The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-04-26
THE FIELD OF SPORT.
Our Boys in Brown and the Bow
dOins.

our Boys IN BrOWn ana the BOW
How We Beat the College Men-Our Strong
and Weak Points-How the New Men
Show Up-Company G of Biddeford
Shoot Better than Company B of Port
land-The Gun Club Scores-The Wheel
Club Run.
Yesterday afternoon over 2500 people. in
GLIDING many ladies. saw Our boys in brown
all toge Their onour own diamond. The day
was as perfect as ever was vouchsafed to us
on Fast Day, and 1t is safe to say that Port
land baseball lovers were quite as well salts
fed with the showing of our own team IS
they were with the.weather. The Bowdoins
were the opposing players. The score shows
what was the noticeable fact hat the strong
points of the Portlands were in fielding and
base running. and that they did lot put up
a much better game than the college boys
in pitching and hating.
The Bowdoins took the field first with
hodge in the box. and Haines behind the
bat. Captain Slater was cheeied as his
familiar form progressed on its familiar way
towards the plate, and the great crowd
cheered again and laughed al the first ball
pitched struck that familiar spot on his
elbow in the old familiar way. There must
be goolly number of dents on that elbow
by this time. and most of them indicate
scores like the notches on a stick in our
boyhood days. Slater took second on a
passed ball. and came home on Leighton
hit, Spill having walked TO first. They both
came home on Goodbeart's hit and we had
three runs. one of them earned. We batted
around once in this first inning, and
Captain Slater came up first again at the be-
ginning of the second. A clean bit and
errors by Hall and Haines sent him over the
plate, only one run in that inning.
We got four more in the fourth on slater's
base on balls, Pefkins's error. Leighton's
second lit. Cohern's inexcusable muf of
Goodheart's sky scrapper. wild pitch by
Dodge and our third baseman. Magoon's,
lively sprin:ing for first. that converted
slow grounder to shortstop into base hit.
Eight runs and five hits.in the first four
innings doesn't look very well for Bowdoin S
very poorly supported, and except for a
tflu6 OIL WlluutSS ouohou oiiASSAh cohOhss
pitcher. He has only to get better control
of his swift curves to be one of the best men
in the Maine colleges. He has big. quick
drop that is something as beautiful TO see as
1t is difficult to find.
We got two more runs in the eth. Safer
was struck in that elbow again lucky it is
the left one), stole second and came in Cd
Wizards error, which gave Leighton his
first. and then the home plate, with the aid
of LADDERS single. Harris began to pitch
in the fifth for Bowdoin. and asionisheds
everybody by striking out five of thea
browns. including Spill and Goodheart.
In the eighth. with two men ON bases and
none out, he retired Gray and Mann in sue
cession. and Slater flied out 10 Hall. We got
our last run in that inning because Of An
error by shortstGp. Certainly Bowdoin s
pitchers made quite as good a showing aSs
our own yesterday. We got but one mores
hit than they and we tried all four pitchers
against them. However this is not very
significant as to our pitchers. but it is sig
nifcant as to our batting. Some of the new
men are clever with the stick, and some are
not. Goodheart, Lauder. McManus and Ma
COON not only.hit for business, hutlthey climb
around thoSe bases rs q cat climbs up tree
whel Towser is after her. As for the field
Ing, everything and everybody is very en-
couraging. There doesn't seem to be lazy
bone In the Whole aggregation Both Ma
COON and Gray played perfect game at
third. but the formers feet are decidedly
The lightest. He will play in the first league
game Saturday.
Willie Mann, from Windhan.. is as much
1, 10 Moir iS lie He hon
n the flies out in right field with that same
length Of stride and breadth of palm and
bushel-basket certainty. But there are
points of Differences. The silent William
NJ, who towers and triumphs in the box,
and whose vocal utterances are limited to
high pitched monosylable, only in times of
extreme provoca ion, would see himself in
his coffin before he would go out to first base
and execute the vocal and bodily gyrations
Of his protege. Imagine blue heron crow
ing like rooster, and you have our friend
from WiDdham in apparent imitation of the
gatherings of Billy Clyiner. our star second
baseman of long ago. 1t is good as show,
and it makes 1.-THE boys bump around the
bases if only to get out Of he way. Keep
1t up. friend William from Windham. There
is more than enc way to play bali.
The Bowd oins got one run in the first in
ming. Hall was hit by the ball and came
home on hits by Perkins and Leighton. They
got two more runs in the eighth. because of
Spills tumble of Perkins grounder. That
error and Lauder s fumbles and McManus'
wild throw were the only defects in our
fielding.
The features of the game were Fairbanks
splendid stop and his line throw across the
Magoon's great RIM to the
bleachers and capture of high foul, Spills
grab Of high liner and Goodheart's gem
era1 '.git thar" playing. He is a splendid
little fellow behind the bat. and on the
coach lines. Just as soon as the umpire
calls time. he is alive TO nothing but playing
t he game for all it isIworth, and he is so
alive to that, that he cannot help talking,
a bout it all the time. His entnusia SIN and
enjoyment of the game is something intense,
and bis quaint remarks add much to the
enjoyment Of the spec tators.
Altogether our boys are starring in very
we'll. Ashe is very swift. and his curves are
way upland down an out and in for that
matter. He will have little better control
later. But there is one thing sure, we must
have better stick work when we get down to
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