The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-05-15

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Yesterday 1t was different.
You may have heard about it, The
P6rtlands didn't ''swat'' the ball, they
did MT run bases, the man in the box was
h:t at will and for ochre ooIored
mu,cilage hued, low down fielding pro-
fes Sonal ball team couldn't have done
worse.
In cidentally We didn t beat Fall River,
and We wouldn't,have gr:eyed about that
if tn. ire had been the weakest kind of
bluff put up.
However, let US trust that Thursday
was oil U bad day; that all tho errors and
all the dumb base running and those
other painful heart breaking things,
which alN part and parcel of baseball,
were for the next two weeks, There were
certainly q nou2h for that. The contrast
between the game played yesterday and
the one played the day before, is as the
difference between mud and champagne;
between a alcudless day at noon in July
and the Ho osao tunnel at midnight, be-
tween a rain bow and a kettle of tar; be-
tween-why draw further comparisons,
words hardly express it anyway.
In the first place Portland presented a
weaker team than they did the day be-
fore, and, Fall River was appreciabIy
stronger.
Duncan suits as catcher and he is a
rafting good hitter, but Henry Long
follows picture was of about as much
service in right field as he.
Klobedan7 on the other hand is better
pitcher and much better hitter than
Lincoln.
But the difference wasn't enough, SO
but what we could have won all right by
putting up the Same kind of game as
we did the day before.
Woods was hit very freely, especially in
the last part of the game, but his support
was most discouraging, and this to a
young player counts good deal.
Let it be unders TODD right here that
these remarks, which may be constructed
to be of slightly derogatory nature, ap-
ply only to yesterdays game. We haven't
the slightest doubt now any more than
we did after Wednesdays game that as
far as fielding qualities go we have the
| fastest infeld IN the league.
The errors, were, many of them hard
chances, and they seemed to pile up on
one another with nasty frequency, as
baseball errors and other kind of errors
too for that matter, wial often do.
They must come and it Is much better
to have them come all one day. 1t is a
10y to know that they are out of the
way; that they are not hanging over us
like thunder cloud, and keeping US
worrying all the time.
One roy of brightness did pierce all
this murkeness, and that was the way
Jack Leighton played centre field.
Unfortunately as we are fixed now he
has to be right field and left field as well
as centre field, and he plays all three
better than the whole three do on some
teams.
jack never did better work than he has
in the last three games and that is eaying
a good deal.
A game never started out in finer shape
than that one of yesterday.
Slater hit a beautiful single, stole
second. went to third on Rupert's wild
throw, and came home on Leighton's hit
to MoDermott.
Duucan's muff after a long run,
aided by three singles were the means
of couple of TALES for the opposition.
Another came along in the fifth on
singles by Lajoie and Lyons and errors
by Woods and Musser.
More errors and hits IN the fifth de-
veloped another.
Portland's half of the fifth was the
golden opportunity to win or at least tie
tho score, and it was allowed to go by.
It was heartbreaking to see it go, hut it
went, and from thence forward unkind
1 fortune turned her tickle face away and
we were out OF it. The bases were filled
with no one out, by singles by Donovan
and Duncan, and four balls to Magoon
A most satisfactory condition of affairs
when the margin against you is small
and hopes are high and the game is
young. Cavanaugh hit to Reilly, who
fumbled just enough to let Donovan score
and leave matters in the same condition
they were before with respect to filed
bases.
Woods.hit fly. to Hiram Ladd which the
lengthy citizen from Mt. Hope bay pulled
OUT of the circumambient atmosphere
and let drive for the plate, but not in
time to prevent Magoon from scoring.
Duncan was on second, but instead of
going to third he grabbed the bag by
both corners and held himself right
where he was.
Slater singled, aud he went to third,
but he was one bag behind. leighton
pushed fly over towards fat little Mr..
Geier, he of the right lot, and then Dun
can didn't como home, though it did
! seem as though he ought to have taken
, the chance. Freil struck out.
In thu sixth double by Donovan
judiciously combined with single BY
Duncan produced the run which tied the
score, and as he crossed tho plate cold