The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-05-04
RED BIRDS SLUGGERS
Defeat A and M. Team by
Score of Is to I.
Raleigh's League Team is Getting in Good
Shape For the Contest Beginning
Next Week.

The Red Birds put on their batting
garments yesterday.
1t was in contest with the A. & M.
ball team, which is a good one.
For four innings the game was closely
fought and excellently played, but after
that the Red Birds did batting stunt
and the runs piled in.
When the fire works were all over it
was seen that the professionals in red
had gathered in eighteen runs, while the
soldier boys, likewise in cardinal garb,
had only squeezed out seven.
There was some tall batting on each
side. The Red Birds are credited with
IA hits and of these there were four two
baggers and two three baggers The
A. & M. team made nire hits, and of
these there was one two Dagger and one
home run. Shannonhouse made this and
he damned the ball over in the red
gulch beyond the four flag.
Leonard and Roy, the latter the speedy
new pitcher of the Red Birds, did the
twirling for the league team, and Shu-
ford put in the shoots for the cadets.
Leonard gave three hits and Roy six, yet
while this is so, the latter is going to
be a valuable man at the slab unless
all signs fail.
For four innings there was no scoring
for the A, & M. team yesterday, and the
Red Birds took their first run in the
fourth. Soffle had walked, was advanced
by Kains sacrifice and scored on Hook S
two Dagger. IN the fifth there were
five runs landed as there was some bat
ting done Grant led with two Dagger,
Meyers followed with another, Leonard
, singled, Pastor flew out in deep right,
Soffle put three Dagger in left Kahn
reached first as the Cadets tried to
catch Soffle at the home plate. Hook
flew out in deep left and Smith drove a
long one in the same territory, which
Cochran gobbled up. This heavy batting
apd some wild throws by the A. & M.
boys won the five runs.
In the fifth the A. & NJ team got IN
two runs. The first run came because
Smith lost the ball thrown him at first
and Miller scored when Isler swatted
a two Dagger in right field. Hadley made
a little hit and IsIer reached home. In
the sixth the Red Birds made run
when with two men down Meyers reached
first on an error OF Millers, stole second
and reached third on a wild throw to
second to catch him there, scoring on a
grass cutter which Leonard sent just in
side the line to the left field.
In the sixth the A. & M. team started
in with luck Asbury reached first as
Hook at third let the ball go by and
after working his way to third scored
on Millers hit in centre. In the seventh
the Red Birds with four singles, aided
by four errors by the A & M. team, one
base on balls, scored seven runs. In their
half the A & NJ boys did nothing.
/. In the eighth for the Red Birds Hook
began with three Dagger, Smith fol-
lowed with a two Dagger and Sherman
with a single. After some wild throw
ing and a two Dagger by Pastor there
were four more runs for the league team.
In its half the A. e. M. boys took three
runs, two errors a single and Brock
we'll hit on the arm doing the business
In THE ninth the Birds did nothing and
the A. G. NJ scored when Shannonhouse
made his home run.
The line up yesterday was Red Birds,
Pastor, s. s.; Soffle, 2b.; Kahn, l. f.;
Hook, 3b; Smith, 1b; Sherman, r. f.;
Grant, C. f.; Meyers, c.; Leonard and
White D. A. & M: Hadley and Shan
nonhouse, +. f.; Cochran, r. f.; Asbury,
s. s.; GulIey Oh: Snutord, p; Miller and
Shannonhouse, 3b 8rockwell and Welch,
C; Isler, C. f.. WEIGH and Ross 1b.
! Score by innings: r. H.
Red Birds. 80 0 0 / 5 l 4 0-1S Ii
> A. & M. .....0 % o. / 0 3 i 9