Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-05-18
We Win Out Handsomely from
New Bedford, s to Z.
And Augusta Demonstrates that She
Can Play First Class Ball.
TODAY. We win Do Our Level Best With the
Champion Fall Rivers.

Who was racing for the plate.
With up-stretched hands young Connie
paused,
To captivate the ball:
Which merely fiirted with his palms.
But would not stay at all.
Why should we shudder at the woe.
When the poor MANIAC raves?
'Twere naught compared to that of Doe,
And all his painting braves.
With fallen crests they gather up
The bats 'twere scattered there,
And stole away amid the cheers
That fairly rent the air.
until the winning run had crossed the
plate. 1t was a wildly exciting game.
The home team wanted the game,
and wanted it badly, so Dilworth was
put into the box, out of turn. to do the
trick, and he accomplished it nicely, in
game that was unusually exciting
and stubbornly contested.
New Bedford wanted the game, too,
for Manager Doe is not the man tol
have his team slide into a tail-end po-
stion without desperate fight. He ad-
mits that he and his men exhausted
every known expedient to win, Satur-
day--and lost. 1t is probable that they
would have rather seen almost any
pitcher in the league except Dilworth
in the box. When Manager Doe found
that the veteran was to be pitted
against him, he made up the strongest
team that it was possible for him tol
put into the field. Moynahan. his
crack twirler was in the box. ''Trilby"
Sharp did the receiving, and Conniel
Murphy, his hard-hitting catcher, was|
in right field.
1t was certainly a formidable looking
aggregation, and gave evidence that
New Bedford was 'out for blood"
Dilworth certainly had a hard job on
his hands to pull off game from them;
but he succeeded in doing SO, at the
same time giving the large crowd pres
ent a fine exhibition of strategic
pitching.
Birmingham, Weihl and Moynahan
were the only members of the New
Bedford team to fathom his delivery.
He had excellent command of the ball,
giving but two men their bases on balls
Moynahan. too. pitched great ball. but
did not receive as good support at crit
ical stages of the game. The New Bed
fords resorted to a few tactics that
could scarcely be called base ball. In
the last half of the ninth inning, new
ball was thrown to their pitcher. He
gave it to Birmingham at first base,
who Immediately began to rub it in the
dirt. He was ordered to desist by UNI
pire Webster, and responded by throw
ing the ball to Weihl in left field.
The home management insisted that
another new ball should be put into the
game, and Umpire Webster threw in a
second one to the pitcher. This in turn
was thrown to Birmingham and polished
up in the dirt. Umpire Webster's pa
thence was exhausted. He fined Birm-
ingham IS and threatened to make mat
ters decidedly interesting for any Of the
visiting players who INDUCED in this
kind of work
After some delay a third new ball
was thrown out by the umpire, and the
game went on.
The best al-round work for New
Bedford was done by Birmingham
johnson played a star game for the
home team and brilliant plays were
made by Bean, Doherty and M. Kelley
Some timely hitting was done by Con-
nor and ]. Kelley. The following is
the story of the game by innings:
The home team secured it's first rur
in the second inning by single by
Conner. a wild throw by Weddidge ant
hit by M. Kelley.
New Bedford did not score until the
third inning. when three two-bagger:
and an error netted Does men three
runs.
Augusta scored two runs again in tn,
fourth by two singles and a double
and once again in the fifth by a couple
of hits and good base running: in tn
sixth by two doubles, sacrifice hit an,
single.
The visitors crossed the plate twic
In the fourth. by making a couple 0
hits and an error by johnson.
With the score to 6 in favor of tn
Augustus, New Bedford came to tn
bat with q determination to do or die
birmingham. the elongated person VIII
presides over the initial bag for tn
Whalers. commenced operations b
cracking a corking double to right cen
ter Delaney singled. advancing Birm
ingham to third. Doe came to bat an
knocked an easy one to johnson. br
reached first on the attempt to thro,
birmingham at the plate. The latte
scored Delaney. Doe and steere we,
easy outs, and the first half Of the i,
ming was over.
The. home team began its half Of /,
ninth BY Bean striking out Johnsc
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