The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-04-29
These Teams Will Play Here
Tomorrow.
Both Teams Have Made Fine Records This
Year and viii Play the Game of
the Season.

very fortunate in having opportunities to
witness a great deal of excellent playing
this season The season is nearly over,
and the rooter will soon be out of a Job
! but if one may Judge from the record al
| ready made by the two teams that are
| to play here tomorrow, this game will
| be the best that has ever been played
| in Raleigh This game is between the
| team from the \. aE1 N. College OF
| this city, and the fiCrner team of Ok
| ford.
1t may not be amiss to take look
each other Monday.
| Horner will have Kenna in the box.
Kenna needs no introduction TO the Raj
eigh people who keep up with baseball
matters. He pitched last year for the
Georgetown team, and there are some who
| ought to know. who say that the George
| town team was last year the best college
| team in the world. Last summer he
pitched for the Tarboro team and last
GUNNER Tarboro had the best amateur
team in the State. He has wonderful
! speed, and is the master of a number of
| lent judgment.
Behind the bat oxford has Oldham, who
caught for four years on the University
team. Since that time he has been play
| ing baseball, and is considered probably
the best catcher in the State. He is
like lightning, and he rarely fails to get
his nit against the ball This battery is
backed by such men as Warren, Glavn.
and Holland. several of whom are league
| players
For the A. and NJ. Persons, E., will twiri
the sphere. He has won every game he
has pitched this season, and is in better
form than at any time during the year.
He has been offered a position on the
Boston League team.
Person, w, will don the mask and pro-
tector for A. and NJ. While he hasn't the
reputation of Oldham, still he is liable to
freeze onto" the ball any old time it
comes his way
The team has an excellent record for
batting and it is said has made better
batting average than any other team IN
the State.
The support that will be given by Nor
son. Fenner, Caserly and Person, H.. will
doubtless be of high order.
In short it is to be a contest between
what many consider to be the two best
teams in the State Which will win? Its
a long, shot and a limb in the way.
Elsewhere in this paper will be found
n call by President Winston of the A. &
NJ. College, for a meeting of representa-
tives of all colleges and schools in North
Carolina interested in the proper man
agement and development of athletic
sports to be held in Durham on Saturday
| May 9Th, for the purpose of forming an
Athletic Association of North Carolina
colleges and schools with a view to re-
moving professionalism from college
athletics and placing the physical train
ing Of cur young men upon the best basis
Such consummation is devoutly to be
wished. The game of baseball next Mon
day between the A. & NJ. College and
Horners School, it is hoped, will prove
the beginning Of the end of professional
ism in college athletics in North Caro-
lima. No doubt it will be a fine game and
n close contest, but what especial credit:
It may well be doubted whether such
athletics as we now have is not doing
more harm than good to our schools and
colleges. Those who enjoy manly sport
thusiasm and full of manly vigor are
protesting against the prevailing spirit OF
professionalism in our schools and col
leges.
There is springing up every where 6
strong trend in this direction. Professor
Holt Of Oak Ridge, has written Prof
Horner with regard to playing off the tie
games of base ball between the schools
| Prof Holt writes that both are agreed
that there is very little fun and less
credit to the schools of North Carolina
in playing induced men on the bal
i teams. That as each school has wor
from the other with men in part who, il
not professionally were at least some OF
them not bona fide students, he proposes
that the tie be played off by teams thai
are made up wholly by bona-fide students
who are paying both board and tuition il
the respective schools, in other words by
| men who are supporting the institutions
and are entitled to the credit of repre-
senting the schools. and not by mer
whom the institutions are supporting
Prof. Holt disclaims any reflection on Mr.
| Horner by this proposition. He admits
that the victory of the Horner team III
the last game was fair and square, ac-
cording to the methods in vogue; but he
thinks there ought to be one game play
ed in North Carolina this year which
shall be entirely free from professional
ism on both sides. If the game is played
some pretty playing will be seen, and it
will be the work of school boys, as it
ought to be.
The proposition is open to the A. &c M
| College.