The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-07-11
fine DAY FOR
FIELD SPORTS
Baseball and Races at FIathead Fair
Association Grounds.
ARE WITNESSED BY THOUSANDS
OF Eyes of Interested Spectators
Hilton's Leaguers Win at Baseball.
Well Matched Trials of Speed Both
Running and Trotting-The Meet
ing an Unqualified Success.

The grounds of the new Flathead
Fair association were thrown open to
the public yesterday afternoon and
a large crowd took advantage of the
races and ball game to pay their first
visit to the premises. The races were
not held under the direction of the
driving association proper, but were
given by the individual members for
the benefit of outside horsemen who
had gone to the expense of bringing
their horses to Kalispell for the
Fourth of July celebration, and were
disappointed by the heavy rain. The
gate receipts amounted to several
hundred dollars and were divided
among the horsemen who had stock
in the races. The admission was so
cents, and those who dug up that
amount at the gate thought that they
were also entitled to the privilege
of the grand stand, but when they
went to enter those sacred portals,
an additional fee of Is cents stared
them in the face. This last fee, it
was explained, went to swell the cof-
fers of the driving association. The
action of the association in charging
an admission fee to the grand stand
was the subject of much adverse crit
icism, and it was rightly said that
they could from the unwary sight
-hey could from the unwary sight
seers. Fifty cents was enough to see
the quality of races that were pulled
off, and the additional charge of Is
cents will in the end do more harm
to the association than what the
small sum they derived by doing SO
will be of any benefit
The day was bright and sunshiny
and was just the kind of day for
viewing a race, and the people who
had gathered were in an appreciative
mood and were determined at all
hazards to get their moneys worth.
1t was the first time that many of
the spectators had seen the interior
of the racing grounds and all were
loud in their praise of the work of
the association. The track was rather
heavy, but that was expected, and
while no sensational time was made,
the races were well enjoyed by all.
The grand stand is large and commo-
dious, and it is built so as to com
mand a view of the entire track as
well as the baseball diamond, which
is directly opposite.
The ball game between the Grays
and Hilton's Leaguers was the first
number on the program and was
a well played game throughout. 1t
was badly broken into toward the
close by the action of the racing com
mlttee in stopping the game while
races were in progress. A large share
of the crowd would have preferred
to see the game than the races, and
were not slow in making their
feelings known. The two teams have
been trying to arrange a game to set
tie their claims of superiority for
several weeks past, but from one
cause or another they were unable to
meet. For that reason the game yes
terday was one of the hardest fought
and best played games of the season.
The Grays were unfortunate in the
initial inning, when the wildness of
their pitcher, aided by some good
stick work on the part of the Leag-
uers and the bad errors of the Grays'
center fielder, allowed six runs to ac-
cumulate for their opponents, giving
them the game. After that bad start,
however, Reed settled down, and the
remainder of the game was on the
one, two, three and out order.
Slack, for the Leaguers, pitched a
beautiful game, and with the excep-
ton of Anglewood, had all the heavy
hitters of the Grays at his mercy. He
had Is strike outs to his credit, and
at critical times he kept his head
and delivered the goods, as in the