The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-31
1T WILL Be DIFFERENT
Anaconda Will Not Have the
Walkover She Had Last Time.
ALTERNATELY IN THE BOX
While the Local Team IL Expected to
Win To-Day's Game. II Will Be by
a Score Far More Even Than
That of the Former Game.

ne game OF bdSe bdli announced
for to-day between Anaconda and
Butte will be full of interest. That is a
safe prediction in view of the fact that
last Sundays game called out a good
crowd-as base ball crowds go. Every
body who went to last Sundays game
was satisfied that they got their mon
ey's worth. and when a man is salts
fed hat he gets his moneys worth he
is going to go to another game where
the same two teams are opposed to
each other.
Blu last Sundays game was poorly
played on the part of the Butte team.
1t is true that the boys from the Smoky
City could not well help themselves. as
they were handicapped in several
ways. The game. however, would have
been a much better one To look at by
the general public. and also to excite
the interest of the man who studies
base ball IL Jones had kept out of the
box n put Alternately in at the start.
The Butte boys knew that Baker, On
whom they had relied to pitch the
game. was not able to go into the game
with his sore arm. and it would have
been wise for them to have replaced
Jones with Alternately at the end of. Or
even before, the econd inning. 1t be-
came obviously apparent at the begin
ming of the game that Jones. whatever
he might have been as a pitcher in by
gone days, was weak-very weak. 1t
was fully known to the Butte team. as
IL is to every one who keeps the run of
local base ball, that Alternately is a
pitcher not to be sneered at. He has
seldom been given an opportunity to
show what he can do, but the few oc-
casions hat he has had were not
thrown away, and there is no record
where Alternately pitched a game If
ball for Butte that he didn't max as
good a showing for himself and do as
much to win his game as did the team
that was behind him.
However. last Sundays defeat was
not due wholly to Jones-not by any
of means. A glance at the error
column will show that. Hatton was
painfully out Of condition at second.
and 1t didn't take long for him to start
the errors a-piling upward. Moran at
first had hard luck. He fumbled two If
the easiest grounders that ever came a
first baseman's way. and there was an
error here and an error there, and
they all counted up. although they
didn't seem so awfully costly at the
time.
Then again the Anaconda players got
off with three errors. That comes pref
~ nearly being the record for the local
team in any game that has ever been
played here, and it compares very fav-
orably with the error column of any
team playing the game. Besides play
ing a game of splendid fielding, Long
had IL strike-outs to his credit. which
is "A number that borders on the phe-
nomenal.
But Sundays game will not show the
Same results unless predictions fail
miserably. In the first place Abernd-
thy will be in the box, and there will be
a change in the Butte's field that peo-
pie haven't counted upon, and one
which will be somewhat of a surprise.
The errors that ran up into a big total
in the last column of the Butte's last
week are not likely to do il again this
time, and the bases OF balls which ran
up to seven or so off Jones will not be
given by Alternately. nor will Aberna-
thy hit five men in the ribs. While the
A~nacondas, of course, are expected to
win the game they will not do it as
easily as they did last week.
The game to-day will begin at 2.30
o'clock. or rather it will begin at ;
o'clock, for ii always takes base ball
players half an hour to get ready. 1t
will be played at the Athletic field.
which is in splendid condition. The
street car company has arranged a
schedule of cars which will be strictly
to. The cars will leave the
city at l. 1885, ., 2:30, 3 and $3.50 o'clock.
There will be no deviation from this.
as the street car company has found
out that it don't pay to let people
stand around On street corners waiting
for street cars. There will also be a
motor and t~railers at the gate of the,
Athletic park when the game is over.
1t is a sure thing that 1t will De there,
because the street car company is GO
ing to keep 1t there all afternoon. La
dies will be admitted free to the
grounds and to the grand stand, and
they are especially invited to go down
to the Athletic field and help the BOYS
along by their announcement.
The following is the lineup of the
two teams: