The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-08-22
BILLINGS vs.. HELENA
Cowboys ALI Ready to Make the
Capital City Cracks Play
Base Ball
A VERY FAST NINE
Will Tackle Anything in the West
and Hold Its Own-After the
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the Cowboys, is ready for business and
will open series of three games next
Saturdy with Helena Oh the capin city
grounds. The Cowboys have been
strengthened since the last issue Of The
Gazette by the acquisition Of Flannery
Of Butte, who arrived here Monday
morning. He is very fast outfielder,
u heavy batter and al all-round, heady
player. Charlie Reilly. the crack third
baseman Of Kansas City will join the
team here Thursday night to play
shortstop. it being the intention to re-
lease Hansen, the Minneapolis shortstop,
who is in too fast company to hold up
his end Of the game. Scallan, the Min
neapoliH first baseman, was released
yesterday and went home this morning.
Rose has been elected captain and
the lineup OF the team will be as fol-
lows:
| Zearfross, catcher.
McNeeley, pitcher and first base.
Harker. pitcher and ffst base.
Shorer, pitcher.
Rose, seoo4 IA S4se
Marshall, nird base.
Reilly, sbOrtstop
| Scott. left field.
Flannery. center field.
Freeman, right field.
The team will leave tor Helena Fri
day night and be accompanied by a
good-sized crowd Of rooters-prob obably
a dozen or more The Northern Pacific,
it is expected, will make rate of one
fare for the round trip. Manager Nix
is still III Seattle at >sns writing, at the
bedside Of fck>sister, and unless he
returns by Friday morning N. G.. Car.
vile will likely take charge Of the team
on it's trip. From Helena tile Billings
boys expect to 60 to Pocatello, Ogden
and Salt Lake and may play series
with Butte and probably Spokane be-
fore their return home, about the 9th
of September. Then Nose teams will
play return games,i6 Billings and the
people of this CITY will be treated to
some very fast baseball. The players
of the home team declare that they will
take three straight games from Helena,
but the hackers Of the nine will be sat-
isfied il they win two out of the three
in each Of the two series to be played.
They are expected to do this, in fact,
and also to get a majority of the
games with Butte. which would give
Billings the penant as the champion
team Of Montana.
Very few Of the players of til
picked nine, which was to play the
regulars last Sunday showed up, and a
scrub game was played. The score was
26 to 8 in favor Of the regulars. The
team is practicing three hours day
and will be in good shape for the Hell
ena games.
At Butte last Saturday the Helenas
defeated the reorganized Boston & Mon
tana team by score of s to 5. The
score was 4 to 2 in favor of Butte up to
the eighth inning, when Helena made
six runs. The score shows that she
had her usual luck, twelve hits and two
errors winning. against fourteen hits
and three errors for Butte. Ryan
pitched for Helena and King and Nc.
Donough for Butte.
Butte won the Sunday game by a
score of 10 to 10, knocking st. Vrain |
out of the box in the sixth and seventh |
innings. Ryan taking his place. Hell
ena made fifteen hits and seven errors,
against sixteen and five for Butte.
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The Billings Juniors played a game
at Canyon creek last Sunday, defeating
the farmers by score Of 30 to IL.
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