Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-08-27

esnt ever concentrated under canvas.
Once he declared Berkholder safe at
the plate.
"What! Safer" yelled Dwyer, For.
syth's shortstop behind the umpire.
"The man is out,'' said Fletcher.
Then when Miles City's big kick was
made, where the umpire had disre-
garded the plain reading of the rules,
he declared he could not alter his de-
cission. He would have altered it
perhaps had he been let alone, because
he didn't know the rules, but the For
syth players wouldn't let him; so amid
the Kisses, boots and groans of the
spectators, who naturally sided in
with their own team, though they did
not understand what the row was
about, Miles City walked off the field
in the beginning of the eighth inning
with the score 3-2 in their own favor.
The game was played on the new
grounds on the north side of the track
and east of town. The diamond was
a little slow, being freshly worked but
was very level and was considered
first rate by the players. Kersten
pitched for Forsyth and Harris for
Miles City, Thompson not having yet
recovered. 1t was Harris second
game and in neither game has he given
a base on balls.
Forsyth took the outs and Hisey was
first up. The ball struck a few feet
in front of the plate and he beat it to
first. Fox sent a grounder to the first
baseman and Kersten took the bag.
The baseman felded the ball to Ker-
stem and Fox was out. Murphy and
McLain flew out. Forsyth played in
luck and the umpire's good will and
got a run in the first inning. Yates
famed and Fox missed the third strike
but threw to first in plenty of time to
get his man. The ball hit Yates on
the withers and glanced off. Yates
attempted second on a pitched ball but
was caught by Fox and Williamson
about three feet from the base. He
was safe. Miles City entered an OBJ
lection but the court refused to sustain
it. Yates finished the run on a
grounder from Dwyer to Williamson.
It was impossible to cut Yates off at
home so Dwyer was thrown out at
first. Siclller had already flew out to
Harris and Schuels struck out.
Five men were up in the second and
nobody struck out but no runs were
made by Miles. Kersten caught But
tier between second and third. Butler
let kersten come at him until he
could dodge away but couldn't get
started and was caught. Forsyth got
their second present from the umpire
Wager knocked a liner to Barnett,
which he dropped. He threw to first
however, in time to catch Wager about
a foot off. He was safe. Once more
an objection was filed. This also was
turned down. It was merely an error
of judgment such as many man might
make and would be a disputed point in
any game SO it was passed by. Wager
also scored. Kersten got an alleged
two bagger by cutting to second. The
umpire didn't have his specs on and he
was safe and Wager scored.
In the fifth inning Miles began to
get some Of the balls they had been
batting around before into spots that
were unprotected. Two men struck
out. Burkholder came to the bat and
singled to short left. Hisey singled
over second and Fox followed suit.
Burkholder kept coming all the way
from second and got to the plate lust
about the same time as the ball. The
umpire first called him safe. Then
Dwyer and the rest roared, which is
ball players acknowledged priv.
lege, and Fletcher turned his tail.
The three singles of that inning
were followed by two in the sixth but
still no runs were made. In Forsyth
half Sickler knocked a two bagge,
but Murphy, Butler and Fox doubled
him up with Dwyer on grounder te
short.
The eighth inning broke up the
game. Murphy had already scored
Butler was on third, Harris on frs
and Barnet at the bat. Harris started