ana s both E@ Jk on 'r
Strain came in when Abbott ran out
far into the inheld after a ily that
should have been Martins. and dropped
il. AZ the time th, runS were scored
three men We're on. Jones having made
single.
\ fast double play. Poole to Abbot,
20 Poole, saved the day Tor tho locals
IN the NTH inning. kuntz and iicnEcs
hAd drawn Tree passes from the Rich
mond hurlcr and BranniEau had driven
one out for single The bases were
filed, with none out Daughton
Knocked a line drive. which Poole TOOK
IN clean as a whip and shot to Alb
ho,t heading of Kuntz at tho plate
DauGhton was put out on tho throw
from Abbott back 10 Poole Wilson'S
Srounder to Brown retired the side.
Shiphuildcrs Enter Protest.
As q result OF a decision OF Umpire
NOrman Johnson in the seventh in
ming. Newport News played the re-
m2inder of the game under protest.
fireman and kuntz were on base and
licnges' battcd ball struck Kuntz's
loot. Brennan meantime coming home.
lie was sent back to second on the
ruling of ihc umpire that the bali was
dead after striking the runner.
The hitting and playing of Giililand
and Poole featured for the locals and
the work Of Daughton in center field
!or Newport News
The score: