The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-12
WELL, WE WIN AGAIN.
Portland Scores a Victory from
PaWtucket.
THE HOME TEAM HITS THE BALL
HARD AND WINS.

Defeated in Seven Innings by Fall
River-Augusta Wins But Lewiston
Loses.
Our ball team arrived home yesterday
morning after q very creditable tour,
through Southeastern Massachusetts and
Rhode Island, and yesterday afternoon
demonstrated in perfectly satisfactory
manner that they know what kind Of a
job is cut out for them in the next two
weeks.
This home series which was inaugu
rated in the cool Of the afternoon yester-
day. and that might apply to any part of
the afternoon, consists of twelve games
and we people here in Portland have our
mouths all made up for nine of those
games.
OF course there wouldn't be any great
"holler" coming If it was eight, and
everything considered nine seems about
right, so nine let 1t be.
Yesterdays was one of the nine, not
ninety and nine, but just plain every day
nine, and there are eight left.
Anyone who knows anything about
figuring will admit that.
The game of yesterday came to US very
softly and easily, just as ship glides in
to ilarbor waited by the June breezes, or
a hobo accepts a hand out of cold
chicken.
Why those Pawtucketses of Phenomenal
Smiths were SO dead easy for our
men, that it seemed like robbing blind
man to take it, or easing your conscience
by putting buttons. into the contribution
box.
However Circumstances rather favored
US, and you can't tell what ''Ciro" will
do today. She is cratic and may be
pulling US on when she is smiling
sweetest.
The Phenoms started in as though they
didn't have any idea of letting US open
this series with victory. They acted
just as though they wanted the four or
Two bundled people who paid quarters to
get inside the grounds to go home sick at
heart and hoping against hope, and won
dsring how any body conld be so foolish
as to think that baseball for moment
compared with golf or croquet, or tennis,
or any other of those games, which are
so much fun to play with your girl and
| let her beat.
That's the way the Pawtuckets acted
when they opened the game, but our
gang taught them differently and after
tea last night baseball was the popular
| oFr IN,
,gKillesn was pitching for Portland, and
asyouth, who WAS down in the score card
as Strogel, and whom Yeager said was
| Strobel, and whom some one In the grand
stand suggested might be Michael
| Strogoff, was doing the act for the
visitors. AS between the two men,
Killeen gave an excellent imitation of a
thirty third degree artist in the box, and
the Dutch citizen of many names proved
to be something in the nature of q good
thing for our lusty gang of ball SWEATERS.
But as we We're going to say it looked q
| little bit "agin" us at the start.
| Pawtueket scored in the first inning
oncs, and in the second twice, the last
two runs being earned. In the mean
| time, Portland had not tailed once. The
| third, however, we gave the clam eaters
4 from Pawtucket little fun.
Killeen, however, opened our Jack pot
in the third for two bases. Slater staid
for two more. O'Rourke and leighton
drew four, four balls that is. and Magoon
and Duncan kept up the interest by
dropping in couple of singles. Duncan
went out on Musser's hit to News. Mus
ser was thrown out, and Tebeau singled.
Cavana ugh flied out, and it was over,
but we hai five runs tied up in our
bundle, and after that saw to it, that the
Rhode Islanders didn't get the best of
| us any.
The only interesting things after that
| were the two or three narrow holes we
crept out of. There was an especial hair
raiser in the sixth when Musser fumbled
an easy one by News, and Stevick hit
safely. Killeen, however, fixed that all
right, for he struck Strobel out, let Wal
dron bunt an easy one to Slater. and
then did something he ought to be proud
of, struck Smith out.
| Portland had another batting streak in
the eighth, smashing the ball in way
that was perfectly awful, and scoring
six runs. The visitors made four them
selves in tho ninth, but then what did
they amount to? What did they want of
them any wayf
Thore people were, late to their supper
and the cows not milked and still those
nervy "phenoms" staid there and tried
to make themselves believe they stood a
show, to catch mp. Well, If the runs
mentioned were any satisfaction to them
| they are welcome to them. Today, we
do them again. Sure!
The general work of the Portland team
was not what it should have been in the
field. There were rather two many er-
rors. Killeen pitched a splendid game
and the chief credit of the victory is,
perhaps, due to him. The patrons of the
game were glad to see Tebeau back, and
glad too to see him hit the ball. The boy
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