The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1895-05-03
'.OUT ON THE FIRST.

have greatness thrust upon them The
editor OF this paper has never we believe
been unduly ambitious, and yet he is
willing to confess that he has had some
aspirations, but in all of these he has
never presumed to hope that he would
ever rise to the supreme height Of being
absolute proprietor, mentor, and guar
uian of base ball nine! But we are
not always the architects of our own
fortune in these matters, and notwith-
standing our modestv in this direction
we had that honor conferred upon us
last week by as bright set of boys of
the ten year old class, as ever held bat
or tossed Il ball They call themselves
the third nine. but we want to here IN
innate that that "third" refers more
particularly to age and size, aud not to
quality, good looks, good beh avior or
possession of the stuff of which men are
madetor in these last named things
FIRST nine every time 1t seems the
boys had received challenge or invita-
ton to play ball from similar tribe at
Wllmot, and we were elected to accom-
pany them on the trip as a chaperon and
general counselor. A splendid ride of
| between two and three hours brought
them to their destination. And such
a ride, the BOYS couldn't have enjoyed
it more if they had owned the whole
country along the route as far as the eye
could reach. In fact they did own it for
the time being The cool air, the CLEANS
Of sunshine, the lowering clouds, the
pretty landscape, with the meadow larks
and gophers, We're all theirs on that trip
And when they arrived at WIlmot they
found that their opponents in true
sportsmen style had provided a splendid
dinner tor them at the Richardson hotel
While on the way up the boys inform
ed us that as there would be probably few
Milbank sympathizers around our princi-
pal duty after the game was called was to
cheer and yell when any one of them
ignorance of the rules of the game was
only equalled by our confidence in the
good intentions Of the boys, this part of
the work suited Us 10 a cot That we
performed our whole duty along this
line can be attested by the fact that for
two days thereafter we were barely able
to speak above whisper, and if the boys
lost anything because we failed to hollo
long or loud enough we trust they will
| lay it to the weakness Of the flesh and
not TO lack OF zeal In their welfare. for
in the game when one Of the boys made
hcme run and we were straining it to
the utmost; and when they made those
seven or eight tallies in one inning We
yelled till the other lung lest its balance
wheel and became total wreck, as re-
sui: Of our well meant efforts. AS we think
the matter over in calmer moments we
feel thankful that the Wilmot authorities
understood the case and did not land us
in the new calaboose under the supposl-
ton that we were raving maniac.
The game was we'll played on both
sides, the score sheet showing 33 to 50 in
favor Of Wllmot. But what was worth
more than any showing OF the tally sheet
was the fact that while the playing was
genuinely enthusiastic the best of feel
ing prevailed throughout, and the Mil
bank boys left their young friends feel
ing that they had been most courteously
treated and their opponents were indeed
worthy the cheers they gave them. The
Wi!mot boys were invited to Milbank
to play the return game in two weeks
when the Milbank boys hope to treat
them 10 the same courteous manner,
even 10 returning the compliment Of the
score sheet The illustrlous nine--or
more properly eight, as one OF the mem
bers failed 10 go-that represented Mil
bank in this engagement was composed
AS follows:
Ray Cannon Frank Phalen
Walter Kerr Merton Crowl
Irving Ely Albert Empson
| Alfred Frost Robert Sutclitfe.
Mr.. w. Let's has sold out his inter
est IN the blacksmithIg business OF
I ,t,s & Cannon with which he has been
eorractpd for tho mast fen wears and