The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-04
ANACONDA news.
DOCTORS ARE CHAMPIONS
The Medicos Again Defeat the
Lawyers.
WOOD TOO MUCH FOR 'EM
b Students Of Blackstone Were Not
in 1t at Any Stage of the Play-Col.
OLeary's Sensational Work.
It Was q Good Game.

Again the doctors have demonstrates
beyond a doubt that they are better
baseball players than the lawyers. In
fact they showed they were SO very
much the better of the two that it is
not believed that ven the lawyers will
ever have nerve enough to tackle the
sawbones for another contest on the
diamond.
The game between the two classes of
professional men took place yesterday
afternoon. as had been advertised. 1t
was by all odds a much better game
than has ever been played between
these two classes before. II 1t hadn't
been for DIR. Wood and his 10000 arm,
1t Is a question whether the lawyers
would not have carried the day. Wood,
however. a the legal lights complete
ly at his mercy and he did just as he
pleased with them. When the doctors
had gotten far enough ahead of the
lawyers to cinch the game Wood let up
on them and they began crawling up.
DR.. Rochelle was behind the bat for the
doctors and he gave the pitcher good
support, as did also the infield. There is
no record. however. of any of the out
fielders having caught a ball, either for
he doctors or the lawyers. c. A. Tut
tie helped the lawyers out toward the
latter part of the game by taking the
place of churtz futile made the only
catch Of a fly ball in the outfield.
The game was funny enough for any
body, and the way in which the awk-
ward players went at the work was at
times ridiculous in the extreme. Charles
f. Oles inc John T. Casey formed the
battery for the lawyers and did well
AnnrrDh Tho fnntttrno ~ the e~aV ~ al
a sensational catch of a high fly by
Shortstop Dan Morony, the batting of
Drs. Wood and Sigh n the %sprinting
of DIR. Stephens. DR.. Spelman also made
a hit with the crowd by fouling the ball
about 40 times. By all odds the best
player on the field. however. was
Colonel OLeary. whose fielding was SUI
perb and who hit the ball so often and
sc hard that the doctors began to COM
plain and said the colonel had a rab-
bits foot in his pocket. All of the
players acquitted themselves well, and
altogether 1t was a much better game
than has been the case when the law
yers and doctors have met heretofore.
1t had been agreed that the game
should be called at the end of the
seventh inning, as everybody thought
they could acquire enough soreness in
seven innings to last them a good long
while, but when the end of the seventh
inning was reached the lawyers thought
they had a show to win out should the
full nine innings be played. so the doc
tors agreed to continue. 1t availed the
legal gentlemen little, however, to play
the last two innings. for the doctors
made just as many runs as did the law
yers.
The doctors lave now given 1t out cold
and straight that they will play no more
amateur baseball teamsu unless the chal-
longing club has some kim of a reputa-
ton. None of the lawyers could be
found after the game and it is not
known what steps they will take.
A crowd of about 500 people was pres
ent during the greater part of the game.
A slight snowstorm and a few tons of
hailstones added their quota to the
days fun, but Notwithstanding the dis
agreeable weather the game continued
with all its fury"
The score stood 26 to IA in favor of
the doctors when the nine innings were
finished. The lawyers started in to talk
Umpire Ed Hammond to death three or
four times, but he held his position, I'M
disturbed by the arguments.
1t is probable that there will be sew
eral other games in the near future of
the character of yesterdays contest. The
first will likely be between the newspa-
per men and the court house gang. The
employees OF the county and the city
a conceived the idea in some mys-
FERROUS that they can play ball
and they nav challenged the newspa-
per workers. What show the court
house men would stand against the un-
beaten newspaper men, though, is hard
to understand. and the challenge is con-
one of the greatest exhibitions
of unadulterated nerve and gall that
has ever been heard tell of.