The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-05-13
VICTORY is OURS.
Bird Of Triumph Perches on Port.
lands Banner.
THE ICE OF DEFEAT Is BROKEN
AT LAST.

Brilliant Work by Jack Leighton in
Centre Field-Lewislon, Pawtucket
and Bangor the Other Winners.
A day deliciously balmy, ball game
which see-sawed back and forth in q
| manner dangerous to people troubled
with heart disease, and supremest delight
| Of all, victory for the home team, these
were the rewards of the faithful, who
| journeyed out to the Deering ball
grounds yesterday.
Who could ask for more?
| 7 I he game was much better than the
one of Monday. 1t was chiefly better be-
catse tho home team won, of course-you
rarely see good ball game when your
own side gets licked-but really there was
ginger and brilliancy in yesterdays con.
| test.
Double plays abounded, and SO did
base hits, and base hits serve to make g
game good to watch, especially if ones
| own people are getting their share Of
them.
Brilliant catches are all right, and
strike outs very fine. especially at cirti-
cal stage of the game, but the one thing
above all that the average rooter loves, is
to see his favorites "swat" the ball, and
to watch the reptile opposition run their
legs off chasing it.
That indeed causes the blood to bound
and surge through their veins and their
vocal organs to play the limit.
But this is dealing in general princi-
ples and not telling of the ball game
which transpired yesterday.
1t WAS q good game, as you
may have gathered from the preceding
remarks, but victury refused to perch on
our banner until the last innings, though
tie old bird, kept fooling US into believing
she was going to oost there.
Mccoy started in to pitch, but before
the inning was over had to give it up.
The boy came here from Kentucky.
and is anxious to succeed, and this fact
itself probably worked against him, for
he certainly was very wild. After he had
given two bases on balls and sent two
more men down by driving the ball into
their ribs, Captain Slater sent him to the
bench, and MoDougall was drafted.
The bases were filed with one out,
when he came in, rather bad position
to put anyone in, but u lucky double play,
prevented any more scoring than the two
Mccoy had been responsible for.
Portland saw these two and went them
one better in the second, but Does
angels raised the age again In the fourth,
scoring two runs, which bases on balls,
were responsible for as much as any
thing.
Musser flied out but Duncan put the
ball out past the flag pole, but on the
right side of that projection, and trotted
around the bases with the run that tied
the score.
Here we were four to four, just what
we quit at yesterday. But thar sort Of
business wasn't to last long.
Tbs Sunday school class from the
virtuous whaling city got to investigat-
ing MoDougall's curves in the sixth and
the COMMITTEES reported three earned runs
as result of their Inquiries.
That margin looked little bit long
whom the way the Portland had been
batting came to be considered, but it had
to be overcome. We say chad to be,'' be-
cause Portland had to win that game
the contrary wasn't to be considered
The lead was overcome, and one run to
the good credited to Portland, in a
singular manner.
Magoon led off with an elegant three
baser, which went out through the gate
in right field and orawled behind the
fence, but which was found and sent
back into the diamond in time to pre-
vent run. There was chance that
Magoon might have scored on it, but NO
one cared very much, for Of course he'd
come in anyway with no one out.
After Woods had flied to Weihl, and
Cavanaugh had struck out, this didn't
look so ''all-flred" sure. McDougall drove
the ball into the air, ind the agony of
despair was pictured in the countenances
of the rooters. Strange to say that this
pop.up fly landed in place where there
were no New Bedford fielders. and was
then just as good as IL it had been line
drive. Then there was another funny
incident. especially funny. because it
helped Portland to win. Slater hit into
the air, and the ball instead of landing
into Steers's hands, who had been making
plans that way. 1t struck McDougall,
who was standing on second base, on the
shoulder. A two base hit by Leighton,
| and errors by Steere and Weihl came
along thereafter, and Portland had scored
four runs for the inning, and the right
| side was one to the good.
But New Bedford wouldn't let II go al
| that. The little Lord Fauntleroy troupe
got after McDougall again in the seventh,
Doe leading off with three Dagger, and
when they got through they had three
| more runs than lots of people wished
| they had.
That this lead was overcome in Port
| lands half of the seventh is due to the
fact simply and solely that Captain
Manager Doe, dropped a fly, which camt