The Portland daily press., 1899-05-17
Fourth Victory From Manchester
and Sixth For Season.
Visitors Tie Score in
Ninth Inning.
Cambridge and Taunton Are the
Other Winners.

Another terrible scare in the ninth In
ming, another glorious escape from very
narrow orifice and the spoils of anoth-
er victory decorate the wigwams of Big
Chief John Smith and his doughty warri-
| ors.
The story of these games which we
are playing and winning at the Forest
avenue grounds these charming May af-
| ternoons is written chiefly in the ninth
| inning The game opens. we take tho
lead after little preliminary SCORING
along through the game we canter head
ing the procession until we turn into the
stretch. TheE the other fellow whips
up and we have to sit and SILVER for fear
he will reach the wire first.
This In metaphorioal way describes
yesterdays conflict. Up to the ninth we
had the lead, not always very wide
one. sometimes only q tally stood be-
tween us and our rivals, once or twice
there wasn't that much, but 1t sort of
looked like our game right along until
the bad scare of which I have told you
came in the ninth.
| The visitors had their first turn at the
bat and when the final inning opened
the score stood 8 to 6 for the coming
"ohamps." We didn't feel safe; th ere is
no use to deny that the peace with .all.the-
world feeling which filed the souls of the
rooters when the last period came Mon
day wasn't there. One run isn't Il wide
| margin with such batters as Ulrich, Like
and Carney coming and We realized 1t.
| The visitors veteran short stop who. by
the way, has been big Lacquer In his
day, was the first up. and made safety.
The best that Lake could do was to push
one at Clark on the ground, forcing his
predecessor out at second. This seemed
popular plan and Carney repeated the
| trick. There was chance for double
play, but Callahan threw wild and
Ulrich went around to third. A big man
by name of Kelley, who has been staying
out in right fieh for the visitors, now
stood between Us and the fruition Of our
hopes. Kelley staid longer than we wished
for he sent one up in the air which
| Counihan might have got under. but
didn't. Carney crossed the plate with the
run that made the visitors even up with
ourselves. Butcher Reagan now had his
| chance. The Butcher hit the ball hard
1t went in the wrong direction. for our
| man Noblit had it all picked and in his
basket before it got half way across the
| field. 1t was the third out, but the score
| was six to six. That We won IS chiefly
| due to Pitcher Callahan, who is very
Aguinaldo's warriors. Counihan and
Smith both waited well and were reward
ed for their patience by four balls. This
put two men on bases and with no one
out. The flush of victory all but began to
| mount upon the brJuzed faces of the
soldiers of Capt Smith. Sullivan hit to
| Ulrioh forcing out Smith. Ono chan ce
gone. Now Giant Conroy comes striding
| to the plate. And every inoh giant too.
| he looks as bearing his ashen wand in
| hand he sallies forth to meet the foe, the
| fate Of all the day resting on his broad
shoulders. safe hit is not needed to
| win, only some one to poke the ball just
far enough out of reach of John Irwin S
men until Counihan should come in. Con-
roy does just that. A light tap sent the
ball 20 Ulrich, who handled 1t all right.
but not before the winning run had
crossed the plate and the victory OF
which we spoke in the prelude was won.
The game was really won in the first
inning when Conroy drove in couple of
runs by beautiful line drive over the
| track in centre field.
Manchester tied us a couple of times
after that, but never took the lead.
| couple of errors are given to Spratt, be-
| cause that seems to be the only thing to
| do, but when 1t comes to chasing fly
balls over the mountainous district
which Mr.. Spratt has to look out for,
| the only wonder is that he gets as many
as no do IS. The visitors appear to be
absolutely without ON even fairly good
pitcher. Callahan was not hit as freely
| as was Farrell the day before, but the
tall youth had very hazy idea Of where
the plate was and gave eight bases on
balls. McCloud made his first appear
ance and he was a very agreeable disap-
pointment. He had good control, kept
his hits well scattered and II he did get
in hole, pulled out we'll.
There are only nice things to be said
Of the young mans work. and II he can
do likewise about a couple of times "a
week, Portland won't need that extra
pitcher half SO badly as we thought.
CLARK played his position brilliantly and
this time without the usual error or two
Hickey and Ulrich also did good work.
Manchester has a good ball team, but
must have pitchers. Fitzmaurice cut his
finger on some of the taoks out on the
bicycle tracks and gave way to Morrison,
who caught fly and struck out. Fitz
made one nice catch of hard one from
Conroy's bat.
The attendance is picking up right
along and was better yesterday than it
has been at all The score:
PORTLAND.
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