The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-21
SYRACUSE BEATEN
FOUR To THREE
Game With A. & M. Lack
ed Excitement.
PLAY AGAIN TODAY
Close Contest Was Devoid of Sensa'
tionaI Features as General Rule
of Play-.-Some Good and Rag
ged Fielding and Long Hits
to Gulck. -Hannan'S Catch.

| Syracuse University had about it an
| ious quality of SNAP" The score was
close and, technically, the game should
have been one to inspire both uncer-
tainty and enthusiasm. AS it was
| there was little real doubt from the
start that A. and NJ. would win, al
though there was small margin for
such confidence and any little accident
might have turned the tide. There
was little cheering, small crowd and
noticeably, but Il handful OF college
| students in attendance.
The final score-4 to in favor of
| the A. and M.-does not indicate the
| doubt as to the result which the hgures
would imply. The local boys started
off stroE and then. as it were, rested
on their oars until their opponents
caught up-which they did in the
| fateful SeVenth-and then only be-
stirred themselves for the necessary
one run in addition.
Despite occasional good ball play
| ing, the game was a spectacular ana
nerve exciting disappointment. There
WAS meme of the panopiy OF clrcum-
stance that attends the usual college,
game AS stated, few students, even,
were in attendance and the crowd was
made up almost entirely Of confirmed
cranllS from the city. In addition the
college girl and the fair rooterette
were in eclpse-this possibly because
it was holy week.
on only one occasion did anything
like the old-time passion attendant on
the hot "reminiscences of The past
come about. That was when Knox OF
A. and Nj. laced out a rifle shot sort
of bitter to Burwel, third baseman
for Syracuse. The later, running at
full speed toward the bag, stopped the
ball with one hand, made startllngly
quick recovery and lined the ball
across the diamond we'll ahead of the
runner and squarely in the hands OF
The first baSeman, who muffed Ii with
all the surprised assn rance of an acad-
envy substitute The crowd, which
was getting ready to cheer the play
gaSped at the faux pas of the nrst
Daseman, only to gasp the louder ~
the decision of the umpire that knox
was out For a moment indignation
got the better of the prevailing leth-
argy and several players sided out
with quite the old air of outraged
game chickens; there were "boos' ana
"ahs" from the small knot of students
ana iii the middle of the difficulty,
Dr. EVerltt appeared on the diamond
near first base, eXpoStulation and
cnagrin visible in every lineament
and in the pointing Of his shaking
hand of wrath. The umpire, however,
was adamant and the game went on.
Outside of the incident above mem
toned the game was devoid of eX-
citing detail except in the three long
smashes to the red gulch, two OF
which were made by A. and M. in the
nrst inning, resulting in two runs, and
the third by Dollard of Syracuse IN
the eighth on which he scored three
bags only to be called out by the UNI
pire for cutting the bases. which
occasioned q slightly strenuous put
Intellectual kick" on the part of the
visitors.
Nor should be forgotten the catch
of foul fly by Hannah, of Syracuse,
which was the one brilliant feature
| of the game. The ball went high up
and blew with the wind over the play
crs' bench, the catcher following 1t
desperately on the run with eyes glued
above. AS he reached far out TO
catch the ball, his knees hit the bench
on which the A. and M. players We're
| sitting and he came cropper WhlcE
| threw him head-long against the fence
around the iG-feld. AS he rolled
/ over, however it was seen that he
! had caught and held the ball-a piece
| of nerve for which he was roundly
| cheered rs he limped back TO his posi-
ton, stunned but not dismayed.
A. and NJ. took tho lead in the first
| with two runs, Syracuse scoring one in
| the same inning, and another in the
second, tying the score. The two
mines then remained on an equal foot
! ing until the sixth, when A. and M.
again scored one run, only to be again
| tied by Syracuse in the seventh. a.
| and M. again scored In the eighth,
| however. the winning run being made
| on q base on balls, sacrifice, an or
I ror and q second sacrifice in the ma
| ture of u long fly to centre, Loval COM
| ing home on the catch.
| As to the score it will be seen that
Syracuse mode two more hits and two
less errors than the home team, put
these details did not remotely affect
the result
After all, college baseball is a small
potato in the hill, without the acces-
series of college boys with megaphone.
and in numbers and ecstatic girlikins
in ribbons! Maybe it was the lack Of
the latter that seemed to q jaundicec
imagination to make yesterdays strug
gle so tame! The two mines play again
this afternoon at four fifteen and de
serve a better crowd. The Syracuse
| boys are a gentlemanly and attractive
looking crowd of coIlegians, who play
good and honest ball. with the con
slant purpose TO win.
The game in detail and summary
follow:
Game in Detail.
First inning: A and NJ goes to thu
bat. Bowen, first up, after two ball