The regular Charleston lineup, with Beers behind the bat, Colby on third and Martin on first, will start today's game with the highly-touted Portsmouth, O., outfit, which takes place this afternoon at three o'clock at Kanawha park. The shift which put a substitute on third, Colby on first and Martin back to the plate, was found necessary three weeks ago when Biddy Beers was called to the beside of his dying mother, in the West.

Kenney will pitch.
Powell reiterated last night that he was making the fans no promises of victoy in today's game. Portsmouth's lineup is impressive. Her record is even more impressive, as the Buckeyes number among their victims the semi-pro champion Norwoods, of Cincinnati; though strong Panhandlers team, of Columbus, O., and the Huntington Boosters.

Today's game is the last before the Coal Field league championship series, which opens next Sunday in Charleston with the Ward-Charleston game. Portsmouth, although it was known that the Buckeyes were traveling strong, was slated for this Sunday primarily as an "iller." To lose today's game with Portsmouth would detract a shade of interest from the big series, as every loyal fan likes to believe that his team can beat anything anywhero near its calibre.

Among the stars of the visiting team are veterans of service in almost every class of league baseball, two promising youngsters who have signed to play with major St. Louis team next year, the greatest outfield prospect in ohio semi-pro baseball, and the leading players of the many strong teams of Portsmouth.

Old local fans will be interested in the showing to be made by young Blake, son of the famous Harry Blake who used to play with Charleston and who ent from hero to the old Clevelan team to star in the famous Cleveland-Baltimore Temple Cup series. The manager of the visitors asserts that young Blake is everything that his Brilliant father was. Blake is playing middle field for the visitors.

That Portsmouth will have a strong battery is assured in the fact that the man behind the bat will be Monk, of the 1921 St Louis Browns, and the pitcher will be one of the duct of stellar moundsmen who ousted the celebrated Cornwell from a position on the knoll with Portsmouth.

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October 2, 2003 2:15 PM