Seattle's 'Kid' Camp Falls in Pitcher's Duel
Despite a brilliant return to the mound by 'Kid' Camp, Seattle falls to Portland at the Madison Street Grounds in a hard-fought contest.
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Portland settled the question of her right to the first championship by downing Powell's Islanders yesterday. It was anything, however, but a walkover, and the winners had to fight hard for everything they got. Camp pitched his first game since his return to the Seattle club, and was the same old kid—cool, imperturbable, and smiling. He pitched a remarkably strong game, allowing but four hits. Leiper was equally effective, and with honors even between the pitchers, the game was fought out between the other sixteen men. Portland took a winning lead in the sixth and kept it, but Seattle hung on gamely, and the victory was not won until the last hand was out.
“Camp pitched his first game since his return to the Seattle club, and, as his admirers expressed it, 'was the same old kid'—cool, imperturbable and smiling.”
The Madison Street Grounds were a hub of Seattle amateur and professional baseball activity long before modern stadium-building reached the scale of T-Mobile Park. This account captures a era when sports reporting was as much about the 'kicking' and umpire disputes as it was about the play on the field.
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