The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-05
GREAT CROWD PRESENT
Two Thousand People Witness the
Afternoon Game and Cheer the
Red Birds" to Victory.
SMITHS FINE PITCHING DID THE WORK
The Morning Game Was ParaIyzer For viii.
mingion. Allen Was Knocked to Pieces.
Five Runs Piled Up in the First
Inning and Three in fifth.

The weather? Perfect. The players?
+, In fine form. The crowd? Largest ever
known on the grounds. Over two thou
sand at the afternoon and nearly half
! as many at the morning game.
What would you have? Two victo-
ries for Raleigh in one day? Well,
! that's exactly what you got.
| Is not this the capital? Are not the
Raleigh people the only real, genuine
baseball enthusiasts in the State, and
are not the Red Birds ''it"?
Did you ever see a more exciting
game or a more splendid throng of en-
thusiastic rooters? The grand stand
was close packed and then like a flood
that would not be stayed in it's course
the crowd overfiowed in wide semi
circle on either side of the bleachers,
forming a great human crescent with
the grandstand in the centre.
Or rather is not this dense line of
folk The baw, the tense, nervous, quiv
ering enthusiasm the cord and the red
and gray-clad players, the shaft which
presently will be sped from the arch
er's hand?
Now the bow is sprung back, the
cord is strained, the shaft is in place.
Wilmington is at the bat. Feeling the
sting of the mornings defeat after
long line of victories, the Lobsters en-
ter upon their work in a manner that
quickly makes the Red Bird worship
pers fear the worst.
CtIavton hit to first I)eylip flied ont
on an attempted bunt Sebring got a
base on balls, advancing Clayton to
second Crockett also went to first on
balls. amid groans of agony from Raj
eigh rooters Allen sent a safe hit
down centre, scoring Clayton, but
Crockett failed to reach second in
time; Sebring advanced to third. Here
there was kick by the Lobsters over
the Crockett decision and the pitcher
threw the ball to first 1t struck Allen
who was holding his base, on the
| mouth and in an agony of pain he ran
I from the base and was put out.
The Lobsters protested. The Red
Birds insisted. Both teams collected in
the centre of the diamond around the
umpire. Some had bats in their hands,
all were gesticulating wildly. Antici-
pating trouble several friends of the
players added to the confusion by COM
ing in with sticks and clubs. Two po
licemen followed. The crowd dispers-
ed, the Lobsters retired to the field and
the Red Birds took the bat.
They retired again, however, in one
two, three order. The Lobsters did
the same in their turn, but in the third
mn n h
ing the score to 0. The history of this
run was: Stewart, base hit Clayton,
out or sacrifice hit Devlin base HIT
and Stewart scored. Sebring out on
fly to left field. Crockett, base on balls,
putting Sebring en- second; later, on a
wild throw by Stanley, both advanced a
base. Allen was hit by a pitched ball,
filling all the bases. Things looked blue
again for the Red Birds, but McGinnis
put an end to the agony by sending a
beautiful fly down to Sorber.
Raleigh still did nothing at the bat,
but so far Wilmington had been doing
| much, and it was evident that the game
was lost unless an end could be put to
their performance. Stanley's pitching
had been wild to desperation When
he was not giving bases on balls, either
his pitched balls were hitting the bat
ters or the batters were hitting the
balls. Any one Of these three was
equally disastrous to the Red Birds
and mighty nice for the Lobsters.
Hence, Stanley was, at the beginning
of the fourth inning, the score stand,
ing 2 to 0 taken out OF the box and
Smith substituted.
With this change OF pitchers the
fortunes Of the game changed. Viii
mington registered no more runs, while
Raleigh piled up 5-one in the fifth, two
in the seventh and in the eighth. AS
for Smith, he was in his best form and
usually retired the Lobsters in /, 2, 3
order. In the sixth inning, for in
stance, he pitched only ten balls-one
of them a foul-and put out three men.
The first clean hit made for Raleigh
was in the fourth by Hennager, who
went to third on Sebring's error but
was never able to reach home The
next was a two base hit in the fifth
by Smith. On this he finally scored.