The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-07-17
IT WAS SPLENDID SPOR7
a Walk. over For Charlotte at Viii
mington.
TAE SAILORS LOSE BY A SCORE OF 9 TO Q
The Story Of the Game in Raleigh Yesterday j:
Told in Tarboro's Error Column.
The National League Games
Were Close,

Wow. Vow. Vow. Did you CON
template the penant winners tumble
yesterday. Did YOU notice how the
Tar PLAYED high school ball and mutf-
ed and jumped and threw the ball
out of the lot when they did manage
TO stop an easy one? And did YOU see
B~urbanks, our new centre-helder. He
did well enough day before yester-
day, but the catch he raked III with
one hand while making a record
breaking broad jump was q feat which
even those say it with their own bulg-
ing eyebaIls could scarcely believe.
| hardly believed it myself and | was
looking straight at him. 1t was a
measly Texas Lacquer" between sec
ond and first. Burbanks came after
it at q ten second clip. 1t was a 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
hanks 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.
The play was simply marvellous. II
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 errors dld II
And this is the way.
TarbOrO had made one IN the first
on Bacon's free pass to first. Detmers
base hit and Burbank'a wild throw te
third to catch Bacon. Raleigh hits
three long flies to the outfield, which
were properly cared for by Devlln ano
Thomas.
In the second TarbOrO went out II
| one, two and three order. Then Bev
ms got a free pass to first and on al
attempted double play Of Atkinson
easy ball to Voorhees,. Bacon failed t
tag second base and both men were
| safe. Burbanks then hit safely t.
right field filing the bases. Manner:
cracked a. hot one to short, WhO held
ed the ball well and threw home, bu
Radcliffe let the ball go by and Bev
| ms and Atkinson came III with tW'
runs. leaving Burbanks on third. Tar
boro was 'all to pieces Quick
grounder to Williams was throw
over Detmer's head and Burbanks ant
| Manners tailed, and then Detmers lie
| O'Brien's grounder slip through nj
long legs like the greasy pig, an
Quick added to the fifth u to tn
score.
After that the game settled down t
a rather slow exhibition, with q goo
deal Of kicking on the part OF hao
clitfe and Deylin. halelgh got on
more run in the eighth on Kelly wv
Dagger to CENTRE Bevin's sacrifice I
short and a wild throw home by Det
mers on Atkinson's grOunder to shor,
1t was rather a peculiar game. Ra
eigh got only three hts, all toid' am
Melted five runs on only one hit. DeN
lin and Radcliffe, who hit well IN
first game. did not get a hit and bot
struck out twice. Quick allowed onl
four hits and only gave two free base
to first, while Voorhees, only CAV
one. Manners catching was nOnpf
riel. one stop of a wild pitch benin
the batter being particularly fine. In
two double plays Of OBrien, Stec
ham and Kelly are also worthy 9
mention. But Burbank's jumping
lack catch was a cardiac palpltatel
with alternating electric currents, ca
culated to paralize the most sedat
fossil who was ever entlced to a ba
game.
The score.