The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-27

gor Duplicates Our Score Against Au-
gusta-Fan River aud New Bedford
Win.
Our ball team went down before the
rejuvenated Lewistons yesterday, though
1T took until the last inning for the
funereal clad cotton weavers to score the
winning run.
There have been various causes ascribed
for yesterdays defeat, but to our mind
there is only ono, and that is that II AIRY
Killesn didn't pitch his game and went
to pieces in the last inning, which was
the critical part of the contest.
We batted Grandpa Morse for
fourteen hits, which is considerably
mo- re than teams have been averaging off
this Oldest settler. and made considerably
less errors than the visitors, so what
the use of talking about our errors or our
stick work.
Of course if we had made no errors we
would have won, and then again, if
Lewiston had made no errors, they would
have beaten us more than they did, SO
there you are.
As matter of fact Portland play ed in
pretty good luck, flelded fairly well and
lost simply because they were outbatted.
And right here again, let rs say, that
that is liable to occur again.
1t is'a pretty stiff lot Of stickers they
have got together up there in the rural
districts, and don't be surprised if they
do go in and bat out game often.
Then again as we have snid, Killeen
had no speed apparently, and made the
mistake of lobbing the ball up to such
gentlemen as Paddy Shea and Tom Shee-
han, and nothing delights their hearts
more.
Killeen has won his share of the gam es
for the Portland team this year, and that
he had an off day is perhaps not surpris-
ing, though. perhaps, for choice, we
wonid rather he wouldn t select Lewiston
when he has to have them; though,
poor things, they do need games badly
enough.
The game opened brightly enough for
Portland. and the homo players got af ter
Pa" Morse wickedly with the stick,
which must have reminded the old man
of the time whom he played on the old
Sugar Swamp deestrict' team, and the
Hobbstown aggregation batted him out of
the box and won 10 to 414.
In the first two innings, it was a case
of crack; and away the ball would go,
the visitors seasoning the fielding by
droppi ng in an error here and there.
The result was that we had five runs
in these two innings.
Lewiston had not been idle however,
and had earned couple on single by
Sheehan, followed by Fitzmaurc e's
Sacrifice I.ippert's double and Captain
Flannagan's single
Then we stopped scoring for three in
nings, and Lewiston didn't forget to
Iile up couple of runs in the meantime.
But in the sixth the men in white, or
what was white two years ago, began to
feel OF Father Morse IS curves again. 1t was
here that killeen came very near winning
his game, for with Musser and
Cayana1gh on bases by singles, he drove
the ball over the right field fence to the
extent of home run.
There was considerable hard hitting on
both sides after that, and when the ninth
inning opened there were Dineruns for
we uns' and nine for ''they uns."
Magoon made good start by leading
off with single. Duncan hit to Morse
and was thrown out, advancing Magoon.
O'Rourke flied to FitzmaCrice who
stopped the ball in its flight and threw
to Miller catching Magoon off second.
The Prohibitionists in blaok-Lewiston
is prohibition city now-came up. 1t
was desperate case. Either. it was
case of getti ng licked or ten Ginning
game, and it didn't look much like ten
inning game. Killeen was very I'M
steady, and sent Shea and L1ppert down
on bad balls. Flanagan was next up
and hit a very peach at Kflleen's feet. 1t