The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-07-15
IT WAS SPLENDID SPORT
A Walk-ov over For Charlotte at Viii.
mington.
1AE SAILORS LOSE BY A SCORE OF 9 TOO
The Story Of the Game in Raleigh Yesterday is
Told in Tarboro's Error Column.
This National League Games :
Were Clcse.

Wow! Wow!! Wow!!! Did you con-
template the penant winners tumble
yesterday. Did you notice how the
post-graduates from the banks of the
Tar played high school ball and muff-
ed and jumped and threw the ball
out of the lot when they did manage
to stop an easy one? And did you see
Burbanks, our new centre-fielder. He
did well enough day before yester-
day, but the catch he raked in with
one hand while making record
breaking broad jump was feat which
even those say it with their own bulg-
ing eyeballs could scarcely believe.
l hardly believed it myself and | was
looking straight at him. 1t was
measly "Texas Lacquer" between Sec
ond and first. Burbanks came after
it at ten second clip. 1t was mag
nificent try and the spectators began
to applaud, for it looked as if it was
impossible for him to reach. The
fans were were applauding the effort
to get them. But he got there just
the same. He was still ten feet away
and the ball was ten feet from the
ground. coming down straight. Bur
banks Jumped and stretched out his
left hand! The ball stuck in his nit
Twenty. thirty feet more ne ran before
he could stop himself. Then he held
up the ball to show he had gotten it.
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looked like magic. If he had had
Aladin's wonderful lamp to assist him,
it could not have been more wonder
full.
The story of the game is told in Tar
bOro's error column-sdX errors ana III.
And this is the way.
Tarboro~ had made one in the first
on Bacon's free pass to first. Detmer's
base hit and Burbank's wild throw to
third to catch Bacon. Raleigh hits
three long flies to the outfield which
were properly cared for by Devlin and
Thomas.
In the second Tarboro went out in
one, two and three order. Then Bev-
ms got a free pass to first and on an
attempted double play of Atllinsons
easv ball to Voorhees,. Bacon failed to
tag second base and both men were
safe. Burbanks then hit safely to
right field filling the bases. Manners
cracked a hot one to short, who field
ed the ball we'll and threw home, but
Radcliffe let the ball go by and Bev-
ms and Atkinson came in with two
runs. leaving Burbanks on third. Tar
boro was "all to pieces" Quick's
grounder to Williams was thrown
over Detmer's head and Burbanks and
Manners tailed, and then Detmers let
O'Brien's grounder slip through his
long legs like the greasy pig, and
Quick added to the fifth run to the
score.
After that the game settled down to
n rather slow exhibition, with a good
deal of kicking ION the part of Rad
cliffe and Devlin. haleigh got one
more run in the eighth on keliy's two
Dagger to centre, Bevin's sacrifice to
short and wild throw home by Oct
mers on Atkinson's grounder to short.
1t was rather a peculiar game. RAJ
eigh got only three hits, all told, and
melted five runs on only one hit. Dew
lin and Radcliffe, who hit well the
first game, did not get hit and both
struck out twice. Quick allowed only
four hits and only gave two free bases
to first, while Voorhees, only gave
one. Manners catching was nonpa-
riel, one stop of a wild pitch behind
the batter being particularly fine. The
two double plays of O'Brien, Sted-
ham and Kelly are also worthy of
mention. But Burbank's jumping
jack catch was a cardiac palpitater,
with alternating electric currents, cal
culated to paralize the most sedate
fossil who was ever enticed to a ball
game. Ai.E AZ
The score.
Raleigh. ALB. r. BIZ. SH. Pc. a. +.