Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-06-04


gar and Butman scored. Hanscom MI
Ii hot one to Killeen which bounded on
hisleg toward third. Hans made q break
! fer second and everyone thought him
1safe but groaned when Mr.. Charles
Grady, the officiating umpire. declared
him out. Some OF the audience ex-
pressed their opinion Of Brady IN pam
jterms. Then Connor flied out te
lThorne.
] Thorne was out, Delaney to Butman.
Edgar faced Mccarthy, and Mr.. BRADY
meek faced but fierce tempered, saw
I, chance to get in some more OF his nne
work Mccarthy put as handsome an
cut drop over the plate as was ever
pitched. zone BALI announced BRADY
and Mccarthy and Connor nearly tainted
away. Even Brady's heart failed him
and he half admitted his blunder. Then
came another ball and another Two
1 strikes followed, ard Edgar should have
been out Then the fourth bali was
called and Edgar went to first. 1t was
rank. However he failed to score.
i In the fifth and sixth each side had
| lut three men up. In the min,
Schrecongost again made beautifui
running fly catch of fly from Lezotte
] bat. Mccarthy did wonderful work IN
the sixth, by striking out the entire
| side, the third man after three balls
had been called. 1t was fine work and
rot even Brady could spoil it, Lezotte
also made great stop of ball thrown
| low by Dolan in the sixth.
| In the seventh--the "bloody seventh
! came trouble enough. We had
J chance. a great big chance to win out,
| but one Mr.. Brady said no, and he pro-
I ceeded to do the most outrageous deed
| ever seen on this ground. Handiboe
singled to center, dandy. Hanscom
sent up high foul which Sullivan kept
from getting wet in the grass. Joe Con-
| nor raped the ball to left for single.
| IIanscom going to second. Fogarty
was next up. Two strikes and two
balls were called and then Fogarty hit
n sharp grounder to Dolan, who got his
| hands on 1t, dropped it. picked 1t up
| again, made a poor throw to Gilbert
! who also dropped it, grabbed 1t up ana
sprang to Connor and touched him.
after Connor had safely reached the
base and was calmly watching the
frantic attempts of the Lewiston
/ players to catch him.
Connor was perfectly safe and every
| body saw it and knew it. Imagine their
indignation, their disgust and their
! ugliness when they saw the alleged
umpire jumping about on the first base
line like a wild man. waving his arms
like windmill for Connor to come IN.
shame on you, for the deed II was
robbery, pure and simple, disgracefui
), and contemplate robbery of chance
to win out by the home team. This Is
not soreness at being beaten, but 1t Is
righteous Indignation at such an act
Fogarty soon stole second, and Nc
Carthy struck out. Had Connor been
given a just decision at second, with
bases full and but one out. with
Schrecongost to follow Mccarthy. the
chances were good, yes, very good. for
| scoring Brady said no.
| Lewiston had but three men up in the
seventh and eight. Hanscom made
fine catch of a fly from Lezotte in the
eight that looked like two-bagger.
Delaney pounded out a triple in the
eighth but was left on third. In the
ninth we went out in one. two three
order.
Outside of Brady's exhibition the
game was very clean, there being bui
one error After the first inning. Lew
iston got but three hits off Mccarthy
and none after the fourth, and had pul
three men up in the last four innings
His work was excellent, as ii usually IS
and his support was good with but one
exception. Connor caught goo
game and except the dumb playing o.
Handiboe when Lezotte scored IN IN
first, the rest of the team played goo
6 ball in the field.
The Lewistons put up good artlcl'
eff ball, playing an errorless game, ant
+, hitting well in the first part OF th'
. fight. That their four runs belonge'
to them, and that these runs exceeded
{. ours by two, there is no question. But
that we had a good chance to tie o.
Twin out and was robbed of it, there ais
y is no question.
Il Killeen pitched a fine game yet no
= up to the work of Mccarthy. Lewiston
= got but seven hits. Augusta got nine
!, with totals of nine and II. kliieei
!. lstruck out four men. Mccarthy seven
They each sent two men to hrst OF
balls. Lewiston's hits were fortunate
o,o.. o,I fhay had I1rady TO look afto