The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-09
FARMER 80ySkI!I
Quakers GO Down BeI0l9
on the Diamond.
'GUllFORD VS.. THE A. & M.
1T WAS A VERY CLOSE AND EN-
CITING GAME
The FINAL SCORE WAS 10 10
watkins Pitching and the Heavy Bait ne
Saved the Game to the Agricui
turists. -Gu,iford's Good
Fielding.
GUllFORD VS.. THE A. g. M.
THE FINAL SCORE WAS 7 10 10

Fielding.
-Four hundred baseball enthusiasts, full
~ half Of them ladies, saw the Guilford
College team and the A. and NJ. College
team play an exciting game at Athletic
Park yesterday afternoon.
They also saw the Farmer boys pulled
out of certain defeat by the efforts OF
Watkins, their pitcher, who struck The
Quaker boys out in one, two, three or
der, and despite the poor stick and feId
work, saved the game by a score of
to 10.
These clubs come from rival college.
and are composed entirely of young men
who are students, and the cranks who
follow the fortunes of the teams are
made of the same kind of stuff. Yester-
day the Farmers were on their own dung
hill and q mighty racket the cranks and
cranklets kept up, Growing over good
play by the Farmers or q bad one by the
Quakers. Naturally the Quakers did not
have much to say. They simply playel
ball and tried their best to find Watkins
left-handers. But only in two innings =
first and third-did they have any great
success As result there was nothing
but footing horns, haunting jeers, cy-
clone OF yells and a cross-fire of COM
ments throughout the afternoon.
Then when itw as all over they mingled
together and exchanged ''ifs"-argu-
ing that If this one that
one and the other one hadn't
done this, that and the other the result
would have been very different. But all
united in acknowledging that it was a
good game, barring some exceedingly bad
errors. and hoped that the two teams
might sometime meet again.
In fielding the Guilfords carried off the
honGs, while in batting the Agriculture
lists excelled. Superb stick work BY Har-
ris, Asbury, Copeland and Watkins set
the howlers on edge The hase-runnlng
of the Farmers was also a feature, and
helped materially in their score
The Quakers were the first to The
bal, but when the first batter, Tomlinson,
proceeded to bat Watkins balls there
was q wall Of distress. This was in
creased TO q roar of indignation as Barbee
did the same thing, but It was some balm
in Gilead when he went out ON first with
Tsmlinson no further than second Thea
Kernef took the stick and pounded wnas
he tried to make Q two-bagger, but he
was caught before reaching second,
thozgA Tomlinson managed to score
Then Jordan knocked a fly into left field
and went to second. Petty then batted a
siagle. sending Jordan to third. The
Farmer were now too far gone to utter
= sound by an error Jordan trotted in
and Petty went to second. Then Wat
kins woke up and struck English out.
The Quakers retired with two big runs
chalked to their credit.
The coming of the Farmers to the bat
from the spectators and a cyclone of
yells from the rooters. But they proved
to he sort Of wet blanket and it was
with the greatest effort that the fires of
enthusiasm were kept burning. Asbury
died before reaching first and Wootten
went out ON a fly. Bryson had better
luck. bunting to first. stealing second and
going to third on an error. There he
persisted, Primer going out on tue first.
The Quakers found big surprise when
they came back to the bat. Watkins
balls were playing all sorts of pranks in
the air. Barbee W., Ballinger and Wat
kins, all famed out in one two, three
order and the crowd went wild with joy.
If this could be kept up victory was sure.
Now the Farmers came back to try
their luck again with the stick, but the
splendid fielding of the Quakers gave
Them no better success. Harris went out
on u foul. Watkins hunted to first, and
stole second. Moore was struck by the
ball and sent to first. Garyin singled and
thus filled all the bases. The excitement
was now intense; the crowd was yelling
and cheering. In his desire to get home
Watkins was caught mapping on the third.
A fly by Garvin then dropped into a
Quaker's hands and that settled it.
In the Quaker's next half Tomlinson
made base hit, then stole second. Barbee
struck out. Tomlnson stole third. Ker-
ner struck out. Jordan went out on first
1t was in this inning that the first
Farmer-Wootten-s over the home
plate. 1t began by Asbury getting base
for being hit by a ball. Then he stole
second and third and Wootten making
a base hit, he scored. BrysOn went out
on fly and Wootten got to second on
an error. Primer knocked two Dagger,
bringing Wootten home. Harris knocked
a fly to left. field and Primer was put out
for interfering with the fielder while try
ing to catch it. Harris went to second
on error and was put out while trying
to make third, for interfering with ball
knocked into left field by Watkins.
GuilfOrd came in to go out again in
one, two, three order.
The Farmers did not fare much better.
MOorew as put out on first, Garvin and
Copeland were given bases on balls. AS
bury made base-hit, but was put out
on fly by Wootten.
In Guilford's fifth half Ballinger went
out on first. Watkins reached first on a
bunt, and Tomlinson made base-hit send
ing Watkins, Tomlinson and himself
home. Kerner made three Dagger. Jor-
dan made base-hit and Kerner scored
Jordan stole second then to third. Petty
struck out. English struck out and Jor
dan was left on third