The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-07
ANAC NE WS.
THREE SPRING SPORTS
Baseball. Football and Trout
Fishing Are Looking Up.
ATHLETES ARE TRAINING
Baseball and Football Players Take q
Turn 1t Il snd Find It Goes Well.
The Trout Are Putting on
Their Wary Caps.

The exceedingly pleasant weather of
the past two or three days has served to
dry out some OF the higher ground
sufficiently to permit a few of the earlier
football and baseball franks to ges out
and try their muscles. Yesterday. for
the first time this season, some of The
baseball boys got out for a little Him.
ibering up" The vacant lot just north
OF the Central school served as a sat-
isfactory ground and all afternoon the
more enthusiastic were chasing the
leather sphere about the lot.
This early manifestation of interest in
baseball is a most gratifying sign. 1t
gives promise Of a successful year in
the national sport. A~naconda's team
for 1898 is expected to be an especially
strong one. Besides most of the best
of last years team, there have been ad-
ditions of ball players during the win
ter and these will materially strengthen
the club. Among the newcomers are
MIR. Dwyer, a brother Of Mike Dwyer,
who was Anaconda's catcher in 1894.
and who is himself said to be a catcher
OF great ability. He has decided to To-
cate in Anaconda, and he will probably
prove an invaluable man.. MIR. Graham
of Leavenworth. Mr.. Brown of Kansas
City and several other players who have
more than local regulations will also
be added to the team. Among the old
guard still in the city there is Burton,
McHale, Hammond, Andrews. Emerson.
Lloyd, Long and some of the others. 1t
is said that the outfield for the Ana
conda team this year will be the warm
est thing in outfields that Montana has
ever had. 1t will consist of McHale,
Lloyd and Hammond. The positions In
the infield have NOT been definitely de-
cided upon, but Captain Hammond will
announce them in a few days.
Manager +. j. O'Brien has decided to
hang up a handsome gold medal to be
presented to the player making the best
all around average for the year, in bat
ting, base running and fielding. This
is looked upon as an inducement for
everybody to set to work with a will.
1t has not yet been decided whether or
not the club will be decked out with
new uniforms or whether they will con-
tinue to use the black and gold of last
year.. The club will be fitted out with
new suits some time during the year.,
but II is not yet determined whether IL
will be Immediately or not.
2 All that needs to be o now is to
maintain the splendid reputation made
by the Anaconda Pirates of 1887 is to
get out and practice together. The only
way that a baseball team can win
games is to play together and this can
only be done by team work. No fine
day or evening should be overlooked by
the boys. but every that can
be devoted to II should be put in at
practice. The time from now until the
season opens in the early part of May
is short and there is no time to be
wasted.
The footballers are not overlooking
any fine weather, either. For the past
two evenings the pigskin kickers have
been putting in some hard work on the
vacant lot just south of the library
building, where the ground is sufficient
ly dried out. Arlett, McHugh and Pete
Smith Of California, who are old and
experienced men on the gridiron. are
making a wonderful improvement in
the work of the home boys, and Man
ager Mcmillan confidently expects that
by the time the date for the first game
arrives he will have as good a football
team as ever stepped upon a gridiron in
the state of Montana.
Z The boys are rather stiff after their
winters Information. but a few weeks |
pf such weather as the past day or two |
has brought forth will put them on a
good war footing" In football, as In
baseball. everything depends on prac-
tice and team work, n Manager Nc
MILAN promises to utilize every possible
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The practice in the evening will be
kept up daily as long as the weather
permits n Sundays will also be de-
voted to practice. Phil Daniels. one
of the biggest cranks in town, is of the
decided opinion that Anaconda will end
the football season with a c~reditable !
number Of victories. and when the
time comes Phil will be ready
TO back his opinion in a substantial way. |
Definite arrangements for the opening
OF the football season will probably be
made in a few days.
The month of April. while not general
1y regarded as the most pleasant of
months for outdoor sports. yet holds in
store one pastime which Is never over
looked by people in these parts. That
is fishing. In April the ice upon the
creeks n rivers generally breaks up.
n the old fisherman will tell you Of
many a fine string that was caught
during the month of April, especially
during some of the warm, misty or
rainy days which generally occur dur-
ing this month. Beefsteak is the bait
used by most people for early fishing,
the true sportsman will never at
tempt to lure the trout with this low
and vulgar snare. He will take his
chances with the black gnat and the
hackle. and while the beefsteak fisher
may sit on a rock and murder more
hungry trout, the true disciple of
Isaac Walton will be happy in the
knowledge that he won his string nom
estly and through skillful methods.
This month will see the getting down of
rods, the examining of fly hooks. the