The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-07-17


Every Point and Well Deserved Their
Victory-The New Men Made a Good
Showing and Everybody Tried Hard to
Win-Auspicious Beginning of the
Home Games.
Despite the gruesome weather yesterday
and the still gruesome prospect as to the
interest of the game, quite respectable
number of enthusiasts welcomed the
battered and bruised and generally de-
moralized Portland team at the Deering
grounds.
Perhaps it was because of a desire to
see the new men, or perhaps because
hope springs eternal in the human breast
or still more likely, because there is
certain number of cranks in every New
England city who will attend ball game
under any circumstances They were all
very happily disappointed yesterday, be-
cause although theoretically battered and
bruised as to their winning abilities and
physically manned in the same way there
is still plenty of winning material in the
Portland team. The game was not only
splendid victory for Portland, but a
splendid gam to watch.
"You work, today, Killeen,' said
Manager Leonard, before the game,
| meaning that Kileen was to pitch, but If
that statement had been a special COM
mand to every Portland player, as well as
Killeen, to work hard for victory, they
couldn't have worked harder.
| Kelley was in the box for Pawtucket.
The game began with Spill at the bat.
He died at first Shaffer, our new left
| fielder, waited for four Leighton did the
| same thing, but was caught at second on
o Rourke's grounder. Goodhart had a
chance to bring in two runs, but he
simply died at first, after a feeble hit to
pitcher.
The next two innings were similarly
discouraging. Leighton got one hit but
that did no good.
Pawtucket got two runs in those three
innings, by virtue of five hits with total
of seven, and an error by O'Rourke One
of these was a magnificent drive by Davis
to the centre field. 1t hit the fence Def ore
touching the ground, and bounded back
so that he got but two bases. Our hope
of victory was even more dubious than
the weather. But it didn't rain after all
and we did win after all. We braced up
in the fourth. Goodhart inspired ev cry
body by sending a beautiful home run
over right field fence. Corbett hit safely
and one of Killeen's splendid long drives,
good for three bases, brought in Terrier
after Corbett was nabbed at second on
Terrien's grounder.
"We want two more this time,'' shouted
Goody, at the beginning of the fifth and
we got two more on hits by Shaffer and
| o Rourke and errors by Waldron and
Hanniyan
We were two ahead but nobody dared to
hope for victory yet That was too good
to be true. In Pawtucket's half of the
fifth every crank was glad that he didn',
allow himself to hope for victory, for
Frank Spills hoodoo put its ghoulish
presence in evidence so strongly that
every fprouting hope was nipped in the
bud as effectually as Jack Frost's efforts
| in similar direction.
| Kelly went out at first Waldron waited
for four. Whiting was struck out How
the hopes did begin to sprout in the
breasts Of Portland cranks at about that
time. Two ahead and it looked as if we
could hold the lead Then Hannivan was
hit and there were two on bases. Davis
hit an easy bounder to Frank Spill, and
the hoodoo came and blighted the delicate
hopes and the ball went through Spills
hands and far out into the field and
Waldron came nome from second and
Hannivan took third and then Daley,
who didn't look as if he would ever think
of such thing Gas indeed he didn't be-
fore or after) raped out pretty single
and Hannivan came in and the score was
tied again, and all the hopes were frost
bitten and there was something almost
superstitious in the general remark that
that settled it and the game was gone up,
etc.
But the boys kept right on working.
That brace of brave hearted workers,
Terrien and Goodhart didn't lose courage
for minute. No hoodoo could scare
them.
And so the game went on and we kept
getting more and more familiar with
Kelley's curves and apparently the hoodoo
discovered that it had no business with
us after ALL Terrien and Goodhart must
have scared it away for it went and
perched on the banners of Pawtucket
and the way they began to make errors
was an edifying spectacle.
In the eighth Spill got his first hit
Skaters grounder went through Davis,
and Spill took third. Barton tried to
catch Shaffer at second, but threw high
and Spill came home Leighton waited
for four again, and when Barton tried to
catch him at second he threw high again
and Shaffer came in. Leighton went to
third and came in on O'Rourke's sacri-
| fee.