The Portland daily press., 1895-07-04
THE FIELD OF SPORT.
How the Villagers We're Showed
Under.
BY THEIR OWN ERRORS AND OUR
HEAVY HITTING.

The Score Was 1S to and the Errors IL
to in Portland's Favor-Sp1endid
Pitching by Sullivan-Games Are Three
All in Portland-Lewiston Series-To-
days Games Settle the Leadership.
The first inning of yesterdays game
with Lewiston on the home grounds will
practically tell the story of the game and
of Portland's S prowess and Lewiston S un-
mitigated defeat.
Brooks, a new pitcher, was in the box
for Lewiston, when Portland went to the
bet at the start-off. Brooks is a stout
little man and throws speedy tall, but
he was wild as hawk. Captain Slater
coolly waited for four, as he is sure to do
if the pitcher is at all weak in his aecu-
racy. He stole second of course. Then
Leighton raped a hot one. Brooks tried
to stop it, but only spoiled it for Grant.
Leighton beat the ball out at first, but
Grant threw SO hurriedly that the ball
went wild and Slater came home. Leigh
ton stole second and third. Goodhart
waited for four When he started for
second, Crisham then threw wild and
Leighton scored, while Goody took third
and came home on Magoon's clean single.
Terrien waited for four and little Ped
Webster, who was taking Spills place at
short, drove the ball for two bags into
right field Thus we had four runs and
two men on bases and nobody out
Brooks was taken out of the box and
Williams, formerly a Bowdoin college
pitcher, was substituted. His first ball
hit Dockerty and the bases were filled.
Then Corbett sent an easy one to Gill at
short, and our former second baseman
made such an outrageous tumble that the
crowd groaned with disgust, even though
it resulted in two more runs for Port
land.
Big Mike Sullivan struck out in that
weak looking foolish way of his, that
causes such surprise at the splendid result
when he does hit the ball. Cannon had
come in on bad throw by Crisham, and
Corbett was on third.
Captain Slater came to the bat for the
second time in the inning and raped out
a single, bringing in Corbett, our eighth
run for the inning. Leighton went out
at first, Goodhart flied out and the torrent
of runs was stemmed at last. We ha6
made eight runs on three bases on balls
one hit by pitched ball, four hits and foul
errors There was but one earned run
What a contrast was Lewiston S half O.
the inning Big Sullivan, our stal
pitcher, threw just ten of those cannon
and Lewiston three best hitters were
struck out, one after the other Foul
pitched balls retired Flack. Leblanc anG
Slattery, the ex-National leaguers
succumbed to just three balls each. L
was magnificent pitching, the best thins
season, and not surpassed, we venture tt
say in the whole league. In the last o
the second inning Sullivan had two
strikes on Grant before he flied out, 81
that he had made the remarkable recort
OF pitching no less than ten strikes il
Lewiston team.
That first inning illustrates the game
We could hit Williams and they coult
not Sullivan. We played a good game
They fielded very poorly.
We kept getting runs, and they kept
getting struck out and felded out and
shut out. In the eighth, doubles by
Webster and Cannon, who had replaced
Dockerty in left, an error by Crisham,
singles by Sullivan and Slater, and a
double by Leighton netted us four runs
three of them earned.
They really didn't deserve even the two
that they did get In the fifth, after
Leblanc had struck out for the third time,
Slattery, who had recovered very quickly
from Sulliyan's s successful attack in the
first, and who had got clean hit in the
third, waited for four balls, and after
Grant had struck out, took third OF
Mains's hit to centre field Two were
out, yet Jack Leighton gave another evi
dence of that culpable carelessness that
he has exhibited lately. He didn't field
the ball in at all, but held it in his hands
and "Slat" run home, as cleverly and
swiftly as any sly fox, almost before
Leighton had thrown. The ball didn't
reach the home plate at all. We scored
that play, or absence of play an error. be-
cause it was an error, if ever there wa.
one. The next man, Gill, flied out and
there would have been no runs that in
ming, but for the above extraordinary
slowness on Leighton's part
In the eighth Williams hit the ball fail