The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-08-29
GREAT FALLS IS ASPIRING
Seized With Ambition in Direction
of Professional Ball and
League Membership.
From Wednesdays Daily Gazette.

| that the Red Lodge team it defeated
was not the n the coal diggers have
been playing, but a make-shift, bunch
ed together in q hurry, owing to the
! fact that a number of their regulars
Y could not find 1t convenient to go to
the little burg at the mouth of the
\ majestic Tongue makes no difference
to the Milesians, They just
\ as hard and r erecting some mag
! nificent aerial structures in anticipa-
| tion Of their forthcoming visit to this
| town and promise to do things" to
the huskies who carry the banner Of
! the Magic City.
The young man on the journal who
tells the readers Of that paper all
about how '.Hisey swiped one" and
doc" Andrews reached up into the
clouds for another, while Butler
%pirouetted on his left ear and clutch
ed a paralyzer with his right foot is
inclined to rub it into the Billings
men for not being as graceful losers
| as. the men who mine coal. The lat
ter, he claims, are capable of putting
up a sitter game and do more. execu
| ton every way than the men from
4 Billings. In fact he makes it appear
I that the two games won from Red
Lodge were well up to anything the
Pacific Northwest league is able to
produce. The object, of course, is
\ plain. He wants to create the i'm
preston that Miles City has a team
that is a team and all others are
\ vincibles come UP here he may have
! a different story to tell.
A telegram was received this morn
ing from the manager of the Dietz,
Wyo, team saying that his players
would be here next Sunday and Mon
day. Much interest is manifested in
! the appearance of that. combination
as it has the name Of putting up a
! stiff game wherever it has played.
The gentleman for. whom the town
is named and who owns the coal
mines responsible for it's existence
is said to be an enthusiastic on the
subject of baseball and particularly
as played by the team representing
his town. The story is told, of him
that whenever the team is pitted
against what is considered a hard
proposition he "Opens his p%ocketbook
and notifies an agent at Omaha to
send him players, as he Is determin-
ed that nobody but winners shall
wear the Dietz colors. For this rea-
son the team is known throughout
northern Wyoming as the Omaha
Dietz'' team. AS Billings is generally
acknowledged to have a tolerably
hard team to beat, the probability is
that it will have to face a lot Of play
ers representing both Wyoming and
Nebraska.
The manager OF the Red Lodge team
is making a reputation for himself
down this way, whether deserved or
not, as a man who is not always to
be relied upon when it comes to mat
tiers Of baseball in which he is inter-
ested. Several times he has schedul-
ed games with this city, only to give
short notice of inability to keep his
dates, thereby necessitating %vexatious
and costly postponements. Last Mon
day was one of those occasions. Now
his peculiar way of managing is again
discernable. On his W motion 1t
was practically arranged that Miles
City should play here next Saturday
and Sunday and at Red Lodge next
Monday, Labor day. This arrange
ment was agreeable to- the local a
agement and preparations were made
accordingly. For some reason the
gentleman has seen fit to change the
programme and now notifies Billings
that Miles City will not be able to
play here on the dates agreed upon,
as it will be at Red Lodge on those
days, as we'll as on Labor day.
Fortunately the "Omaha-Dietz" team
has agreed to play here Sunday and
Monday, so there will be ball after
all, and good ball at that.
! Having beer twice defeated by Bill
} ings, Whitehall seems to have lost
caste with Miles City. The latter
had been seriously entertaining the
matter of challenging the men from
the Jefferson, but since the Billings
Whitehall games the Milesians seem
to thing them hardly worthy OF con-
sideration. Still, they magnanimous-