The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-05-06
BATES MADE HARD FIGHT.
Kept Portland From Scoring for
Seven Innings.
HOME TEAM MADE EIGHT RUNS
IN EIGHTH AND NINTH.

Lewiston CollegIans Show Up Well-Cap-
tain McQuirk's Great Slide boston
Wins from neutrality-suspicious. Col
1ege Season opens-Bowdoin Defeats
State College.
For seven long innings under the glare
Of the sun OF May, the young men from
Mr. Bateses college up in Lewiston played
hard ball and earnest against our doughty
warriors, calamity led by Big Chief Nc
Guirk. and not once in all that time was
one of the chieftain's braves permitted to
register to his credit a single tally, and
only four times did they hang to their
belts any scalps in the shape OF base hits.
During that period of awful suspense
the David's mountain regulars had
gathered in spoils to the extent of three
TALES, and as tho eighth opened there
began to come upon the faithful hand of
spectators the horrible, CHASTITY suspicion
that perhaps these same collegians were
not only going to beat but might shut as
off without single laurel leaf in the
form of run.
That was happily averted. but even to
look back upon the possibility of such
dire disaster seems most like horrible
night mare.
The game opened at the appointed hour
or little thereafter with Nate Pulslfer
in the box for Bates, and Miller, our star
of stars performing the same pleasant
duty for ourselves.
The Bates opened up spitefully on
Miller, while the home players were not
doing their duty by the apparently easy
ones Pulsifer was putting over.
Two Bates men singled the first inning,
but couldn'5 score Errors gave thcm a
run In the second, the first to be regis
tered In the third base ON balls to
burlington WAS followed by couple of
pretty doubles by Pulsifer and johnson
and a total of two more run.
This en- led the run getting for the
collegians, who thereafter found Mr..
Miller, what he has proved himself to
every other club he has met. an nnsol-
vahls enigma.
Three runs are not many, but this trip
let began to assume most stupendous
proportions as the game progressed.
To ges over them was good deal like
climbing mountain. When you arc
some distance away it looks dead easy,
but grows bigger as You go nearer until
you are about ready to give it up. The
difference was that Mr.. McGuirk and his
good people weren't ready to give up,
when they got at the foot Of the noun.
tain.
The battle proceeded up to the eighth,
the Portlands hitting, but hitting in the
worst kind of luck, and the students
playing good stiff ball.
Matters began to set themselves right
in the eighth. Dave Coughlin led off
and was given his base. Then came three
singles. that might have been carved out
Of marble SO fair did they appear, and the
run getting had began. The Portlands
were dreadfully in earnest and finally on
"A put out Beasie McQuirk came dashing
like mad to the rubber the ball after
him. There was dive. q cloud of dust
and we were in the lead by one of the
prettiest slides ever made by ball
player. After that runs came easier, and
the game ended with score to in our
favor.
Of course day in and out the team would
miss Hickey, but there is no denying
that yesterday Dave Coughlin played the
bag as 1t should be played. Houle made
a brilliant fly catch in left field. and
Nichols caught splendid game. 1t WINS
a pleasure to see Captain McGuirk handle
himself on bases and his batting too, was
charming, as Was that of Nichols.
Conghlin and Burns. Miller performed
the rather remarkable feat in the eighth
of striking out four men, one being
missed by the catcher.
OF the Bates 1t should be said that they
put up nice article of ball, and it was
the opinion of the critics that in the
whole they made better showing than
Bowdoin. Their fielding was not as
clean, but they are vicious set of hit
tiers, and more of the rough and tumble
style of players which is the kind, that
usually wins. The battery work of
Pulsifer and burlington was superior to
that of Dodge and Haines. The game
was hard one to umpire several close
and unusual decisions coming up, but
"Spot" Hadley acquitted himself most
creditably. His Judgment of balls and
plays on bases. The attendance was 300.
The score:
PORTLAND.