The Portland daily press., 1896-07-22
SIX, THAT'S ALL.
Maine Clubs Only Beaten that Many
Times.
TWO GAMES AT AUGUSTA AND
PORTLAND YESTERDAY.

Fall River Downs Bangor in Ten Inning
Game-A Most Unsatisfactory Contest
on the Deering Grounds.
Yesterday the Pawtuckets played in
their old time form when they we're
giving Fall River chase for first place,
aud tile Portlands also played in their
old time form, and the result was that
old familiar tale, that wormy antique
chestnut:
Licked licked Licked,
-, Licked, by gum Licked
Which is poetry, as you'll see if you
are of q literary turn OF mind.
Yesterday we played two games with
Pawtucket, which accounts for the two
lines in the above poem.
The first limo is for tho first game and
the second line for the second game and
really the two lines tell about all that is
necessary to tell.
However if you are bound to hear more
you might as we'll have it,
1t is getting so that we don't have any
shame about such things, any more than
ten times for stealing sheep or something
like that
The first game wasn't half bad in q
good many ways. 1t was fairly we'll
played and tine homo players made a bid
for it once or twice just enough to keep
the spectators in their seats for the last
setto. 80. 80, go go
In the first three innings neither side
suored. In the fourth McDougall began
to skylark the balls little bit and the
result Was base hit and couple of
bases on balls. This with an error by
Musser and fly to right field combined
to give the visitors three runs.
We got one ourselves in the fifth, by
a base on balls followed by some partiou-
larry Neired work by News.
Matters pursued the even tenor of their
ways until the eighth. AT this point the
Portland men had managed to fill the
bases on an error by News, four balls,
and Duncan s single.
O2Rourke comes to the bat and the
opportunity he has to distinguish him.
self, Doesn't often come to a young man
just beginning life. He took advantage
of it zoe, in q manner which leads TO be-
love that he'll be presidential candi-
date some time or own a gilded bar-room
somewhere. Mr.. O'Rourke hit the ball
for two bags way out to the left fence.
which brought in three runs, cheering
our souls and bringing rich peace and
oontentment to our hearts.
h.au sill inv IN bie
cloud first, for when the visitors came
up Coughlin singled and Herr hit over
tue fsnoo. Ihen came put out, and g
hit and Mr.. Bone followed it up with
that happy faculty Of his in making an
error at bad time, and some more errors
ana hits came along. and anyway, be-
fore they stopped the Pawtuckets had
i've runs.
That was enough; we were easy meat
in the ninth.
Now we will tell you just little aboul
the second game and follow it up with n
confession. Now you must not look al
the end of this tele to get the confession,
as the young lady does the last page Of
the novel to find how it is coming out.
You WON'T, will you?
Bet you have
Some hard hitting, some errors bases
ON balls and lot of those other things
which grow on the same tree. resulted in
Pawtuokets tallying nine times and US
only onoo in the first four innings
This took out of the affair whatever in
the nature of contest it possessed, and
the crowd expressed a desire to 'choose
up" over, or go home, either of which
would have been satisfactory.
We got two more runs after that. Kill
leen hitting homer between the trees
and the flag pole in this fifth, and Musser,
O'Rourke and Woods singing in success
sion in the sixth. Pawtucket quit at the
ninth.
Now the oonfession-It is Just this
this man Bone is the worst apology for q
short stop we have seen in the New Eng
land league since-wen goodness knows
when. OuGclassed doesn't express it, II
was such Il relief to be rid of Cavanaugh' 4
erratio work that this young man was
welcomed to oursbosoms SO to speak, but
he has stupg US. He has lost just three
games since the team has been at hume,
when fairly good shot stop, say OF the
Dump Ranger grade would have saved
it. Time and again he has had chance
to redeem himself by saving the game
with hit when men were on bases, and
here too be has failed
Please don't let's have him any more
unless it is absolutely necessary. The
attendance was 700. The scores: