The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-29
NACONDA NE VS..
GETTING DOWN TO WORK
The Anacondas Putting in Days
Of Hard Practice.
FIRST CLASS CONDITION
Arrangements Being Made for Games
With Butte. Aissoula and
Helena-0oseip of the
Diamond.

The baseball fever Is taking on its
virulent form. Sundays game showed
. few weak spots in the work of the
Anaconda team and since then the team
HAS been hard at work polishing up the
rough places. Yesterday the men put
in an afternoon Of practice at the park
In their uniforms and hard practice will
be kept up until the team is in first-class
condition.
A game with Butte is among the pos
abilities OF the e future. Arrange
ments are being made. but nothing def
4lte has been decided upon yet. The
Anaconda team is anxious for a game,
as II wants to find out what kind of
baseball timber Butte is going to put
on the market this year
Next Sunday there will be a prac-
tfce game at the Park between the
Anacondas and the Juniors. which lat
ter team is expected to render a good
account Of themselves.
Missoula is anxious to have the Ana
conda team visit Missoula and open the
season, but the matter has not yet been
decided. 1t is said that Missoula is
preparing to put a strong team in the
field this year and are determined to
make Anaconda hustle to keep it's laur-
els.
Arrangements are pending between
the Anaconda team and the Helenas for
a game on the Fourth of July in Helena.
The Helena team has not yet completed
its organization.
The grounds at the park are being
put into first-class shape.
The performance OF Hughes and
B~reitenstein in last Fridays game has
created considerable comment. The st.
Louis Globe-Democrat says:
The performance Of Hughes and Brei-
tenstein in shutting out their opponents
with neither hit nor run were more SEN
sational. This is the first time in the
history Of professional baseball that
two such feats were performed on the
same day. Hughes, the Orioles new
twirler, whom Hughey Jennings signed
for Baltimore last winter at Sacramento,
Cal, after the local team of tina place
had defeated the Orioles with him on
the rubber, a the heavy Boston bat
ters completely at his mercy during the
entire nine innings. Not a hit was made
by Captain Duffy's men.
.Breitenstein fooled the Pittsburgs,
and, when yesterdays battle at Cincin-
natl was concluded, the Pirates had a
row Of ciphers in both their hit Inc run
columns. The great st. Louis southpaw
allowed only % men to go to bat in the
nine innings, and not a single man got
as far as second base. Breitenstein Is
in great form this spring, n is apt to
enjoy the most prosperous season in his
career as a professional this year.
The Chicago Tribune says:
All records in baseball were broken
yesterday when two National league
teams were shut out without a base hit.
Only one league team was retired with
out a hit in four seasons, beginning in
1894, yet or yesterday Gun Hughes
performed the feat against the Boston
champions at Baltimore, and Breiten-
stein. C~incinnatd's left-hander, did the
same trick against Pittsburg. In 1898
Hawke of Baltimore shut out an oppos-
ing team hitless, then the feat was not
duplicated until Sept. Is of last year,
when Young let down Cincinnati with
out a base hit at Cleveland, although II
has been alleged the scorers helped ac-
complish the feat by calling what was
really a base hit an error. Another re-
markable feature of yesterdays per-
Torrance was that it came SO early in
the season. Last season il was May II
before a league club was held down to
wv hits. Only once last season did a
pitcher hold league opponents down to
a single hit-that was Rusie against
Cincinnati, Sept. 3, and the game lasted
but seven innings. Only five times last
year did pitchers hold league teams
down TO TWO singles. Already tnlS mas
been done twice this season-by Hughes
against Washington and by Griffith
against Louisville.
Tim Mcdonald of the league staff Of
umpires, who will help umpire the Gin
cinnati-C Chicago series is the Tim Hurst
of San Francisco pugilistic circles. I'm
pire Mcdonald refereed a number of
the most important contests in San
Francisco this winter. He kinks that
Jim Jeffries is the coming champion of
the world.
Jimmie Ryan is the only member Of
the Chicago team who has signed the
Brush resolution. Clark Griffith wanted
to know II the fact that most of the
Chicago players had refused to sign the
resolution had created any comment.
81 don't believe in giving any body of
men the right to take a mans living
away from him." said Clark. II don
care what the player may be guilty of.
/ think that is going too far. If the
resolution provided for suspension or for
a fine I would agree to 1t. But I'll hold
out against the expulsion clause"
ITO sign that resolution is equivalent
to saying that you had been guilty of
the conduct that was described in that
circular" said Callahan. Now, i never
used such language on the ball field,
and I never heard any one else use any
thing quite as strong as was contained
in that circular. That is the reason I
did not sign it."