The Portland daily press., 1896-07-17
MISSED DOUBLE PLAY.
Single Error Lost for Portland
Yesterday.
PITCHER KLOBEDANZ'S USUAL
LUCK FOLLOWS HIM.

seven runs Mhue aIher SIDE should nave
Been Standardization Loses, Bangor
Wins and Augusta Breaks Even With
Pawtucket.
The slight hopes that were born in the
souls of the Portland lovers of baseball
by Wednesdays game, were again stifed,
choked to death, not allowed to get their
growth, By yesterdays performance.
We Portland people are not permitted
to become hopeful very long, and though
hope springs eternal. as they say, it is
eternally getting choked in a baseball
way in this town.
Young Mr.. Bone made the error which
lost Yesterdays game, though to tell the
truth that error needn't have been the
throw down it proved to be if stimuli
taneausly Pitcher Killeen hadn't lost his
| heart.
1t has como to be that we expect ore
bad inning from Killeen. There seems
to be period when in each contest III
which he officiates, when the hard
hittors Of the opposition open on him
without mercy, Smash the ball hither
and yon at their own sweet will, and
thereafter we enjoy the spectacle of
seeing our party play IN up hill game
which oftener than not proves adoWn hill
affnir.
We wish Kileen wouldn' t do it,; but
then what's tbs use of wishing. Its so
much easier to wish for thingsJ than it
is to get them, that the better way is to
go after them. We had to faos klobedanz
in yesterdays game. and that is some-
thing of q handicap to start with, though
it needn't be half as often as it is.
The visitors didn't score in tho first two
innings while we laid up q couple of
TALES for our rainy day. The sun shone
brightly. the air was cool ami balmy, the
sky~blue, sand happiness dwelt in the
solus Of I'll the rooters.
But the third inning all this was de-
faced by the dark and gloomy gloom of
dispair.
Then we had hopes; thereafter we only
wondered how badly we would get licked
and how long tile game would be, or
whether the Populists would endorse
Bryan for President, or whether Arthur
Sewall would be elected.
1t STATED in with Stevens at the bat
who lead off with single Klobedanz
came up and patted the ball safely again.
Then McDermott said he would stay and
Clipped one and Stevens scored.
Kiileen quickly filed tho vacant sack
by Issuing pass to Geier. Hiram Laid
struck cut. and then came the chance we
were looking for. Lajoie hit an easy one
to Bone, and there was plenty of time
for double play, but the polo wonder
played pass between his two hands Just
enough for run to be scored and afill
only one out. Then came Il double by
Kennedy and Bone got another. This he
threw low and once more there's run.
Well as this story must all DO told in this
issue it is useless to so on. The hase hits
came in aggravated clusters, and eight
scores had to be hung up on the board
when it was all over.
That spoiled the interest in the game.
We were traitors for the remainder of the
afternoon, and people began to look at
their watches
Duncan hit the ball over the fence in
the fourth just where Johnson's liniment
remarks that 1--WE are here to win,"
which applies to johnson and not to the
Portland ball team. 1t was long hit,
though and scanned hundred feet in
the air when 1t cleared the boards.
In the eighth he raped it over again.
this time in the right corner. Our two
runs in thessscond had come in ona home
run too, Musser JUST getting the ball in
side the flag pole with Mugoon on first.
Z Mr.. Hill who WAS mountain the day
before had got himself worked down to
mound by strike outs until the ninth,
when he hit for double.
Bones errors cost tbs game. but the
boy hit in a way that was balm to the
wounded hearts of the spectators. He ap-
pears to be over anxious. Musser's field
ing and batting was gilt edged. The at
tendance was 400. The score: