The Portland daily press., 1895-05-15


Home Run More Than Redeemed Us
An Extraordinary Double Play.
About two hundred people ventured out
to the Deering grounds yesterday, the
ocldest spot in Cumberland county in cold
weather. but very attractive place when
the sun is hot.
The shiyering. shaking cold-catching
cranks were amply rewarded however.
They saw the Portland boys, several of
whom had on their new brown uniforms.
which look very neat, win from the leaders
BIZ superior stick-work and base running and
pitching. In fact we exhibited yesterday
plenty of that aggressiyeness that wins
games and that we have apparently beon
destitute of heretofore. Now, Drinkwater
is good pitcher. The Brocktons wouldn't
have him if he wasn't. and besides he
handles the ball we'll and maintains his
speed and control and courage. But we
were in a lighting mood yesterday. We
started in thar way and kept it up. Slater
and Spill made clean hits andiLeighton got
another in the small of mis- back. This
neited us two runs, and Leighton's fighting
mood was more so than ever.
We didn't get any more till the sixth, de-
spite Captain SIater's two bagger and an
other dent in that much abused elbow of
bis. In the sixth, hits by Lauder and Ma
COON, a base on balls by Goodhart and
Daniels's hit gave us three runs. one of
them earned. All this Was done by the tail
enders of the batting list. How does that
strike you? But you Lauder. Magoon
| and Goodhart all stole second, and acted SO
much like title steam engines on the bases
| that the Brocktons thought it was no use to
| try to stop them. We stole nine bases yes
terday and the Brocktons only stole four.
| That tells quite story. And Daniels only
gave one man his base on bills, while
Drinkwater gave four.
They didn't get run till the fifth. Then
i Magoon and Leighton's error gave then
one, and they earned another by Lawson 1
/ hit and steal of second and Willis's clean
| hit here nobody could reach 1t. They goi
another in the sixth.and at the beginning OF
the seventh it was five TO three. and we
still had big grip on victory. We were
blanked in our half, and then Law sor
cracked out his third hit. Drinkwater and
Willis were retired at first. Two were oul
and Petit cane to the bat. We all shivered
| with something besides the cold. Two were
out, it was the bloody seventh and Frank
Spill was looking absolutely transparent. II
was inc for him to perform. We hoped that
the veteran ex-Cbicagoan at the bat is not
seeing Spill with our eyes. or rather seeing
the place where he ought to be. But evi
IDENTIFY he was looking at just that.spot. fol
he drove a hot one right at it and the bal
kept right on to the fence. OF course tn,
inevitab BILE result of one of Spills errors wa,
| ,,14I %Ia1 fI,p4 -
with Lawson. We all felt doomed, and wher
STAG khouse and Nadeau hit safely, and two
more runs came in and they were one
ahead. we all gave up in despair. 1t WAS the
same old thing over again, and the Fates
were again us. Some of the clanks got ur
and started for home. They didn't blame
| Spill so much. Re had played splendidly VI
to then. but they felt that the very Devil
| had got into our ball team and had picked
| out unfortunate Spill whereby to make
\ himself manifest.
! Luckily the boys in brown didn't feel that
way. They came in to bat determined te
get those three runs back again. as Guod
| hart announced. And the way they did il
| was enough to drive that troublesome Deyi
above mentioned. up into Canada. and keer
| him there.
Magoon waited for four. and stole second
(Magoon always steals second). GoodLart's
hit only advanced him to third, and ther
Corbett arose to the emergency and ht
whacked that ball SO that it arose to tn.
clouds, and for the first time this year il
went over left field fence and the three
runs were got bacE again aad we were two
ahead.
Jack Daniel s seconded this good motion
by striking out three men, a very clever
little trick, just at that time. Then we go
two more runs in ;he ninth, and this is the
end of this pleasant story. The score:
PORTLAND.