The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-09-19

hits - Flannery, Ryan, Hammond.
Home run-Xoarfoss. Double plays
McNeeley to Hawley, Burton to Mau-
pin. Hit by pitched ball-Marshull.
Zearfoss, McNeeley (2), Hawley.
Struck out--Scott (S), Marshall, Gear
floss, Hawley (2), Denzer, Freeman,
Maupin, McDonough (3), Schnables
(2). Left III bases-Billings Z. Helena
3. Time Of game, two hours. Um.
pire Lavernash.
Notes Of the Game.
McNeeley led the fielding, having
five put-outs and two assists without al
error.
Ryan and Hansen were the only play
ers who got more than one hit, but the
home run by Zearfoss put all other hits
in the shade except FlaDnery's long
drive.
AS was the case in Saturdays game,
Billings was unlucky in her batting,
Helena's outtield catching seven hard
hit balls, while u outfeld had but a
single chance.
All of the Helena people in the au.
dience were perfectly satisfied with the
umpire until Ryan was put out. Then
they could not abuse him enough.
The Helena people did all Of the
roofing until the sixth inning. And it
was roofing Of the meanest kind, too
just like a real Helena audience. They
jeered and hooted the Billings players
and were positively ugly to Billings
people sitting rear them. But Helena's
roofing stopped after the sixth. Bill.
ings, Of course, then took it up, but it
was decent roofing that was not Often
sive to anyone.
There was not a great deal Of bet.
ting on the game. The Helena people,
ever after the close game Saturday, de:
manded odds of two and three to one,
and with the exception Of one or two
small bets, they got odds for all the
money that was up Even when the
score was II to nothing in their favor,
the Helena ''sports" still demanded
DDS and put up no money unless they
got them. Helena people, perhaps,
would bet even on the rising or set
ting Of the sun il a Billings man was to
offer them a wager that it wouldn't
rise or set. Those Helena people are
sure 'hot sports'-we don't think.
Helena has jobbed horseracing until
she can't get a race in her town. and
M or two more exhibitions like that
Of Sunday will ruin baseball at the
capital. Visiting players will first
want to know whether they are expect
ed to play ball or engge in a prize
fight. But prize-fighting still fiourishes
in Helena and perhaps she thinks it ii
right and proper to inject pugilism into
all kinds Of sport.
Casey left Billings Sunday night. os.
tensibly for Ogden. but there is "a re-
port that he has Joined the Helena
team.
Helena Independent: The Helena
boys left in high feather, fully expect.
ing to take two out Of the three games,
II not all of them. The Helena nine
not been in stronger condition from
a players point of view than it is right
now. The Billings papers will perhaps
not have quite as many mean things to
say about the capital ball nine after the
three games are played"
And Helena got one game, in which
She was outplayed at every point, only
winning on her luck, 1t was just as
The Gazette said last FIiday--Helena
will be favored with remarkable luck
1t she gets a game"
Helena Independent; The returning
H~elenaites say that the game was clean
throughout, and that the audience WAS
fair and disposed to give the Helenas
show for their white alley"
Yes, aud Billings was repaid by
u Of her hest players slugged
on the juglaI and nearly killed,
Whom Billings discovered that she had
rowdy ball players--in tho first series
with Helena-thls town fred every Qua
81 them, That's the difference between
and Hillings--the swine always
crops out IN Helena,
The Helena hog got Its tail twisted
~ Killings and went home with its
standing straight up, |.
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