The Portland daily press., 1895-05-18
FIELD OF SPORTS.
The Foolish Eighth, Not the Bloody
Seventh.

We Went to Pieces After We'd Won the
Game-It Wasn't Jack Daniels Fault
Neither Was 1t Frank Spills. a Good
Game UpSto the Eighth-Then They
Got Six Runs-Not One of Them
| Earned.
| 1t WI 8 fine game of ball mp to the eighth
| inning. Both Daniels and Fuller were hold
ing their ground well and lighting every
inch. They got one earned run in the first
and were held down to that and five scat
tered hits. When the fatal seventh was
| passed in safety we all breathed easier and
| felt secure. for we were three runs ahead,
| having captured two each in the second
and third innings by hits and errors and
good base running. None of the runs were
earned, however. Everybody was as sure
of the game for portlands they were of
eating supper after it was over, not except
ing the Brocktons themselves. The eight
began with Stockhouse at the Dat. His foul
| fly remained In Goodhart's glove and lone
is OUT shouteds that irrepressible back
| stop. Then Capt. SIaters lame leg must
have given him a twinge for he made a
| square muff and Nadeau was on first base
and the landslide had begun. Then Jack
Daniels evidently misunderstood Good
hearts sign, for he pitched big out curve
and Goodheart's bare right fingers were
| tingling from it ss he rushed back to the
grand stand after the runaway ball. From
| the enegetic remarks and the expression of
| his countenanoe it was easy to see that he
hadn't been expecting that out curve. But
whether he had or not, Petit reached third
| on one of the very few bassed balls of the
season, by brown catcher on the Portland
grounds.
Buckley sent hot one right down to
third base. Magoon had it back home again
so quickly that Nadeau was caughtsbetween
| the bases and was!run to earth in no time.
1t looked we'll and Slater's error was re-
deemed, apparently. But Buckley was on
| first and France. who had been hit by the
| ball. Just before him WAS on second.
Two were out. everything was lovely.
| when Dove sent an easy one down to Ma.
! COON. He threw wild. France came home,
Buckley took third and the bases were full.
and then Lawson,s two bagger over Web
ster's head brought in Buckley and Dove.
1t did look as though Ted Webster might
have got under that two bagger. however,
the sun must have been right in his eyes.
| Miller sent an easy groundeT down to Ma
COON. who made his second error of the
inning by throwing 1t over Slater's head,
instead of holding the ball an infant and
| tagging Lawson, who came rushing up from
second, within a few. feet of him.
| OF course Lawson went home. Miller
reached third on the error. In jumping for
! the wild throw Slater hurt that leg of his
and McManus took his place. Charlie Willis
| came o the bat with blood in his eyes. He
drove The first one for two bases, so that it
hit the fence beside the big elm tree. An
other run came in. The spectators were
speee bless with dismay By this time. Be-
sides they had exhausted all their express
sions of surprise and disgust. They bad
nothing to say. They just let things take
their course, andtake it they did. Petit
drove a warm one through McManus, and
stackhouse another through Magoon This
third error for the inning). Six runs had
come in and then Daniels struck out
Nadeau and the slaughter was over.
But it WAS slaughter that annihils ted.
There was no life left in us and in our last
inning we simply struggled spasmodically
| and died.
That extraordinary eighth inning showed
| five errors and two base hits.
| There is no use in trying to explain, un-
| less it is a relapse of the weakness that We
were recover ing from this week. II is TO be
| hoped that this relapse will be the last one.
The score:
BROCKTON.