The Helena independent., 1892-08-01
4 fine GAME Of BALL.
Best Exhibition Of the National
Sport Seen in Helena This
Season.
Tho Score Was Three to Two In
Favor Of tho PhilipsburG
Team.
NlH MslA the Helsnss Down to Four Hits
-Darby Also Pitched Gsod Ball
Tho GAme.

Eight nice goose eggs we're put in hel
sus's basket yesterday BY nine young mel
from Philipsburg. Although willing 10 &c
% we'll or better for the visitors, the hom
tssm were unable to do 30, and had to bt
content with giving them five. They prob.
ably would have given them ono more na<
they played another inning. but this 's
however, undetermined. The score wa
three to two in favor Of Philipsburg, ane
ths game was the finest of the season IN
this city, and better one could hardly be
desired. About four hundred spectators
were on hand and enjoyed the sport. ap'
plauding good plays with strict impartial
ity.
Things looked bright for the homera
whom they got two unearned runs III shs
first; but those two were all they got. Inc
visitors did not succeed in getting more
than one In any inning. but they gov tha'
few in each of three different timss at bat.
Neither Of the Helena runs were earned and
but one OF those made by PhilipseurR'
Lohman, catcher for the visitors made TWO
Of their runs. Pitcher Darby had not on
tirely adjusted his lungs to this attitude
and did not have his customary speed, but
he pitched a fine game. His watching OF
the base. WAS the best seen on the home
grounds. Of the ten hits charged against
him three are due entirely to the fact that
the right fielder lost the ball in the sun. All
would nave been easy catches but for that
fact, and they lost the game for Helena
They cannot be called errors or charged
against Herman as faults, however,
The homo team sent eight men to bat IN
She first inning. and good hit would have
won tho game, but Hill did not allow one
TO be made. Herman made three successive
swishss through the air with his bat and
resumed the bench. Huston came forward
with good hit. Lobeck got base on
balls, and both moved up on : passed ball.
Lohman failed to hold 1t. But he gathered
and threw it to thitd d to catch Huston, who
was leading off. But WickiIer didn't hold
it, and there was a man on every base
Strathers was given base on balls. fore
ing Huston in. Dunnine hit an easy one
man to head of Lobeok. The blonde
catcher didn't hold 1t. however. and two
tallies we're credited to Helena, and there
were still three men on bases. But Ward
famed and Brittan hit little one to the
pitcher. Herman got lonesome hit in the
second, but three easy victims went down.
In the third Crotty opened with good
single. strathers duplicated the perfor-
nance, but in trying to get to third on it,
Crotty was Caught .byl fine throw in
from center. Strathers got to second on
the play and Dunning was hit. Ward again
struck out and Britain flew out. Three
men only went TO bat in each of the last six
innings of the game, and of those eighteen
men not one was alive when he reached
fret.
For the opposition Mcmillan, the first
man to come to bat, got base on balls.
Fuller was thrown out at first by Crotty
and Whitsley few out to the guardian of
the halfway bag, Smith opened the sec
oud by flying out to strathers. Lohman
discovered double bagRer, but he was
anchored on second when the side was
called In. Philipsburg got one in the next
inning. Wickzer was easily thrown out at
first. Then Hill got rattling double. Nc
MILAN sawed the air, but Fuller got hit
and the twirlsr came home. Lohman got
second on Brittan's error that gave Hughes
a life at first, and third on . passed ball.
the plate, but that gentleman was
soon afterward thrown out at first by
Crotty, having been caught too
far from the post. They got two men on
bases in the fifth and a two Dagger in the
sixth and again two hits in the seventh, but
not a run in either. The fateful eighth
opened with the score a tie. Smith was
out. Lohman got hit and took
third on Hughes duplicate of that effort
With man on third and one on second
Kennedy hit stinRing liner into Huston's
hands. which that player couldn't hold.
He recovered the ball in time to throw
Kennedy out at first, but in the meantime
Lohman had como in and the Jig was up
with Helena. The most sensational work
of the game was the catching of two long
foul flies by Wickizsr in the ninth, and the
double play by Houston and Crotty in the
seventh. The former caught redhot liner
from Kennedy's bat in fine style and threw
it to Crotty in time to catch Fuller, who
was leading of.
1t was Mr. Hills victory, to be brief
HELENA.
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