The Portland daily press., 1899-09-11
A nor TIME.
And IN. Pir.men Were In i, From IN.
Start.

The flremsn got their revenge Saturday
afternoon at the DserIng base bali
grounds Two years ago the ''coppers''
defeated them In game Of ball at this
plaoc which was a very close contest and
hotly contested. Saturd the flremen,
who have bean 10 practice about all sum-
mer. lined up against the ''coppers' again
and this time trimmed them to the tune
OF so to 10 in seven innings.
IL must be said that the policemen
played mighty good ball towards the
last end Of the game. In fact they showed
themselves to be good iinishers The ire
men were neatly all younger men than
TO be msrs boys. They were accounted
for as "substitutss, !" aud were said to be
a stand OF for few special policemen
who played with the "coppers "
There was fairly good sized crowd Of
rooteIs out to see the game, including
large delegation from the invalid part
OF the police forcs who had rather wstoh
the contest tnan participate in It. The
ooting from start to finish was said to
be Of the finest order. Mr.. George Mo
Kenney was hired to lesd the chorus Of
bankers for the police, but found IL I'm
possible 20 stir up much enthusiasm
among those who wers too lazy TO play
aud too weak Of lungs to shout. Officer
Ball did little shouting occasionally.
The best feature OF the game on the part
of the firemen was the umpiring of
Councilman Everett X. Jossslyn, who said
that he came out to see that the 1remen
won at least one game and he HELPED
them do 1t. His companion In crime was
Clarence Hart. fireman, so that with
this combination up against them 1t
was little wonder that the score resembied
more that of game of dominoes than
of base ball.
The makeup Of the polioemen's team
was as follows, Dawson. S., and pitcher;
Craig, 1b. Madden, IT,; Smith, RI. |;
Phillips. catcher; Chase. 2b- I; Henderson
CT; Fell, 3d., and Allen, pitcher and
short sop.
| 1he firemen's team was composed Of
Boothby, sb.; Webster, c.; Gay. 3d.;
Greeley, ID. johnson, short stop; Carr,
IT,; Ssymore. Of. s; Silva, pitcher. JOS
selyn and Hart, umpires. aud the scorer.
The policemen got the worst OF the
contest up to the last of the fifth innings.
Allen, who WAS in the box, WAS a little
bit out of practice and gave . good many
men their bases on balls. The hremen
found little trouble In hitting him and
got the credit of few hits, but the most
OF the men who reached first base were
given q change to walk there. Phillips
caught q magnificent game from start
TO finish. lila record for passed balls and
throws to second would compare favor
ably with that of any professional who
has been seen here this season. Mike Fell
proved surprise on third. He really
caught three fi:es and made one good
stop by sitting down on the ball. His
record for hitting and base running
was superb. CEafe, at second, was logged
out like professional and playel well in
spite of his extra weight. Madden and
Hans Smith distinguished themsels es
at the bat, but Madden's bare running
was great feature of the game. Hen.
aerson and Allen batted we'll, ran bases
| in fine shape, and Aliens work at short
stop was excellent, thouh he wasn'ts o
great success as pitcher
The battery work of the policemen
when Dawson took the box was flne. The
frsmen could not hit Dawson and were
afraid of being hit themselves, Conse-
quently many of them struck out and
| with each one who retired from this
cause George McKenney and Officer Ball
raised their voices and the echo could
be heard At City hall.
For the firsmen the work of the pitcher
and his back stop could not be sxcelled,
| while johnson az short stop put up tine
finest game Of the entire bunch. MIR.
Jossely ms official position prevented his
death at the hands of tae irate police
men who thought they we're trimmed By
his decisions behind the bat