The Portland daily press., 1886-07-01
BASE BALL.
MAINE IntercoIIegIate League.
coLBYs, Q; BATES, o.

coLBYs, Q; BATES, o.
The ownership of the college pennant was
decided on the Portland grounds yesterday
afternoon after hard-fought game which
lasted one hour and forty-eight minutes. A
good part of Bates College had come down to
see the game, and the seats nearest
the entrance were filed with enthuslas-
tic hackers of the nine which hoped to re-
trieve the advantage it had lost to Colby in
Lewiston last Saturday. The Col.y men
ca me alone, for examinations are going on
at Waterville; but in their long uphill fight
for the pennant they have learned to play
well where their friends are around or not.
But many Colby alumni were there, and lots
of folks from the Kennebec joined them in
cheering, for the Wateryille boys.
1t was Just half-past 2 o'clock when the
umpire called the game, and Forest Good
win, the Colby pitcher, threw the first ball.
Sanford, one of Bates finest batters, hit the
ball and got to first base on an error. Then
Then Underwood came in, hit the ball and
got to first, but Sanford was put out while
running to third. Underwood was caught
out while running to second, and Thayer
was out by knocking to Webber on first
base. The Bates retired at the end Of four
minutes without score.
For the Colbys Forest Goodwin came to
the bat, made a pretty base hit, and got
around to third while Putnam was at the
bat. Putnam was retired, as was Webber,
but not before Goodwin had made the FIRST
score for the game.
At the end of the first inning the score
stood / to in favor of Colby, and there it
remained until the seventh inning. Both
sides settled down to work, but neither
could score. 1t was of no avail that the
Bates got the bases full Of runners in the
fourth inning, for the loud cheering of those
who sympathized with the sturdy fellows in
white knickerbockers, from Lewiston, didn't
bother the Colbys bit. The boys in black
and red watched the Bates batter a little
more attentively; the pitcher sent the balls
into his little catcher with little more de-
termination, and the batter was out on three
strikes, carrying with him the side. Nor it
didn't do any good in the sixth inning for
the Colby pitcher to urge his base runners
with abundant rhetoric, to take long chances
in going to second base while Underwood
was sending his pretti0st curves down to
the Colby batters. 1t was no use; Sanford
and the Bates second baseman were right on
hand, and the yeturesOme runners were re-
tired amid loud "boom-a-laka" cheers from
the Bates sympathizers and much good
natured chatting at the expense of COlby's
versatile pitcher Pulsifer's fine hit in the
fourth inning failed to enable the Colbys to
realize anything. In the sixth inning Wood
man, of the Bates, was on first, with happy
prospects of going farther. Indeed he was
too anxious for when Goodwin stood out
side of his box and eurled up and jumped as
if to pitch. Woodman went right along to
second, but reached there only to find HIM
self out by one of the tricks which Goodwin
delights to play when his opponents are
thinking of something else.
In the seventh inning the Bates were re-
tired without a score. OF the Colbys,
Mathews and Boyd hit the ball, but were
thrown out But Goodwin struck the ball
safe, and took third on Putnam's base hit
and came home on Webber's base hit 1t
was the only earned run and the last run Of
the game. The score stood to in favor of
Colby, and remained there until the end Of
the game.
The detailed score shows the work done by
each man. The playing of Forest Good
win, Pulsifer and Larrabee, Of the Colbys,
and of Thayer, Sanford and Underwood, Of
the Bates, deserves especial mention. This
is the score: