The Portland daily press., 1895-08-21

p ortland, 0 0 4 0 o-6
Earned runs-Pawtucket 1 Portland l.
Two base hits-Spill and Slater. Three
base hits-Barton. Stolen bases-Hannl,,
van, Davis, Yeager q Barton ana
Whiting and leighton. Double plays
Davis and Lang, Yeager and MD Davis and
Leighton; by Yerrick, Hannivan 2 and
Lang. Hit by pitched ball-Whitlling.
Struck out - BY Sullivan, Shaffer,
O'Rourke, Spill 2; by Yerrick, Waldron,
Barton, Daley 2, Whiting, Davis 2,
Yeager Sullivan. Passed ball-Yeager
Time of game-2 hours Is minutes.
Umpire-Cray. Attendance-6O0.
Notes of the Game.
The Old Dominions defeated the Torels
by score of to yesterday. The feature
of the game was the fine throws OF
Flaherty.
The Pawtuckets will play here again
today Sullivan will pitch for Portland.
If he strikes out nine of them as YerrlcK
did yesterday, Well be satisfied, anu he
will probably hold them down to less
hits. Terrien will catch him. Meakln
will probably pitch for Pawtucket Game
called at 8. Is.
If a man can't bunt, he shouldn't try
| it. Shaffer hunted out yesterday. Some
how that looks more discouraging to the
crowd than when man strikes out. 1t
really requires more skill to bunt
effectively than to bat effectively.
1t did look as if Jack Leighton was
rather slow about that low hit over
second yesterday. But it should be re-
membered that JACK is much better
Judge of flies than the crowd are. He
has lazy manner out there sometimes.
That is simply an idiosyncrasy hes
pretty liable to get under fly when 1t is
possible, and he is pretty liable to know
just when it is possible.
In the first, when Frank Spill came to
the bat, he was presented with a hand
some valise; at least it was presumably
handsome one, but was wrapped in brown
paper SO that only its shape could Do
seen. Frank responded with such hard
hit grounder that it bounded SO high that
though Daley reached it, he couldn't
catch Frank at first. Leighton came Ill
on the scratch hit, but O'Rourke who
tried to follow, was nabbed at the plate.
Pawtucket nearly had run in the
first. Two were out and Davis was on
first. Yeager drove nice hit out to
Leighton, who threw it back to Corbett
Davis tried to come in from third, but
was nabbed at home just in time.
In the third, after Pawtucket had made
two scores and two were out, they got
another score, because of very bad
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sent a high fly out towards Shaffer. Spill
ran for it and kept Shaffer back. 1t fell
between them and Davis scored. Shaffer
! was slow in not taking it in spite of
Spill, as he might easily have DONE
/ 1t looked rather bad for Portland in the
fourth After Waldron was out, Barton
drove beauty for three bags over
Shaffer's head. The latter didn't quite
Judge it and had he started quicker might
have reached it, but it was a hard one to
Judge. Sullivan came up and sent a
grounder to Corbett, who lined i5 home
and shut off Barton at the plate Then
Terrien made fine catch of Lang's foul
and the dangerous inning was over.
Barton's catch of Skaters big fly, was
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was the biggest sky scrapper for a long
time. 1t was higher than the big elm
tree, and dropped right straight down
Just inside the fence in right centre.
Barton got there just in time and held il.
i Yerrick did splendid work in the fifth.
! Pawtucket was one score ahead and be-
gan the inning at the head of the batting
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swift quick curves Then Hannivan
waited for four. Davis came up. He is
likely to drive out three-bagger any
time, and everybody was worried.
Yerrick struck him out At the same
time Hannivan started for second.
Terrien made bad throw and Hannivan
reached third Then Yerrick struck out
Yeager, the third man for the inning.
Sullivan did almost as we'll in the next
inning. Shsffer went out to first.
Leighton singled, stole second and
reached third on Yeager's poor throw.
Then he was held right there by Sulli-
vans striking out o. Rourke and Spill
In the fatal ninth inning, Corbett was
as much to blame as Spill for that extra
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slow hit down between first and second
might have been captured, had Corbett
started in time 1t was too bad to let that
slow grounder count for a hit
Shaffer was certainly not in the game
yesterday. He was in what ball players
call trance" that is, he was slow. He
ought to have taken that fly that fell be-
tween him and Spill 1t was his ball and
he could easily have taken it. He shouted
to Spill to let it alone. Then when he
hunted out, making three futile attempts
to bunt the ball, and when he stopped,
after driving hot one to Daley, instead
of starting full speed for first, he showed
that he was decidedly not in the game.
Ball players have those off days once in
q while.
At Camden yesterday the Warrens de-
feated Camden Is to 8.
AT AUGUSTA.
Augusta, August 20. Augusta won in
the fifth today, on five successive hits,
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