The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-06-25
THE RED BIRDS
DEFEAT HORNETS
The New Series Begins With
Victory For Raleigh.
FOURTEEN HORNETS FAN
FOURTEEN HORNETS FAN
Wilmington Wins First Game From
Tarboro's Team.
VOORHEES, FINE PITCH NG LED TO THIS
The Orioles of the American League Take a
Second Game From Detroit. The Ma
tionaI Quakers Win a Double
Header From Cincinnati
Header From Cincinnati

Stocksdale up. Mr.. Clark umpire.
Ball one, Balls two Strike one. Balls
three Strikes two. Strikes three
You're out
Thus opened up the second series
of games in the re-organzed North
| Carolina-Virginia League in the pres
ence of some 600 or more spectators at
the Fair Grounds yesterday.
Portsmouth under the new banner
of Charlotte, was up against a hard
proposition in the Senatorial Red Birds
and got the little end of the cornucopia
by a score of 4 to 2. Wilmington was
doing up the Tar Babies at Tarboro,
and the two Virginia teams, Norfolk
and Richmond We're whacking away at
each other in Richmond.
1t was pretty exhibition of ball
playing that the Red Birds and the
Hornets gave at the Fair Grounds, and
it was by heavy hitting. the skeeky
pitching of Stanley and the fine sup
port given him by the team that won
the game
No, you're wrong, the printer put the
word just as we wrote it, 1t is
"skeeky" and it remains "skeeky," for
"skeeky." don't cher know. means tip
top first class and all get aboard of
the band wagon. That's the kind of
ball that the Senator'S played yesterday.
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men struck out las against three by
Martin. 1t appears, too, that this record
of fourteen fellows who famed is the
best record made by any pitcher in any
league this season. Then there We're
other good things in the game. There
was Smiths home run, Kelly's three
bagger, two baggers by LeGrande,
Stanley and Swander. Each team made
five hits. and three errors fell to the
Hornets, while the Red Birds only have
one charged against thema
Atz was in the game all right all
right, and his phenomenal one-h hand
stop of a hot grounder that was bump
ing along like a miniature cyclone in the
first inning was of the electric shock
order. No one expected him to get it,
but he did. and he was given the glad
huzZa.
For the visitors, Gnau at short, did
crack-aja jack work He is as good as
ever, even If one errors is chalked up
against him. i
In Charlotte's third both Kelly anG
Atz made fine catches of fouls off of
first and third. Both We're difficult |
and We're taken on the dead run. In
Charlottes half of the fourth, just as
Murray led off with a single to right, it |
began to rain and hail, and the watel |
came down hard. After about a half |
hour it held up again and the game
proceeded.
1t was in this inning that Charlotte |
got it's two runs. Swander followed up
Murray with a hit, and on a ball thrown |
to second base that went astray, Muir |
ray scored. Collifiower struck out, |
Gnau makes hit in centre and Swan
der scores. Then both Conroy and |
Gates are given dead head passes, fill
ing the bags. It's a precipice that |
yawns for Stanley, as the score is tied.
1t is two and two and only one man is
out. Martin fans and Weaver retires
on fly that is captured by Sorber, and
that agony was over.
Raleigh scored one each time in four
different INNINGS, the second, fourth,
seventh and eighth. Smith, who is the
new pitcher, lined out a home run in
the second, his first time at the bat and
got another run in the fourth on dead
head start. Sherman, who took his
place in the eighth, got in his run on
a similar start. and Atz trotted the
bases in the seventh
THE TABULATED SCORE.