The Portland daily press., 1897-06-18


Inning Game in Lewis1on-Belfast De-
feats RocIkiand.
The man who gave up his quarter to see
yesterday ball game came away from the
Forest avenue entrance in that enviable
frame of mind which always visi6s the
soul of a man when he finds thatEthes. cash
invested by himself has yielded dividends.
There is nothing quite so painful in life
as to suddenly discover that you have
been a ''good thing" for some other fellow
and nothing.qui so sweet as to get what
you pay for and liberal margin to the
good. Such a discovery he made who in
vested his twenty five American cents in
yesterdays game, and so as / say sweet
peace, contentment and satisfaction
visited his soul
There are very few ball games like
yesterdays when you take it for all in
all, so sharply contested, SO bounding in
hair raising plays and finally ending in
ton matinee girl would say.
In the first place there We're three one
handed catches Mike Meagher grabbed
a ball in the fifth with his right that wa S
skimming along the diamond singing
softly to itself something about being a
base hit. In the sixth Roussey few into
the air reckoning with his right wing
and connected with swift liner from
Kearns' bat. The other came in the
seventh and Mike Birmingham was the
hero. Houle let drive at one about his size
and 1t set sail for the fence. Suddenly as
1t reared first base long dark line shot
up into the air to the heighth of ssteenty
stesn'' feet, more or less and the ball met
the Tine and stopped.
Tse explanation of the phenomena was
that Mr. Birmingham had caught the
ball with his right fist.
I. The Dangers presented a pretty fast ball
team against the home aggregation and it
is "a team which some of us clubs
are going to wake up in the morning and
find winning games, if we are not mis-
taken. Nick Wise, Birmingham and
Mackenzie are trio who have a way of
swatting the ball with marked frequen-
cy and when Jack Sharrott comes along
there'l be chance for some pitchers
to look out.
Portland won the game finally because
Pitcher Newell wasn't onto his job all
the time, but there were moments when it
looked mighty unsartin." When the
seventh inning began Portland had two
runs to the good and was in fair way to
win without a struggle. But in the
seventh Mr.. Nicholas Wise smashed the
ball over right field fence in a mild man.
nered way, though charitably at a time
when no one was on bases. This reduced
Portland's lead to one run. In the eighth
Mike Meagher led off with a pretty two
Dagger and Trainor followed with a
single sending him in. That tied the score
and it begun to be seen that may be if we
were going to win the game and keep
ahead of the reptile Augustus, there was
some ball playing to be done. Meagher
had gone to third on Houle's throw to the
plate and here we have this interesting
situation; The score tied, man on third
and no one out. The Portland infleld
gathered in close to the plate; Stevens
who had been pitching with spiked foot
was sent to the bench and Miller substi-
tuted, and proceedings began. Newell hit
on the ground the ball bounded over
Miller's head, but Roussey had it and re-
tired his man and held Meagher at third
Kearns hit to centre and it certainly
seemed as If a run would be scored There
wasn't though. Polhemus got the ball
and sent it back to Nichols with true aim
ard the speed of rifle ball. Meagher re-
manned at third base. Two are out and
the situation clears. Flack was the next
man up. He rolls one into the air which
is easy for DIESEL and the agony is over.
It was remarkable work and shows
what the Portland team is capable of on
a pinch.
The thing which remained to be done
was to bat out few runs and win. This
was done with cheerful alacrity. Miller
and Coughlin singled and Nichols drove
twain in with cracking double. After
that base hits came easy and we had
earned five runs before we quit. Atten-
ance 400. The score:
- PORTLAND.