The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-28
CROWD WAS O|SGUSTED
With the Game Between the B
& M. and Pocatello.
A WRETCHED EXHIBITION
Eighteen to Eleven Was the Score by
Which the Home Team Won.
Pitchers Were Batted All
Over the Flat.

| to baseball game this season wit.
messed the second of the Boston & Mon
| tana-Pocatello series at Athletic park
yesterday afternoon. There were not
less than 1000 or 1900 people in attend
ance and they were shamefully bum
coed out of their money. 1t was the
wretchedest exhibition of baseball i'm
aginable, as bad as the game the day
before was good, and the crowd went
ton & Montana won by score of IS
to II.
Local ball enthusiasts have worked
nara all season to bring the game into
popularity again. Yesterdays crowd
at the time the game opened would in
cicate they had achieved a fair meas
ure of success, but the character of the
play was so bad that it is doubtful if
another crowd of the kind can be drawn
cut again this season. In contrast with
saturdays game, when the work of the
pitchers was of the highest order of
merit, but seven safe hits being made,
yesterday the twirlers were all out of
sorts and Were literally batted all over
the fiat, total of 35 safe hits being
made during the game. The visitors
put in Gearhard and McDonough was in
the box for Boston & Montana. Two
poorer substitutes for Eubanks and
King could not have been selected.
Neither had control, speed nor curves
that were in any way elusive, and the
result was they We're hit steadily from
start to finish, IS hits being made off
Gearhard and II off McDonough. The
fielding was also wretchedly had in
places and altogether the players could
scarcely have done poorer work If they
had tried. There were few exceptions
to the rule. notably in the work of Ora
ham, new man on the Boston & Mon
tana team, who played league ball from
start to finish. He had three safe hits
one ree-bagger, two-bagger and
single and supplemented his fine bat
ting by doing excellent work in the
field. Perham at first also did great
work, as did Donahue at second. Rank
errors on the part of most of the other
players marred what good work they
did
Boston & Montana started the run
getting in the first inning and made
runs in every inning but the sixth and
eighth. The score at the end of the
first showed four runs for the B. & M,
two hits, three stolen bases and two
men hit by the pitcher. Pocatello was
unable to score, the first three men
up flying out to the field.
A combination of bad errors and hard
hitting let in two more runs for Bos-
ton & Montana in the second and one
for Pocatello. In the last half of this
inning Sutton made pretty double
play and, getting ratified, missed a
triple, rare opportunity. Martin, who
was on third, started home when Dates
man hit to Sutton, who made a fine
stop, quick as lightning threw to first,
throwing the runner out. Just then Sed
dons, at second, started for third and
Perham sent the ball back to Sutton,
who allowed it to go through him and
thereby missed an opportunity he will
not get again in long time.
Hard hitting, in which there were a
hree-bagger, a couple of two-baggers
two or three singles and more errors
enabled each side to advance the score
two runs each in the third. In the
fourth more smuggling and more errors
gave the home team two more runs
and the visitors five. In the fifth Bos-
ton & Montana added four more runs
to their score and Boylan of the visit
ors, who had been letting anything
and everything go by him, was sent out
to center field and Rand was brought
in to take his place. The visitors had
to content themselves. with one run.
The monotony of seeing men going
around the diamond was broken In the
sixth, when neither side scored. Bcs-
ton & Montana annexed another run in
the seventh, but the visitors failed
During the play Martin, Boylan and
Datesman took advantage of an oppor-
tunity to make very neat double play.
The eighth was another glaring excep-
ton to the rule, neither side getting a
man TO first. In the ninth, by the
same sort of batting and errors that
prevailed throughout, Boston & Mon
tana scored three more runs and Poca-
tello two and the agony was over.
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