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Even if you aren’t a baseball fan, this newspaper account of New Bern’s victory over Raleigh in 1874, for the State championship is a journalistic gem. It was written on the scene of battle in the Capital City, and the clipping included in a scrapboMof the late Miss Mary Roberts. Join us, as we turn back the pages of Time to a golden yesterday: Hie match game of baseball between the Athletics of Raleigh and Elm City of Newborn came off on the grounds of the State Fair, in the vicinity of Raleigh last Thurs day, in the presence of thousands assembled from all parts of this and adjoining states, to witness the many in teresting incidents occurring on the occasion of the State Fair. And though at the time the game was being played, several very important, as well as exciting, races were being performed on the course nearby, yet an almost intense interest was manifested in the contest between these two rivid clubs for the championship of the state. People were seen running hither and thither amid the greatest excitement, anxiouslv inquiring how the game stootl, and at the close of each inning as one dub retired to the field and the other came in to the bat, the interest became so in tensified that the spectators became almost wild with ex citement, and the pressure of the crowd as they impetuoudy gathered around the scorer’s stand became so great as to render it almost impossible to accurately score' the game. Almost everybody present, who had a sufficient knowledge of the game, kept a score of their own, and so anxious were they of the result, that they frequently interrupted the scorers in their duties, by repeated inquiries respecting the progress of the game. We think it is the popular sentiment and the great interest manifested is an indubitable proof oi it, that the game was one of the most attractive and prindpal features of the fair. Judges, layers, clergymen, merchants, mechanics, tradesmen and men of every profession or occupation seemed alike interested in the game, and espedally the result. Then what a tumult of excitement ensued, im mediately subsequent to the dose of the game, as the spectators irresistable thronged around the scorer’s stand impatiently awaiting the announcement of the contest; then everybody became almost frenzied with enthusiasm, and amid repeated and tremen dous implause of the assembly, the “Elm City’s’’ were declared the victors and the champims of the state. The young ladies from Newbem, (God bless them) who were present to witness the game, and though less in numbers were none the less beautiful or attractive than the more numerous delegations (Continued on page 8> ®Trn-(2ratifit ©mtnfij Jfit&lfr Uflrratty The NEW BERN PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE HEART OP EASTERN NORTH ««OLINA IL ^Oo Liu VOLUME 15 NEW BERN, N. C. 28560, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1972 NUMBER 29 . !■* ■ ' ONCE UPON A TIME—New Bern’s senior citizens will have to reach back 65 years, in order to recall v4ien the Elks Temple building at Mid(fle and Pollock was under construction. At long last our town was getting an honest to goodness skyscraper, and just as in New York, watching the action proved popidar with loitering pedestrians. The brick structure, taller than most five story buildings, would be completed in 1906. Then as now, lodge rooms would be on the top floor, and rented offices on other upper floors. Ed aark, destined to serve as New Bern’s Mayor, was going to have a soda shop on the first floor, and it became quite a gathering place for old and young alike. Floyd Gaskins would eventually buy out Clark, and finally it would become Dixon’s. Our thanks to BUly Benners, Sr., who came up with this rare pic ture.
The New Bern Mirror (New Bern, N.C.)
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