The Portland daily press., 1899-08-16
Newport Defeats Manchester a
Second Time.

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The Tanntons did not play yesterday
as though they had any great hopes OF
winning or as II there was much In it
If they did, and SO were very easy for the
Phenoms.
| The work of the home team ON the 9TH
er hand was gilt edged as it has been
for the past three weeks. Not the som,
hlance OF an error was made for the
game and the work of the infisld was
remarkable. Spratb especially distin-
guished himself. taking IL chances with
out an error and playing the position
as 1t has not been played in this league
this year. Kellogg and Hickey are prot
~ fast men, bnt neither or them have
shown themselves to be-capable of any
such work as sprait put up here yester-
day. He made some .stoFs which no ane
had the slightest idea he could get with
In rod Of and his throwing was even
more remarkable. A man who can
handle ground balls and throw as he can
ought to play third base for he could
easily make himself one of the fastest
men in the country in that position.
was Giant Conroy. who handled several
fast ground balls which came his way,
and scooped short throws out OF the
dirt like Tenney. The Portland boy
has hesn coming very fast In his fielding
of late and has been hitting fully up
to his former clip. In the early part OF
the season made the statement thai the
4 G4anea had ha nf t,.I
player. When his work fell Off with the
rest Of the team after Fourth of July ii
looked as though that might he a mis-
take. but Of late the big fellow has been
mors than justifying the good things
that have been said of him. His youth
and good habits will stand him In great
stead aud he Is pretty sure 60 land soon
er or later in the big league. make
that as a prophecy. Cut 1t out and paste
| it in y6ur hAt.
Purinton caught another good game
and cracked out couple Of very pretty
singles. He was obliged to sacrifice az
one time and did the trick nicely. The
boy ought Co be able to catch In minor
leagues every summer If he wants 10.
OF the game itself there Is not a great
deal to say. and the intsrcst Law ohIatlv
in observing how greatly superior our
own men weFc to Taunton's As 1t looks
now the Taunton people who are backing
the Sams would have done about ma we'll
to hare kept their old standing instead
of ipsistins on a clean sIats last wssnas.
day. There doesn't seem To he much
chance that they ara going 10 improvs
matters any.
The work of Curt,ee bebipd tho n,.,a
Yesterday was away off and sh,s an,e..ys,,
to be due chiefly to the fact chat she
young man didn't try. At one time
his pitcher gave him = wrong signal
and the ball went by. Instead of chasing
it as he should he walked slowly back
and allowed run to come in from sec.
ond basa. That used to be one of Martin
Rergen's tricks when he played in this
league but Curtice hasn't all of Bergen q
good points as q ball player ard SO
should not try to emulate his bad ones.
| One OF the star plays of the game came
In the second inning. The score was
| then four to one which at that time
wasn't lead enough to be secure. Brady
and Green had each singled before any
one was OUT seme one ON Taunton's
bench said something to Tom FianaghAn
about getting his bumps, and just to
show them what good thing they were
old Tom smoked up bit and sent few
over which the batsmen oouldn't see. In
this way he struck out two men. When
Seargs Grant came up, however. he hap
pened to catch one right and drove it
safe. Brady scored or course and Green
tried TO do the same. Some one had
returned the bali to Spratt meantime and