The Portland daily press., 1896-05-16
WEAK STICK WORK.
Responsible for Portlaad's Defeat
Yesterday.
P4WYUCKET CLINCHES IT'S HOLD
ON FIRST PLACE.

Jack Leighton the Only Man who Could
Hit the EBaIl-Alec Person Makes
sofIure in Lewiston-Bangor Takes a
Game from Fall River-Augusta Wins
in the Tenth.
Portland dropped game to Pawtuoket
Yesterday, the league leaders, by theaway,
chiefly because Mr.. Leonard's young men
appeared to be hypnotized by Pitcher
Rhodes.
Rhodes is German, and evidently we
have no use for Dutch pitchers in this,
city. 'tKloby" used US as badly enough,
but Rhodes fairly made monkeys of our
hired gang, and except for the second in
ming was as much of a mystery as who
struck William Patterson.
Jack Leighton seemed to be able to
find him, but the others couldn't, and
that settled it; we were out of the game
and except to give ths people a run for
their money, the game might Us well
have been given up one time Us smother.
What has got into the team OF ourss
What blight has struck them? Why have
these gingeIy people of Monday and Tues
day and Wednesday aeoome about as live
ly as the signs which Treasurer Murphy
has painted out on the fences:
Why have they? Who can tell, can you?
Again yesterday, as the day before,
Jack leighton had to play the whole out
field and he took an added responsibility
by assuming to do the batting for the
rest Of the team as well as himself. This
is all very pretty, and nice, and makes
jack popular, but it isn't winning
games.
One or two valuable assistants as it
were, one OF two coadjutors, would help
matters immensely.
Now about the game, how was it lost?
The visitors were first at the bat, and
Whiting, polo player Of the 33rd degree,
and quite ball player too, hit swift
one on the ground to Cavanaugb.
Our youthful short stop did the trick
TINT got SO popular with him Thursday,
he lot it go through his legs. Then
Beaumont hit to Musser, and Musser
showed that he hadn't forgotten what he
learned the day before. He let it go be-
tween his legs.
Capt. Smith hit long fly to Friel, but
that supple individual was able only to
pick it up after it stopped in enc of the
holes of the golf links out there. Friel
ought to try his hand at playing golf. by
the way. The two runs came
in on this hit and Harry Kill
ieen, seeing what had got to be done,
struck out two men. the other being re.
tired on an easy bunt to Musser.
We got G couple of runs ourselves in
tie second, earned them too. A double
by Woods, followed by singles by Cavn-
naugh, Ki1leen and leighton did the
trick.
Portland was permitted by kind for.
tune to score just once more, and
probably we ought to be thankful fo1
that. Leighton led off wita long one
to the left Of the gate in right field,
which was long enough getting back tt
allow Jack to reach third. Friel hit a fly
to Waldron, allowing Leighton to score.
That's short story but it tells the
whole of it as far as our run getting is
concerned.
Now how did the other people get
theirs, for sooth to say they got them
sYou have heard how the first two wer
cored. Tho tn ird came along in tn
third in plain a nd simple manner
Beaumont merely took second on double
and Yeager merely drove him in. Easy
enough, ehS
The game was won in the seven tn, jus
as it was Thursday, and this was thu
only inning when Killeen was touched
up at all.
The visitors got half their hits for the
game then, and when they got through
hammering, the efficient scorer out By
the black board, hung up figure foul
which was a token that the enemy hat
that many the start of US, and that a.
far as we were concerned, there was'1
much to be happy for.
The visitors scored one more in the