Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1885-08-20

The Pioneer Press ssys the Huron b. b.
club claims the championship of Central
Dakota. This is rank cheek, supreme gall
and outiandish impudence. Will the
Huron club please arise and state WHEN
they defeated the Miller club? The fact
is the base ball element of Huron is sing
ularly weak and utterly futile 1t has been
left for Miller to demonstrate this fact on
two or three occasions. There are nine
old ladies' living here, who contemplate
trip to Huron to demonstrate one more
that that town cannot play ball little bit.
Last Friday ten fat men, Of Miller, pack
ed their grips and proceeded 70 Huron
"'tre according to previous arrange
ments they we're to meet ten fat men of
Huron OH the diamond. Tle Miller nine
was composed of l.. w. Arnold, 2nd b.
and Captain, W. II. Kephart, p., Elmer
lnschoe c., john Pusey lst d.. Fmnk Tor
rey 3rd b.. NJ. +. Catalan and A. d. Hill.
s. s., ID. II. Gregory r. f., b. +. Payne, C.
l., w. N. Branton, 1. (. and q. o. Hutson,
scorer, assisted by q. C. Firestone. The
game was called by Umpire T. V. Hoggatt
at p. m. The Miller fats went to the
bat. The playing on either side ives not
brilliant. As was expected the Huron
fatties had mainly subsidized by the time
the game was called and the Miller fats
fouhd they h"d to contend with four or
Al Lan Nlnxf
fatties. But the Miller boys were not
chumps as InschUe's playing tcstiGc he
was al old ball player also. There We're
800 people to witness the game and the
yelis am guys from the mob as II fatty
scampeird fIom one Daso to the oiLei were
deaiening. We shall not take time to
speak OF the merits of individual plays,
snhice il to say that after all the Miller
fntties downed their ga,le 10 to 10. In
conclusion We will notice the cordial hos
pitnliiy usually extended to Miller ball
.'i'Tars AZ Ilnrun rs COMPARED with what
Huron Dali players have met with at Miller
Last year the Huron club invited the
Miller to come down and play a friendly
game during the fair, representing they
would pick up nine around town and
expected to get beaten anyway. The
Huron nine contained four Brown county
ball payers and no disposition to play
unless our boys put up some doodle"
While our boys were surprised they quick
aIS
won the game by score of about two to
one. Everything the Miller nine got they
also paid for. When the Huron visited
our town recently tn y were again de-
feated by our club, but their board bill of
SI2.e0 WAS paid by the home nine. When
our fats went to Huron an admission Zee
to 'he game was charged and the proceeds
went 10 defray the expenses of the Huron
regular nine in fixing up their grounds.
No provisions had been made to haul the
heavy visitors TO the ball grounds which
are a mile or more from town. Landlord
Wright found drny howe yer. that finally
accommodated the the nine and about
nineteen Others. The boys had to en'er-
tain each other after the game as best they
could ana get back to town as well as their
soreness would permit. This sounds like
talk of rank kicker but we will just add
that n ranker set of kickers and sorer lot
of heads and poorer lot of ball players
we have not met for some time than some
OF the ball players and sports of Huron.
We cannot conclnde without noticing
the high old reception accorded the boys
on their return b me Saturday morning.
To their great surprise the whole town
had turned out to greet them. The pro-
cession was one of the most interesting
and hughabIe affairs ever seen. After
a march up the MAIN street tie enthusias-
tic procession stopped in front of Cbiids
q Young's store and Capt. Gray, Vol
Hoggatf, A. ID. Hill and Others made APP
remarks when. all adjourned to
take a. walk.