The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-06-16
The Billings Baseball Club Wins
a Game from the Red
Lodge Boys.
THEWEATHER WAS BAD
But 1t MattereN Little to Either
Team-NObOdy's Game Until
the Ninth Inning.

In the midst of a rain and snow
storm the Billings baseball Club gained
a victory over the Red lodge club on
the %latter's grounds Tdesday afternoon
to the tune Of 10 ts15. The result was
contrary to Interpretations, for defeat
had rather been looked for by our boys
in view of the fact that no practicing
had been done, and they were all same
raw recruits. They left Billings with
the determination to win, but with a
a presentiment in their minds
that defeat of the worst kind was star.
ing them in the face and their minds
were not %disabused until toward the
last Of the ninth inning.
The day was net one for the best for
ball playing and the members Of both
teams are glad that no official score
was kept so that the numberless errors
could be recorded against them. This
can partially be overlooked when the
weather and condition Of the grounds
are taken into consideration. The
game started IN with a rain and ended
in a snow storm. but nothing daunted
the boys of either side. They were
neither sugar nor salt and they braved
the elements better than the crowd,
which numbered all the way from 500
to 700 people.
The boys Of the coal camp started
out in whirl.wind fashion and made
six scores in the first inning before II
boys could stop them. A good sized
goose.egg was the result of the first
time at bat by u boys. In the second
time up Red Lodge toned down a little
and stopped at one score, while our
boys went them one better. Red Lodge
had apparently lost it's fast gait, for in
the third only one score was made.
The Billings lads then made a desper-
ate effort to at least get even, which
resulted in five scores. A shut.out for
Red Lodge in the fourth and three
scores for the Magic City boys gave the
latter the lead by two, which they did
not hold long. In the fifth the coal
diggers smashed the ball for three tai
lies and placed themselves on top,
where they remained until the ninth
inning. The fifth was as nothing to
our boys as were also the sixth and
seventh. The Red Lodge boys We're
made a present of a goose.egg in the
sixth, but gained one score in the
seventh. The eighth inning gave each
club a score. The first half Of the
ninth found the home club at bat for
the last time and it made two scores,
which won it the game had not the
Billings boys put or their batting
clothes. smashed the ball for eight
scores and only stopped after running
out Of breath.
No official score being kept it is i'm
possible to ascertain the strikeouts,
base hits, etc, but the runs made by
each player are given below. The
batteries We're: Red Lodge-Lally,
Fleming and Fleming. Billings-Tay-
lor and Hines.
As will be noted Taylor accompanied
his team, being able to go at the last
moment and the boys were glad. He
pitched an excellent game, having the
best batters Of the opposing team at his
mercy nearly throughout the entire
game. Hines caught we'll and the two
proved themselves splendid players,
Paddy Fleming, who relieved Lally as
pitcher for Red Lodge about the fifth
inning. showed up nicely. In the
seventh inning he broke a finger for his
brother, Roger, who was catching, and
this may partially account for the great
lead taken by our boys in the ninth,
for Mclean, behind the bat, could not
hold him. The score is as follows: