Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1902-07-11
Wind Hammers From Livingston Tackle
the Black Diamonds and Lose
All Three Games.
WAS A BRILLIANT FINISH
Final Contest Ten-1nning Round and
the Visitors Went Down
and Out.

IN TINS city on the Fourth OF July ana
terminated Sunday afternoon proved
disastrous to the visiting team from
Livingston and demonstrated the fact
that Red Lodge has club the equal Of
any amateur team in the state. A series
Of three games was played and all OF
them were won by the home nine.
Unfortunately for Livingston there
were no zephyrs cavorting over
the diamond and the visitors, unused to
playing in still atmosphere, seemed
handicapped because Of the absence Of
their aeolian mascot. They were also
placed at disadvantage on account Of q
weak battery and poor support il the
right field. The latter position was oc-
cupied BY Haskell, the manager Of the
club, who has mistaken his calling and
ought to make an effort to secure job
in some statuary gallery or tender his
services to some cigar emporium as a
wooden Indian sign.
In winning the three games Red Lodge
took all the conceit out Of the visitors in
scores numbering respectively l3 to ?,
10 to and l6 to IL. The nearest Liv-
ingston came to winning game was in
the final contest, which proved to be the
most interesting and exciting one Of the
series. At the end of the ninth inning
the score stood II to II, but in the tenth
and decisive round Red Lodge made one
Of its brilliant finishes and piled up four
additional runs. In the last half of the
tenth the visitors made a strong effort to
pluck victory from the jaws Of defeat,
but couldn't even make score.
The features of the games were three
home runs, two by Red Lodge and one
by Livingston, DR.. Butler earning the
applause of the grandstand by knocking
the ball a long distance over the fence.
Roger Fleming also put the ball over the
fence, as did also w. Claybourne for
Livingston. Some heavy batting was
also done for Red Lodge by Bob Perham
and Frank Rose, the latter making d
three base hit and bringing in two runs
in addition to crossing the plate himself
on wild pitch. Eddie Corbin proved
himself valuable addition to the home
team, holding down third in good shape
and lining out a three bagger at an op
perfume time Frank Rose made several
bad errors and also several brilliant
plays, while Bert Storey captured the
grandstand and was easily the favorite
As catcher it is doubtful whether Bert
has any superior outside OF the league
teams. He plays ball from start to fin
ish and not only uses his hands, but his
head and feet as well. Donnelly
the Butte importation, pitched {
fine game on the Fourth, but fel
down lamentably on Sunday. In tht
i first game he struck out seven men K
Livingston's five. while Mullens, the Rec
Lodge barber, in Saturdays game, re
tired ten men to Livingston's four
J While Mullens hasn't the speed Of Don
nelly he seems to have the faculty o
fooling the batters to a greater exten
GtldD Uuc pllCICI DlOuSuG IlOuI J1uGOC
The first four innings of Sundays gam
Ed Hasterlik, catcher for the secon'
nine, went behind the bat to reliev
Storey who was injured in the previou
{ days game by "a slide to third. Ed di'
very we'll for a boy and gives promise 0
making good catcher with practice
Dan Fisher, who played short for tn
home team, may have been a bali playe
in his younger days but in this tourna
: ment he showed up in very poor form
being weak at the bat, bum on the bas
and rotten on the run. His inability
$ go down to second was fully demon
strated in Sundays game, when the ba
e reached the base twenty or thirty fec
I ahead Of him. It is certain that Da
J couldn't steal base if he should unde
: take the theft in the nighttime wit
q nobody looking.