The Portland daily press., 1893-06-16
liam FASTING" WHEELER.
The Way the Portlands Pounded Leather
in Yesterdays Came.


Speaking about batting, did you see
the game yesterday? If not, don't say
that the Portland club is not the greatest
hitting team in the league. OF course
all ball players will tell you that for
making opposing outfelders chase the
ball the Portland club is sans an equal,
but if you need vouchers for the state
ment just glance at the columns in the
appended score marked ''BH." and ''TB."
The people of the good city of Lewis
ton have lately become possessed of the
idea that their team is invincible. This
idea was probably conceived by the fact
that careful perusal of the back files of
Robert B. Thomas's almanacs fails to
show where our eastern brethren ever
led the league before.
Now Wheeler is a good pitcher, and
nobody knows it more than Wheeler.
His cerebarl enlargement was greatly re-
duced yesterday and the tall sycamore
from the wilds of 'Windham, alias ''the
Windham Wonder" alias 'rJed Prouty,"
alias ssGentle Willie" and last but not
least, alias the greatest pitcher and hit
ter Of this league, though he was wild
for lack of practice, bothered the
foreigners. We who sit on the stands, We
who laugh when player is knocked in
state Of innocuous desuetude by hard
hit, or pitched ball, and those who re-
serve the right to consign the umpire to
eternal fire of birthstone, perhaps do not
realize the physical condition Of the
men you applaud or condemn on the ball
field. Yesterday every ball that Mains
pitched caused him to suffer pain.
The spectators didn't know it however.
But nevertheless this modest and popular
player did not give the Lewistons hit
in five innings, and only four clean ones
during the rest of the game. The rest
came, under the caption of Scratches
1t would weary you to 60 into detail
and describe how all the runs were
made. The Portlands made IA earned
runs by ''lambasting'' Wheeler all over
and occasionally out of the lot, and to
Manager Leighton's credit he made
Wheeler stay in the box and take his
cruel, as Person, Lincoln and some of
the other, idealistic pitchers will have to
take it before the season is over.
Deadly and Rogers had picnic with
the bat and the formers excellent work
places him at the head of the New Eng
land League batsmen. Rogers had his
voice with him yesterday and for
wonder the spectators knew who was
captain. Smith had number of errors
but he tried for balls that an ordinary
second baseman4 would shirk and make a
grand catch.
Burns played a great game and to cap
it.all hit the ball over the fence into an
adjacent house lot. Deadly and Kobe
DAM also made home runs.
The Portlands opened up, with a
pyrotechnic rush, Deadly hit for a single
and Smith collided with the ball for two
bases. Then Rogers fell into his old
habit of hitting the ball for single. Two
runs; Lewiston drew blank.
In the second Klobedanz hit for a
single and Plat sacrificed him to second.
Deadly laced out a single. Smith sacri-
feed with excellent judgement and
Rogers delighted his lady friends in the
grand stand by lining out a single and
bringing in two runs.
In the third Burns's single, Clymer's
base on balls, and with two out Platt hit
for single. Deadly hit the ball over the
fence and the score stood-P ortlands, s;
Lewistons, G. In the last half of this
inning Mains took pity on the ''sdown
casters" He gave five men their bases
on balls. William is not stingy with his
gifts. Hence Lewiston got two runs.
The other runs that the foreigners
scored were practically gifts, while poor
Wheeler had to endure pummelling of
his curves that he will not soon forget.
The score: