The Portland daily press., 1884-09-10
ATHLETIC SPORTS.


THE BIDDEFoRD PORTLAND GAME.
few days ago the Biddeford journal said that
''When the Portlands come to Biddeford they will
return sadder and wiser men, They went to
Bddeford yesterday, aud they do not return either
''sadder or wiser The game was commenced
about O'Clock, with the home team at the bat, and
on Abbott's single, Fish's two Dagger and O'Con-
nell's tumble of Callahan's hit scored two runs
For the Biddefords Brown got in base hit, Jordan
was given base on balls, O'Connel sent a fly to
Malloy, but he dropped 1t and Brown scored, the
next two men were out, but Kendall got in hit
and was left at third by Mclaughlin striking out.
Three wound up the inning Both
clubs were blanked in the next inning, but in
the third, Barnes Abbott and Fish all got base hits
the first two scoring while the next three men were
out, leaving Fish. The Biddefords scored three
runs in their half as follows: with two men out,
Foster struck wind three times but the third strike
was unfortunately on low pitched ball, which
went by Abbott, and gave him two bases; base hit
and two bad fumbles by Chatterton gave run,
while wild throw and wild pitch by Fish gave
them two more, leaving the score at the beginning
of the 4th inning to in favor of Biddeford. The
Portlands were blank ed in the fourth inning while
the Biddefords added two runs on base hit
and three errors by the Portlands. The score was
now 8 to in favor of Biddeford, and the home
team braced up, Abbott getting in SINGLE and
taking third on Fish's handsome base hit. Abbott
scored Callahan's put out Fish taking third ub
sequently coming home on wild pitch. The Bidde-
fords were blanked. The Portlands scored run
on two muffed hys in succession by Foster, and
wild throw by Moolic while the Biddefords also got
one. Score, Bddefords 8, Portlands z. The seventh
inning opened with Abbott at bat, who was retired
at first and Fish stepped to the bat. With two
strikes, one of them called, and five balls also
called, the next ball pitched by Daniels was wide
one, the something that they used for umpire,
called it i've balls again, when it should have been
six. This was too much for the PoItlands. Twice
before, to our knowledge, had he slipped up in the
number OF balls called. and three rank decisions
besides had he made, costing the Portlands four
runs, and the home team had stood it nobly. But
this last decision was the straw which broke the
eameps back, and to their credit be it said both
Biddeford and Portland people denounced the
som ethDg who tried to umpire the game. Its name
was King, and it has tried to play ball with the
Kennebunks the Portlands hitting it for total of
81 hits. Four faithful scorers the Argus reporter
the Providence journal reporter, the Bddefords'
own reporter, and the PRESS reporter all agreed
that it had made mistake, but it wouldn't believe
it, and like the cry of scissors it kept repeating
II said it and won't change it for all the scorers in
the world. The calling of balls and strikes on the
Portlan0s was execrable, while on the Biddefords
pitch him a ball which he could hit or
else strike him out on his own strikes
errors which the Portands made, their superiority
as ball players was plainly noticed. One Biddeford
man remarked that IF the Biddefords were de-
termined to win the game, he should think they
would not try to cheat so openly" If the umpire
was not sure of how many balls he had called, the
scorers were the properperso to apply to- as the
League umpires have to do at times; but no! it
chance to gOuge, and it accepted it. We are glad
OF one thing and that is that respectable people of
Biddeford, who Were witnesses of the game de-
nounced the something which tried to defeat the
was no game and was won BY neither
side, as the score book is the correct accord
of balls and strikes called, no matter whether the
something decided it to o, 100 to o. The score: