The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-28
|POLYCAMISTS WHIPPED
Butte Shows tho lofmon Aggregation
How to Play Ball.
Zion Once More Bewaiis the Fall
of Her Salaried Heroes. Who
Have Had the Second
Defeat Rubbed In.
Special Correspondence Of the standard.

BUTTE, July 27.-The Butte Base Ball
club to-day broke the Sabbath and the
hearts of the polyeamous combination
from Salt Lake at one fell swoop. In two
hours this afternoon Butte's base ballists
did more toward annihilating Mormon
ism than Senator Edmunds and his CO.
laborers in congress have G able to
accomplish in five years. II was no easy
victory, but Il was q ball game in every
sense of the word, and for two hours the
many who went to the race track had the
rare privilege of seeing the game as she is
played.
There were some of those who know il
all that had an idea that Salt Lake had
been beaten on Saturday merely to catch
"a few sucker bets, and that they would
speedily annihilate Butte to-day. There
were plenty willing to bet on Salt Lake
owing TO that supposition and there were
plenty willing to bach Butte to the utter
most. Butte money held out the longest
and Salt Lake was bet to a standstill.
box. Butte had Hoskins. a clever young
player of he Alice nine. Hoskins
never pitched IN IA match game before
but he consented TO go into the box to-
day. He is an electrician at the Alice
mine and before the game he monkeyed
around the electrical machine, loaded
himself up with some IL or IL volts of
electricity, then turned himself loose and
fairly paralyzed the Mormons. He threw
a straight ball but il went as though let
out of a gatling gun. Platts was also
terribly swift.
The game was. in fact, n speedy one all
around. Ii was close, being tied for n
majority of the time. IL contained mag
n~ificent fielding, splendid pitching, streaks
Of good batting, and, in fact, all the com.
binations that go to make up a game OF
base ball. No better game OF ball has
been played in Butte since the days when
the regulators and the road agents used
TO chase each other around with leaden
balls. Not until the last half OF the last
inning was the result no longer doubtful.
Ii opened ominously enough with n
man out, Blanchard got his base on balls
and Platts gained his base in the same
way. A wild throw by Kirby and q wild
pitch sent Blanchard over thep plate, with
Salt Lakes first run. Clever work, how
ever, by the battery, Lavelle n Gleason,
prevented another run in that inning. To
make matters worse, the three first bats
men for the Buttes struck out in the first
inning. Platts dazzled them at first by
his six cornered movement.
In the econd inning Salt Lake added
two runs. Lucas led of with a double,
and Wilson batted to Lavell, who might
have effected a double play but was not
quite quick enough. A hit by Jevne then
sent two men across the plate. Butte
gained one run, Moirett leading of with q
double and making his way around on
battery errors.
Both sides were blanked in the third, a
neat pickup by Haskins being a feature OF
the inning, as was the steady work OF
Gleason Jevne.
The tide turned i'm the fourth inning and
il was Butte's turn TO howl. Hoskins du-
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out three straight Mormons in this inning.
Then with n man out, Kirby for Butte
gained his base on balls. Sloan placed a
lovely little hit and Porter made a force
which confused the Salt Lake infleld so
that two men crossed the plate, tying the
score amid rapturous applause. Porter
was himself thrown out at the plate.
Then it was a game Of ball.
For three. innings not score
A clever catch by Mari at a critical point,
Moifett's reliable and telling work at Sec
ond, n splendid catch by Porter, an in
spring pick up by Lavell, a great catch
by Jevne and the fine work of the pitch
ers kept the game fascinating. Odds of
1--we to n were, however, offered on Butte
at this point.
In the eighth inning Salt Lake took the
lead once more by scoring two runs.
With n man out Larson hit for two
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scored on a hit by Mcmahon. Lucas also
hit safely and Mcmahon scored. A SPLEEN
did catch by Mari prevented another run.
This gave Salt Lake n lead of two. But
Butte tied the score once more. With one
man out Hoskins knocked the ball far
into right field. He showed his contempt
for first base by cutting il dead, aud
Blanchard caught hold OF him To gently
remind him of his oversight. Hoskins
threw him of and got beyond third before
the ball was i'm the diamond. Umpire Gu
sick allowed Hoskins TO score on the
ground that he would have made a home
run easily but for Blancbard's interfer,
ence. IL was a very proper decision. Old
Joe Moifett, the reliable, smashed the
sphere for three bases aud scored ON a
neat hit by Kirby.
1t was the ninth inning and the teams
were tied. Wilson was mp for Salt Lake
and was foolish enough To bat into Moi.
fett's territory, which was suicidal. Jevne
hit safely and all Butte held It's breath,
Lloyd was also foolish enough TO bat to
Moifctt. who as quick as a flash threw "a
Lavell at second, killing his man. The
fun ended by striking Blanchard out.
Butte went TO the bat. Lavell led oil
with n clever hit. Wild pitches gave hin
third. and a neat hit 10y Crone sent Lavell
across the base with the winning hit.
The score is: