Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1902-09-12


they can pull tho dampcr out. but tho t
smoke goes up the chimney Just the
same" was tho refrain the Red Lodge |
delegation sung as the train pulled |
out Of Billings Sunday evening. Vt |
was a song Of victory Just as much |
Us IL it Had been in heroic measure
and il brought cheer TO the hearts Of
the valiant players who took the Bill
ings club into camp upon the occasion
of this city's final game OF the season
Nor was the parody above given
the only one that the occasion de-
manded When the posters announc-
ing the game were issued at Billings
they contained the following:
Were going to win the pennant,
We're equal to the trick
We're going to start tho fireworks
With the boys from UP the 'crick.'
When The game was over the Red
Lodge boys had paraphrascd the stan
"a to the following:
"They didn't win the pcnnant,
They weren't equal to the trick,
Their fireworks were CXtinguiShCu
BY the boys from up the 'crick,'"
But better poetry than Billings
could produce was not the only thing
the Red Lodge boys had on tap. They
| had baseball in aIlOpathic doses and
when they had finished administering
| the medicine Billings had to acl<nowl-
edge that Red Lodge, as Of yore, has
| the superior team and that the boys
from up the crick" are still the hold
ers of the pennant for eastern Mon
tana.
About two hundred people accom-
panied the bal team on tho extra
leaving here early Sunday morning.
The relocated Red Lodge city band
accompanied the crowd and were
much admired by the Billings citizens,
both as to their neat and SNOWY uni
forms and the music they played.
The day, which opened auspicionsly
as to weather, developed a heavy
windstorm in the afternoon and the al
kali dust of the ball grounds rolled
up in great clouds and covered every
thing and everybody with a sable man
tie.
The game was not begun until near
| Enf,t
went to bat it was to face a strong
west wind which changed to the north
as the game progressed. It blew
worse than it did in Red Lodge upon
the occasion of tho Sunday game with
Miles City, but like that game, some
Of the best playing 81 the season was
accomplished against the elements.
Gregory was in the box for Rec
Lodge and he played like a profession
al. No game that he pitched for Miles
City against Rcd Lodge was to be com
pared with IT, lIc said he intended to
pitch the game 0f his life and he KEEP
his word. Storey supported him be
hind the bat with all the ease ant
grace and Skill for which he is noted
Red Lodge started to shut Billings out
and the score would have been to
had it depended entirely upon carnct
: made by Red Lodge in the third. Greg
ory started off with a three-bagger AM
Rose followed suit. Then Corrlga1
brought Rose in with single ant
stole second. Hiscy singled and Cor
rigan scored The run-gctting Woul'
i not have stopped there If Hisey hat
not been hit by Jim Fleming's batte'
ball in going from first to second an
was thus declared out, retiring tn
i side.
Red Lodge scored again in tn
fourth, Roger Fleming getting to frs
/ on Donovans error at short, beln
% credited with a steal to second Whe
i both he and the Billings second base
II man thought the umpire had advance
/, him a base by calling the fourth ba
4 on Corbin, when, in fact a strike wa
called. Roger thereafter reache
= third on Gregory's hit and crossed tn
n plate on Boyan's error.
Il With the score to 3 in Red Lodge
favor, one more was added in the seN
enth by Rose again scoring, hittin
out for a two-bagger and getting HON
IL on wild pitch.
Billings did not get score unit
the sixth, when Boylan made hi