The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-05-24
THE FIELD OF SPORTS
That Fatal First Inning Lost Us the
Game.

Cannon Batted Out of the Box in the First
Inning-That and Burns's Three Fun
bIes Lost Us the Game-Pawtucket Got
Eight Scores in the First and only Two
Observation-Disclosures Fought Well but
the Lead was Too Great.
After the easy victory of Portland over
Pawtucket Tuesday, and because of the
threatening weather and occasional sprink-
ling there was small attendance at the
second game with Pawtucket yesterday
Portland went out in one, two three order
in the first inning and then the Pawtuckets
came to the bat, and Cannon went into the
box. Bannon got first by Burns's tumble,
and stole second. McGlone got:a:hit, Bannon
came in, Hannivan got hit. McGlone
came in. Wise got first on another and very
bad tumble by Burns, Roach went out, GAN
non to Slater. Fournier got a hit and Wise
came in. Malor.e got first by a third bad
tumble by Burns and
THE CROWD GRoANED.
Moore got a hit and, .Fournier came in.
Meekin went out. G. Smith to Slater.
They had struck around by this time and
Bannon came up to the bat again. A two
Dagger brought in Malone and Moore, and
the crowd felt sick. Then McGlone got a
short hit out in right field. and Bannon
came in though Harry Smith could have
thrown him out at home if he hadn't held
the ball. It had to be scored an earned run
of course, but it wasn't. All the other runs
were due to errors as well as hits. Gannon's
poor pitching and Burns's extraordinary
errors lost the game. For though the
Pawtuckets lined out
SIX HITS WITH A TOTAL OF SEVEN
in that first inning, they got only five more
off Carey for the rest of the game, and they
were all scattered.
The home boys went to work with good
courage to overcome the long lead. They
settled down to the good work that they
can do, Burns among the rest and they kept
Pawtucket down to only two more scores,
and they got seven themselves. In fact it
was our game, except for that first inning.
The Pawtuckets were SO afraid, it might be
our game anyway, that they took Meekin
ont of the box in the eighth, and put in
their star pitcher, Fournier, and
HE IS A DANDY.
He enjoys pitching. He hops about with
glee. He almost claps his hands with de-
light. He Knows no anxiety much less fear.
His confidence is an inspiration. He struck
out Mahoney, when he had been put in to
take Cooks place as a special effort to tie
the score. He struck out Carey at critical
time and he baked our boys completely.
He did everything except prevent little
Casey from getting another hit, but John
C1arkson, himself, couldn't have prevented
that yesterday. Casey played one of the
great games of his life. Four hits with a
total of FIVE, a. running catch of foul. that
everybody yelled at him that he couldn't
get, and a, double play by catching Wise's
third strike and throwing Hannivan out at
second-these were some of his feats, and
he ran bases the same way He stole third
like a streak. In fact
CASEY WAS THE STAR PLAYER
of the game.
Garry wasn't far behind He got one great
fly that looked like three Dagger, and
the on-lookers held their breath and then
shouted for joy. He made a splendid try
for another hard one, got there and dropped
grounds, anyway. 1t was very excusabIe
error.
The visitors, with the exception of that
first inning. made more errors and less hits
than we did. They made more errors any
way.
That first inning was monstrosity.
Following is the detailed score:
5TNs pAWTTTCKET