The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-06-13
A ROAST FOR THE UMPIRE
The Capital City Club Again Beaten
by Norfolk,
NUMBER OF HITS MADE BY THEM SAME
Portsmouth Once More Succeeds in Putting the
ShipbuiIders to Sleep. The Score is
Nine TO Four With the Or
phans on Top,
Here is reading.

Here is reading
And it is good base ball reading.
Wishing to give the readers of the
News and Observer a unicue account Of
the last ball game in Raleigh with Will
mington in this series. en- young ladies,
all staunch Red Bird Rooterines, were in
yited to write up yesterdays game.
They accepted, and our only regret is
that they could not tell of a victory for
Raleigh. as the game went to Whining
ten by a score of l to 0.
1t was a hot game, we'll played. One
wild throw gave Wilmington its only
score. and b. means of either incompe
tent or unjust decision by Umpire Mace
Raleigh finished nine innings without "a
run.
This might have come at the last mo-
ment had Stanley used judgment and
held his third base in the last inning in
place OF trying to score on Kelly's fly
caught near the second base.
But to the story by the "Rooterines. "
The introduction IS written by Miss r. E.
w, and she says:
VIII the hoodoo never leave us.
We hone for luck to come our way
some day.
We girls, dubbed by the ohrse editor
as Rooterines. have been asked to write
the story of the last Wilmington game,
and to me. heart broken Rooterine has
been assigned the first part of the sad
story.
Girls. l have no heart to write at all
after such hard luck game in which
we were beaten By the Wilmington
crowd, assisted r. that horrid umpire.
Just to think of it makes me mad. We
all know that Kelly was safe on third,
but we can expect no favors, luck is agn
rs.
And did YOU all see that ball that Bob
Stafford knocked foul. but which the hor-
rid old thing called fair. Oh, it was
mean = him.
All the time l felt sure we would win
even after Jakey had made that bad
throw after such a beautiful stop.
How badly poor Jakey felt, and truly /
felt awfully sorry for him, too. And
when darling Joe Stanley came up in the
ninth and hit that ball down in the ravne
for hree bases. our hopes all rose, only
to be shattered when he was thrown out
at home, in an attempt to score on a
fly by Kelly just back of second base.
viii we have nine days now when
there viii be no games to go to, and what
we will do IN that time bothers us all.
Oh, boys, if you could only win three
games from those Lobsters on their home
grounds, we will certainly give you a
rousing reception when you return. We
know YOU are Just as good players as that
crowd, but there is a hoodoo some place,
and while l am resting up l am going to
try and locate it.
/ can never be made to believe that
when any body pitches as good a game
as Little Eddie Person" did, and gets
as good support as he did in that game
ha you can keep us from winning and
if / have to lose all of my soda water
money / am going to keep on backing
Raleigh
Now Girls. l have left the rest of this
sad story for you to tell but before
finish my part l want to say that l for
one, have not lost faith in King Kelly
and his Red Birds. We are bound to get
some of the luck soon, and when it does
strike Us look out.