The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-07-31
West and East Sides to Meet On
the Diamond Next
Sunday.
Tho Visiting Aggregation WIN be
Made Up. OF Good Ban
Talent
TsaA II butte, Anaesnda, Dsavsr and
Salt Lake Players to lGsst tAs
Athletes.

At0letIo PARK u0xt SUNDAY OoGW6o0 e0e
Athletics and picked nine from Butte. II
certainly ought TO draw the largest crowd
that has ever been ON the grounds, for thu
best bali players in the state will be in the
opposing mines. The home team will have
to meet what 10 said to be the strongest a..
Rrseation ever gotten together 20 far, in an
attempt to down the boys in red. The latest
information from Butte ID that the team
from the Smoky City will be made up Of
such players ~ Larry Gleason, tho well
known ball player, who was in the Salt
Lake team whom they played the Athletics,
and Sam Moffett, who was ono Of tho pitch
ers Of the Indianapolis team severalseasona
ago. The Athletics have record that any
team may be proud Of, and there seems to
be . feeling Of jealousy on the other
side Of the range 1t the success
OF the Helena team. It may be depended
uaon that the Butte crowd will come over
from the Athletics. If they do it, they will
have to put up great game of ball. Man
ager Muth ia anxious to have the teams
play two games, on Saturday and Sunday
next. but has been unable az yet to make
any such arrangement. However, it has
been settled that the teams will play on
S~AAN0y AAOAVs AV U0UeAAk kAVAAAo00 w ~
lively for the Butte people backed their
team against the Salt Lakes to stand still
fyvd the hackers of the Athletics are not 70.
1hE to DO bluffed by any Butte money.
The Butte people have reason to think
that they have crack team, for besides
It 10 understood that they have signed some
Of the best players in the Salt Lake and
Denver teams Blanchard, of Butte, who
played with Gleason and Burns in the first
game between the Athletics and Salt Lakes,
will also play with the West side team
twirler with them Of whom the Anaconda
Standard says, in the game played last Sun
day between the Butte team and the Salt
Lakes: Butte had Hoskins, clever
Young player of the Alice nine. Hoskins
never pitched in q match game before, but
He is an electrician at the Alice mine, and
before the game he monkeyed around the
electrical machine. loaded himself up with
some II or Is volts of electricity, then
burned himself loose and fairly paralyzed
the Mormons. He threw straight ball,
but it went as though let out of Calling
Old Joe Mofet, the Butte reliable, who
has q record for lifting the ball out for
three baRgers, will also come over the range
With the Butte team. Dweyer, who has
allied right for the home team
IN ssna and h .n9 vas &. as ss
With such telling effect, will not play in
Sundays game, az he haa received an offer
to 20 to Baker City, Oregon, to take charge
Of hotel there. Barker, who pitched for
tho Denver team, has been signed by Man.
aRer Muth, and will be in the box for the
Athletics in Sundays game. The team is
strengthened very materially by securing
Barker's services, 0s it has been in need Of
good change pitcher all the season and
Barker certainly will fill the bill, as any
one who has seen him send the ball to a
batter knows. After Sundays game Man
ager Muth will enter into some arrange
ments to take the Athletics on q tour to the
coast. Before this, however, there will
probably be a series of games scheduled
with outside teams.
The Butte Miner has the following 40
count Of the game between the Denver and
Butte teams: The base ball game played at
interesting. Butte opened the game by
sending five men across the plate. Denver
then put up fne game and shut off the
run getting for the next four innings,
meantime slowly crawling upward with
three scores, making one each in the Sec
ond, third and fourth. In the sixth the
visitors solved Hoskin's delivery, ond with
the aid of several errors on the part of the
home team brought four men across the
home plate. leaving the score and Z in ia
vor OF Denver. However. In the seventh
inning tho Butte boys mistook the balls de-
livered by Everett for balloons and sent
them out of sight for four runs, and prac-
tically settled the game, as Denver failed
to score after the seventh inning, and lost
the game by the score of 10 to Z.
Following is the score: