The Portland daily press., 1899-08-28
Short Stop YOught Offieiates As
Pitcher.
Portlands Pile Up The
Errors.
Games With Taunton Today and
Tuesday.

The champions played two ball games
Saturday afternoon with the Taunton
people. The first they played like cnam-
pions and won with eass, the second
would not have done credit to the Dump
Rangers and was lost.
The feature of the first game was the
splendid work Of prinwkater in the box
for Portland. He held his brethren who
had cast him out from them earlier in
the season, down to two very seratchy
hits and only a single run. This run
came IN the first inning. Kellogg was
allowed to walk and WAS advanced to
second by Vought who sacrificed. Then
excl" stole second and Buster Burrell
batted him in. The visitors had to be
content to jog along with this tally for
the rest of the game. Young Mr.. Mat.
thewson started out to pitch very swift
ball, and the Phenoms couldn't find him,
but In the fourth they got after him and
batted in enough runs to win.
The second game was about as weary
an exhibition of ball playing as the Phe-
MONS have favored us with this summer.
The visitors put Tom Brady in the box
and he was bumped very hard, SO much
SO that It was voted to take him out and
Shortstop Vought was given a chance to
show what he oould do. Vought tried
twirling once before here and didn't let a
run in and this time he came very nearly
repeating the trick. Under the Brady
administration the Phenoms had scored
i've runs while Taunton had got none.
This seemed to inspire our laborers with
the idea that the Herrin gtown gang were
grand good thing anyway and they
began to play less Ike. The first news
they knew Taunton had the lead and
thanks to good Mr.. Vought we couldn't
get the tallies we needed 70 cath up with.
Good hard hitting gave us the first
tive runs and the sixth transpired some
what differently. Spratt walked and
made run for second. Curtioe threw
but he got nearer the bicycle track than
he did Kellogg, and William sprinted
around to the plate.
Some very bum errors interspersed with
more or less hitting gave the visitors
five runs but these wouldn't have been
enough If two more hadn't come along in
manner most peculiar. Kerrins had
reached first because the Giant muffed
q thSown ball which was fayorite trick
of his yesterday. Then Cluster Burrill
hit long one out over the track. Pull
sifer got under 1t, but falling back
dropped 1t. Worse than that when he got
up the bail couldn't be found. George
Noblit came over and helped play hunt
the thimble with Nathan, but neither
were very successful. Anyhow the two
men on bases got around and the runs
thus secured won the game. The Phe-
MONS made one of those grand rallies In
the ninth and for time it looked as
though they might pull out but luck
wasn't with them and the effort failed.
Spratt flied out but Georgo. -Noblit hit a
clean one through the inHeld. Carter
failed to handle John Smiths grounder
and two were ON bases with one out and
Giant Conroy at bat. The Giant hit TO
Williams and Noblit made gsand dash
for the plate. He was out by first hair.
Jim Smith hit one down to left field fence
but unluckily 1t was foul by yard. The
next one went into Kellogg's hands and
all was over. Spratt made some remark.
able plays at SECOND and John Smith got
an especially nice one In his district but
Conroy, Smith, Sullivan and Puisifer
didn't act Just as they ought and the
result was this beating.
The scores: