The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-08-01
A VICTORY
FROM OUT DEFEAT
For Five Innings Tarboro
Had a Lead.
The REQ BIRDS WAKE UP
Win a Game That Tarboro Played
Under a Protest.
THE LOBSyERS SCUTTLE OFF BEATEN
Clark and Umpire Mace Get Blood in Their
Eyes Over Close Decision, But After
wards Becomes as Thick as
Two Thieves.

It's hard to keep the Red Birds from
soaring. Even heavy rains stop to let
them play ball, and the score was to 6
against Tarboro.
Yesterday afternoon, after a pelting
rain and a drizzle, the ball game at the
Fair grounds began at 5:3 and lasted for
an hour and fifty minutes, being called
on account of darkness when Tarboro
went in for its ninth inning and had
a ma on first.
1t was game full of exciting plays and
the faithful two hundred who braved the
threatening weather saw the best game
of the Raleigh Tarboro series. 1t began
after prolonged argument from Tarboro
that it ought not TO be played, and Man
ager Henry Bryan filed q protest with
President Hggs, basing his protest on
the game being called thirty minutes
after the scheduled time.
For FIVE innings Tarboro seemed to have
the thing in sling AT the end of it's
half of the fifth adj Raleigh had earned
was four goose eggs while TarboE9 haG
six runs to its credit and the Tar Babies
were jubilant. In it's half of the fifth
the Birds Topped their wings anew and
gathered in three runs and when eight
of them had taken whack at the
leather in the sixth inning there were
four more runs joined on to the three,
making seven, a lead of one over the
boys from the Tar.
Spratt and his team never got over the
blow. 1t willed them, and no more runs
could they cinch. Then darkness fell and
the Red Birds were once again victorious.
There was much argument during the
game and about its beginning and its
close, but the only really unpleasant in
cident was when Stocksdale threw his
bat in the direction of Pitcher Bush and
Umpire Weeks. A swift ball from Bush
had struck him severely on his bare
right arm and he temporarily lost con-
troll of himself. He regrets the action,
as do his friends, for he is generally one
of the calmest and best natured of play
ers. While playing in the National League
he was struck in the same way and his
pitching arm injured for awhile. This
similar blow upset him.
There were some extra fine catches in
the game. One was a fly to centre, neatly
picked from almost off the ground by
Pulsifer, a foul fly off third by Spratt
and a hot low fly for which Powers
ran into left from short, turned and
jumped high in the air and caught mag
nificently. In centre Stanley did fine
work as did Bill Cd" behind the bat.
Martin, Hemplcman and Pulsifer swatted
out three baggers in fine shape. Eddie
Person got three hits and scored twice.
The game began with Tarboro greatly
strengthened. Lehman was behind the
bat and Brownie" Martin in right field,
did good work on first and Spratt also
on third. Neither side scored in the
first and the first runs were Tarboro's
in the second. With Kemmer out GILL;
gan batted hot to Person and the ball
got away. Russell singled and Hemple-
man put a three bagger right, scoring two
runs. Lehman flew to Sorber in left. who
held Hempleman on third and Bush went
out from Atz to Stocksdae.
Raleigh's second, third and fourth were
three up and three down, and Tarboro
did nothing in its third and fourth though
Martins three bagger came in the third.
In its fifth two singles. a two Dagger and
a triple, with a base on balls landed
four runs, which ended of the scoring for
Tarboro
Raleigh took three runs in the fifth
as the result of three singles an error
and a two hagger. In the sixth four sim
giles and Stocksdale hit by the ball gave
the Red Birds four more runs.