The Portland daily press., 1894-05-31

Rome-DoIan Batted Out of the Box
Here.
1t WAS a very discouraging game of ball
yesterday afternoon to neutrality-suspicious.
and the action of the mob in stopping the
game in the ninth inning was dis
graceful. There was such a. trench
dous crowd, numbering 4009, it is
stated, that the game was played under
difficulties from the start. The game was
to commence at $50. but at o'clock there
was such a crowd out side the gate that it
required fifteen or twenty minutes to get
inside. Both bleachers and the grand stand
were crowded to suffocation, and on the
grounds in front and extending entirely
around the field was circle of men (and
many wonen) packed eight or ten deep.
The police force, which was entirely made
quate in number, with difficulty cleared the
grounds for the game to begin.
1t was probably the biggest, or at least,
one of the very biggest crowds that ever
assembled on the grounds. The weather
was fine and everybody expected the home
team to win.
Having come home flushed with the
victory of a hard fought game at Lewiston
in the forenoon the Portlands should have
played better ball.
Portland opened the game and went out
in one, two, three order. The Lewistons
did not score in their half.
Bradley got a hit in the second, got his
third on sacrifices by H. Smith and Burns
and then C. Smith struck, and it did look
as if Umpire Kelleher was wrong on the
third called strike. In Lewiston's half
Mains, who was jeered and leased by the
crowd, got hit, so did Mccormack, Nc
Quirk went out to Slater. Peterson got a
fine hit and Mains and Mccormack came in,
but the latter was obliged to return to third
because the rule of the game was that only
one base should be taken on a hit in the
out-feld. This was because of the crowd.
Bergen's grounder put Ferson out at
second, and Leighton's hit brought in Nc
Cormack Two earned runs. Spill went out
to first.
In the third, Person began to show that
he was invincible for our boys, He struck
out Mahoney, Dolan went out to first and
Casey struck out. For the Lewistons,
Coughlin struck out. Shea got hit. Then
Mains hit grounder to Bradley, and Slater
spoiled double by dropping the ball after
Burns had Shea out at second and threw to
first 1t was costly, because Mains got
home. So did Mccormack on his base on
balls. Bradley's error and Persons hit. Ber-
gen got a hit, but Leighton went out at
first.
We got our one run in the fourth. Slater
got first on an error by Ferson, stole second
beautifully. then stole third magnifcently
and came home on Bradley's hit. It was
singular that Slater and Bradley who got
the one run, made also the most costly
errors After that we hadn't the ghost of a
show for runs, much less the game. We
couldn't hit Person. We only got five scat
tering hits and he struck out five of us.
The rest of the tale of woe is as follows:
In Lewiston's last of the fourth Spill got
his base on balls and stole second. Stafford,
who succeeded Coughlin because the latter
felt i'll, got first on Bradley's error. Shea
got hit and Spill scored. Bradley fumbled
Mains's grounder. Stafford took third and
came in on wild pitch by Dolan. Then the
crowd groaned and Dolan was replaced by
Carey He gave Mccormack his first on
balls. McQuirk got hit. Person struck out
and at last the run getting was stopped,
though the Lewistons struck around once
and got three runs.
They got an earned run in the sixth and
had scarcely less trouble with Carey than
Dolan.
In the first of the ninth, Harry Smith got
splendid two-base hit and took second.
The umpire called him back. because of the
rule of the day. Capt. Bradley kicked un-
warrantedly. While the heated argument
was in progress the crowd on the western
bleachers began to throw their big square
cushions at the crowd on the ground. They
were thrown back. Several ladies' bonnets
were damaged. At times seven or eight of
these big missiles were in the air. Then the
crowd excited by this time, swept on to the
dimond and surrounded the disputing ball
players in a dense mass. There were many
in the mob spelling to sec fight, if mot to
fight themselves, and the police could not
dispense them. Finally the umpire was
escorted to the ticket office for safety by
the officers, closely crowded by the mob.
The whole thing was disgraceful. Lewiston
fairly won the game and if he did make a
few bad judgments once and while it did
not affect the result. The affair was dis
grace to Portland and should never be
allowed to occur again. There ought to be a
larger police force there on holidays.
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