The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-18
GREAT SEAS OF DUST
Butte and Anaconda Play Ball
Under Difficulties.
THE HOME TEAM WINS
Under Right Conditions the Two Teams
Could Put Up a Remarkably Fine
Game-Long Pitched Well for
the visitors-The Score.

The Buttes threw a few lines of dust
into the eyes of the A~nacondas yes
terday, and for the first time in W
or three years sent the baseball rep
resentatives Of Anaconda back home
chagrined by defeat.
Never before in this country, and sell
dom anywhere. has a game OF baseball
been played under such difficulties.
There was a dust storm which lasted
from the beginning to the end of the
game. with an occasional breathing
spell. The first inning required about
40 minutes to play. the game being
stopped several times from the sheer
inability of the players to see each
other. A great blanket of dust would
fill the entire field. and the spectators
could see nothing at all. The dust filled
eyes. noses, mouths n ears, and the
game would be suspended until the dust
rolled by. Sometimes the wind wouid
be so fierce that the ball would be
caught up in an eddy of dust, woul
sail away up in the air and finally be
released. Hats of spectators would be
caught up in eddying whirlwinds n
carried hundreds of yards away. Some
times an entire inning could be played
with scarcely a pause, but that hap
pened seldom.
Good baseball was. Of course, impos-
sible under such circumstances. but
the players pluckily stuck to Ii and
finished the game. There was only a
small bunch of spectators on HAND and
some of them were blown away by the
dust storm. but there were a few who
stayed there throughout. and the fan
who would sit through a game under
such circumstances is a fan indeed.
1t was a pretty even game up to the
eighth inning. when the Buttes, by a
batting rally, assisted by a few timely
errors on the part of Anaconda
knocked in seven runs. After playing
in the dust all the afternoon. the Ana
condas finally bit the dust, and bit i
good and hard.
Long, the redoubtable pitcher ant
captain of the visitors, was. as usual
a power of strength. but the wind a
critical moments blew the kinks out o
his curves, and when he was hit hare
the wine would blow the dust into tn
eyes of his fielders. Long was not sup
ported as strongly as Alternately, VIII
pitched for Butte. Still II Is hard Z
get a line IN a game played under sucl
circumstances.
The teams are capable of putting Vi
a splendid game Of ball. and on a goo
day there should be a splendid game
with a tremendous crowd out to wit
ness the proceedings. Butte has show
it's ability to wipe up the dust wit
Anaconda. and will undoubtedly be abb
to keep up the good work.
The score of the game by innings
as follows:
Anaconda 20 ! q l 0 0 l Il
Butte ........5 9 1 0 2 l 1 -
Hits-Butte Z. Anaconda 6. Stole
bases-Perham t4. W Abernathy, Ha
ton. Umpire-Powers. Time of game
Two hours and twenty minutes.
The teams were made up as follows
Butte-McDonough, catcher: Aberns
thy. left field: Bob Perham. first bass
Lyons, second base: Taylor, shortstoT
Hatton, third base; A. Perham, cents
field: Jones. right field; j. Aftermath,
pitcher.
Anaconda-Sutton, third base: Shel
ard. shortstop: Kilcoyne. second has,
Lynch. first base: Messenger. rigl
field. McHale. center field: Sulliva
left field; Freeman, catcher; Lon
pitcher.