The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-07-25
BASEBALL
+ r ACK
G O L F
Chief Bender Pitches His Colts
to Victory in l6-lnning Contest
Chippewa Pitches Great Ball and Richmond Wins Opening
Encounter with Petersburg Coolers by Score OF to L
Burnham Smiles Himself Out of Came
BY Ernest Pollard.

Burnham Smiles Himself Gu
BY Ernest Pollard.
Even the perpetual smile Of Alloy
sius Reuben Burnham, Petersburg 8
farmer lad. and one of the finest as
sortment of battling, sizzling twisters
ever uncorked before an assemblage
IN our Boulevard field were not sur
fic!ent to defeat Chief Bender yes
.e.dny afternoon Aloysius besides
his aforementioned twisters. had his
smile working to perfection. This
smile seemed to give the erstwhile
tiller of the soil confidence, and for
sixteen long innir gs-jlst three hours
aud fifteen minutes-he smiled and
smiled and smiled, In fact, he
smiled himself out of a perfectly good
BAH In the sixteenth inning with
DIX Moran on second base and two
mon out. Gus Hill knocked him a
LILLE roller He grabbed the bail
end smiled his usual smile as he
tasGed the ball to first However. the
hail went wide OF its mark and Moran
siam pe.ed across the plata with the
run that gave Richmond 10 / VIC
tory over the visitors in the initial
combat with their guests from the
banks Of the peaceful Appomattox
The farmer lad walked our OF the box
picked up his sweater, gathered up
his other helongings--and smiled
Though Chief Bender won't much
fos, smiles he sure did pitch himself
bali game, and for tnc last nine
innings Of The sixteen played he
Welded but one, lone hinwle. and that
was contributed in the fifteenth
frame by Roth, player who had gone
hliiAss up To that stage of the game.
The Chippewa didn't make such an
suspicious start allowing Andy Nc
~onneli's contingent to garner a trio
Of Safetfes in the initial frame. And
those came with only one man out.
But getting into holes matters not to
the chief, In fact. he apparently
likes them. Though things looked
pretty black with the hasSccks clog
ysd and only one out. he proceeded
o strike Cashion out and then made
Grouety drive an easy roller down
he third base line.
Coolers Get One Across.
III the third inning Mcconnell
arove one over TO the right Held
fence for 81 couple of bases after
Wood had struck out. and things
lidn't look any too good al that time
with Hard Boiled" Hitler and Hin
key coming up. But like in the first
ming. the chief managed 10 wiggle
out without any disaster Detailing
aifn In the ffth the Coolers got
their only run OF the game. and one
whtch they should not have had
Parker led of with a safety. and
vent TO second On sacrifice. The
.nobers received advanced to third
N a passed bail and came home on
Woods sacrifice ny. This ~ went
. Hill and the latter made a beauti-
'ul peg. but one that was Il little
vide of the plate Bender who was
coming in to back up the plate iff
.ercepted the ball, seeing that it was
going wide Of it's intended mark. Abb
bott left the home plate when ne
Jaw the ball was 10 the right ana did
10, get back fast enough IL get the
nan coming In home after the chief
1ad grabbed the Ball The runner
could have been prevented from scor-
.ng. but no one can be especially
blamed for this. for seeing that the
a~ll was to the right 1t was no moro
han natural fer Abbott to follow H.
II was an unfortunate piece OF work
out one that VIII happen most any
lime. Though the visitors threatened
an one or two occasions. this proved
Ia he the extent OF their scoring for
Chief Bender tishtaned. got stingy-
With his hits and proved himself to
ae iurinoible in the pinches
Bender in Great Form.
Bender in his palmiest days never
worked harder for ball game than
re did yesterday. He looked like
he Bender of old-~iike the Bender
that was steaming them across the
plate for Connie Mack a few years
ago. The Indian pitched the Kind Of
sall that would have won for him in
cation for the Chippewa was right
and there IL no getting away from
the fact. Despite his age--some say
the chief Is getting along in years
never did he weaken, nor did he show
my outward signs of fatigue. The
,hief had everything any pitcher needs
to. win ball game and he deserved
10 win. From the eighth to the if
teenth frames only one visitor got
rs far as the initial sack, and then
u was the error Of Anderson that put
him there In the sixteenth frame
two errors. one being contributed by I
the chief himself, put the first two !
men up on the bases. But as a Anal |
ouch to a good days work the In
Han once more got down TO business |
and the next two men went out The !
chief pulled out of his home with the |
most able assistance of Anderson, who |
went over near shortstop's position
md cut one down that looked good /,
for a hit, and incidentally a game |
breaker. But Andy got it in great |
fashion and the day was saved. This |
was one of the neatest pieces of |
ielding witnessed on the field during
The sixteen innings OF pastiming. but |
there were other plays that shone all |
most as brilliantly |,
F@ Poolc's Run Ties Score.
From the ffth to the ninth inning |
the score stood TO in favor OF the
Invading ball club. and until the
closing frame 1t looked as if the visi-
tors were going to get away with a /
win over the chief 1t was the old
reliable Jim Poole that made a vic /
tory possible for the home folks. AZ
ter Moran had popped one up TO |,
third Jimmie singled. Pay was hit |
BY pitched ball and each advanced {
a base on passed ball. With one out
and two men on the bases Gus Hin /
came to bat. He had been whiting
wildly at the offerings of Burnham
and he started out the same way this |,
time. II was then that Chief Bender |,
He caused the game to II
be stopped long enough to call Gus
over to the dugout and whispered a 1
few things into his willing ears. Hill /,
stepped to the plate and laid down