The Portland daily press., 1895-07-25

How DID that crowd Ever Reach Second
PIace?-Great Hitting by the Portlands
Good Work by Ki1leen-Three Two
Baggers in Succession-slater,s Homa
Run.
Yesterday Portland's second victory
over New Bedford was even more of a
triumph than that of the day before and
Sullivan OF the New Bedfords, was a big
ger target for our heavy hitters than
Viau. The game was a picnic for Port
land after the first inning
Slater started in with beautiful home
run that must have reached very near the
water in Back Cove. Shaffer followed
with fine drive into centre, and the
crowd of at least six hundred people, had
their first and last real thrill of the game.
The Doe7Does got three in their half of
the first, to be sure, but we followed it
up SO quickly in the second with six runs
that there wasn't really time to be wor-
ried.
That was tremendous inning. What
de you think of three two baggers in sue
cession, by the three tailenders of the
batting list, beauti IS, every one of them
that is, the hits, not the tailenders.
Goodhart began the inning by dying at
first. Then Magoon drove the ball to left
field for two bases. Corbett followed with
a long fly to left centre that reached the
fence. 1t was good for t two bases Then
Killeen, our hard hitting pitcher, conclud-
ed that he'd try right field and see how
that would work. So he drove the ball
over Steers head and captured second
without any difficulty, the new advertis-
ing fence spelling a three bagger and
possibly q home run. Such hitting as this
is worth going to see. But that wasn't all
that the Gods were giving to the delight
ed cranks in that one inning. Captain
Slater came up and Delaney fumbled his
grounder. Nyce fun bled Shaffer's, Leigh
ton hit almost over the right field fence
for three bases and o. Rourke followed
with a single. We had six runs. O'Rourke
was caught between second and third and
Spill flied out.
They got their three runs by Walters
base on balls, Steers SINGLE which Leigh
ton allowed to go by him, Nyce's two
bagger Wheil's sacrifice and Spills error
They got no more runs till their last
inning. In the next six innings they
9 -ot five hits, but they were all scattered
A. fter our half of the eighth the score was
siA teen to three in our favor, and the
dis. gusted New Bedfords requested that
the game stop with that inning as they
had -nolchance of catching up and wished
to tab 9 the boat for Boston.
They came to the bat in the last of the
eighth and as luck would have it batted
out thru earned runs with four singles
and TWO bagger. Then Magoon made
bad throw and they got another run,
so the game ended at the close of the
eighth with the score 16 to z.
It was bad inning for Killeen's rec
ord, but up to then they could bat no
runs from his delivery for six innings
:, The game was tiresome as a contest,
but of interest as a slugging exhibition
by the Portlands and loose fielding by
the New Bedfords.
The crowd found amusement by guy
ing big, good natured Fatty Sharpe, whose
ridiculous efforts to play third base
were worthy of ridicule. He isn't third
baseman, but a catcher, and it must be
said that few men of his weight and alb
dominal girth could do as well on the
diamond as he.
Everybody was astonished and delight
ed in the eighth when he hit safely, stole
second despite Goodharts throw, and
scored an earned run on Murphy's two
bagger.
The score:
PORTLAND.