The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-16
SENATORS STILL SOLID
Norfolk's Team Turns Tables With q
Vengeance.
PORTsMOUTHs PITCHER PROVES GAME
The ShipbuiIders Step Too Slowly Around tht
Field to Wrest Glory From the Rapid
Runners of the Richmond
Aggregation.
The hoodoo vas exorcised.


The hoodoo was exercised.
Raleigh won yesterday from the Will
mington Giants in a hard fought battle
by q score of to 8.
The game was played in the presence
Of a great big crowd of people, one of
the largest of the season. The crowd was
delighted, because it got it's moneys
worth in fast ball playing with compound
interest in frequent opportunities to
shout.
That the bleachers and grand stand
and hangers over the fence were delight
ed is mild. They were hilariously happy
and cranks, fans and rooters of the obth
the male and female persuasion shouted
till they could shout no more.
The ladies in the grand stand, who had
stood for two days with grim endurance
and flashing eyes the exuItant applause
of party of travelling men roofing for
Wilmington, paid it all back yesterday,
and the travelling men had a dazed look
in their eyes as the pent up wrath of the
lady wearers Of the red and white found
vent in prolonged and continued cheers
for Raleigh as that team took the lead
in the game.
1t was with fear and trembling that it
was heard that the great Foreman as
to twirl for Wilmington, but the score
shows that the Senators pounded him
for ten hits, and of these ten Kelly and
Hennager lined the sphere out for three
bags, while Sherman punched it in the
nose for a two Dagger, and the singles
went flying.
Just here let it be remarked that 1T
was a great ball game.
Stanley made no home runs, He was
up against a Southpaw pitcher and fann-
ed twice, making also two singles the
last Of which in the ninth let Person
score. But Stanley did the work at the
slab to perfection. He had the Giants at
his mercy. Clayton, their safest and
hardest hitter could do nothn with him.
To the frantic dabs of the Giants he
yielded but three hits, strikn out seven
His work was of the kind that set the
onlookers in fiutter.
Everybody in Raleigh who believes in
the red and white says that it was great
ball
The fifth inning for Wilmington was
perhaps the quickest inning ever played
in any league. At any rate there has
been no quicker, for it was three men
up, three balls thrown and three men
out, all three putting the ball up in the
air, Person. Stanley and Hennager TAX
ing them in, Person getting his on the
edge of the red chasm in right and Hen
nager taking in a hot low curve that
went at him with smack.
1t had been a blank for Raleigh up to
the sixth. Wilmington had scored once
in the fourth, Davy Crockett dancing
home in glee. In the sixth it looked
gloomy Two men were down and Hen
nager had got to first by reason of
gracious gift from Delaney, who muffed
an easy fly. King Kelly was up and
we'll YOU have missed a nerve jarrer by
not hearing the crowd yell-the King did
it with his little bat. He swung straight
and true at the ball and soaked 1t in the
nose. 1t few up and up and up and kept
on "a-flewin." 1t was headed for the
red chasm and Cranston worked his legs
like grass hoppers to get to 1t. He
reached the edge of the chasm and then
tumbled over, while the ball collided
with the earth and rolled some. Kelly
had plunked it for three bags and Henna-
ger had scored. In the grand stand peo-
pie had paroxysms of unalloyed joy, in
creased and intensified when Kelly, Atz
and Meade also tagged the rubber.
BY the way, it is proper to say that
it was great ball.
Sherman added to the gayety of nations
in that self same inning by swatting for
two bags while Atz and Meade did the
fast mail act home. In the ninth it was
when two men were out. also, that Per-
son scored on Stanleys hit into right
field.
The Wilmington boys put up a good
game, and but for Delaneys kindness the
four runs in that awful SIXTH as the
Wilmingtonians call it. the story may
have been different. The Senators were
gingery and snappy they got in the
game and STAYED there, as thS Constant
Reader" will find by perusing the follow
ing true tale:
In the first Sutch flew out and Henna-
ger. who walked, was forced out at sec
ond by Kelly's hit to Delaney, Kelly
made a heartless steal and got second,
but died there, Atz flying to McGinnis.
For Wilmington, Cranston fouled to
LeGrande. Crockett dropped ny back
of third base. but Atz, Meade and Sher-
man formed circle and the ball drop
ped through. 1t did not count for Allen
flew out, and Clayton died via Hennager
to Kelly
In the second third and fourth Raleigh