Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-06-29

,c zoe Cohnor IS putt i, Great game
| accurate. throwing. ssE
One OF the finest, ca6kes seen on the
home grounds. this SahSoA, WAS made by
Flack in deep centeE fhrda. Afternoon
A feature IF lhsg game sas Doherty' $
bases in.ipns g4seE is certainly record
| to be prouSs1f 49,
3. Fail River Hlobe: In the seventh Doe
3old DaXlyghere to pitch to fool Lajoic.
sa ao GSss f hsmn ssR5aP ( IL
Picketttta fielding and batting in his old
time tornL.He is covering lots of ground
and doing some hard and timely hitting.
From this time forth some gilt-edged
work may be expected of him.
Lewis&en Journal: Why don't some of
the newspapers give Lewiston a show for
the pehnant. We are coming and are
only four games short of a place in the
first position. This is Il close watz-this
penn:lnt race.
Brockton Times: Yeager has his own
troubles. He lost bat yesterday and
he marched over the grounds with an all
conqucring hero tread and with fire in
his eye. The crowd had fun with him.
but iie found the bat.
Thcre is no good reason why the home
team should not win, three out of the next
four games if it.,plays up TO Its mark.
One thing Is certain, it has not been as
strong in all departments at any time
this season, as IL is now.
Just look at the New England League
standing, and note how the teams are
punched. It's nobody's fight yet. There
is ample opportunity for the last to be-
come first: andsthe first become last, be-
fore the close of the season.
Pickett made a magnificent catch of a
foul fly in the seventh inning but was so
SLOW in fielding the ball home that II man
WAS enabled to score from second base
after the put out. Dave was in error in
r. mar ha
out.
Tho Pawtuckets say that at least three
of their defeats in Maine should have
been Victories, but for unfortunate COM
binations of circumstances which arose
at critical times. The boys say they will
give the Maine clubs "A warm reception
when they strike their stamping grounds.
We, would call the attention Of some of
Lewistons batted hilIeen, Portland $
crack pitcher. and one of the acknowi-
edged stars of this league for IL with "A
Augusta pitcher been batted as hard as
that?
Augusta beat us handily the two games
of their last series here and showed an
evident superiority of fielding and hit
ting. This series. they have played with
out snap and have been beaten from the
start. Either our team is much stronger
or Augusta is on the slump. -Lewiston
play up to its mark in those Lewiston
games, but--there are others.
The Fall River papers will undoubtedly
account for the defeat by saying that
their team was patched up. since Kloby
played first and the 1ielders were shifted
around to suit the sOccasion.-New Bed
ford Mercury Not much. neighbors. If
memory serves. us right. even the New
| Bedford team has had an off day now
and then and is accused by the newspa-
pers OF that town of amateur playing
no pitcher in the business gets through
! without being batted hard once in a
Whitehall River Herald.
Lewiston Journal: by sheer luck" is
the Bangor Commercials headline rela-
tive to the Bangor Portland game
Portland it says. has no license 10
win from us Well. I4don,t know 1t
seems TO us that anyxteams has q license
to win from any Other team in this
! lsaEue our team Mt Bangor won on.
Z gie GOOD luck: befn4 outplayed in every
~. Only nine man tNns play at one
3 &e in any one GAM Recdusc YOU nay
] ~ Tor Sii0 men doesynet make them any
{Ater. There are people 50 foolish as to