The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-13
ST. VRA|N'S STRONG LEFT.
It Wins a Glorious Victory for
Butte & Boston.
GAME OF HARD HITTING
Both Teams Have Their Eyes With Them
Score, II to 16-Five Thousand
People Enjoy the Pic
mic.

The nine young men who compose the
Butte & Boston baseball club Of Butte
and the 1000 rooters can thank that
particular constellation of celestial iu-
minaries which presides over their des-
TIMES that there is in this world a good
natured, strongarmed, left-handed
young fellow named Jimmie st. vrain,
and they can render further thanks
that this selfsame Jimmie St. Vrain
yesterday had his foot against the sur
veyor's stake which serves as a pitch
er's rubber The Butte & Boston fans
can't do too much for Jimmie. The best
is none too good for him. He is en-
titled to the whole floral store. And all
this because St. Vrain pulled a game
out of the fire that looked like certain
and ignominious defeat. Doubtless a
good many other pitchers could have
done the same thing, but they couldn't
have done it quite so beautifully and
gently as Jimmie did. To st. Vrain,
therefore, is due the credit of turning
into a victory what appeared at one
time to be hopeless struggle against
overpowering odds.
The Butte & Boston and the Boston
& Montana teams of Butte played
game at Mountain View park yesterday
afternoon before an audience of 5000
people. The contest was a good one
for the general baseball fan to look at
because it was a smuggling match, but
from the view point of him who likes
the fine points of the game and Is not
particularly interested with regard to
which side wins, so long as there are
plenty of sharp, clever plays. the game
yesterday was not much. The crowd
enjoyed 1t immensely, however, and
there never was such roofing and yell
ing heard in Anaconda as that which
went up from the strong lungs and
lusty Threats Of Butte's miners. The
division of sentiment in favor of one or
the other team seemed to be about
equally divided, and every time point
was gained by one of the clubs the play
was literally cheered The day was an
ideal one for baseball, perhaps a trifle
chilly at one time. but altogether just
about right The grounds are not in
very good condition and many of the
numerous and costly errors on both
sides are due to this fact. The grass
in the diamond is bunchy and there is
no telling what direction a bounding
ball will take. Then again the grass
is as slippery as glass, and player
has all he can do to keep his feet on
a quick play. The crowd encroached
on the diamond two or three times and
once the umpire stopped the game and
would not consent to further play until
the spectators had all receded to the
'rubbernecking" side of the ropes. The
wonder is that some one was not seri-
ously injured in the jam by the many
hard driven fouls. One little boy was
struck in the chest by foul Of terrific
speed and only for the fact that he put
up his hand to ward off the ball he
must surely have been hurt. The one
thing that Mountain View park needs
ITO mako II an ideal hall ground is
grand stand, where the people can
watch the game, sheltered from the sun
and comfortably seated. The crowd
ing onto the field is responsible for two
muffs of high fouls by Catcher Will
Jams, who stopped in his runs to avoid
knocking somebody down.
But to return to the game itself. 1t
certainly looked all day with the B. &
B. for a while. McNeeley. for the Bos-
ton & Montana, started in with terrific
speed and Blenders that nearly broke in
two For four innings he kept 1t UP,
shutting out his opponents without a
run, and with but a hit or two. But
after that the Butte & Boston boys
found him freely and in one inning piled
up five runs, after which each inning
netted them two or three more. Nc
Neeleys arm seemed to give out almost
completely after the fourth. Buckley
started in to pitch for Butte & Boston,
but he could do nothing with the men
in the green clothes and, after trying
it on for four innings, he gave way to
ST. Vrain. When the change was made
the score stood to 0 in favor of Boston
G. Montana. Buckley was batted for
10 hits, ST. Vrain for nine and Nc
Neeley for 10. Costly errors on both
sides were also factor in running up
the score. Two overthrows by Butte
& Boston let In four runs and one by a