The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-10
BASEBALL AND BICYCLE
The Tossers Will Practice at the
Athletic Park To-Day.
WHeELMEN GETTING OUT
The High and Dry Roads N Streets
Find b Flying scorcher Out in
Fun Force Club Meeting
Tomorrow Night.


has been for the past week or so. the
afternoon at practicing. The Athletic
field is in a good and dry condition and
is entirely At to be played upon. The
boys will commence at 2 o'clock and
keep it up until they have thoroughly
worked out the stiffness and soreness
which has crept into their muscles dur
ing the winter.
Captain Hammond Of the baseball
club said yesterday that he was con-
ffdent that Anaconda would have a
much better ball team this year than
IL has ever had before. He reports that
there are IA men now in the city who
are known to be excellent ball players.
About half of these are those who
played in last years team and the
others are newcomers. He says that
among those who have arrived In the
city during the winter are some whom
he knows to be crack-a-jacks o. the
baseball diamond. Messrs. Clements.
Brown, Really, Graham. Dwyer and
others who are recent arrivals are sal
to be about as swift on the field as any
thing that has ever struck this part Of
the country.
John h. Griffith, Anaconda's catcher,
returned yesterday from a trip through
out the state, and he reports that 1898
will see more and better teams in Mon
tana than any previous year not even
excepting the league team of 1892. He
states that Belt has already organized
its team for the year n tina the peo-
pie OF that lively camp are the biggest
baseball cranks alive. They have Just
built a ball park for the team at a cost
Of 1880 and are ready to back their
team to the limit. Helena, says Mr..
Griffith, will also have a team and the
Capital City cranks have already taken
the preliminary steps toward organiza-
ton. Butte is said to have a very
strong club and other cities visited by
Mr.. Griffith, including Great Falls, are
also falling in line with strong teams.
Hugh Campbell. the Missoula pitcher,
who has the enviable distinction of hay-
ing given Anaconda her only defeat in
1897, was in town on Friday. He says
that Missoula will also have a team this
year and that he looks for a greater
aseba year in Montana in 1895 than
has ever before been seen.
Those local cranks who have been
waiting for fine weather so that they
could see the boys work out a little.
Will have the opportunity to-day, and IL
Is expected that quite a crowd will be
on hand to hear the bat swat the ball
for the first time this year.
The fine weather has brought on n
very severe attack of the bicycle fever
and though the streets are hardly dry
enough for wheeling, yet many of the
pedalers are out and at II. Yesterdays
warm sun and strong breeze had the
effect of turning the mud into dust on
many OF the exposed streets and roads.
and it is thought that whe"lmen will be
able to find some favorable paths to-
day.
Already the spring sale of bicycles has
begun and many Of the boys have pur.
chased some Of the 1898 models. There
Is little doubt that the coming summer
will bring out more bicycle riders than
has been the case in any previous year.
This Is partially due to the fact that
the price of good wheels has been ap-
probably lessened. so that II is now pos
sible to buy a serviceable bicycle with
out giong head over heels in debt for
1t. Some Of last years best models. are
being quoted at $50 and good wheels
may be had as low as $50 and s35. Sec
n midland wheels, as good as new for all
practical purposes, ii is said. will be OBJ
tainable for sums ranging all the way
from $25 to $40. 1t is probable that
people who nave heretofore been de-
barred from becoming bicycle riders b.
the fact that wheels were held at a
prohibitive price will this year take ad-
vantage Of the reduced prices and Join
the great army on wheels.
The bicycle club will hold it's annual
meeting tomorrow night for the pur-
pose Of reorganizing the club for the
season of 1898 and also to elect officers.
1t is likely that the committees on rae
ing. good roads n other departments
will also be appointed at tomorrow
nights meeting. 1t is important that a
full attendance of the members of the
club be present.