The Portland daily press., 1885-08-11
BASE BALL.
GAME TODAY.


The Belfasts will play the Portlands this after
noon at the Portland Grounds A good game may
be looked for as the Belfasts are very strong
team and have been playing all season and have
defeated some Of the best clubs Game will be
called at O'Clock
THREE INNINGS WITH THE PRoVIDENcEs.
Yesterday afternoon seven Of the Providence
national league team came to Portland and aided
by two local men played three innings with the
Portlands, when game was called on account Of
the rain. There was about one thousand people
on the grounds and they were disappointed in two
ways: First, they did not the full league team
second, they paid fifty cents to witness a
ninejnning game and felt that thev had not re-
that when league team is contracted with to
play here, 1t be understood that the gChole team
shall come; again, we would suggest that, In case
of rain, like yesterday checks be given to the
audience (as is done on other grounds) which
can be presented at the next game played and
taken as half of the admission fee.
The Providences were first at the bat and faced
Blakeley in the box with Quinton behind the Tat.
Hines.led off with a two-bagger and scored on
Barnes safe hit and Dailey's sacrifice Barnes
scored on steal, wild pitch and FarrelPs hit, the
latter also scoring on steal wild pitch and Ir-
wins safe hit. Irwin was out trying TO steal
third and Denny out on a foul fly to QuintOn.
For the POrtlands, Annis struck out; Whee0ck
hit safe, but was forced out at second by Weidel,
who scored on passed ball and Holland's MT
the latter taking second; Hartnett was given his
base on balls, but Quinton was out on his hit to
second.
In the second inning Lynch struck out; Bassett
hit safe, got second ON Quinton's wild throw, and
scored on Shaws sacrifices Hines flied out to An
mis-. For the Portlands, Shaw hit TO Farrell VINO
fWnbed the ball, stole second, took third on ful-
mers sacrifice and scored on Lynchs mun OF
Annis' hit; Wheeock hit to shortstop who FUN
bled, AnniS taking second, third on wild throw OF
Daley and both he and Wheelock scoring on
Weidels hit Weide was forced out by Holland.
In the third inning Barnes took second on a
missed third strike and scored on Dailey's bit.
Daley was caught mapping on second by Fulmer
Farrell fOued out to Hartnett and Irwin was out
by Shaw to Hartnett. For the POrtlands Hart
nett went out by Farrell to Bassett; Quinton hit
safe, but was forced out by Shaw's hit to Irwin,
Shaw getting his base, but Fulmer went .out by
Denny to BaSsett.
In the fourth inning Blakeley did some fine work,
striking out Denny, Lynch and Bassett in one,
two, three order For the POrtlands, Blakeley
struck out, and here the game ended, the rain
coming down in torrents
The pitching of Shaw was treat to the audi
ence who thoroughly enjoyed his ''wind-up" act,
in delivering the ball Blakeley also did good
work, but his support behind the bat was not up
to Quinton's previous work The latter's throw
ing to bases was very poor. Evidently the whole
team were a little timid at first, but they soon
'braced up'' and got down to solid work. On the
whole, the result of the clubs playing was very
satisfactory to the people.
The official score is given below: