The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-07-22
Finals In Tennis Tournament.

The concluding sets in the local tour
nament were played yesterday afternoon
| on the courts of the Butte Golf club,
| and found George Busch, the winner of
winners of the doubles. Busch in the
the singles and Busch and Jones. the
| finals of the singles defeated D. D. Nc
| Laughlin, 81, Ga. In the finals of the
doubles. Busch and Jones defeated Nc
Laughlin and DR.. O'Connor. 6-1, GA.
! the games were all stubborn1y con-
! tested and though the scores of the sets
would indicate a one sidedness, such was
not the case, as many of the games
were of the deuce variety. In the sim
giles particularly, it was anybody's game
| until the last serve.
There is some talk now of holding an
| other tournament between the players
of the Butte Golf club and those of the
| Butte Tennis club The date has not
been fixed but will probably Ire an
! nounced within the present week. DR..
O'Connor, Mclaughlin, Busch and
Jones will undoubtedly be the local rep
resentatives at the state tennis tourna-
ment to be held in Butte August 20 to a.
! inclusive.
Race for Bicycle Championship. /
(By Associated Press.) M
|
the French cyclist and Bobby Walthour
Of Atlanta. Ga, will meet tonight at
Madison Square Garden in a contest FOR
the national paced bicycle championship.
The race is expected to be close as the
men are evenly matched.
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Joy in Dublin Gulch.
Dublin Gulch today is much like Mud
town was after the mighty Casey struck
out, as the story goes. There is no joy
there for the baseball team yesterday
met defeat at the hands Of the team
from the Anaconda nine. The score was
Z to 6, and that tells the story; a hard
fought game with defeat hard to
swallow. The game was played at Ath-
letic Park and was witnessed by the
cohorts of both teams and small num-
Ter of impartial FANS
Boulder Defeats Helena.
From Boulder comes the news Of the
defeat of the Helena ball tossers by
the home team. The score was Is to 3,
and that means an inability to hit and
!. penchant for errors on the part Foi
the Helena aggregation. The features
of the game were the work of Merkle, in
the outer garden and the stick IA
miliarity of Perham. Boulder is sched-
C'ed to play a game in Butte in the
near future. The team is credited with
, a record of seven straight games.
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A Policy Joint smasher.
The sporting proclivities of her two
sons, impelled Mrs. Mary E. Dickens o.
I I.eavenworth, Was, to do a smashing
stunt, Saturday night and the result !:
( that policy joint is now in ruins. I
appears that the sons Of Mrs. Dicken!
Eambled in the place and lost money
and that fact so incensed the mater
3 that she decided to put the joint on
Of buiness. She surprised about &
] dozen men in the place and be
fore they recovered their composure
chopped the policy wheel into bits. will
a Ratchet. She now threatens to de
: n1olish every policy shop in sthe city
\ If the authorities do not close them
! Policy is of course policy, but 1t woult
be better policy for the proprietors O.
the policy joints to close up before
> there is the Dickens to pay again.
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Good By to Green and walne.
John Green and Robert walne. whose
figures, astride wheels, have been ia
lailiar at the saucer since it opened
left last night for Salt Lake. where they
will spend a few days before going east
; The plucky riders intend taking ir
Chicago and then all eastern cities IL
which bicycle tracks are located. They
want to see as much of the United
States as they can before returning tt