The Portland daily press., 1894-08-15

Our Fielding Was the Sharpest-They
the More Creditable--One of the Best
Games of the season-It Was Daniels
Who Won 1t.
Hurrah for Daniels Hesdeserves it. His
pitching was downright scientific When
such men as Lang and freeman and Irwin
fail to get hit, and when such team as
the Haverhills, fighting for hood, can only
score three singles hits and not let the ball
outside the diamond till the eight inning
and only to send flies into our fielders'
| hands, the pitcher makes record that we
| venture to assert is unIivalled in this year S
record of this leagues games. There may
! be better records, but we don't remember
| them just now.
How does Daniels do it? First of all he is
| remarkably cool and careful all of the time.
He allows no umpire's decision to rufie him,
and attends strictly to business, exerting all
his mental and physical powers to the best
| advantage. His chief virtue seems to be his
ability to throw all of his quick curves, by
| the same movement of the arm, so that
veteran batsmen are puzzled as to the kind
of curve that is coming. That was mani
| testify Lang's case today.
The run-getting was confined to the fist
inning. Garry flied out and Slater waited
| for four balls. Harry Smith got hit that
sent Slater to third. Sweeney's wild throw
| to Smith at seccId let in Slater and sent
| Smith to third. He came in on Lampe's
| tumble Of Maddens grounder.;
| IN their half they got their one run on a
| base on balls for Lang, sacrifice by Free
man and a hit by Anderson.
| After that there were no more runs, but
| there were some very tense moments when
runs seemed certain, but We're shut off by
remarkably sharp fielding. For instance in
| the sixth Lang went to first on balls With
no one out and Fred Doc yelling and the
| heavy hitters coming, things were very
| uncertain. Lang went down to second on
| Freeman's sacrifice and there was the giant
/ Anderson at the bat to bring him home.
But the quick and wary Lang was caught
mapping. When Harry Smithshad darted to
the bag and caught Daniels quick throw,
| Lang hadn't ghost of a chance. He was
out as quickly and prettily and squarely as
| a flash of lightning.
Casey signalled Daniels when Harry
! started for the bag. something Mahoney
never could be induced t. accomplish.
| That was two out. Anderson slammed a
red hot liner to Charley Smith. 1t was a
| hard one to hold, but Charlie made square
muff. He recovered quickly and almost got
! the man at first, but not quite. Then An
derson tried for second. Casey threw wild,
| Burns muffed it and the ball bounded over
| to Harry Smith. Anderson had started for
third, but come back and was caught. The
next inning was slaky one also. Irwin
| went to first on Burnss Iror, to second
4 on Lakes sacrifice, to third on Charlie
| Smiths low throw of Sweeney's g1ounder.
Sweeney stole second. A hit meant two
runs, and Fred Doe looked as if he could
| send another hit against right field fence.
But he didn't. 1t was a pop fly and the
agony was over.
They kept retiring us without a score
pretty handily also Three hits in the ninth
failed of a score. and prior to that Lampe
kept the hits well scattered. He pitched a
good game and worked hard, ard but Tor
| that first inning-when he made his fatal
error, might have prevented runs as
| effectively as Daniels. The umpire was
decidedly off color on balls and strikes, but
otherwise was satisfactory.
| Following is the score:
PORTLAND.