The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-17
A LEFEAT FOR HELtNA
Visitors Nearly Shut Out by the
B. & M. Team.
A SCIENTIFIC EXHIBITION
Butte's New Pitcher Did Things to the
Boys From the Capital City-He
Stepped From the Train
Into the Box.

Any one desiring to purchase a base
Helena at a very reasonable figure,
unless yesterdays game between the
aggregation from the Capital City and
the Boston G. Montana club at Athletic
park failed to take the conceit out
of the gentlemen who came over from
Helena with the avOwed intention of
teaching local ball tossers and the fans
a few of the mysteries of the national
game. The score at the end of yes
terday's game stood to / in favor
of the Boston & Montana, and it
should have been a shut out. 1t would
have been but for one of the home
team getting swelled because Butte was
winning in a walkover and allowing
himself to make as rank and useless
an error as was ever witnessed on a
of permitting the visitors to make the
one run that was marked down to their
credit.
line of successes, Helena came to Butte
Saturday to play two games with the
Boston & Montana team, expecting to
go back with two more victories to
their credit. They talked a great deal
about the things they expected to do
to the B. & M. team and styled them
THE Turtles" with such contempt did
they regard the proves of the local
team, which proved such an easy mark
when they played at Helena. But they
found the Butte grounds much faster
than they had ever played on, and
they also found the Boston & Mon
tant team had been strengthened and
improved since the last meeting. and
after Saturdays game it was admit
ted that 1.-The Turtles" like the play,
were not so slow.
But there was good excuse for Hell
ena's defeat Saturday. They did not
have their best pitcher in the box, but
Ryan would be in the box Sunday, and
then they would make monkeys of
Butte. The Boston & Montana boys
said very little, and Sunday came and
Ryan was in the box, but to Helena's
surprise a new star had arisen in the
east. Boston & Montana has some days
ago sent to Minneapolis for pitcher
and he arrived on yesterday mornings
train from the East in the person of
McNeely, one of Wlmots crackerjacks.
He stepped off the train at IL o'clock
after a 1,O0o-mile journey, and at 8
o'clock stepped into the pitchers box
at Athletic park. Tired from travel
and unaccustomed to the high alti-
tude as he was, he gave a star per-
Torrance, such as has not been seen
IN Butte since the days or the league.
1t turned out that it was the Helena
fellows who were made monkeys of
McNeely never gave a base on balls,
and only allowed Helena seven safe
hits during the nine innings, and these
came singly, and at times that awaited
the visitors nothing, while the much
Wanted Ryan was touched off for IL
hits, four of wf0h were two baggers,
and the hits were punched and told
heavily. Ryan only succeeded in strik-
ing out two men, while McNeely had
seven strike outs to his credit.
Saturdays game was accounted the
best baseball game seen here for a very
long time, but 1t was coarse compared
to yesterdays scientific exhibition.
But eight errors were recorded dur
ing the entire game, while plays that
were actually spectacular exhibitions
of cleverness were frequent, and close,
sure team work throughout was done
by both teams. The errors were even
ly divided and only two of them were
responsible for runs. Even these were
divided. one being charged to each
side. The work of the home team was
of so superior a character that in only
three instances did Helena man reach