The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-06-19

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in this as he vent along. Several Of his do.
cisions on bases were questioned. but the
one which went without : kick was decided
" in Hslena's favor, one Of the players get.
ting too far Of, and appearing to an IN
prejudiced observer to have been caught al
least two feet from the bag. Tho umpire
body found my fault with the decision.
Butte's worst kick was at the score card
man for placing Gleason ahead Of Smith In
tho batting order. The latter batted ont Of
turn and was declared out. There wal
some talk from Butte about "switchinR the
nished by the visitors, showed that thu
mistake. II there WAS any. was their own.
Az to the playing Of the teams AZ q whole,
the Butte men worked together like a lot Of
veterans who had been asSociating for
years. Every man played his position fol
all it was worth. and each one seemed to
know what he had to do for himself and
when to come to the aid Of some other
player. Their team work showed evidence
Of = careful and competent head. The
Helenas also showed aigns of improvement
in team work. and with 8 little more prac-
tice together should be able to keep. up 9
winning gait. Though Brittan's playing al
short was not mp to that of the other Helena
men, it should DO remembered that the
game yesterday was only the third he had
played this season. II was noticed that
some OF the outfelders did not take enough
chances in going after balls which might,
with a little exertion, have been put outs
instead Of base hits. Still, when theg game
WAS WON. everybody appeared willing to
overlook little breaks. which, however,
might be more serious in another game.
With Tully behind the bat, Mondays work
is expected 10 be even more effective, 90
the opposing club ia not likely to take the
same chances cunning bases the Butte men
did yesterday. An effort at stealing ; few
bases. on the part Of the Helena team,
would be appreciated, even il some Of them
did not succeed. They did not steal q base
yesterday. They didn't try. :
The HelenRs started off the game by 60
ing out in one, two, three order. and re-
peated the same trick in four other innings
of the game. They practically won the
game in the second inning. With one hand
out Ward made a clean hit, Britain fol-
lowed with another, nnd Blansford sent the
ball slowly to the infield and beat 1t to first.
An attempted sacrifice by Smith and errors
by Flannery and Gleason lot in four runs.
The other two run of Helena were made in
the fifth inning after two hands were ont
on q SLOW hit ball by Wallace and clean hits
BY Huston and Crotty. They got four msn
ut the bat in tho eighth inning. but the only
one of them who got to first reached it on
called bslls after two hands were ont. and
was left there. Their chances for adding
to the SCORE seemed good in the last inning.
Britain, the first at bat. reached his bas0
on tumble by Flannery, and Biansford
FOLLOWED with q bit. Smith then struck ont
Flannery ~purposely dropped in order to
make 9 double play. Britain and Blans-
ford, however, struck to their bases, and
Monday was the only n given out. Wal
lace then knocked up q fly to infield, end
ing the inning. The other i've innings. az
stated. we're simply q case Of walk up and
For Butte it was diferent., There was
not an inning in which the visitors did not
have men on bases. In the first Brennan
started off with Q base On SbAllS aud took
second on a slow hit to the inaeld BY Elan
merry. Then Smith took uptthe willow out
OF his turn. n in spite Of the warning
from the official scorer that}he was not due,
he hit to the infield. forcing Brennan out at
third and being declared out himself for
usurping Gleason's position in the batting
order. The latter made q hit to center
which fell short. and Flannery crossed the
home plate. Tho next batter was an easy
victim. retiring the side. The Buttes'
chances In the second were never brilliant.
Two men had struck out when Bright got
to first on ono Of Brittan's bad throws.
The next man. however. struck out. III the
third. though. their prospects looked bright.
Brennan reached first on un error and stole
second. He went to third when Flannery
hit the ball toward first and went ont.
Gleason struck out, and Smith got base
OF balls. Desmond. however. struck to the
,ntield and went out ut first. A hit and an
error put two men on bases after two hands
were out in the fourth inning. but a ty to
left field retii ed the side. In the fifth
Flannery hit a slow grounder to Monday
n beat II to first. Gleason got a base on
balls and with nobody out the visit
tors thought they saw daylight
through tho clouds. But the next
v men went out at first
and the third struck out. and thus Monday
pulled his club out OF q yawning guilt,
Hardness started of the sixth inning with u
hit to center fold which should have been
an out. He stole second. but was left there,
tho next man going out at frat and the
two succeeding ones tanning the air tn 90
times each. Ihs seventh inling was q re.
markable one. In il Butte msn had six
men at bat, got two hits and . base on
balls and . sacriAce. but could not get in
over one run. II was again Flannery who
struck the ball. this time for two bases. aud
stole third. Clemson next got to base on
bad throw 20 ilrst, n stole
smith got a base on balls. Then,
with the bases full aud nobody ont, Deg
mond hit TO Blansford, who caught Glsa-
NJ third. but was not quick enough 10
prevent Flannery croasing the home plate.
Desmond went to second and Smith 10
third ~ CoplinRer hit q slow grounder and
beat IL to first because nc ono was covering
sho bag while Strathers was RoinR after