The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-23
thirteen WAS HOODOO
Deep Water Men Fan Air For This
Unlucky Number.
UNIVERSITY STRIKES A BAD STREAK
She Bites the Dust Before Richmond College
While the Sorebacks Sing the Sorg
of"five to Four and We
Are It."
S thirteen an unlucky number?

Is thirteen an unlucky number?
Yesterday tht Deep Water boys from
Wake Fortst College found it so.
But the Shouters from Trinity College
had the handle of the thirteen.
1t was baseball contest that ragged for
one hour and fifty minutes at the Fair
Grounds yesterday afternoon, and every
onslaught only cinched the victory for
the Shouters.
When the smoke of battle cleared away
the Deep Wattr squad found that moth
ing doing was their share and that the
Shouters had looted everything in sight.
Their banner bore upon it the figure s.
while the symbol upon their opponents
standard was naught but o.
To see the conflict there came other
Shouters and well wishers from Durham,
while Deep Water hosts poured into the
city from Wake Forest. To urge on the
opposing bands rival colors Haunted as
orif1ames Of war beneath which beauteous
maidens with bewitching eyes urged their
favored knights to do or die.
And Scme did and some died, while
some lived to charge valiantly from bag
to bag and founder midst dust and dirt
triumphant upon the slab called Home"
The battle was full of vim and fire for
awhile but as the sun dipped into the
west the ardor of thue Deep Water forces
cooled and the chargers of the Shouters
grew more terrific.
The battle ragged fiercest where one
Shouter, Yclept Bradsher, was at work.
He hurled with terrific speed and tanta-
lizing curve the ball at the Deep Water
men, and despite all efforts thirteen OF
these merely prodded holes in the rair
Hobgood, of the other camp, had four
Shouters to similarly perform.
Both squads were gallant champions
and looked muscular and strong they
handled their weapons well, and the ad-
herents of the Deep Water contingent
hoped against hope as the battle proceed
ed, but hope passed and defeat came.
Nine Deep Water men were used up
in the first three innings, with no result.
In the first engagement the Shouters
performed as follows: Puryear famed,
Giles drove the ball to first and was out,
Woot hit past first and carriage wheel
stopped the ball. He saw second unoc-
cupied and moved on. wild throw of
Dunn sent the ball afield and Wooten
scored. Smith flew to Harris in left.
Six Shouters bit the dust in the next
Two engagements, ana dICef Null, OF Ine
Deep Waters, had reached first on an
error of Heath, his next three associates
died on the road to first. In the
fourth Shouter Giles, was hit by the ball
and Wooten got to first on an error of
Edwards, but Giles was caught mapping
at third. With Howard up a wild throw
let in Wooten
In the fifth and six there was nothing
doing for the Deep Water forces and
this was the same in the next three in
nings In the ninth came the first two
hits for them, Null and Sans getting
thtse, but never seeing the home plate.
In the fifth, sixth and seventh the
Shouters landed two runs each, a total
of six. A three-bagger by Giles, and
singles by Smith and Hobgood doing part
of the business. thtse being aided by the
errors made by the opposing forcts. In
the eighth three fys put them out of the
spasms for good, as they did not need
their ninth
The mtre mention of result of
against o looks like a contest without
any snap to it. but this was not So 1t
was an exciting contest and there was
excellent work done by both forces.
diagram of the result of the battle
is appended to this veracious chronicle,
that he who reads may see the part each
contestant took in the eventful contest.