The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-29
MHALE SAVED THE DAY
Winning Hit by the Local Player
in Yesterdays Game.
EXCITEMENT ALL THROUGH
A Lot OF w~rangling Comes Near to
Shutting on the Play at the Most
Interesting staee-A Good
Sized Crowd.

Anaconda yesterday came within an
ace of losing to Butte the first game in
three years. The game yesterday was
a good one to look at. there being more
opportunity for excitement than in any
previous contest between the two
teams. For three or four innings it was
nip and tuck between the two sides
first one being a run ahead and then
the other. 1t took a portion of Ana
conda's last half to get in the winning
run. and Jimmy McHale has the dis
tinction of having made the hit that
won the game.
The Butte team was. generally speak
ing, a stronger one than any that has
been here yet, but the boys from the
Smoky City could not quite come up to
the local team in strength. There were
six errors on either side, and some of
them cost dearly. The game was a
batting game throughout, 16 hits being
mad of Alternately and IA off Burton.
The latter sent five men to first on
balls, while Alternately only let three
men walk. Both pitchers pitched a
consistent game.
There was a very disagreeable lot of
w~rangling IN the part of Murphy,
Butte's catcher, who was imported from
Portland for the occasion. There has
never appeared on the local diamond
a player who made himself so unpop-
ular with both the public and the play
ers as did Murphy. He kept up a con-
tinual Gathering, in which there was
neither sense nor point. Murphy
seemed to take every possible occasion
TO delay the game, and he succeeded,
for 1t took two hours and Is minutes to
pull the game off. In the first half or
fha 9Th TTmnira CaGpV called Arnp-
son out at first. 1t made the third out,
and Murphy, who captained the Butte
team, declared that he would not per-
init his men to proceed with the game
unless the decision were changed and
Arneson declared safe. 1t took at least
20 minutes to talk this matter over,
and the Anaconda captain, rather than
stop the game, sent his men back on
the field and let Arneson stay on first.
The very next man IN went out, and
so Murphy's kick availed naught. Muir
ply also struck Miles McDonough in
the wind with the ball as the latter
was coming home. and the blow nearly
laid him out.
Outside of Murphy the Butte boys
each and every one acted as gentle
manly as they always do. The people
like to have them come here to play
ball, but when they come again they
had better bring along another catcher.
The Butte team went to bat first, but
the local team shut them out for four
innings. In the fifth the visitors Sc
cured three runs, principally on errors,
McHale letting a ground hit to left field
go trough him, and Emerson making
a wild throw to home in trying to cut
off a runner. In the sixth the visitors
got another score, McHale again let
ting a ground hit go spinning fence
ward. In the seventh, eighth and
ninth Butte secured two runs each,
those in the seventh being on hits,
while the two in the eighth came in on
a wild throw from McDonough in trying
TO cut off a runner at third. In the
ninth, with one man on base, w. ABB
ernathy hit it for a home run. At the
end of the ninth the visitors were one
run in the lead.
The Anaconda players started in
making runs at once. They got one
in the first on two errors and two hits.
In the second they got two. In this
inning McDonough for Butte at short
muffed a high fly that looked like a
sure out. The third was productive of
no results. but in the fourth Arneson
mad a wild throw that let in two. Thu
throw was made on Emerson's easy
grounder, which the Butte short stop
threw far over. ellis head. The other
two runs in this inning were made on
Donahoe's three-bagger and Lloyd's
single. The A~nacondas then got no
more until the elgntn, Wnen Two more l
were secured on an error by w. Aber-
nathy in right, who attempted to head
off a runner at third, but threw the ball
high, and a tumble by ellis. At the end
of the eighth the score stood 9 to s in
favor of Anaconda. The Butte team
made two in their half of the ninth and
IL looked for a few minutes as though
the best the local team could do would
be to tie the score. Burton went to first
on balls, and Sutton and McHale each
got a hit. McHale's hit was a daisy.
going into right field between first and
second. 1t was only good for a single,
but Burton and Sutton both crossed the
rubber before the ball was returned, and
the victory was won.
The game did not abound in brilliant
plays, only one easy double being made
by Burton, Lynch and Emerson. ellis
for Butte at first made an excellent
catch of a high thrown ball and Ryan
made a beautiful running catch of a
long fly. Cleveland at left field nailed
three or fou high flies in fine style.
Lloyd for Anaconda made a fine run
ming catch of a fly in the second, and
he missed one in the eighth that came
near being very costly for the home
team. Outside of these the playing was
steady with nothing sensational about
Il.
The weather was fair, although a
measley little wind blew from the
nearly all afternoon. The