The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-14
BOSTON & MONT ANA WINS
It Piles Up a Total of IL Runs to
Anaconda's 10.
QUITE A SURPRISE PARTY
The Shelter City Club Was Strong
Favorite in the Betting at tie Start,
but B. g. M. Stock Rose in
the Third Inning.

The Boston & Montana baseball nine
treated the Anaconda club and the
public as well to the biggest surprise
party of the year in the ball game at
Athletic park yesterday afternoon. The
Boston & Montana team was only re-
Gently organized, and the men had
never had an opportunity of playing a
game together as team before. AS
consequence, not much was expected
from them, and before the game was
started it was conceded by about ev-
eryone but Jack Parrot and few other
B. & M. enthusiasts that it was all over
but marking up Anaconda's score, and
Anaconda money went begging at all
sorts of odds. Pretty nearly everyone
wanted to bet, but nearly all wanted to
get down on Anaconda. Very few
wanted Boston & Montana stock at
any price. The market was so bearlsh
that there were very few sales, even
at the prices quoted, but in the first
inning there was a marked advance IN
Boston & Montana, and when the
game was over the fellows who had
tried so hard, to bet their money We're
nightly pleased to think they didn't
get the opportunity.
The game opened with B. & M. at
the bat, and the second man up found
little stub Kings solar plexus. They
kept it up, and at the end of the third
inning the home team had piled up
nine runs, while the visitors had only
succeeded in bringing two men over
the plate. Kings wing" seemed ut
terly no good, and those who failed to
hit him got their base on balls. On the
other hand, Mike McDonough was
pitching faultless game, and it COM
menced to appear it was all up with
Anaconda, for up to this time the Wis
itors seemed to have lost their nerve,
and wild throws had done as much to
help Boston & Montana along as Kings
wild pitching. But in the fourth Cap
tain Long went into the box for the
visitors. His men settled down and
gave him better support than they had
King, and things assumed a different
aspect Long succeeded in holding the
home team down to one run in the next
four innings, and when the Anacondas
went to bat in the last half of the sew
enth they put still another face on the
situation. McDonough of the home
team seemed to lose either his head Or
his arm, and the visitors, by punching
a series of singles and doubles, brought
eight men home, tieing the score. Then
looked like anybody's game, but Nc
Donough retrieved his fallen fortunes
and refused to let the visitors get any
| more hits that counted. In the ninth
costly error for the visitors and a time
ly hit gave Butte two more runs and
the victory was theirs.
The weather was despicable and
spoiled the pleasure of the crowd of
500 or 500 people who decided to take
chances on it. When it did not rain or
hail, which it did all through the latter
half of the game, the wind filled the
air with clouds of dust. making it ex
cessively disagreeable for the specta-
tors throughout. In the latter part of
| the game the rain drove the greater
| portion of the crowd home, but the
enthusiasts, among whom was a fair
| percentage of ladies, stubbornly braved
| it out to the last.
1t was a moderately enthusiastic
| crowd, who were generous enough to
divide their plaudits pretty equally be-
| tween the opposing clubs. 1t was the
best baseball seen here this season, and
but for the miserable weather would
| have been thoroughly enjoyed.
| D. J. Smith officiated as umpire and
| Bob Perham watched the bases, and
| their work. proved eminently satisfac-
| tory to both sides.
| These were the positions of the play