The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-07-21
Taunton Was Defeated By Scere Of
Ten to Five.
A Beautifully Executed
Triple Play.
Newport Loses to Brockton In
Err0rless Game.

Two records were broken out on the
Portland ball grounds yesterday after
noon. Both teams succeeded in making
more errors than were ever made before
in a professional game, and Sullivan
Conroy and Spratt participated In as pref
ty triple play q ever was seen, the first
in this league for the season. In fact
such plays do not often coour for whois
season In any league.
But the errors-sucn- n jungle of FUN
bles, wild throws. muffs, bases on balls,
wild pitches and passed balls were prob
ably never assembled before In ons on.
gagement where hired ball players were
concerned.
II got SO that the most interesting part
OF the contest was to see who would make
the most. For awhils we lead In this
respect, and at one time we had good
comfortable margin of two, but the visit
ors gradually crswled up and finally tied
Us. The error score was nine to nine,
when it was all over. Isn't that a terror
The game started In prophetic way.
George Grant hit TO Conroy, who FUN
bied. Somehow Jack Tighe got hold of
the ball and In attempting to get 1t back
to the Giant, threw wild and Grant hus-
tied around to third. A long fly to John
Smith by Kellogg scored him. We earned
our run in the trss on triple by Noblit
an event for IL was the only time that
either side came anywhere near earning
Its tallies. The rest Of the time they were
engaged in presenting them TO each 9TH
or.
In their half of the second. the visitors
made their four runs on q muff by Pull
sifer. tumble by Spratt, base on balls and
hit by pitched ball. reinforced by a
couple of single hits We got some too
when our turn came aud In u manner
equally weird. Kellogg fumhled Toft's
drive. and then Ahern filled up the bases
on bad balls. Spratt encouraged as by
a double. and then GrissiF, champien hitter
and errorl maker of America, dropped
John Smiths long hit. Spratt scored on
It and the tallies made in all four.
1t was in the third that the triple play
came and really you never saw anything
more quickly OF nicely done. Burrill
had singled and King had reached first on
SprAtt'S fumLle. Kearns was next man
up He met the ball fairly and it shot
like lightning on line down past third.
sullivan reached out and just managed
to grab 1t. There was hardly an instant
between the report made when the ball
and bat met and the sharp spank as &
landed In our clever third basemnn's
hands. Burrill and King had both start
ed to run aud before they could turn and
get back the ball sped like flash across
the diamond and into Conroy's hands and
from there down to Spratt.
When Portland went to bat another
pitcher faced them. 1t was King. who
has been posing all along as an outfelder.
Kearns had been lobbing over the easl-
est kind of balls ard was evidently eth
er tired or sick, A gentleman who repre-
sents the Taunton association, came over
AID explained that the young man had
pitched 20 innings in succession up TO
shape.
Naturally.
Well, King proved to be quite twirler
after all. He has speed and curves. but
he appears to be trifie off on direction.
The Portland men only made four hits
all the time he was wingings.them down
to US, but In that time he gave six bases
en- balls.
Neither side scored in the fourth and
fifth. but in the sixth King saw that we
didn't get along without more tallies
He misdirected the sphere four times in
succession for Pulsifer, Mcleod and
Spratt, successfully. and then had George
Noblit to contend with. Before Georgius
got wipe at 1t Nathan had tailed on a
passed ball after going to third on q wild
pitch. Hot stuff. Ell? Then Nobllt
spanked the ball for single and Mao
and Spratt came In and added two more
to our accumulation.
George stole second land gotshome on
outs, Smith, TigAe and Sullivan retiring
In succession. There is nothing to be
said about the rest of the game except
that the errors were regularly and Impair
TALLY distributed. We made one more
tally In the eighth.
Mcleod was wild at times, but on the
whole pitched good game. The score:
PORTLAND.
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