The Portland daily press., 1895-06-25
FIELD OF SPORTS.
Bangor OutpIayed Us all Right in
Yesterdays Game.
BUT ONE RANK DECISION LOST Us
THE GAME.

lt was a QUICK ana curious Oame-Ne
Couldn't Hit and Bangor Could've
Rallied Splendidly in the Eighth Inn
Three Men Were Out-David Mahoney
to be Portland's New Manageable
New Uniforms at Last.
The features of yesterdays game with
Ban gor were Drinkwater's good pitch
ing, Bangor's good fielding, Portland's
poor batting, Leighton home run, and
last but not least, Umpire Miller's rank
decision that gave Bangor three runs
and the game.
The first run of the game was in the
second inn ing. Haywood stepped up and
drove splen did liner over short. 1t
took bad bound by Cannon and went
to the fence Haywood made three bases
Then Hayes brought him in with
single
The next inning was the disastrous
one for Portland. Henry led off with
a hit. O Brion's slow grounder was field
ed beautifully by Magoon and O'Brioni
was nailed at first. Henry meanwhilel
made a break for third There was plenty
of time and Slater threw to Spill on third
who brought down the ball on Henry's
shoulder before he reached the base. 1t
was all done very quickly of course. but
Henry was out fair and square. Then
Miller showed his weakness at critical
point and declared HenIy safe. Judd, the
next hitter died at first. Had Henry
been declared out, that would have closed
scored Then Magoon fumbled Deady's,
hot grounder, and hits by Haywood and
Hayes brought in two more runs; three
in all, after three men were fairly out
1t makes no difference that Miller UNI
pired fairly good game, ex cept that one
decision. A rank decision, like that
may, as in this instance decide the re-
suit. They score one each in the fifth and
sixth, and the score was six to nothing
at the beginning of the eighth.
Up to then we had been mere children
at the bat. For five straight innings it
was one, two three and out. We couldn't
get the ball outside of the diamond. We
didn't see first base for five innings.
Think of that. Drinkwater was pitch
ing splendid game But the fact that
he only struck out Sullivan and Corbett
would seem to show that we were batting
in very weak form indeed.
AT last in the eighth, something hap
pened. The Fates took pity upon us, or
else Drinkwater did, for he gave Cannon
his first on balls. How the crowd
cheered What a delight it was to see
a brown man on first again.
Corbett flied out And then, glory
hallelujah Killeen, the tail ender of our
first time that had happened for five
innings, and it scared far over the felders
heads and brought up against the fence
in deep right centre. killeen took three
bases Cannon trotted in of course
Then Sill died at first, but Killeen scored.
Slater raped out a clean single.
"Put it over the fence, shouted some
body, and everybody echoed the wish as
Jack Leighton stepped to the plate. And
Jack rose to the emergency. The ball
sailed over into the top of that tree
close to the fence in right field and it did
not bound back this time 1t went
through and over the fence.
What cheers and yells and rejoicing
1t is such events as this, such heroic
feats of arms in the crisis of the battle
that makes baseball SO worthy Of enthu-
siasm
We had four runs for that inning, and
though we got no more, we had made a
splendid dash for victory. OF course
Jack Leighton was worshipped if the
human voice is able to express worship.
We hoped for two more runs in the
last inning to tie the score, but it was
no to be. Magoon hit feebly to shortstop
Big Sullivan had been rubbing his hands
in the dirt and gritting his teeth. He
had struck out twice ali ready, and he
swore by all that was good and great
including himself, that he wouldn't strike
out again in this time of need.
But hitting is not his strong point, ex-
cept on rare occasions. He struck out for
the third time, and then Cannon struck
out and all was over. The score:
BANGORS