The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-05-14
feits to Boston.

Remainder of Team Played WelI-Othc,
/ Maine Teams Observation-Disclosures For.
feits to Boston,
10 triumphe! 10 triumphe! Which be
| ing translated into modern baseball Eng
| lish means, we got there again yester.
day.
And Yesterdays triumph was the
sweetest of all because we took into
camp, and did the trick easy, too mono
other than the three times "champs, -
| the invincible Fall Rivers Of Fall River,
the people who have displayed such a
habit OF winning about all the games
they wanted to in the past three years,
tho conquerors of the Boston leaguers and
the threestimes conquerors of the Eastern
league champions" Tom Burns's ponies
ties. Such was the aggregation that we
won from yesterday; so no wonder it is
that we sing our songs of joy, no wonder
is it that the well spring of gladness
bounds up in our hearts.
A man said as he left the grand stand
after the curtain had fallen upon the
close of the triuinphal march of Captain
Skaters trours of "Hit and Run" ball
players, that Fall River wasn't going t @
have any such easy thing as tn ey did last
year, and theirs can be no question but
that this man spoke words Of truth and
soberness.
There Is no doubt but we in Portland
have team that will bother these Fall
Rivers, and "there are Others"
Yesterdays game was won by Portland
by some very clean fielding, some hard
and timely hitting, and soma extremely
choice gilt edged pitching by Mr.. Mccoy
of louisville, Kentucky, a locality some
what famous for the whiskey it exports
to Maine, but which also can produce q
base ball player. it seems. though they
don't keep many Of them at home ap-
parently.
Mccoy did superb work in the box,
there is no question about that, and if he
can repeat it whenever he chooses. or if
he can repeat it once in a while, he can
stay here and he can have Fort Alien
park or City hall or may be appointed
liquor sheriff next winter-most anything
in the way of the earth and the fullness
thereof that he wants at anyrate.
The Fall Rivers present team slightly
changed from last year, but to all ap
Lyons may not be the hitter Joe Har-
rington was, but apparently he can cover
fully as much ground in the field.
Napoleon Lajoie, an Importation from
the French Canadian section of Wo on
socket, appears to more than make up
right garden sentinel appears to be an
other clever man with the stick.
The pitching for the Border City team
was done yesterday by your uncle Ezra
Lincoln. the Raynham blacksmith, a
good man, one Of the best, but not quite
good enough for this occasion.
The game started out in a manner most
auspicious. Slater was the first man up
for the home team, and about the first
ball that came along he met and drove it
out to right field fence which counted for
three bases.
Iu6u JHck AolS HULL seeppou W Gu6
plate and found the horse sheer of Bristol
county for double.
Freil sacrificed, and the value of such a
play was nicely illustrated when Musser
sent him home with a single. A double
play retired the side.
The visitors scored their first run in
the second on single byl Geier, who
scored on Reilly's double.
With one out in the fourth Magoon hit
out double and Woods drove him in.
Then the visitors tied the score in the
fifth. Lajoie and Lyons made a fierce
start, hitting the hall for couple of two
baggers at stage Of the ARRAY when we
didn't have any use for them.
Ezra Lincoln sent one down to Slater,
and for second the rooters breatheti
easier, and then they sighed, for the ball
ambled through the legs Of our capable
first base man, and run number two had
bee 4 scored.