The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-30
THE TABLES. TURNED.
A. & NJ Students Hold Enthuslas'
CeIebration-"Rahs' for Old Ke-
liable.

The A. & NJ students made merry
havoc of the silenceS last night in cell
ebration of the victory of their base
ball team at the University yesterday.
They utterly demoralized the various
female colleges, and invaded Fayette-
VILE street with the strut and sWag-
GER of victory, to the blast of bugleS,
the rattle Of drums and the indulgence
in cheers that came from threats OF
much power and more stamina.
Torches lighted the marching battal-
ion and the scene was one of enthuS-
iasm at it's highest pitch.
Towards the end of the celebration
the boys gathered several hundred
strosg in front of the News and Obser-
yer office and gave nine 'Rahs' for
the Old Reliable. probably because
they knew that the paper was reJoic-
ing with them in their victory and
that every one of the night owls of
the staff was twitching TO get away
from his desk and into the fun.
The A. & M. boys deserved their
victories, for which they work hard
and play in a clean and Sportsmanlike
manner, and they have got a right to
take the town when they turn the
trick The manner in which they re-
acted last night from the dependency
occasioned last week by the Sltton
spit-ball was truly inspiring.
The News and Observer treasures
the "Rahs'' of such manly folks and
takes off its hat to the A. & Nj. brand
of college spirit and college lungs.
When the State University and the
Raleigh boys mix it up, this paper has
a good time coming, for it can always
cheer for the victor with a good Will.
Each team having won a game, 1T is
now to choose partners for the cutting
of the tie, and Raleigh will bid for the
game with a warm welcome, holiday
crowd divided rooters and congratu-
lations to the winner, whichever 1T
may be.
There is that about the enthusiasm
of the college boy which would tighten
the world of half it's troubles could the
man swing his life philosophy on the
spirit out of which it is born. The
college boy is not always happy; per
contra, he is miserable sometimes for
as much as a day on stretch with q
despair that seems as though 1T would
devour utterly the rooter of the losing
team. But the college boy never
mopeS and it takes him but a short
time to figure out that the impossible
defeat having come to pass, it cannot
possibly happen second time.
Wherefore he goes in again quite as
confident as at first, and when he wins
out his joy is not peck marked with
any rccollectionS of a diSagreeable
past. The good and joy of the present
is all-sfficient and he celebrates with
an ever fresh, and ever eXultant and
an ever spontaneous abandon that is
contagious. One of the many good
qualities that college athletics of the
right sort confers is the ability to
wage losing fight with all the conf
dence of success to forget the sting
CT defeat and to make of victory an
epoch 1t is one of the finest sights in
the world to see the loyalty that will
let a college man, with the score nine
to nothing against his team, two out
and two strikes on the batter. still bid
defiance to the opposing nine as
though the game had not begun; but
to sec him chortling over a winning
is to know the finest think in the
world Z