The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-05-16
BASE BALL.

PoaTLAEDs 10; BIDDEFoRDs IL.
Yesterdays game was very hard fought one.
Portland came out the loser by one run after the
mines had played eleven innings.
About 200 people saw the game. The Bidde-
fords in their fielding are not the club the Port
lands but they able to bat Fish easily and
so won the game. Both sides made changes in the
players and positions. Pope hurt his knee by
fan while running bases and although he made his
in good shape obliged to retire in the sec
ond inning. This greatly weakened the nine
fine game at centre field. In the ninth
inning Fox the pitcher for the Biddefords
changed with Halpin and this order was pre-
served through the remaining innings. At the COM
mencement of the tenth inning Oxley went in
pitcher for the Portlands with Wheelock behind the
bat. Webster is probably the worst umpire who
absolutely no Judgment on balls and strikes and Is
unable to correctly call his decisions. In two
cases, he forgot the number of strikes called and
had to be corrected by the scorer. The man, per-
haps, did as well as he knew how but showed him
self totally unable to take charge of game of ball.
The Portland pubic will never forget him and will
make it rather warm work for him if he appears
here again. Fox is splendid man at the bat but
not as good as he might be IN the box. Fish has
pretty nearly lost the reputation he regained in the
last Two games he has pitched and his base run
ming was execrable. In the last inning after six
balls had been called, he stood on the home plate
so utterly confused that he Was put out under the
rules
The Biddefords were first at the bat. Irwin flied
out to left field, Long put out Hartnett on foul
fly and McKeeVer was out at first in hit to second
base. In the second inning Sattery flied out,
Fox made safe hit, and Halpin was out on Ay
to second base. Butler took first balls aud
Mullen struck ont The third innings found Jan
dron out at first but Irwin reached first
Hartnett flied out and MeKeever was out at first.
Siattery made in the next base hit to left
field, stealing second and coming home on wild
throw. Annis made brilliant running catch of
Fox's hy, Hapin struck out and a foul tip by But
Ter finished the inning. In the fifth, wild throw
by McGlinehy gave Mullen first. He was followed
by Jandron who got his base on Clark's error. Ir-
win than made safe hit to left field. HartwelI
flied out but McKeever's two base hit saved the
runs and the inning closed with three more to
the credit of the visitors No was made in the
next inning, but in the seventh Jandron and Irwin
scored, taking their bases on errors safe hit by
Slattery followed by Fox's two base hit gave him
run In the eighth again, no run was made but safe
hits by Hartnett, Slattery and Halpin and another
two bagger tor MckeeYer gave Biddeford three
runs in the ninth. No run was made in the tenth
and In the eleventh Foxs two base hit to left field
followed by Buffers safe hit gave Fox the decisive
run of the game
Portland secured two runs in the first inning
Annis STARTED the ball with fly to short stop and
was out, Fish went out at first; Oxley hit safe fol
lowed by Pope who went to first on called balls.
Oxey and Pope scored and Phillips struck out. In
the second CLARK and Wheelock flied out AMI Long
was retired at first. Annis scored in the third in
series of errors, after McGlinchy had struck out
Fish and Oxley went out at first and completed the
inning. Barnes made run in the fourth on errors
and Phillips hit safe, but out at first The fifth
saw fortland reIifed IN one Two, three order, and
two men striking out with Oxleys fly to the pitcher
closed the sixth inning. In the seventh called balls
and errors gave runs to Clark and Long while
Wheelock hit safe, but left on base. The
eighth saw three rdns added to the Portlands
Annis sent powerful two bagger to centre field,
Fish took first on balls Oxley and Barnes were out
and Phillips hit safe. Annis, Fish and Phillips
scored. In the ninth another two bagger by Annis
gave him the only run. This tied the game and the
excitement was intense as neither side scored in
the tenth inning. In the eleventh, McGSnchy went
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