The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-07-05
THE FIELD OF SPORT.
Beaten in Both Games Yester-
day.
LEWISTON RETALEATES FOR OUR
TRIUMPH OF WEDN ESDAY.

mere Is no comfort For US-N othIng Can
be Said in Extenu ation--We've Got
Some First Glass Men, Also We've Got
Something Was Done to strengthen
Weak Spots and Remove Sources of
Defeat.
The forenoon's game with Lewiston on
the Deering grounds was a display of
very weak hitting by Portland and I'M
satisfactory play in every way. The large
audience was disguised with the home
club.
In the first inning Slater waited for
four, stole second, and got third on a
passed ball. Leighton sent grounder to
Gill and Slater made splendid break
for home and slide that scored a run
and called forth immense applause.
Leighton took second on the attempted
put-out and came in after Slattery had
caught Magoon's big fly.
They tied the score in the second as fol-
lows: Grant sent short, high fly out
over second. base. Leighton was lazy
again and allowed it to fall to the
ground. 1t had to be scored hit. The
crowd is getting weary of this sort of
thing and Leighton was quite extensive
~ Kissed. He lifted his cap in acknowl-
edgement Then Mains was given his
first, Grant stole third and came home on
most unexpected and unusual play by
Terrien. He had a passed ball. OF course
that might happen, though it was SUE
prise. But it rolled only a little way and
Terrrien might have thrown to Killeen
and shut off Grant, but for some unac-
countable reason he didn't throw. Also
in that same inning, after Mains got sec
ond on the passed ball and thind by Cor
belts tumble of Maegher's grounder,
Terrien threw wild to catch Meagher at
second and Mains came home. 1t was a
bad inning for Leighton and Terrien.
However it will take a good many such
mistakes on your part, Terry, for anyone
to lose confidence in you. After those
two innings neither side scored till the
eighth. In the third Killeen led off with
a fine two Dagger, a liner into centre
field Slater was hit by the ball. Here
was Leighton chance to redeem himself.
He struck at the ball as if he didn't care
whether he hit it or not. Perhaps he was
actually doing his best. Even if he was,
it was very poor hitting. He popped up
little foul and went out. Killeen and
Slater were advanced base by a wild
pitch. Leblanc captured Goodhart' S
grounder and caught Killeen at home.
Slater and Goodhart were advanced a
base and the situation was just the same
as before, only two men were out. Then
Magoon flied out to Slattery. A base hit
was all one wanted but it didn't come.
Almost the same narrowing loss Of pos
sible runs occurred in the fifth Corhett
waited for four, stole second and took
third on Crisham's poor throw to catch
him. Killeen struck out. Slater waited
for four for the second time and of
course stole second. Leighton again had
a chance to bring in two runs with a
base hit He sent a little grounder to
the infeld and Corbett was run down be-
tween home and third Goodhart sent a
pop fly to shortstop and again we couldn It
spell able.
In the sixth Magoon led off with only
the second hit of the game for us He
stole second, but was too rash and was
caught trying to steal third. Terrien
waited for four and was sacrificed to Sec
ond by Webster. Again base hit was
all we wanted Cannon sent pop fly to
Grant.
In the seventh we came very near win
ming the game. Killeens big fly to right
was misiudged by Mains, so badly that
it was pulpable error. Killeen reached
second Then Captain Slater gritted his
teeth and made splendid bid for home
run. The ball went tremendous dis
lance into the air and fell just inside the
left field fence. Flack made a splendid
catch. Then Leighton came to the bat
and apparently tried to do something He
sent big foul over right field fence, just
outside the post. Then he struck out.
In the eighth we got an earned run by
Goodhart's hit, the third and last of the
game for us, his steal of second and Ma
gOOu SdCrlllC6 WulCn S61U lli1l w uiiilu.
He came home on Terrien's scientifically
skilful bunt towards first base. Viau got
the ball. but threw wild to first and Ter
rien was first.
This run put us ahead, the score was
three to two and the enthusiasm of the
audience was tremendous.
All this time the Lewistons had been
hitting much better than we had, but
hadn't been able to score, except in that
fatal second as mentioned. In the first
they were retired by a magnificent ex-
hibition of the fine points of the game.
Flack led off with a clean two-bagger
and was sacrificed to third by Leblanc.
Then Slattery drove hot one to Web
ster at short. The little Portland man
kept a cool head and worked the two run
ners beautifully. He sent Flack back
to third by feint, and caught Slattery