The Portland daily press., 1895-06-13
THE FIELD OF SPORT.
Weak in the Box, Weak at the
Bat.
FALL RIVER 1s RUNS, 16 HITS;
PORTLAND 2 RUNS, 2 HITS.

| We Had One Two Bagger-FaIl River Had
Three Two Baggers, Two Three Bag
gers and Two Home Runs-We Did
Excel in Base Running, However-Bad
Prospect in Regard to Wilson.
We started in with good luck and
throughout the game we ra Il bases beyond
criticism, and that is all that can be said
for us. We haynt got any gimp at the
bat or any strength in the box. Somehow
we got three runs in the first inning.
Jack Leighton waited for four, Spill
was hit, Magoon's S ground hit was thrown
home to catch Leighton, but Jack was
too quick and slid in safe. Slater struck
out long fly and Spill came in after it
was caught, then Magoon scored on Good
hart's hit, and we had three runs, one of
them earned.
Z This was all very fine. Person was a
! little wild. We ran bases like the evil
one, and the Gods were with us. What
an auspicious opening
/ But the cranks satisfaction was short
4 lived. Those big hustling, courageous,
/ fighting, Fall River fellows simply
paralyzed poor little Jack. Daniels at the
start off McDermott's clean single, J.
Harrington's home run, Ladd's three
bagger Fitzmaurice's drive through Ma
| good, Rollins's single and Reilley's two
Dagger followed each other very rapidly
and very splendidly, even in the sight of
the unhappy cranks. 1t was splendid
batting, but then it was easy pitching.
Those five hits with a total of eleven,
netted five runs with Magoon's error
Kennedy had flied out.
Slater very wisely replaced Daniels in
the box with Cannon, and that stopped
the slaughter. M. Harrington flied out
and Col. Alex Ferson was struck out.
Things were quieter in the next two
| innings. But the ire pressible chanpi ons
| were like a flood of water that keeps
| swelling till it bursts through all obstruc-
tion They burst, they fairly exploded in
the fourth inning. Ferson started it with
a two-bagger. McDermott was slain in
the vansz He actually struck out, but it
was after the umpire had called his single
| just inside of first foul. Harrington
came to the assault with a second home
/ run, over left field fence. Ladd singled
(his third straight hit), Kennedy was hit,
Fitzma urice flied out, Rollins, Reilly,
M. Harrington and Ferson all singled in
| succession. 1t was the latter's second hit
of the inning. Then McDermott went out
| for the second time in the same inning
and the slaughter was over again. Those
seven hits with a total of eleven had
netted six runs, three of them earned
This inning settled it, We had only
seven runs in to the beginning of the
seventh In the eighth we had chance
| but couldn't rise to the emergency
/ Cannon got first on an error, took second
on Leighton S second hit. Spill waited
| for four, and the bases were full Here
was the emergency, but there was nobody
10 riss 80 it-that is for the Portlands.
| G oil Ferson rose to meet it for the Fall
Rivers very gallantly. He gritted his
teeth and pitched splendid ball. But
there was apparently nothing but sinking
of the heart on the part of our batters.
Three men on bases and no one out
Meyers struck out, Magoon fouled out
and Slater died at first By that time
! fully half of the spectators that had filled
the right bleachers had left the grounds
Fall River got their last two in the
| eighth. Rollins knocked two Dagger
| Reilly sent high liner out to left field
Then what did that man Meyers do? The
sun was in his eyes, SO he put up his
hands turned and ran for fear the ball
would hit him That's how Reilly got a
three bagger Even if he couldn't catch
it, Meyers ought to have stopped it.
This is the dismal story and comment
is unnecessary. We did run bases splen-
didly though We stole twelve bases and
they stole but one. The score:
FALL RIVER,