The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-05-03
Case of Player hickey.

sSoooHV DhSeiHdD dloh6y LEU uio "a
land ball team at Brockton, Friday, and
was to have played with that club Satur-
day. President Woodbury has forwarded
all the documents in the cnse to Secretary
Young and an effort will be made to re-
tain this player here which should suc-
ceed.
Hickey played with Brockton in 1895
and was reserved by that club in 1896.
He was not given chance to play that
year, and was evidently forgotten by Mr..
Manager Burnham until ne was signed
by Portland when it was suddenly d is
covered that Brockton had claim to MS
services.
1t was claimed at the time that Hickey
owed the .Brockton association S45. Nh.
Burnham said to President Woodbury.
that if he would pay the Brockton asso-
citation this amount and take it out OF
Hickey's salary, he would make no
trouble. With this understanding nothing
further was done about the matter until
Hickey went down to Massachusetts and
began to show that he was plenty fast
enough ball player for the so called New
England league.
MIR. Burnham then began to get his
work In again. and by threats of black
listing and abuse of Portland and its
ability to support ball team induced
the young man 20 leave Portland.
Saturdays Game Postponed to Wednes-
day.
On account OF the threatening weather
of Saturday forenoon and afternoon it
was decided to postpone Saturdays ball
game until Monday. The Portlands and
Murphy Balsains will be on deck Monday
afternoon and an interesting game is AS
sured. The game will be called at $50.
Philadelphia, 10: Brooklyn, 8.
Philadelphia. May 1.-Philadelphia
won from Brooklyn today in stirring
game, the latter part Of which was
played in the rain. Three times the
downpour became SO heavy that the UNI
pire was Obliged to call "time" and re-
cesses of from Ave to twelve minutes
were taken. The game was interesting
and the finish quite exciting. The field
ing was good and the pitching was first
class. particularly when men were ON
bases. The noteworthy feature of the
game, in fact, was the great mum her of
men left on bases, "a in all. The Brook
lyns had two men left on bases in the
tenth inning. Attendance, 9,737. The
score:
Philadelphia, 011o0n000 Ia
Brooklyn, 00O1O 00O1 0 Ga
Base ts-Philadeiphia, 10; Brooklyn.
3. Errors-Philadelphia q; Brooklyn,
l. Batteries-Taylor and Clements:
KenEedy and Grim.
Cleveland, 8; st. Louis, 3.
st. Louis, No.. May 1.-Sockalexis,
the big medicine man of the Indians,
covered himself with glory today. In
five times at bat, he made four hits, one
three Dagger, when the bases were
full. Donohue pitched splendid ball
until the sixth. In that inning nm error
by Bierbaur let in two runs. Attend
ance, s,50o. The score:
Cleveland, 20 D 0 % o 0 6-s
st. Louis, o 0 l 0 0 Q T. .
Base hits-Cleyeland, 10; st. Louis, 12.
Errors-Cleveland, /; st. Louis, 4. Bat
teries-DoDahue and Mcfarland; Cuppy
and thinner.
Louisville, 6; Chicago, 5.
Louisville, May 1.-The weather was
cold and unfit for ball play ing today and
seemed to affect the Colonels considera-
bly,. They rallied in the ninth inning,
however, and managed to tie the score.
Umpire McDermott called the game on
account Of darkness at the end of the
ninth inning. Attendance, 1880. The
score:
Louisville. 10 o 0 0 2 o 2-5
Chicago, 0 0 8 0 0 0-5
Base hits Louisville, s.; Chicago, Z.
Errors-Louisville, A; Chicago, 2. Bat
teries-Hill, Herman anu Wilson; Dam
ger and Kittredge.