Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-05-30
We Have No Trouble in Defeat
ing Bangor, 9 to 8.
Our Boys Put Up an Elegant Game
Bangor Rather Behind.
Portland. Falt River and New Bedford are
the Other Winners.

!sSAfNy3 away from a ball
9xsAsAzG @As-SIafternoon. are al
most certain to miss fine one, for the
Augustus have pleasing way of put
ting up great ball on those occasions.
Yesterday was no exception to this
rule. The crowd, considering the nat
ure of the day, was not bad one, and
up in enthusiasm.
How the gladstone shouts made the
welkin-and there is large welkin
around the Augusta Driving park
ring How the frantic rooters. minis
tiers, deacons, bank presidents, judges
and, yes, a few newspaper men. forget
the artificial requirements of dignity,
and gave vocal expression to their glee
in long, sonorous shouts that rolled
shoreward to break and die against the
sracious end of the Glover Medicine
building.
Oh! it was tonic far better than
bitters-even Glover Bitters. 1t sent
the warm blood coursing through the
veins with new exhlaration; 1t re-
moved the infirmities of age and gave
renewed youth to those who bore. in
any degree, the burden of years. There
is more real robust health in cubic
ward of such a ball game than can be
found in all the blood purifiers that
the world has ever known.
1t is the best possible thing for
disordered digestion. to be young once
in while. There are some men who
are born old, while others live out the
greater part of century and die
young.
Ball cranks are made up of the lat
ter.
Mulhal has been a trifie slow in get
ting together the statistics on this sub
iect; but we have no doubt that when
he does they will show ball cranks to
be the longest-lived people.
But we are wandering from the
game. AS we We're about to remark,
Spartacus in his prime never saw a
nobler contest, exciting to the highest
degree, and marked by some of the
most brilliant plays ever seen in this
city. Wiehoff-or, more properly
speaking-Weekoff was in the box fol
the money burners from the city OF
milk and honey, and his stay was
brief. There was succession OF
noises that sounded like the work of a
pile driver putting in foundation fol
new wharf, and through the rising
mists of the afternoon came glimpses
of forms in beautiful white jerseys
dashing madly about in the outer
fields. Then the clouds rolled away
and it was discovered that the Au-
gustas had made three runs. Their
Weekoff was laid off and Gildea tool
his place.
The faces upon the Bangor bench
couldn't have been measured with 9
yard stick, and the joyous smile o.
careless youth did not come to then
again throughout the game.
1t was the same old Bangor team, en-
deavoring to diffuse, under very trying
circumstances, some of the eXuber
ant enthusiasm that grows wild il
their home city. In fact. they were ;
trifie too diffuse with it, for the Au
gustas succeeded in securing about tn
whole of it in the first three innings. l
does not pay to be prodigal even will
the mama that falls in the wilderness
especially if the journey is a lonl
one.
Tom U'Brien was there, as handsom
and as commanding as ever. We con
fess that we always gaze at Tom whe
he stalks about the ball field. with
feeling akin to awe. We can easily Sc
in him a resemblance to Napoleo
standing in the shadow of the pyra
mids.
And isn't he an umpire killer! Tor
always could Judge balls and strike
better than the umpire. and when tina
hapless Individual chances to diffe
with him, the situation becomes tense
People hold their breath and wait fo
the storm to roll by! Toms face be
comes tragedy in five acts, in whic
reproach. injured dignity, outrage
sensibility. anger, hate and inflnit
contempt struggle for the master.
For one brief moment the umpir
seems to shrivel until he looks like
rat terrier at u bull fight and then
he still survives. the game goes on.
There. too, was seen the manly for1
and Roman features OF George Henr,
the Grecian face Of that fine play.
and prince of good fellows, Bobt
Moore. and the rotund statue Of Ne
hayes, fiat. fair and forty" but
first-class player still. Simon is a ne
man. and the way he plays ball shov
that he is no connection Of the bistor
one who met the pieman going Ia I,
fair. The veteran Paul Radford ~.