The Portland daily press., 1886-06-17
BASE BALL.
The New England League.
PoRTLANps VS.. posToN BLUES.

PoRTLAEDS VS.. BOSTON BLUES.
The management of the Portland club has
decided that upon one day in each week
ladies will be admitted free to the grounds
and grand stand. On these ladies days"
the grand stand will be reserved for ladies
and their escorts. Next Friday will be the
first ladies' day, on which occasion the Bos-
ton Blues will play the Portlands. Reserved
seats can be secured on application at H.
L. Somers 81 Co., Middle street,
PoRTLANDs, 6; NEwBURYPoRTs, 0.
The Portlands played a remarkable game
of ball with the Newburyports yesterday,
and one which old base ball men say in
earnest was the 'best they ever saw" Not
an error of any kind was made by the nine
and with only five hits they earned three
runs. Many difficult chances were accepted
and in each case the ball was felded per-
fectly without semblance of an error.
Mckinley and O'Rourke were the home bat
tery,s and to say that their work was Won
derful is slight praise when it is considered
that of such a heavy batting team as the
Newburyports only three saw first base.
The Newburyports played Clarke. their
young pitcher from Providence, in the box,
with Wilson to catch him. Both pitchers
were batted freely but not safely, the Port
lands getting five singles and the visitors
three with total of five. The run getting
of the Portlands commenced in the third
inning when Mckinley was given his base
ON balls went to second on Galligan's put
out and scored on Hatfeld's single. Kearns
hit for one base and stole second, and after
Wheelock had been at the bat and struck
out, Hatfield made splendid hit, sending
Kearns home, after Mckinley, earning one
run. Hatfield was put out at second on
Shelters hit to short stop. In the seventh
inning Reilly started off with a safe hit and
Mckinley hit to second base who let it go
through him, sending Reilly to third and
Mckinley to second In attempting to run
home on short hit of Galligan's, Reilly
was put out and Mckinley reached third,
Galligan being safe at first. He soon after
stole second and scored on Kearn's hit,
earning another run. Kearns hit safe, stole
second and went to third on passed ball
Wheelock was given his base on balls, and
Hatfield on coming to the bat made sacri-
fee hit to second base, sending Kearns home
and Wheelock to third base. AS this hit
was sufficient to send Kearns home from
second his run was earned, making the
third one. Wheelock came home on Shelf
her's hit, the latter stealing second and be-
ing left there, O'Rourke striking out. This
ended the run getting
The nearest the NewburypOrts came to
scoring was in the second inning which
Whitley opened with a splendid hit between
shOrtstop and second base. lie was put
out at second on Beecher's hit, after Murphy
had struck out. Wilson then hit ball
which came very near the foul line near the
fence in the right field but it was safe and
| he took two bases on it, sending Beecher to
| third O'Brien then struck a grounder. to
| Kearns who threw him out at first, leaving
| second and third bases full. The only man
after that who saw base was Laroque who
| in the ninth inning, after two men were out,
| made a splendid two-base hit to right field
| but was left there, Flanagan going out on
| fly to Galligan.
Hatfield deserves great praise for his Won
| derful catch of a foul fly from Beecher's bat,
| then captured it at the expense of his head
| and shoulders, going end over end but coming
| up with the ball in his hand. His timely hit
| in the third inning also won him round after
| round of applause. The next ball that was
| struck after Hatfields brilliant catch was a
| similar one to right foul field which Cavan-
| agh captured in good shape His playing at
| first was excellent. Galligan caught a hard
| fly in left field, and in fact all the
| fielders had some hard work to do and
| did it we'll Wheelock and Kearns played
| their usually fine game With the exception
| of wild throw each by Murphy and
| Laroque and the glaring errors of Shannon,
mentioned above, the visitors fielded well