The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-07-15
BASE BALL AS
1T is PLAYED
On the Local Diamond With Casey
at the Bat.
SoMERS is HoRNSWoGGLED
ey the KaIispeII Grays, Ably Assisted
by the Umpires-A Fake Game by
Which Money Is Obtained Under
False Pretenses.

The three ball players composing
the Somers Baseball team, the bat
terry and second baseman, held the
aggregation of talent comprising the
Kalispell Grays down to bedrock Sun
day and at the beginning of the sixth
inning the score stood and 5. The
Somers pitcher let down then, his
arm giving out, and the balance of
the game was so loosely played by
the other six men that in two innings
the Grays made a procession around
the bases, piling up only fourteen
scores in the next two innings and
ending the game in a disgusting dis
play.
Notwithstanding the weakness of
Inc visiting team and the fact of the
umpire being selected by the Grays,
the home team INDUCED in jockeying
and puerile acts to down the visitors,
in which they were ungracefully sec
onded by small coterie in the grand
stand. However, until the Somers
three went to pieces the Grays were
constantly in peril of losing the game.
even with the aid and assistance of
the bleachers and rooters and UNI
pires. Jack Schriner abdicated from
the lookout in the second inning, his
eye being very poor as far as the
visitors were concerned, who re-
fused to play against such odds. He
was succeeded by Teddy Logan, who
probably meant all right, but was
trifle rusty on the rules now govern
ing the national game and was sew
eral times set right by the ubiquitous
captain and second baseman of the
Somers team, who, if he was jeered
at by the rooters Tor his constant pro-
duction of the book of rules, invaria-
bly, gained his point, and finally by
his spirited play against such odds
won the admiration of the grand
stand.
Much adverse criticism was excited
by the action of the Fair association
in their methods: Having rendered
the free use of the Fair grounds for
the crowds expected to hear Eugene
V. Debs that afternoon, they sand
wiched in a ball game, charging adj
mission 10 the grounds up to the
hour $3.50 p. m, when Mr.. Debs was
expected to speak, and then to add
insult to injury, the crowd which had
assembled was held until after 4
o'clock waiting for the dubious eXhi-
bitfon of errors to be concluded.
In courtesy to the speaker and
mercy to the spectators who had
been planted on the uncomfortable
benches in the grand stand for two
mortal hours, the game should have
been called at the end of the sixth
, inning, but the Grays were not con
9 siderate of the feelings of the
wearied crowd or the crippled visi
tors, but cruelty and with malice
:. aforethought continued their seem
;, ingly endless sport.
;, The game started out to be a goo(
one and for six innings the teams
struggled, with the score five to fou
# at the end of that inning with tn
9 Grays to the good Reed and ONeil
# were the battery for the Grays, an
l. Tisdale and Harshman for the Son
ers boys. Both these pitchers wer
doing fine work and / was anybody
game
f. In the seventh inning things wer
n different the Somers boys wen
v straight up in the air, and in tha
of and the next inning the Grays ru
40 in IS scores, bringing their total u
n. to %, while the Somers boys had br
h. five. In these innings the boys froi
of the mill gave a fine exhibition {
nj baseball as it should not be playe
nd Fumbles, muffs and dope plays fo
nd lowed each other in quick succe
,r- sion, and the Grays chased aroun
,s- the diamond until their tongues hun
,b- out like dogs on a hot day
ro- 1t wasn't the fault of Tisdale IL
its mill mems pitcher, that the gan
was lost, as he threw a good gan
until his rotten support disheartent
him and he, too, went sailing arour
IN in the air In the eighth inning
no made a most rotten play, with Il
elk, bases full but otherwise he play,
OF a good game. Reed pitched his usu
no good game for the home team. and
ian deserving of credit, as he had be,
nd, sick for several days before the gan
the Gorham, the captain and second has
san man for the Somers team, is ia
zen man and a good captain. He kno7
hat the game, too.
lir- The dope play of O'Neill's came
ma the fifth inning, when with two m
on bases, the shortstop threw him