The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-08-01
A SPLENDID GAME
PITCHED BY SUTCH.
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Gives Raleigh the Victory
Over StatesviIIe.
THE. SCORE WAS 5 TO |
Etatesville's One Run Was Made on a
Muffed Fly.
WILMINGTON WINS OUT OVER CHARLOTTE
In Yesterdays National League Games ST.
Louis, Boston, New York and Pitts
burg Were the Winners.

UuIS WcI6 TIC WIIlIleFSs
"Sutch- Manners" as the Raleigh team
have!
Why, it's awful. The Statesville Tigers
visited the City of Oaks yesterday for
the first time to play game of base ball
hosts and were supposed to do the enter
tanning act, wouldn't even let the Tigers
get into the game. 1t was very uncourte-
Gus, to say the least. "Dey sho' is rude
ball players" Roger O'Kelly remarked Of
the Raleigh team during the inning after
the Statesmen had made five successive
hits off of Mr.. John Fox, the gentleman
on Tom Walkers Well, the Statesville
pitcher is surely long drawn out and high
in the air by the nature of his anatomy,
but the local ball tossers had him lifted
up a good deal higher while the three
earned runs which won the game were
coming across the plate. 1t may have
been rude to treat the Tigers this way,
but we had to have this game. We need
ed it in our business.
The pigmy battery, Sutch and Manners,
were largely responsible for the game,
although all of the Statesmen were as
lively as Hollus chickies. For five in
nings the Tigers did not smell first base.
They had come down from Durham with
the gore of the Bull Yearlings dripping
from their jaws, announced that they
were man eaters and that they would
make a large feast off the carcasses of
the Statesmen Old Shere Khan Kenna,
who lay crouching and waiting in the
weeds of centre field, growled and roared
throughout the game, but his claws were
clipped and his only performance was to
let Kelly's single go by him and count for
three bases Baloo Bennett did a little
better. Bivens muffed his long fly in
the seventh, which let him get as far
as second. Then Kala Nag Cummings,
the Chief Elephant, who is staked at first
bag, lifted a base hit over second and
Baloo scored the only run for the Tigers.
Up to this time the Tigers had gotten
one man as far as second. In the eighth
the pitcher on Tom Walkers got hit
and went as far as second before the
side was put out. This was as far as
they travelled barring the gift run that
Bennett scored. You see how easy they
were.
Raleigh opened the game by having
two men left on bases in the first. The
looked as if the Tigers might be man
eaters after all and Shere Khan Kenna's
boast no idle jest. But in the third the
Tigers were seen to come as if herd
of forty thousand buffalos were wild and
rampanting.
Sutch went out on slow ball to first
which came near being hit. The pitch
er covered the bag, however, and Sutch
Nv w al Then
Bivens got lovely bunt which threw
Fox off his Tom Walkers all over himself
Person, Farrell, Kelly and Crockett
cracked the ball out, just over the heads
of the infield, in rapid succession, three
earned runs came in and the game was
won. Hulley geei 1t was outa sight
In the fifth Farrell ed off with a drive
to first that broke one of Kala Mays
tusks and came home on Kelly's drive to
centre field, which Shere Khan let go by.
Kelly took third on the error and came
home on Atchison's safe hit.
This was the extent of the scoring.
Sutch pitched a superb shut-out game, al
lowing only two hits and only 33 batters
to face him.
Wise old Akela Kelly with his gray
hairs deserves honorable mention for the
way he accepted difficult chances at
third
Farrell's catch of foul fly and his
first base play brought forth the full
lung power of the bleachers.
Little MoWlei Persons had nothing to
do in left garden, but Tobaque Crockett
was right there on second bag, his one
hand stop of Benefits drive being
feature.
Burbanks had an off day at the bat,
striking out every time he came to bat.
There was no especially startling plays
about the game, which was rather loosely
played the Tigers making six errors and
the Statesmen four. But Raleigh won,
so it's all right, you bet! The score:
StateSyille ALB R. BIZ, SH. Pc. A. e.