The Portland daily press., 1899-05-08
BATES AND THE GIANTS.
The Collegisns Made the Portlands
Work on Saturday.

The ColIegians Made the Portlands
Work on Saturday.
Bates came little closer to US Saturday
than they did upon Friday chiefly because
Giant Conroy who was IN the box for us
was not so difficult problem to solve rs
Lewiston collegians found MIR. Peter
Miller the day before. The way the Bates
boys started in to assault the Giant made
it look as they had in mind to give him
good time. However. the big fellow
jamm ed them in little faster after that
and there was no repetition of the first
inning, though the collsgians cracked
out hits little more frequently than we
liked to see.
Captain Pulsifer out of regard to John
Smith and his cohorts gave them another
chance at Mr.. Pitcher Hussey and the
professionals took advantage Of it to dem
onstrate to the Guilford boy that every
day isn't Fast day and that the Portland
team isn't Cam bridge. For he first three
innings matters were made very warm
for the youthful pitcher and the men be-
hind him had their hands full bringing
the ball back into bounds After that
we made IL little more comfortable for
him, though in the fifth Conroy batted
in home run over right field fence Just
to show what might happen If the Bate,
people got at him too hard. 1t was not
charming day for ball playing. The air
was not SO cold a the day before but
there was more of 1t and 1t kspt the dust
dancing about In manner that must
have been considerable of q handicap and
very unpleasant one at that. Port
land had the lead from start to dniah and
there were no particular features to en-
tertain one as there were the day before.
The visitors played q very pretty fielding
game, their outtield doing especially
good work. Pulsifar had some hard ones
In his territory which he handled to per-
lection as he always does. Putnam, who
has not made particularly good show
ing in the game that he has played here,
braced up wonderfully and played the
field to perfection. He also batted we'll
and don't know but what will have
to Toxic back what l said week ago that
Bates was weak in left field.
As on the day before, Noblit did the
most Of the hitting for the homo team.
He cracked out a single every time he
came to the bat and probably If he had
more turns he would have had more hits.
Spratt only missed hitting safely once
and Smith and Clark also did full Justice
to the opportunities offered by Mr.. ussey.
Conroy's 81 home run was the feature"
of the game as they used to have 1t in
! baseball parlance and the South Portland
or was the. recipient Of garland OF en-
thusiastio cheers. 1t was the first home
run of the season and We hope for lots
more like 1t.
Bates started in the first inning as they
did upon Friday as If they were world
heaters. Dean reached i1rst on tumble
and after that the base hits came along
in regular clusters. Crack, crack, crack
they came for five times and In that time
four runs had been piled up. Ibis fusil-
lads made 1t necessary for Portland TO 60
at Hussey in the same way and they
didn't stop at the first inning eithor. At
the end of the third ten runs had been
collected and they were enough to win
the game. Bates got a couple in ths
seventh for which wild throw was chief
~ responsible. This pair, however. did
not make this situation dangerous at all
and we contentedly waited the course Of
events until the end of the game. Only
eight innings were played in order to al
low the visitors to take train for home.
Next week the real thing begins. The