The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-05-25
Pitcher Day Pounded All Over the
Lot.
Flanaghan a Puzzle To
the Visitors.
Newport, Manchester and Paw.
tucket Win.

We have won a lot of ball games this
spring, but no one Of them, no two of
them or no three of them, was almost
going 70 say. the whole bundl,, SO cheered
the hearts of the Portland rooter. or
brought such sweet peace to his soul as
did the way John Smiths lusty gang of
hitters rubbed 1t Into Walter Claim List
Burnham yesterday.
OF the entire II runs that came trooping
across the plate, not one but was as
sweet as honey to each one of the ten
hundred people who assembled to witness
this long- waited for conflict. OF all the
twenty base hits that went flying out to
the track, whether for one, two or three
bases, not one but was q sweet morsel in
thu mouths of each of the gathered null
titude.
There isn't the slightest doubt but the
crowd wanted to see 1t rubbed into Port
lands ex-polo manager, just as far and
just as hard as possible, and they got what
they wished for in the fullest measure.
1t was delightful day for ball play
ing, the first real good day for the sport
this season and this fact, too, helped to
draw out the people. We have Been get
ting q little the worst of the weather
since this New England league season
olened, but the man who made it was
very kind yesterday, and SO we'll try
and forgive some of his past misdoings.
Not nearly all the crowd had gathered
L. haf v,la tn 81 "a
field and Umpire Kelley trotted out into
the arena with couple of new balls in
his hands. One he tossed to pitcher Tom
Flanaghan, who was in the box for us
and the other he laid away in his pocket.
The fun was about to begin. Dearly as
every one wanted victory it seemed al
most too much to hope for.
But the first one Big Tom sent over the
plate treasured those who had any doubt
about whether the tall twirler had.his
speed with him. 1t came like as If from
o Maussr rifle. Thomas had not pitched
for week and half or more, not since
the time he retired before Manchester.
The cold weather had kinked his arm all
up at that time. but since then the sun
has been getting at it, and yesterday he
had a wing that was like a piece Of rub
Der hose. -
Bernard was the first man up for the
visitors. Bernard ia one of the claim list
players and the crowd eyed him with
some curiosity. He wasn't Noblit, that
was certain, and If the claim list was
against us, luck surely wasn't. Bernard
popped one up into the air which Giant
Conroy appropriated. CLANCY hit one to
Spratt and Ganley rolled one down In
front of Flanaghan.
MIR. Burnham's team already began to
look easy. 1t was only question OF
what we could do with Day. William
has reputation of being all right in the
box and there we're fears that he might
be the one to stop John Smith in his mad
flight towards the championship.
There couldn't have been q worse mis-
take. The Portland men got at him from
the first and not until the last inning did
they give him any peace or his outtield-
ers any rest. Errors by Clancy and Shay
helped the run getting in the first. but
after that 1t was good clean hitting and
nothing else. The second the boys gave
him some such dose as was admins
tered to Mr. Monyhan on the day previ-
ous.. Six runs were batted in on the
oleanest kind of hitting and the only
error was when Perkins fumbled one
In left field. Portland batted around
and once more In this inning and every
body made hits except Counihan and
loft. John Smith put one over the right
field fence inside the two-base limit, but
it would have gone over If the boards
had been up on the other side of the
street. The Giant, Spratt and Clark were
each guilty Of two.baggers this inning.
also.
These six runs with the.four we made
before, combined to give US lead of ten.
We were now out of roach of anything
Burpham's men could do and sat and
waited to sec how badly We would beat
them.
In the meantime Big Tom was pitch.
ing the most elegant kind of ball The
sphere came over the plate Ikea rifle ball,
with now and then a puzzling slow one,
and cross lire shot for luck.
For five innings the visitors struggled
with all their might to meet them fair
ly, but not the semblAncs of hit did
they get.
Knox caught one In the shoulder and
walked, and Perkins and Day waited
successfully for bad ones. Bnt these
three were the only ones to reach first
base. In the sixth Ganley made the first
hit of the game, after two men were
out. Flanaghan got two strikes on Per-
kins, the next man up. and swung ut an
other. but Umpire Kelley said he didn't
bring the bat across the plate. Most every
one else thought he did, but Kelley had