The Portland daily press., 1896-05-19
KORWAN PUZZLED THEM.
DroektOn's Speedy TWirler an I'm.
fashionable Mystery.
PORTLAND DROPPED GAME TO THE
SHOE-MAKERSs

All Around Poor Work by the Home Team
Other Maine Clubs Equally Unsuccss-
fu1-Augusta Gives FAN River a Close
Game.
IT'S not long tale we have to tell to-
day, nor forscoth a very joyous one.
Plain and simple are the annals of
Yesterdays bali game; plain and simple,
but very painful. Nothing that it will
contain. OF that 1T can be made TO con-
tain. will cause your heart to beat faster
or the red tide of blood in your veins TO
bound forward with more than their Or
binary placid motion.
You won't get much excited by reading
this tale of yesterdays contest; you
wouldn't have got excited if you had seen
1t.
You might have get mad. but you
wouldn't have got excited.
If it Is excitement you want, turn your
eyes at once from these true but bitter
lines and look over the real estate
column or the want ads OF the dramatic
notices.
There is no food here for the scandal
monger or the sensation lover.
1t was Brookton's hired men that our
hired men met yesterday out on the Deer
ing grounds, and the people from tho city
Of club rooms and no license were alto
gether too much for the salaried attach rs
to the staff Of Commander-in-C Chief
Slater.
Possibly that is abruptly broad; per-
chance it is a statement we might want
to take back some time, SO let us say that
long Jim Korwan, the Lanky Bob of the
Burnham troupe, was too mucn for tho
gentlemen who figure conspicuously in
the salary list Of the Portland baseball
association. Tt was certainly Lengthy
.Iames's day, and he took advantage of
it. The warm rays Of the sun, which
caused other people to be uncomfortable,
and ask as if it was hot enough for
you, or make some other query regard
IS your own private affairs, got their
work in on Truthful James's shoulder
joints and elbow joints and finger joints
ah0 uliOy WO3O eto pi1hbtO as q OQLl DSfldBQ
street dude; as tough as Commercial
street hobo and had they had the stay ing
qualities of Federal street bar room
loafer waiting for some one to come in
and buy him a drink.
No one could have beaten il N Korwan
yesterday, and the most that We in cur
humble way could have asked for. was
little indication that when there did
come along pitcher who wasn't in
vinoible the local gang could field well
enough to make the other fellows earn
what they get.
Poor fielding is the only thing for
which we wish 80 register complaint. It
must be improved, if we are to win
games.
There are not many Korwans in the
league, and they don't always have hot
days, SO let's get together and do the best
we can, in the hope that sometime may
BIO We'll do better, not better than we
can exactly, but better than we can
now. See the pointY
Mccoy pitched for Portland, Woods
played in the left field, and the new
NAH, Blakey showed up in time to
assume the responsibility for the right
half acre.
Woods muffed one fly which he ought
to have caught, and caught one of the
same kind. Blakey didn'S have fielding
chance. His one hit was of rather a
doubtful order, though he swung hard at
the ball. He stole one base in way that
pleased the spectators, making very
neat and successful slide New brooms
always sweeps clean of course, but it isn't
too much to say that the new man made
good impression.
Col Mccoy, pitched fairly good ball.
Onlyten hits were made off him and three
of them were in the first inning after the
side should have baen retired. He got
one of the seven hits marked down to
Portland's credit, and that was some-
thing in itself. His only fault was that
be was trifle wild. That can be over
come by constant daily practice If the