The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-13
a BASEBALL LEAGUE.
Strong Effort to Organize One Including
Cities In Montana and wyoming.

cities In Montana and wyoming.
Helena Herald: The sporting frater-
nifty of the city of Billings, the thrifty
little terminus of the Burlington route
on the Northern Pacific. promise to
become the sporting center of the
state. A movement has been set on
foot to organize a state baseball club,
including in the membership of the
club the towns of Butte. Billings, Miles
City, Anaconda, Missoula and Helena,
in Montana, and Sheridan, in Wyom-
ing. So vigorously has the movement
been pushed that correspondence has
already been commenced with these
places and some crack players from
the East have already been addressed
asking upon what terms they would
be willing to come to Montana.
OF course Helena will. fall into line
in the movement. This is assured from
the fact that she never allows any city
in Montana to get ahead of her on any
proposition. She has the money with
which to procure the services of talent
and the embers of baseball enthusiasm
need but small breeze to fan them
into a considerable flame. Lovers of
the sport will recall the old team of
some six years ago. when Con Stroth-
ers held down the first base so WELL
and Joe Lobeck. now with the Cincin-
natl colts, took the balls off the bat
with as much ease as If he were eating
pancakes. In regard to grounds, Hell
ena has as good If not better grounds
than any other city in the state IL they
had been given the proper attention at
the proper time. But at the entrance
of hard times every effort was turned
toward the raising of filthy lucre. and
sports, football and horse racing alone
excepted, went by the boards Now
that the clouds have lifted somewhat
and the horizon has become slightly
clearer there is no reason why a league
should not be formed and the sphere
be set a-twirling.
The season for the sport could not be
excelled in any country on the face of
the green earth. The warm pleasant
summers. the beautiful balmy autumns
and the dry, bracing air are all condu-
Give to successful operations of this
healthful sport. In addition to these
qualifications Montana is inhabited by
a sporting, not to say vulgar. class OF
people, and as enthusiasm in athletics
Is what counts, the promoters of a
league need not fear but what the
games would be well attended
The subject was preached to n crowd
OF enterprising citizens who were en-
joying a quiet smoke in a down town
cigar store last evening. Each and
every one of them declared himself in
favor of the project regardless of what
might come in the way. one of the
number, who takes as much interest in
a baseball game as he does I'm a bribery
Investigation. spoke as follows
Il am heartily in favor of a move
ment in this line. Our grounds. or
rather the present state of things on
the grounds, would be the principal OBJ
stacle. Extensive repairs are needed.
but this is a small matter when we
consider what would be derived from
the pleasures of the game. There is an
Of talent in the East that
could be hired at a comparatively
small figure and Helena ought to put
up team that would thresh the stuff
ing out of every city in the league.
Yes, fix up that broken fence. gath
or up few enthusiastic citizens and
get them TO put up and we will be in
the head of the line and carry the pen
nant of victory from start to finish"