The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-05-25
TOUR STRAIGHT NOW.
Another Victory for Portland Satur-
day Afternoon.
BANGOR BAR0NS AGAIN TAKEN
INTO CAMP.

Augusta, Fail River and Pawtucket
Other Victors-Team Goes to Augusta
Today-Bates Wins from Bowdoin.
When our tired gang of baseb all labor
ers sought repose in their downy
touches Saturday night, it must have
been with pea CO in their souls, and pecu-
liar satisfaction which alone comes to
he who strives earnestly and hard to
make his labor worthy his hire. We won
der not that these tired men slept we'll
last night. with no narrowing thoughts
of trouble, no regrets for the might
have been. Surely we hope so, surely
every man, woman and child in the
breathes for them their best wishes as
they too closed their eyes in slumber.
In baseball there is nothing like win
ming. When man leaves game after
the home team has mopped the ground
with the disposed opposition, he feels
something the way lie did when small
lad at home he woke on Christmas morn
ing and found both his stockings jammed
full to the brim and lot of bric-a-bric
lying around On the Fl DOR.
Perhaps you never experienced that
sensation, and if SO just go out to Deer
ing park most any of these nice after
moons when the local team is at home,
and you'll get the same effect.
But TO resume. saturday afternoon
We witnessed on the Deering grounds one
of the very loVeliest, strawberries and
cream, Pine apple and sugar baseball
games we have seen in many day.
Especially are these SMILES apt, not
because it was any better played than
lots of other ball games might have
been, but because we pulled the said
contest away from the millionaire flag
hunters from the East.
We don't pretend to be flag hunters,
ourselves, we wouldn't take the old pen
nant if Tim Murnane and Jake Mors
and Nick Young comes down here with
q special train and preferred it on sill
yer pole.
We arc just an ordinary every day
sort OF a ball team, and for that reason
to do the purse proud aggregation from
Bangor is an especially sweet morsel.
And we did it, and did it in good
shape too.
Our twiEler was Harry Killeen when
the conflict opened and "their'n'' was
Wheeler
Georgia is one Of the best in tho bust
ness and the very, very best whom Billy
Long has under his care. We also take
some pride ia the fact that Kiileen is one
of the best in the busine SIS, and DON'T
care who.
The way the game started out it looked
as though We ought to win, not as though
we were sure to win. We didn't get that
idea into our heads until the last man
YVES out, but simply it started out our
way.
Slater lead Off with hit and stole Sec
ond. Then Leighton and Musser were
each thrown out, but the two plays ad
vanced "Slate'' one base, and as you car
see il you add two and two together that
made him to cross the rubber
Bangor's opening was not SO auspic-
ious. In the 1rst three innings just nine
mon went to lat and not one reached
first base.
In the third however the boys in blue
panties tied the score, which it took
just one run to do.
Blakey let g ball from Sharott's bat 70
through him. The down east disciple OF
Ives, stole second, and George Henry
patted him in.
The fifth WIS marked by considerable
run getting, though our people did the
greater part Of the marking, thank for
tune, or thank their good right arms and
eagle optics.
Bangor was two and ours four Dono-
van and Musser had each been retired
in easy outs when Slater sent the sphere
bouncing and bobbing down to Bobby
Moore, as much as to say chow der do
When it reached Robert however, il
took a very cute little bound over his
head and slipped through the fingers
which he had to put up mighty quickly
to touch it at all. Then came q double
by Jack Leighton ana double by Mr..
Musser and joy to tell, fat home run
by Catcher Duncan, whose success at
killing the ball has been very marked
the past few days. There you see are the
four runs. Their two also came when
two men were out. A base on balls,
double by Wheeler and singles by Radford
ana Sharott, was the combination.
The game has thus far been coming
our way as you have noticed but in the
sixth OUR troubles came, though they
weren't serious at all, and nothing bu
what We got over in a very short time
After Fanny mad hit safely for one base
and O'Br1en had stored tho ball into thu
cir for Magoon's benefit, Mussor let
ground hit go between his legs withou
meeting any serious obstruction. The
bali went into the outfield and Donovan,
trife am bilious, slammed the ball into
the bleachers. Both runs came in ant
tho score was tied. The next two mer
were cnt but our nice lead had got
away from US. Better days were conf ne
for in the seventh another batting sire ak
came drifting our way like a blessing
from heaven, and singles by Woods,
Duncan and Blakey, FUN bic by Simon,
aud passed ball gave us four runs and