The Portland daily press., 1891-05-11
HAPPENINGS IN THE WORLD OF SPORT
Portland Base Ball Players Again
Find Favor with the Crowd.
The Season Opened Saturday Upon
the Maine College Diamonds.
WheeImen May Be Welcomed to the
Queen City.

About 1400 people saw the home team do
up the Worcesters Saturday in the hardest
fought battle Of the diamond that has been
seen here this season. 1t was war from the
start, every man doing his level best to put
in his share toward the common end. Port
land went first to bat with Newell to Lead
Newell took first on an error. but the side
went cut without scoring. Worcester came
to bat, starting with Lynch, who could not
master Collins's style and struck out grace
fully Bird made hit and reach second where
he stuck. Park struck foul fly over behind
him and was caught out by Shine after a
hard run, retiring the side. Portland came to
bat again with DAILY. who lit the ball square
ly over first base and started to run. Brown
made IL a foul, however, and DAILY came
back. He banged the ball to the second
baseman who put him out Mclaughlin
was given his first on balls and reached sec
ond where he went out. This sort of thing
continued until the end Of the fifth inning,
the only anlivening feature being magnif-
cent steal to second by Keay. who afterward
went to third and came home as the side
went out Hayes raped out a double in the
third, ran to second, then while the fielders
were mufing hot ball, hit by Lynch. man
aged to score the first run of the game. In
the fourth inning Park and Moore made good
hits for Worcester and might have scored
had they been sprinters. As 1t was. Collins
and Slater handled the ball ahead Of both
of them, and they went out. Judd, first at
bat in the fifth. knock splendid fly down
into Keay's hands and Of course went out,
followed by the rest Of the side.
Then Newell came to bat again for Port
land He was followed by O'Brien, who
made good single hit. Keay followed him
and O'Brlen stole second while the second
baseman was picking up sand. Keay knocked
a straight-away hit between the second base
man and right field and O'Brien came In
amid wild applause. DAILY followed Keay at
bat and let Keay steal around and come In,
while he himself made good hit. Willis
let DAILY In by a sacrifice hit, making the
score to in favor Of Portland. Worcester
didn't like the looks Of things and proceeded
to tie the score. Park, who was given his
base on balls. got around with the assistance
of hits by Moore aud Lezott. Moore also
scored with an earned run. Then Slater
came to bat and was given base on balls.
He ran second and stole third In his usual
style and came home on single hit by Col
lins. O'Brien made the only home run in
the game, sending the ball over right field
fence and trotting around in the midst of a
chorus of yells and cheers. Keay came next
and cut out one Of his savage hits that gave
him three bases, and with DAILY at bat
brought him In. This ended the scoring for
Portland, although Slater tried to do the
same thing over again In the next inning.
Worcester failed to score in the seventh and
eighth, their men selling out in one. two,
three order in front Of Collins's steady pitch.
ing.
Our visitors dropped their gentlemanly
bearing when they saw their chances of win
ming gradually fading away and commenced
a running fire of sarcasm aud scurrility that
should have reduced the amount OF their
loose change. In the last inning they were
especially ugly. standing in their place at
bat and "sassing" Collins as he delivered
the balls. Jndd allowed the ball to strike
his bat and pretending that he had received
blow on the head, started to take his base.
1t did not work, however. He was given lis
base on balls and worked around
to the home plate more by points than by
hits. scoring Worcesters final run.
The principal difference between Slater
and O'Brien, the Worcester first baseman, is
seen when the pitcher attempts to be smart
and put out man who is trying to steal
from first base. Where Slater is good and
ready every time, the captain of the Worees-
tiers generally manages to be doing some-
thing else and drops the ball. The score:
PORTIANDs