The Portland daily press., 1897-06-08
BEATEN BY BELFAST.
Portland Team Receives Second
Defeat Of Season.
A CLOSE AND WELL PLAYED GAME
ON THE DEERING GROUNDS.

Peter McBride's Work in the Box Superior
| to Enge1s-Lowlston Defeated by
| From Bangor-Boston Continues Its
Winning Career.
Ihe ball team from the town where
they make medicine to relieve that ''tired
ieehng' came to our place yesterday and
succeeded In doing what they almost did
before when they visited us, win out.
The game was by all odds the best
played and most interesting passage at
arms we have seen on the ball field this
year and victory was not secure for the
visitors until the last man was out.
The visitors won for the one reason that
the work of Mr.. Peter Mcbride in the box
was superior to that of Mr.. George Engel
in all ways. Next time Mr. Enge1 might
do better, but certainly yesterday was
Peters day and to him in great measure
belongs the glory which the Belfast team
won for itself on this occasion.
But Mcbride could not have won had
he OF been backed up by the finest kind
of inf1eld work as good in fact as you will
often see in small, every day kind of a
league like ours.
The work of McDermott and Callopy
was superb and Butcher Regan and
Mazena held their ends up too.
To the writer's mind Tommy McDer-
mott never played better ball than he has
been doing for Manager Bacon, and his
constituents who live down in the suburbs
of the Northport campmeeting grounds
The Portland infield suffered nothing
by comparison with these artists Of the
diamond. Burns, Diesel andaa RousseyTall
acquitting themselves in manner which
rebounds to their credit.
Nichols work behind the plate was just
| what it always is for each and every game
he plays, almost perfect. AS throwing
catcher he has had no superior in the New
England league in recent years. Bergen
of Salem and Lewiston and now of Bos-
ton being the only one whom the writer
can recollect to compare with him.
But perhaps the star play of the game
was Houle's throw in the seventh
Callopy was on third and Regan hit a
long fly to left. The Cohoes boy got
under it, pulled it out of space, and as
the ball struck his hand Callopy, one of
the fastest runners in the league made a
dash for home like scared cat. Like a
| shot from a rifle the ball sped from
Houle's hand and landed safely in
| Nichols nit before the Belfast man was
within ten feet of the plate. The play
saved run and at that moment we
didn't know but it might save the game.
But to tell you how we happened to get
beaten. The game started out very Port
land. Dave Coughlin prefaced proceed
| ings with double and after Nichols and
Houle had gone out on flies, Roussey
| singled and earned our first run.
| Then for two innings neither side
circled the bases. The third Belfast began
| to find Engel and four singles and a
base on balls put them in the lead to the
notable extent of four runs.
After that they kept dropping them
| along one at time assisted chiefly by
! EngePs wildness; he giving four bases on
balls and hitting batter
Portland didn't drop them in SO thick
". In the sixth we got one when Maizena,
| sky rocketed the ball into the bleachers.
In the eighth we weren't sure but we
might tie the score.
Nichols singled, stole second, and went
to third on Houle's hit. Roussey drew
four bad ones. Polhemus hit safely
sending "Nick' across the rubber. Burns
drew another quartette of wild ones and
the bases are full, with two men out, Nc
Guirk having forced Roussey out at
| second.
Much responsibility reposed upon the
wiry shoulders Of Mr.. Deisel but he re-
| sponded nobly and hit the ball to right
filed fence for couple of bases, scoring
Beasie and Polhe1nus. Engel now had a
chance to tie the score. He made a good
honest try, but Outfelder Hill plucked
his lon g drive from the breezes and it
was over.
We scored in the ninth again, and again
we weren't sure but what we would fool
the Waldo county contingent after all,
but we didn't Coughlin went out to
Hill, but Nichols secured free pass to
the initial sack. He stole second, CASTOR
threw wild to stop him and he went to
third. Houle hit safely and "Nick"
scored, but Hill got the ball to McDer-
mott in time to prevent Houle from
taking second, although it was a very
close call, SO close indeed that if we lived
in Augusta we should say we were robbed
by the reptile umpire. That spoiled our
chances, for Houle might have scored on
the clean single Roussey was responsible
for. Beasie pushed one into the air which
Butcher Regan clasped in his fair white
palms and our people were licked ball
| team.
had almost forgotten to mention an
| incident without which this narrative
would be singularly incomplete. In the
second inning Ped Webster drove fly out
in the direction Of centre garden. Pol
| hemus viewed it with i'll concealed con-
tempt and ambled in the direction 1t was