The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-04-15
lEHIGH VICTORIOUS
It's Team Defeats the A. & NJ by Score of
6 10 5.
The motion prevailed.

It's Team Defeats the A. q NJ Oy ocoie Vi
6to5.
Lehtsh College defeated the A. and NJ.
College Of this city in close game of
ball at the Fair Grounds here yesterday
by a score of to D.
Neither side seemed to be particularly
interested in what they were doing. The
Pennsylyanians played along as if play
ing ball we're disreputable kind of bus
mess for grown men to engage in, and
the A. and NJ. boys acted as if they were
lust as much ashamed of it as Lehigh.
The boys themselves, the players on both
sides included. admit that the game was
Of that sort that the average school boy
calls rotten" The term may not be
very elegant, but it describes pretty well
the game played at the Fair Grounds yes
terday.
The first inning was especially so. The
bows got their blood up somewhat in that
inning and the rest of the game was
characterized by less discreditable work.
However. it is but fair to say that neither
team played the game of ball they should
have plaved, and the grade of playing
done was far below the average work
these teams usually do. Neither team
did itself justice.
The roofing was of a high grade of ex-
cellence. and the bleachers lid tfeir
part of the work nobly. The rooters
showed great skill in the ilIprovliiag
Of cat calls, and their energy and vigor
in expressing in their own peculiar man
ner their appreciation of the different
plays and their appreciation or lack of
it. for the different players, contributed
no small part toward keeping things
lively The man who thinks rooters are
always nuisances ought to have witnessed
this game.
One feature of the game that was pc
culiarly disappointing to the lovers Of
good baseball was the absence CT team
plays The plays of neither team seemed
to work together well. While several Of
the players on each side made plays
on an occasion were SUE to
down the grand stand, still the game
throughout was not good baseball" In
the centre field, Morson for the A. and M.
made magnificent catch in the seventh
inning running backward several yards
and reaching high over his head for the
ball; and Lily, for Lehigh, in the same
place made an excellent running catch.
The playing of the first base by Bachman
for Lehigh, and Fenner for the A. and NJ.
was also fairly good, neither of them al
lowing anything to pass them, though
both had to make several long reaches to
make some catches
The Pennsylyanians were decidedly
stronger in their field work than the Tar
heels. ard thN'r fielding score is much
cleaner. But the A. and M. boys seemed
to find very little difficulty in sending
Kelly's curves to various obscure parts
of the diamond. The Lehigh batting did
not prove as effective as the A. and NJ.
boys, though the former struck out Cnty
two TO the Farmers three, still the
Farmers We're able to steal more bases
than their opponents, and made fourteen
hits on Kelly, while the Pennsyivanians
only swatted the sphere eight times
Nearly all the roofing was done for the
Farmer Soys, and the crowd were very
much disappointed when the score was
announced. The Lehigh boys took the
"guying" all in good humor, and main
tanned a very good nerve.
Those who were disappointed that the
home boys were defeated by the for
cigners" as one enthusiastic rooter called
the Lehigh team, should remember that
this team which defeated the home boys
today is the same team which last week
shut cut the University of Virginia team
to the tune of to 0. All that would
have been necessary to have perched VIC
tory On the banner of the A. and NJ.
boys today was for them to have put
little more dash and vim into their play,
and to learn to depend on each other
more; in other words to play for the
team and not to the grand stand.
However, they say that yesterday was
an "of day and that two loft days"
do not come in succession. Consequently
they expect to put UP stiff game of ball
against Wake Forest Monday; and if the
Baptists came here expecting to find play
ing against the Farmer boys particu-
larly soft snap. they may find them
selves very decidedly disappointed. The
boys who met defeat at the Fair Grounds
today can play ball when they put them
selves into the game and it will be sur
prising if they do not put their minds
into it Monday.
One pleasant feature of the game yes
terday was the friendly spirit manifested
between the teams, and the gentlemanly
demeanor of the players.
The following is summary of the
game: