The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-05-22
SECOND FROM AUGUSTA.
Portland Plays Good Ball And
Wins.
WE GO UP A NOTCH IN THE,
LEAG UE STANDING.

Lewiston Loses to Bangor-Rain Prevented
the Games in Massachusetts-Tb
Bangor Millionaires on Deering
Grounds Today.
Yesterday was our day. There are nc
complaints to register at all this morn.
ing. Portland won, the boys played nice
ly, MoDougall pitched finely, and the
much advertised Coyle was great deal
of mark for the local aggregation
Couldn't look for anything much better
than that, could you? There were, how
ever, no special features to the game, ex-
won and the extremely ragged errors OF
the visiting aggregation.
They needn't have made so many errors,
and then we would have won, and so per-
haps these mistakes didn't count for very
| much, but If they had come on our side,
they would have given rise to a very loud
and very prolonged ''holler." We
| wouldn't have stood it, not we. The Au-
gusta club come here with the reputation
of being clever delders, but they must
have forgotten it all, or else the cold
weather stiffened up their joints and
made ice men of them.
Wednesday it was bad enough, but
yesterday, it was simply dreadful.
Some people who heard that the Dump
Rangers were having it out with the
Young Swipes left the grounds and
hunted this contest up.
That was an impolite thing to do of
course, and next time they come the
Kennebeckers may see to it that we are
interested all the time, but they didn't
keep US warm this time and that's a
fact.
The first inning won the game for Port
land, and after that it was only case of
how long it would take to play nine in
nings. The result had already been de-
cided. After Slater had been landed at
first by Doherty's tumble, Jack Leighton
drove the ball to right centre for three
bases. Hits and errors which were ''too
numerous to mention, ''came along there
afterEand we were five runs, having struck
around and one more.
There were two more for us in the Sec
.ond. leighton led off with a two bag
ger. Errors by Bean and Doherty, and
Duncan's sacrifice completed the oombi-
nation.
In the third we felt obliged to make the
SCORE for "we uns" an odd eleven.
Doubles by Duncan and McDougal,
single by Donovan. base on balls and an
a,ror NV flaon did ba
Strange to say the Augusta people
scored their four runs all in one inning.
the third. Outside of that, McDougall
was found to the extent of three singles,
simply and solely. In the third, however,
the score book disclosed the fact that he
had been hir for three singles and
double, had given base on balls and
had made one error. Magoon was cred
tied with another, which to considerable
degree was excusable, and the result of
this funny break from the even work
which had preceded and which followed
netted, as has been remarked, four runs.
There isn't really much more to tell of
the general aspects of the game The
work of this home players showed great
improvement over that of the past few
days. Especially noticeable was the work
of DE- IN behind the plate. No one has
| had any occasion to find any fault with
this mans back stop work, but it's fact
| that stolen bases have been altogether
too profuse We naturally expect few.
but opposing teams mustn't get the idea
that they can run down at will. 1t is an
impression that is liable to lose games
sometimes, more especially If it is correct
Yesterday, however, the balls went
down all right, and the Senators, perhaps
| caught on to the fact that the way for
them to run was to swait until someone
hits the ball. They may not get quite so
many chances but it will be much surer.
| Blakey was tried at short stop, on ao-
count of an injury, it is understood to
Cavanaugh. He had no particularly
difficult chances to be sure, but his
work was very clean, and entirely satis-
| factory. If he can do every day as he did
yesterday he is certainly the man to keep
in that place.
McDougall. besides pitching lead the
batting failing to hit safely only once in
five times to the bat. Attendance $50.
The score: