The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-20
HAO A SPLENDID TIME
Miners and Smeltormeu at tho
Nine Mile House.
1T WAS A GREAT SUCCESS
The Great Event Of the Day Was the
Ball Game. In Which the Miners
Got Revenge by q Score
OF 10 to IA.

The employees Of the mines and smell
tiers Of w. A.. Clark and q large num-
Der Of invited guests picnicked al the
Nine Mile house yesterday afternoon,
and all had . splendid time. The pic
mic was . success in every particular.
and will long be remembered by all who
attended. Every rig in town tina was
for hire had bee engaged for the occa-
sion, and early in the morning they
began to move with the picnickers of
both sexes out to Lyndale. Many also
went out on horseback and hundreds
ven on bicycles.
The great event Of the day wa Of
course the base ball game. A year
at the picnic the nine OF the smelter-
men beat h min Of the miners by q
majority Of one run. At that time.
Tom Kilgallon. foreman Of Clark's Co
lusa mine. ewore a frightful oath that
he would get q nine that would beat
the smeltermsn the next year. II he did
not do anything meanwhile. He chal-
lenged the smeltermen then and the
challenge was accepted.
Early this year., Kilgallon. on the one
side. and Muldoon. the foreman Of the
Butte Reduction works. on the other.
began gathering available base bal
material. In April. Mr.. Kilgallon
heard that Arson was no longer to
manage h ball team Of Chicago, with
which he . been connected for 20
years. Kilgallon had often heard OF
Arson and regarded him as the great
est ball player that ever lived without
exception. without losing any time he
sent the following telegram: Butte,
April Is. To Anson. late manager Chi
base ball team: Dear Sir: l hear
you have lost your job ! am very
sorry. Come here and you can name
your own terms. Yours respectfully"
Negotiations followed this telegram.
and as a consequence early In May
In the Colusa-Parrot mine under a fic-
titious lame. Every evening he had
his men out practicins. and soon they
became well nigh perfect. About 10
days ago. however. Kilgallon's plans
came nearly going amiss. He was
down In the mine one day and he heard
a peculiar noise. II sounded very much
like snoring. He looked up o n a set OF
timbers and there vas Arson sleeping
as comfortably as though ne were In
bed. This was a breach of etiquette
that could not be tolerated in any
mine. So he fired Anson on the spot.
But he telephoned over to Mr.. Bryant,
at the Original mine. to hire him at
which he did. Thus the catastro-
phe was averted.
When the teams lined up yesterday
there were few who could recognize
Arson as he took his old place on first
base. But he proved a tower of
strength to the miners, n batted out
home runs at pleasure. 1t was a
good game-few better have
ever been seen In Montana. At the enc
the sixth inning the score was tied.
h miners forged ahead. and at
h end of the ninth inning had the
game. the score was: Miners. Is: Smell
IL.
Most Of the picnickers picked one side
or the other in the game. those favor
ing the smelter team wearing colorsr of
purple and gold. while the friends of
the miners wore pink and green. The
great question last night was how
much Kilgallon had to pay to get An
out here.
There were a large number of other |
sports during the afternoon. Davey.
The rock-driller. won the fat mems ace.
Miss Clara Burkett won the young la |
lies race. Jack Spafford won the free
'or-all. Roy Rule won the boys race,
Ind there were a number OF other |
contested races.
There was dancing during the after \
noon, and refreshments were served
to ell. From 4:3o to 8 o'clock
he b. and M. band gave one of the
nest delightful open-air concerts ever |
held in the Northwest. They excelled
themselves. Early In the evening the
picnickers returned to town. The only
of the day occurred at this
line. Miss Frances S~haughnessy was
returning to town on her bicycle. and
descending a hill when a would-be
came along and frightened
her OF the road. She fell down an
struck on her head and
vas unconscious for q half hour.
The batteries OF the ball can we're:
M~iners-Gillis. pitcher. and Driscoll,
Smeltermen. Jones. pitcher.
Dawson. catcher.