The Portland daily press., 1899-06-14
Some Terrific Hitting By Home
Players.
Capt. Carney Removed
From Game.
Brockton Continues Its Winning
Career.

The Portland ball team made john Ir-
wins burlesque company look very insig-
nificant and very sad yesterday. The
game was the completion OF the series
of four which began last Friday on the
Manchester's grounds and which we had
some fear when il Legun might dislodge
Us from the top Of the list. The first re-
suited In defeat, thanks in great part to
Umpire Duffy. but the victories have
come in one, two, three order since until
the climax was reached yesterday.
The Portland team gave a fine exhibit
ton of ball playing. Their fielding was
almost perfection, the errors charged Ito
spratt and Pulsifer being excusa BILE.
There Was some beautiful team batting,
and az fur as slugsing goes when that
was what was wanted, why look at the
score.
The game begun as though we had
got to have another nine inning fight of
it. When the fifth opened Portland was
just one run ahead, the score being 8 to
4. But the fifth gave it an entirely differ
emit aspect.
Tighe was the first man up and made
safety. Nate Pulsifer drove the ball to
left fence for two sacks, Conroy singled
but then 1t would take too long TO tell
the whole of 1t. The base hits came
trooping along like projectilss from
Maxim gun, until Pulsifer finally put an
end to the sport by flying out to Fitz-
maurice. The team had batted around
and two more. 4
That clinched the game and the other
carnival of base hits which transpired in
the seventh, only came along as diver
sion Tighe and Conroy were utility of
home runs at this period and there were
various singles and two-bagger. 1t was
here that Pitcher Mccarthy decided 20
throw up the sponge. He repaired %
third and Papa ulrioh proceeded to show
what no didn't know about the noble art
of pitching ball
Events transpired very auspiciously for
Papa" He had double play to start
with and in the eighth he had another.
No one got any base hits off him, though
he hit one man and sent another down
ON bad balls. The veteran must be quite
a pitcher.
The four runs that the visitors got
came very hard indeed. for Tom Flana-
CHAN pitched most beautiful ball. Only
five satellites were made off him, four of
them singles and two came together only
once and then no runs resulted.
John Irwin had new right fielder,
none other than the veteran Tommy Nj
land, who has been living in retirement
in Lynn. INLAND had single chance
and took 1t. He also made one OF the five
hits. In the fifth Jack Carney expressed
himself in language thatlwould'n mt be toll
Grated in the West place on earth. and
Umpire Carpenter caused him to be es-
corted from the field by two policemen.
Kelley, who has been playing right field.
went to first. and afterwards he snapped
places with Lake.
Any old thing was all right for Man
chester. after that disastrous fifth. There
was another unfortunate incident in the
game besides the Carney affair. Lake,
who was running for Uirich, tried to
score on Carney's hit to Spratt. The
latter slammed 1t to plate and caught the
big catcher by foot. Carpenter called
him out and Lake rushed at the umpire
who Is about fourth his size, like an
angry. elephant, and grabbed him. He
didn't do any injury, however, and
though the crowd was pretty mad at
first, probably no great harm was done.
Carpenter would have been justified in
putting the Manchester man out Of the
game, but he showed good Judgment af-
ter all in not doing 1t. Spratt play I'd
short stop as 1t is rarely played In this
league. He throw TO plate TO catch Lake
andihis stop and throw of a ground hit
by Murphy were of the sensational or
der. For the visitors Hickey put up a
most elegant game. The score;