Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1902-09-03
Great Falls Base Ball Nine Takes the
Home Team Down the Line at
Very Rapid Gait.
HOME TEAM NEEDS PRACTICE
The Visitors Played a Good Game and
Won Out Each Day by a Clean
Play and Good Team Work.

ed the boys from the smelter city
and the result Of the games played on
Saturday. Sunday and Monday show
cd that il is almost impossible to put
q decent team in the field without
!, practice. Tho visiting team made
clean throws and their field work,
though nor without errors in plenty,
was fairly good and away ahead of
the Impractical efforts OF the home
team.
However, the Lewistown boys were
not without their quota of i'll luck.
". Bcbb got his hand hurt early In
Saturdays game, Meyers has been up
IDr repairs for the past two weeks,
Robertson. who was TO catch, was OFF
duty on Saturday and had his jaw
broken in the first inning in Mondays
game. Boggs pitched a good game
on Saturday but his arm quit him in
the fourth inning on Monday and Carr
was put in the box. Jcffy Johns did
some excellent work on first base and
Red Johnson filled the position of
catcher in good shape, with the ex-
ception of getting the ball to second;
he couldn't make il and the visitors
took advantage of this fact and inyar-
iahly stole the second base. w. Bebb
played pretty good ball. while Sween-
ey did some neat work in the field.
Ziegler was a little off on Saturday
but came through in better shape for
Sunday and Mondays games.
The team was strengthened on Mon
day by the addition of James Carr,
William Nader and Robertson, though
the latter did not play, and a much
better game was put up. Boggs' pitch.
ing and Johnson's catching IN Satur.
- were good ana Johns made some
star lays on first; Be5b did some
A worn on the baseS am the game
goo Nv s8ntested, the score at
was clos,. -,ath inning beisg 10
the end of the
to . In favor Great Falls. ao,
On Sunday Dietert occupied "a.
and the visitors found him pre-.
easy. He was taken off and Bona.
than substituted, but the latter was
not in practice and was hit pretty
freely. Spinning did not play in his
usual form on third and the field work
was wild. At the end of the game
the score stood 81 to 3 in favor Of
Great Falls.
on Monday a strong nine was put
the diamond, but the fact hat they
Rad not been used to playing together
did away with all possibility of get.
ting good team work. Boggs was in
the box for the first three innings.
but had TO give way to Carr owing to
his arm quitting him. The latter did
as well as could be expected from a
pitcher who is out Of practice, but the
visitors found him repeatedly for two
and three baggers Johns was there
with the goods on FIRST as usual and
Johnson. who had been substituted
for the injured Robertson, caught a
good game. Nader proved to be a
good addition to the team, while
Sweeney did good work on third. The
home team were up against the worst
OF II and played a losing game with
good grace.
The visitors played a good even
game and their field work was neat
and quick. Whitney's pitching and
Hees behind the bat was too hard a
combination for the home team and
the Great Falls boys had everything
their own way. Craigo on first nc
let anything slip and it ~.
that so many of the he'e
fate. Walker r 49, nv" heil
.uora ~. sarRsd th title Of
~,a,or- ~ WAfkrr" with the spec
i aAA Lnciet showed that hi
fFRe# huw to handle a hat to goot
advantag" Everyone of the boys
showed the result of practice ant
their tam work was good.
i, The on Monday was 81 to
n in favor at Great Falls.
n One feature of the games between
" The Great Falls and Lewistown nine
that should not bc overlooked was tn
excellent work done by Miles Gibbon
D as umpire. His decisions were lik,
g unto the laws of the Modes and PEI
Il slams and went, question or no cues
n ton. May his shadow groy
less,
The players composing the Grea
Falls nine were: Frank Walker, thir
N base; Lee Maly, center field; HerbeI
: whitney, pitcher; Henry Hees, catcl
err; Jess Crago. first base; Joe Lucie.
500 : base; Will Oriet. left field
r. Radius. short stop; Tony Weidenbacl
an er. gight field and in the box on Sa
'n turday's game.
~ The following is the score by I'M
he ings:
" Score by Innings.
SATURDAYS GAME:
of 2 : 9 5 o
hesist2T9- q Q o