The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-05-06
BOHEMIAN CHAMPIONS LEAVE
THEIR scALPs BEHIND.
BASE BALL SEASON IS OPEN
Golfers CIRCULARS" Lose Ragged
Game to Scrubs" by Very
Small Margin.
n Mondays Daily Gazette.

~ While not claiming the champion.
. ship of the state, the Magic City
Bowling club has the satisfaction OF
having a team that has beaten. the
one which does lay claim to that title,
Bohemian being defeated in Saturdays
tournament by the local bowlers.
The first game.of the series schedul-
ed for the three teams went to Liv-
ingston and in this the Billings men
were worsted, but by a narrow mar
gin, the men from the Windy City
winning by 26 pins. The defeat, how
ever, was disappointing to the home
players, as it was the result of one
or two poor plays by a couple OF their
best men, and ones who usually may
be relied upon at the most critical
points. But such things will happen
when least expected.
In the second game Livingston was
pitted against the champions, the men
from Bozeman. The players from the
Gallatin valley found it merely
pastime to vanquish their opponents,
beating them by the handsome ma
jority of 81 pins.
Billings Beats Champions.
Each of the visiting teams now
having won a game and Billings hav-
ing to go against the acknowledged
champions of the state, interest in the
remaining game was of the liveliese.
While the home men said nothing,
the visitors were free in their pre-
dictions that only one result was pos
sible-Billings would be shut out, for
had not Livingston beaten them and
had not Livingston in turn bee de-
feated by Bozeman? But their cal
culations aid not correspond with the
results. The drubbing they had re-
ceived from Livingston merely acted
as a bracer for the home men and
when they inserted their fingers into
holes of the wooden spheres it was
with the determination to show the
boosters a new. trick. It was no walk
away, but the main end in view was
accomplished, just the same. When
the cores were footed up it was
shown that Billings had won by 10
pins.
A Wild Crowd.
The demonstration with which the
announcement was received threaten
ed to seriously injure the building.
Noise? Yes, there was noise, and
plenty of it. Yells, cheers and other
exhibitions of the widest and most
frantic joy were INDUCED in to an
extent that would have made the
c~raziest fan that ever rooted" at a
baseball game hang his head in
shame and wonder why he ever
thought he could give encouragement
to- a ~favorite. But the noise and yells
had not been reserved for the out
come. Wilder or more persistent and
determined roofing" had never been
seen anywhere than marked the prog
ress of the entire game and some Of
the more enthusiastic e~ncouragers of
the home talent found themselves SO
hoarse and tired when the end came
that all they could do was to wave
their arms and distort their faces
in vain endeavor to make themselves
heard.
1t was one of the widest scenes
ever witnessed at a contest of any
kind. But there was excuse for it.
Bozeman had come down with an al
most clean record, having been de-
feated only once before in d series
of II match games, the game lost be-
ing won by Butte. It was such an
unusual experience for the home men
to- topple over top notchers that al
most anything was pardonable on the
part of their partisans.
It must be admitted that the Boze-
nantes made a heroic effort at pre-
serving appearance and sought to
make it e that they took their de-
feat gracefully, but the trial to which
they were put was a little too hard
and try as they might they could not
conceal their. disappointment and
chagrin. The easy manner in which
they had downed Livingston made
their unexpected and undreamed of
defeat by Billings all the harder to
bear. But they promised to try again
and with different results the next
time.
BASEBALL SEASON OPENED.