The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-07-14
TARBORO 2 RALEIGH
The Raleigh Tarboro Game Was One
Of the Finest Played.
3 GAMES PLAYED IN NATIONAL LEAGUE
Cincinnati Wins From ST Louis by to 0; Pitts
burg Loses to Philadelphia, 8 to %,
and Brooklyn Loses to New
York | to ID.

The game yesterday was not-Ieu io'.
1t was quite as warm as the trailers
on the street cars, which were old Win
ter cars with each and every window
nailed down and locked. And that's
putting it strong. Raleigh was up
aaginst the leaders and the best pit, her
in the league. Up to the sixth inning
players and spectators were at con-
cert pitch. The play was fast and
furious. Tarboro got two men as far
as .e,cond base, while Raleigh did not
get even to first. The tension was
something tremendous. 1t looked Us
if the one to nothing game at Dur
ham was going to be bettered. FINAL
lyaa couple of strings snapped. IL
was in Tarboro's sixth inning.
O'Brien got bad bound off Dew
linsj bat but nailed the runner on first
just the same. Then Radcliffe slam
med out a screaming threebagger to
left field. For three minutes he
pranced down the line towards home
plate, taking desperate chances to
score. Once Manners had chance
to catch him off, as he was a third
of the way home, but did not care to
take the chances of wild throw.
Only one man was out. The rooters,
who have found out how and nova
days let out some lung power, called
encouragingly to Bass, to steam up
and strike 'em out" but 1t was no
good. Detmers put liner to LETT
field for two bases and Radcliffe came
home with the first run. Detmers
took third on Townsend's out from
short to first, and came home on
wild pitch which Manners partially
stopped. The ball rolled back of the
plate about ten feet. Manners got it
and threw to Bass who covered the
plate and Detmers should have been
touched out, but Bass dropped the
ball.
The only other scoring was. in Raj
eigh eighth. Little Person led off
with a scorching two Dagger over sec
ond base. Atkinson was out on a fly
to Thomas. Then Burbanks hit safe
ly to left and stole second. 1t was
runners on third and second with
only one out" and only a safe hit was
needed to tie the score, but the hit
did not materialize, as Stedman and
Bass were easy outs. But while Sted-
man was up, Townsend threw wild
to second trying to catch Burbank off
the base and little Person trotted
home with our only run while Bur
banks went to third. 1t was a chance
to save the game with sacrifice hit
which was not taken advantage of.
In Tarboro's half of this inning
Devlin got a hit after Bacon struck
out. Radcliffe was an easy out from
second to first. Then Detmers smash
ed a line hit to centre field which
looked sure home run. Burbanl;s
electrified the crowd by circus catch,
making the third out and thereby saw
ing a run. 1t was the feature of the
game Radcliffes and Detmer's hit
ting, Thomas catch in left field,
O'Brien's two one-handed stops in the
fourth and Manners throwing TO
bases were also features, but in u
minor key. And, by the way, they
don't try to steal on Manners+fOr he
always catches them ten feet off.
The new Raleigh men. Burbanks. of
Georgetown University, Bivins, Atkin-
son and Stednam, show up well.
Townsend only allowed three hits and
Bass although hit safely nine times
he really did elegant work, keeping
the hits well scattered except in the
SIXTH when three Dagger and
two Dagger were made in succession
Of the four men who struck out on
each side, O'Brien struck out three
times for Raleigh and Thomas the
same number for Tarboro. The err
rors were four for Raleigh and only
one for Tarboro. It's a fast crowd of
ball players we are getting in the
North Carolina League and Raleigh is
quite in the push-why we are apt
to win today.
The score: