The Portland daily press., 1895-09-03

Portland, Q | l ~
Earned runs-Portland g. Two base
hit-Magoon. Stolen bases-Leighton,
Rupert. Double plays-Reagan and
O'Connell Bases on balls-By Sullivan,
Shea; by Williams, leighton, Terrlen
and Spill Hit by pitched ball-Gilbert.
Struck out-By Sullivan, Rupert,
Reagan, Williams, Flack Q; by Williams,
Spill: Terrien and Sullivan. Wild pltcn le,,
p hours. Umpfre-Bradley.
Notes of the Game.
The Portlands play at Lewiston today;
at Bangor Wednesday and Thursday, and
| at Augusta Friday and Saturday. The
league season closes next Saturday. There
is the postponed game of last Saturday to
be played off with Lewiston, and then
the league is over for this year.
According to the schedule adopted, the
first game of the Maine State series will
take place here with Bangor next Mon
day. while Augusta begins at Lewiston
on the same date.
Flack made wonderful catch in the
first. Captain Slater drove the first ball
pitched so high into the air that it fell
just inside of left field fence. Had it been
sent little lower it would have gone
over. Flack got there and got it just as
he ran into the fence
The next minute O'Connell made a
fine play. Shea threw Skaters grounder
very high but O'Connell went into the
air and stopped it, but didn't hold it. He
caught it when it came down, just in
time
When Magoon came to the bat for the
first time in theIsecond inning, he was
presented with handsome gold watch
and chain. He responded by driving the
ball for fine line hit for two bases to
the left field fence. The big crowd was
very much delighted and clapped and
roared tremendously. when Jack Corbett
rose to the emergency and brought Ma
COON. home with clean single to centre.
Magoon certainly deserves this handsome
recognition from his friends and every
body was glad to ee.him get it. He is as
conscientious as he is brilliant in his
work on the diamond. The word shirk
isn't in Macs vocabulary. He is booked
for the big league if he continues to i'm
prove at the same gait that he's struck
this summer.
Magoon made very bad error in the
second, which after his brilliant two
Dagger, on demand, serves to show the
uncertainties of baseball. Pettee tried to
steal second and Terrien threw the ball
out to Leighton, who drove it to third on
line. 1t got there long before Pettee,
but Magoon made square muff. How
ever, Pettee was shut off at home by
Spills fine handling of Shea's grounder.
Reagan's left hand stop and catch of
Skaters base hit over second was a feat
ure of the game He had plenty of time
to throw to first. A minute after he
dropped Skaters grounder that was right
in his hands.
Just before the fifth inning began
Killeen was called out and presented
with fine umbrella. Killeen has done
good work in the box and at the bat, and
his very acceptable present gave general
satisfaction.
Slater was unlucky in his hitting.
Twice he drove trem endous sky scrapers
into left, but Flack got under them and
Reagan's phenomenal stop of his
grounder over second was mentioned
above.
Sullivans error was in the seventh in
ming. Pettee popped up little fly be-
tw cen home and the box. Sullivan
shouted that he'd take 1T. but Magoon
came rushing up and scared him and he
dropped it. Immediately afterward both
amply redeemed this error Sullivan
caught Pettee off first and Magoon closed
the inning by q magnificent stop of
Shea's hot grcunder that ordinarily
would have been hit between third and
short.
During the first of the eighth, Reagan
made another splendid stop. Spills hot
grouuder was pretty close to second, but
Reagan got it. Coming right after Ma
goon's equally fine stop, it made the
crowd very enthusiastic.
Near the last of the game, as was to BIZ
expected with such a large crowd, the
usual oommotion took place down in
front of the left field benches The Deer
ing police had u prisoner and they
handled the crowd better than last time,
or else the toughs have learned discretion
with experience Soon two Of the Deering
officers emerged from the crowd with
struggling drunk, while the other officers
kept - the crowd back. Because the
drunk was small, or possibly because he
was drunk there was d good deal Of
sympathy for him Kisses long and
loud greeted the officers from the
bleachers, and the grand stand. Kisses
What for? just because they had arrested
a drunk, who was creating disturbance.
Would officers be Kissed anywhere else
except on that ball ground for arresting a
drunk? 1t is this tough element of the
baseball contingent that causes whatever
there is of disreputa bleness to our
fascinating and admirable national game.
Those Kisses yesterday, and they were
many and loud, were not creditable,
either to Portland or to baseball
The Portland battery at Lewiston to-
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