The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-18

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At $40 o'clock this morning, when
the Great Northern train leaves Ana
conda, it will have on board the Ana
con6a baseball club. bound for Helena,
where to-day this city's ball tossers
and the team which represents the
capital city will meet for the first time
this season. The Anaconda boys ex-
pect to return victorious. They prom
Use that there will be no repetition Ct
last Tuesdays miserable showing in
Butte. The personnel of the team which
will go against the Helena boys will be
about the same as that which played in
Butte on Miners union day. The
struggle on the diamond at Helena to-
day may be put down in advance as
one of the most interesting games of
the year The Anaconda club will be
accompanied by few choice rooters.
There is always more or less discus
sion as to the amount of work really
performed by a pitcher in an average
ball game In yesterdays game, which
was an unusually short one, being
played in less than an hour and a half,
Smith the Mansfield pitcher, pitched
104 balls or an average of II So balls per
inning. In six innings Wiltse pitch
ed Y balls, and in the remaining three
innings Ferguson sailed up 80, making
the total number of balls pitched by
Toledo and Mansfield exactly the same
In the sixth inning Wiltse retired the
side on three pitched balls and in the
seventh Toledo went down on four. In
the fourth inning, when Mansfield made
the one run Wiltse pitched is balls and
Smith pitched 10 in the second inning,
when Toledo did not score and when
but three men faced him. In that inn
ing many We're fooled.-Toledo Bee
Tim Donahue started protracted
debate al Philadelphia as to which was
to be more feared. team of nine La
joies and Delahantys or a team of nine
Burketts and Keelers. Tim maintained
that the Burketts would have the pen
nants won by the Fourth of July.
They'd dump it down and chop it over
and line it out until your intielders
would not know where they were at"
he said. Griffith and Callahan, who
have to face them. declared they would
not go up against nine terrific hitters
like Lajoie and Delahanty for any
price. They'd put you out of the bust
ness said Grif, and they have the in
fielders mighty sore. l know you can
stop Lajoie in lots of games. You might
stop three off him, but suppose he had
six more coming right along, you'd
never be safe from triple or so clear
ing the Bases
Joe Corbett. brother of the ex-cham-
pion pugilist, and who was a we'll
known National League pitcher, has
been married to Miss Elizabeth Ma
loney, daughter of j. j. Matoney
wealthy contractor of San Francisco
Corbett, since his refusal to report for
duty with the Baltimore team has
been conducting livery business left
TO his management by the death of his
father, which occurred under tragic
circumstances several months ago. His
success has been such that he has made
UP his mind to put off the league uni
form for good so that Manager Hanlon
is not likely to cause him to alter his
determination. Owing to the recent
death of Corbett's parents, the wedding
was a very quiet affair. None but in
innate friends of the young people were
invited.
The directors Of the league have in
structed the Philadelphia, club to open
a 5e-cent gate at it's park and Colonel
Rogers announces that he will do so
This matter will probabl reach the
courts yet, for the Philadelphia club
will, it is expected. eVade the constitu-
ton and the four clubs, which will con-
sent TO a settlement OF the admissions
at Philadelphia on a 25-cent basis will
insist on a strict compliance with the
letter and spirit of the law. Develop
ments may be looked for when Gin
cinnati clubs play in Philadelphia.
The decision of the supreme court If
Indiana that Sunday ball is illegal in
that state and the refusal of the au-
thorities to permit the Detroit club to
play ball on the Sabbath in or near
that city will cause a heavy loss in re-
ceipts to all the Western League clubs.
The indianapolis and Minneapolis clubs
played at Indianapolis on Sunday
through the suffrance of the mayor.
who declares that the law will not he
enforced by him until after the eXpira-
ton of the 60 days in which rehearing
may be applied for III case before the
supreme court. The grand jury has
been instructed to indict the players if
the evidence showed that a Sunday
game had been played. All the other
clubs play Sunday games at home. and
Buffalo Is the only other city in which
there is the least prospect of interfer-
snce by the authorities. The Buffalo
players We're arrested at the close of
the eighth inning Sunday and acquitted
by jury.
Hahan has made only one hit this
season, and that was off Nichols.
the same cry that went up for Rusie
two years ago is again on in full blast