The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-24
BEST GAME OF SEASON
Brownies" Come to Grief by the Sad
Sea Waves.
THEY TUMBLE FIGHTING HERoIcALLY
Up 10 the Eighth il is AOybody's Game. Then
Rapp Goes to Pieces and Wilmington
Scores Six Runs. Norfolk'S
Hoodoo Gasp.

Great guns, but it was exciting.
Eleven innings, with Garrison finish,
is great ball.
And the beauty of the story is that
Raleigh was the winner by a score Of
three to one.
The Richmond team put up good,
stiff article of ball, and it took eleven
innings for the Senators to get away from
it,
The game was full of spectacular fea-
lures, the bleacheries were full of rooters
and the grand stand was wildly vocal with
enthusiastic rooterines.
The game was played in one hour and
forty minutes and it was a 14O gait that
both teams kept up for the eleven in
nings.
Richmond has good ball team even
if ten goose eggs were chaIked up against
it. The people who think that the Vir-
ginia Grays are in the discarded deuce"
class ought to have seen the work yester-
day. 1t was ball playing from Ballsville,
and it was only by the best kind of ball
playing that Raleigh finally got there.
Richmond's one lonesome run came in
the fourth inning after this fashion.
Thomas hit to right and got his second
on Traeger's turn with the stick, going
on to third when Hooker bunt9d. Bigbie
puts long fly out in right which Meade
captures, but Thomas tagged the rubber
before Meade got the ball home. Darby
tad hxr oir fr in
tre.
Raleigh had most painfully kept up
the blankity- blank business for seven in
nings, but in the eighth Stanley took a
whirl, sending a low one over in the red
chasm adjoining Lake Andrews and To-
comoting around to third. Joe Hennager
played the few-few up-in- the air and
out in right field, but Stanley came home
on the throw in, tieing the score, where
at fans and rooters and rooterines and
everybody yelled.
Richmond did no more business in the
game, though time and again snappy
work by the team pulled the Senatorial
carriage over some rocky holes. Nine
innings, and a tie, ten innings, and still
a tie. Up comes Raleigh for the eleventh
and Jakey Atz has the willow. He hits
the ball in the nose for a daisy cutter
into the centre basin and is on first.
Meade dies on the road to first but Atz
moves on. Then Sorber, Raleighs new
man. faces Hooker. In comes the ball
and Sorber smashes it way out in left
field for three bags while Atz comes
prancing home. At this performance the
Raleigh bunch that had paid 25 good cents
to see the game and Is of the same ar
ticle to sit behind the wire net went
wild. Weaver went out on a foul fly to
Thomas. LeGrande took the pole and then
Hooker let fly, the ball going wild and
Sorber comes flying home. "Bill D. gets
his first on Thomas error but Person is
put cut by Darby to Thomas.
Then everybody held their breath fol
a brief space Richmond kad YET another
whack Hooker kindly sent the ball to
Kelly and was out at first. Person hit
Bigbie and the Richmond catcher went
to first Darby goes out, Atz to Kelly
BIT Bigbie advances. Fillman takes the
stick. and Person gives him a free pass
to first while Bigbie works his way to
third. 1t is a critical moment. A man is
on third and one is cavorting away from
first. Sofne is at the bat, and a hi
means a run, a two bagger promising an
other tied score Soffe hits the ball ant
hits ii hard, but the ball runs up against
Jakey Atz, and Jakey takes it in. Every
thing is moving. Bigbie is nearing tht
home plate and Fillman has passed sec
ond on his way to third. Steady, Atz,