The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-07-18

Pitched like a Cool. Strong, SkilfuI
Little Giant-only Four Hits and the
Haverhills Too!
No one could have foretold, at the be-
ginning, the excitement, the fine ball play
ing and the splendid triumph of the game
In fact. it began as il we might be easily
taken in by the strong Haverhills. Garry
got hit. but Slater died at first. Bradley
struck out and Casey flied out Lucid was
aggressive from the first. He pitched like a
steam engine, with terrific speed, and good
control. And when Lang went to first on
balls, stole second without an effort to
throw on Dams part, and took third on a
wild pitch and came home on a sacrifice.
we began to feel gloomy. But the next two
men went out easily.
ThensMahoney got a hit, and went to
second on. Anderson's tumble. But he was
caught eff second. Burns struck out and H.
Smith flied out and Lucid was hurting them
in dangerously all the time.
: Lake flied out, Reagan's grounder was
thrown low by Charlie Smith. Sweeney and
Shinnick got hits and the second run came
in.
We were BANKED again in the third and
that they had made their last run and that
the fighting, hustling Lucid wasn't going to
be SO terrific after all.
The fourth inning came, the GLORIOUS
fourth" Casey struck out, but Dan
Mahoney raped his second single into left
| field. Burns struck out, and then Harry
Smith hit sky scraper far over the fielder's
head into deep left centre and Dan went
| home and Harry. stopped on third.
There was bowling then, after two men
had struck out. but when Charlie Smiths
clean single brought Harry in and tied TIE
score, there was tumult indeed. That was
what the crowd longed for Monday, good
bunch of hits, and surely two runs were
never better earned.
We nearly repeated the performance in
| the eighth. Little Casey came up first.
There were two strikes, and then the ball
I sailed over Anderson's head and the little
giant was on third in less time than it takes
to tell it. Dan was hit in the shoulder and
took first While stealing second Sweeney
threw to Lang, who threw back to catch
Casey, but Sweeney muffed it. Then Dan
came in on Harry Smiths second hit.
We got one run in the seventh off Garry
and Slater's hits and an error by Anderson.
Timely hitting and good base running
gave us our-runs, and Daniels pitching and
good fielding prevented the Haverhills from
getting them.
But the Haverhills fought all the time,
and SO did Lucid, particularly. When we
weren't getting hits he was striking out
our best men, and in the ninth they made
desperate effort. Lucid struck out Slater
and Bradley, but gave Casey his base
| Mahoney flied out.
Then Lang to the bat looking ugly
enough to kill the ball, but James Garry
sauntered beneath his sky scraper. Free
man, the terrific Freeman, came to the
plate, and at last he got hit his first hit
off Daniels. The Haverhills began to show
fight with vengeance at that. The
croakers began to tune up and Fred Doe
gave an exhibition of yelling for scare
that hasn't been seen here for some time
The giant Anderson, who whacks out home
runs, made a. bid for another, but Garry was
under it and two were out. Then Irwin
marched up to the desperate tune of the
croakers, and he did slash red hot liner
down toward Slater, whose long arms
reached out over the line after it. But they
weren't long enough. He couldn't hold on
to it, and Connolly called it fair. If Slater
hadn't touched it he would have called it
foul because it must have struck far out
side. 1t had to be called.a hit and freeman
remained on third.
And the little Daniels crowned his days
triumph with crown of glory by striking
out Lake in the midst of all the yells and
excitement.
There hasn't been better game on the
grounds this year, and there hasn't been
worse umpiring. Connolly was very in
capable in regard to balls and strikes, and
Portland got the worst Of it. though ever
body suffered. The score:
PORTLANDS.
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