The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-04-27
DOUBLE PLAYS A FEATURE
Norfolk Gets Her First Drubbing at
Newport News,
sHIP8UILDERs WIN BY SEVEN TO FIVE
The Brownies ToddIe Out of the Little End OF
the Horn in the Second Game With
the GianIs. Trinity Wins
From Georgia.

Well, Welt!
Did you see that game of ball?
1t was a corking good che, built from
the ground un
And Raleigh won, of course it did, anc
only took eight innings in which to do
it.
The score was five 10 two and Rich
mond is to be congratulated on having
been able to get into the game. with
even the two notch to its credit.
1t wasn't luck that did the business,
it was good old fashioned, straight
from the shoulder, hit-in- the-eye kind
of crimsoned hued ball playing that
made the bleachers happy and hoarse,
and made life for the Senator'S 'one
grand sweet song"
One run for Richmond in the sixth
and one IN the unhappy ninth. with
Raleigh scoring one in first three il.
the sixth and one in the eighth does
not look so hot, but it was. There came
times when Richmond had two, some-
times three men on the bags with but
one out Then it was that the bleach
ers and the grand stand held their
breaths and that Richmond longed for
the hit that never came.
When this crisis came Bowden would
look at Bill the Silent" out of the tail
of his eve and il was a case of one
strike, two strikes, three strikes, out
or up in the air and down into ma
rooners outstretched hand basket, or
a rip-rap, quick action double play that
did it. and pulled Raleigh out of d
close hole.
Bowden did fine work in the box for
the Senators, striking out seven of the
Grays and keeping the ball well in hand.
He has not twirled the bah since Mon
day and his work yesterday was of the
% carat variety.
Home Run" Stanley warped the
cover on another bali yesterday by
fierce stick work and girdled the dia-
mond like runaway automobile, while
Atz. the crack a jack third baseman,
lined it out for three bags Stanley S
stick work ratified Richmond's pitcher
who thought it best later to present
Stanley with a base on balls.
1T was fast ball playing all around.
Five innings were over in forty-five
minutes, and the score was one 70
nothing in Raleigh's favor, while the
entire game was played in less than
one hour and twenty minutes.
Raleigh's first score came in the first
inning this was tied in the first half of
the Sixth by Richmond and il looked
squally. but hard hitting and fleet feet
gave Raleigh three more runs in its
half. and this was the blow that kill
ed" Richmond which feehly raised its
head in the ninth, gasped once, and ex-
pired.
Double plays were star features of the
game Two of these were by Raleigh
ard one by Richmond, all of them COM
ing al exactly the right time. and sac
rifices both at the bat and in base run
ming showed that ball playing was an
art
sherman over in left field, took every
chance that came his way, and "Sher-
mans squat when a fly would drop
would rouse the bleachers.
With Bigbie at the bat for Richmond
the game started. He put one into
Bowden's hands on the bound. Bowden
gave it to Kelly at his feet and it got
away from The King leaving Bigbie
roosting en- first until a wild pitch by
Bowden pcrched him on second. Fill
man Went to his base on balls, TroegeT
and Soffe famed out ana Bigbie goS
caught off his base.
For Raleigh Stanley sky-rocketed
over into right field anu came home
ON dead run amidst applause. Hen
mayer hit by the ball went to first KEEL
ly batted to second and double put
both him and Hennager out. Atz and
Hauptman tapped the ball and got
bases on fielding errors, but were LETT
high and dry by Meade who flew out in
right field 10 Kahn
IT was tight squeeze that kept
Richmond from getting in four runs
IN the second. kain struck out. Thomas
got his first on an error. Warner hit
10 center field for two bags and Thomas
went to third and BowGen presented
Manners With his base on balls Witt
the bags all fun Bishop took the stick
and drives 10 At2 and double by At.
10 eRnnager TO Kelley rettres the sid.
III was close call. but the double filed
the gap. nobody scoring For Raleigh,
sherman famed, Legrande flew to Big
bic in the centre basin and Bowden was
cut az first from short
For Richmond the third was a blank,
the fourth ditto, the fifth also a ditto
The Senators met with like fate III
their half of these innings In the
sixth, Fillman for Richmond got 10 first
on fly that dropped hety ELY
and Hennager in close nj
struck out. saffe got to fiI