The Portland daily press., 1895-06-14

played Them at Every Point-Leighton
Wos Sick and Laid Off-The Score Was
Five to One.
The value, even the necessity, of good
pitching was very apparent yesterday.
Our new pitcher, Killeen, kept the
champions down to six hits. This put
heart into the boys and they played a
splendid anne. They didn't bat Lincoln
very hard nobody does that. But they
batted him hard enough
Because of Leighton's illness, Dove
took his place in the field, and at the
head of the batting list. 1t looked rather
dubious with IAaighton out of the game,
but as it turned out Dove was all right.
He got a clean Nit over in right. Spill
fouled out Meyens tapped the smiling,
invincible Lincoln for another
clean hit and Dove took third Then Ma
COON raped a big fly to Fitzmaurice, who
made an elegant muff. Dove came home.
Meyers who had run off first and then
turned back again, started for second so
quickly that he laned his ankle. Dove
took his place. Slater's fly was caught
but Dove came in all right with Meyers
run. Then Goodhart's splendid single
brought in Magoon. Three runs.
Magoon scored again in the third. He
took first on four balls, stole second and
was sacrificed to third by Slai5er, Good
hart was also presented with first. He
started to steal second, drew Rollin' S
brow and then ran back. The throw
was not very good and Magoon stole in.
Our fifth and last run was in the sixth.
J. Harrington made.a bad throw to first
of Terrien's grounder. The agile French
man was sacrificed to second and came
home on Spills hit
All this time the Fall Rivers were a
puzzled and disguised company. That
final inning and Portland's three runs
didn't scare them bit, and after their
half, when nobody reached first K1obe-
danz replied to remark about it that
they'd lay down on Killeen very soon.
But Klobedanz was no prophet. They
couldn't lay down on him at all, and this
was such an extraordinary thing they
were SO dumbfounded at meeting a
pitcher in Portland who defed them
successfully that they began to make er-
rors out of sheer disgust.
Capt Tom McDermott let pretty one
go by, Kennedy's big bare infallible
hands actually muffed the ball, and Joe
Harrington threw the ball so low twice
that it struck the ground before it reached
Kennedy.
They got their run in the eighth by
means Of McDermott's and J. Harring-
tons hits
James Hassett of Portland. umpired
because of Mahoney being disabled the
day before The Fall Rivers didn't like
him bit. But then they wouldn't have
liked anybody yesterday, simply because
they made some errors and couldn, It bat
Killeen all over the lot.
In the seventh inning, the bloody
seventh the Fall Rivers began to grit
their teeth and growl 1t was five to one
and they didn't like it. Capt Nc. had
been gritting his teeth and fairly roaring
at Hassett for some time. Rollins had
made a hit and desperately and splendid
ly (if a man of his build can be said to do
anything splendidly) had stolen second
and third Reilly flied out, and then
wild enthusiasm. Lincoln came up and
began swinging at the ball with that
same quick energy with which he throws
it over the plate, but not with the same
accuracy. However, when he does hit it,
away it goes with trouble for somebody
fastened to it.
He happened to hit the ball tremen-
dous crack this time, and away it went,
and it was laden with more trouble than
usual 1t sailed over the right field fence
close to the flag staff. To some it looked
like home run, to others it was only a
foul. t15
Hassett was standing on the home plate
and should have been able to judge He
called it a foul. Captain Nc. could hard
ly believe his ears. This was too much.
He was paralzyed for an instant, and
then rushed at Hassett fairly frothing at
the mouth. He didn't eat him up, how
ever, nor tear him into little shreds, and
all his explanatory remarks were useless.
Hi Iadd was standing near. Hi felt
just as much exasperated as Captain Nc
but he expressed it in different way.
He simply doubled up his lank form till
his head al lmost touched the ground
This mute action was quite as expressive
of disgust as Captain Nc. IS explosives.
1t was all very funny to look at, and
the way Manager McDermott chewed
the rag till the game was over, and is
probably chewing it now, was equally
funny.
They are very hard losers those Fall
Rivers. Prosperity has made them very
sensitive to the unpleasant touch of ad-
versity. The score:
PORTLAND.
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