The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-20
THE V|RG|N|ANS
BAT TO VICTORY
Caro|inians Again Lower the
Blue and White.
AN IMMENSE CROWD OUT
For Five Innings Carolina Led the
Running.
AN IMMENSE CROWD OUT
THEN BEGAN A sEE-SAW GAME
Darkness Closed This in the Eighth Inning
With the Score Nine to Seven in
Favor Of the University
of Virginia.

|
Carolina met a second defeat yester-
day afternoon when met by Virginia in
Raleigh.
The teams from the two State Uliver-
sites struggled for supremacy for two
and a half hours and darkness came
with the gold and navy of Virginia fiut-
tering in triumph,
| The score stood nine for Virginia and
| seven for Carolina, the game being
| called on account of approaching dark
| ness at the end of Carolinas half, it
being recognized that further play was
| impossible.
| A great crowd witnessed the contest
and it was brilliant scene at the ball
grounds. The blue and white of the
| University Of North Carolina predomi-
mated, though Virginia's gold and navy
was in evidence. The ladies. were out
in large numbers, and the students from
| the female colleges added beauty to the
scene, their many hued dresses. bright
| faces and waving ribbons making a
picture fair to look upon. The crowd
| has be en- estimated at from fifteen hum
| dred to two thousand, and in this were
| big delegations from adjoining towns,
Chapel Hill alone sending about $50
people.
| No game has had more handsome en-
lcouragement. The ladies, the girls, the
| boys, The men, ma aiority of Them were
adorned with badges and ribbons, while
| banners, parasols and streamers dis
played the rival cclors. A number of
traps and carriages were decorated in
the Carolina colors.
| There was one great marring feature
of the game. and that was the crowd
| that would press over the lines, without
the least regard for the ladies and the
occupants of the seats The manage
| ment of this feature of the game was ex-
| tremely bad, as many people had no
| chance to see the game, the ladies suf-
fering especially.
As result of this free scramble and
the use of megaphones there was
sharp encounter between two belige-ent
visitors, and their faces We're smeared
with blood. In the scramble Of over
two hundred people about them several
bloWs We're exchanged, the crowdiug on
tn ball ground in the seventh inning de-
laying the playing. 1t was not pleas
ant sight.
The game began at twenty minutes
past four instead of 3:3O. as the bags
for the bases had been left in the city.
The game was a slow one and lacked
ginger tc it Carolina led for five in
nings, with no specially exciting Incl
dents, but the interest grew as Virginia
stcaGily advanced overlook. fell back
and finally triumphed. After the fifth
inning the excitement was intense. and
the crowd pushed forward in it's eager
ness
With Carr at the bat Carolina began
the game and he went TO first on balls
amidst cheers. Graham singled in left
and both men advanced on Donnelly's
sacrifice. Holt, hit by the ball filled
the bases. Smathers drove the ball to
third, but Mason fumbled, and Carr
scored, while Snathers reached first
With the bases still full Cheshire famed
but Cooke took his base on balls. let
ting Graham walk home. Wilcox
famed and retired the side
Virginia did nothing in it's half onlv
'
its second. scored two runs again. VIII
con famed, and Carr did the same, nut
reached second as the catcher dropped
the ball and threw wild over first Gra-
ham reached first on Connell's error. and
DcnneHy, on Pitcher Cracraft's fmble.
reached first, while Carr scored On
wild pitch Graham came home and Holt
was presented with a walk to first and
stole second. Smathers flew to short
and Cheshire went out, Copnell to Var
borough.
Virginia scored once in its second.
Walker singled, Connell went out from
Cooke to Wilcox on first, while Walker
went TO third, scoring as Tate Mason
retired from Holt to Wilcox again COW
ering first. Yarboro went out. pitcher
to first. In the third inning Carolina
die nothing and repeated this in tl,e
fourth ard fifth. In the third Virginia
received a goose egg, but scored in the
fourth. Walker had three strikes called
on him, Connect walked, Tate Mason
new to left field, Connett stole second.
John Mason hit to third and Connect
scored. Marlborough retired the side,
from Smathers to Holt
In the fifth Virginia took another
score Cracraft flew to centre. Pollard
was hit by the bali and stole second,
while Cooke flew to Carr. Nalle reached
first on Smathef's tumble, while Pollard