Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1903-07-08
nit of the wild steer when a roper

suit of the wild steer when a roper
missed.
The happiest man on the grounds
was the lemonade mixer Everybody
was dry and everybody drank cop
ious draughts of the beverage whose
delicate tints and insidious flavor
makes life seem like one continuous
Fourth Of July.
From the Cone Butte country Hugh
Mclaughlin, E. o. Lennon and Billy
Maynard came to help swell the crowd
and they didn't miss thing from the
bucking contest to the red lemonade.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. r. Matlock and
Mr.. and Mrs. II. r. King made a party
that came In from Kendall.
The Kendall ball team didn't i'm
press the crowd that II was a very
fast aggregation on Saturday, but
when they got In line Sunday-weil.
things looked different, to say the
least.
Tom Riser was sticking around all
dSy He comes from Kendall.
Deputy Sheriff r. NJ. Daugherty and
wife were down from Gilt Edge, but
there was bit of need for the biggest
man on the force as everybody was
good.
The list of injuries was very small
for a celebration and such a large
crowd, and no one was seriously hurt.
Tom Moore and family. Mrs. c. Z.
Mahana and children. Mr.. and Mrs.
Hodges, Herman and Henry Often,
Miss Lizzie Often and many others
did the day for Cottonwod.
Frank Samples and John Lewis
were of the number that hiked in
from Deerfield. and they, like all the
others, want to play a return engage
ment at the county fair.
John Montgomery, one of the solu-
tion men at the Barnes-King mines.
was down from Kendall and not only
had company from his own town, but
met many friends from his former
home at Philbrook.
The population from up Spring
creek came down in a bunch. and II
was a good sized bunch, too.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Wight and Ralph
Wight were a part of the Philbrook
and Utica delegation.
Il was a good crowd. a good time
and everything but good weather, but
everybody was pleased, and said they
would come again.
One of the events of greatest inter
est during the celebration on Satur-
day was the game of ball between
the Lewistown team and a team
made up of the best players Of Ken
dali and Gilt Edge. A purse of $50
was hung up for the team winning
the game, and as Manager Wagner
quietly informed his players before
the game began that the money was
needed to pay for lost balls, broken
bats and the new red suits, and other
incidental expenses, Lewistown start
ed in with the first inning with the
evident determination to pull down
the said purse.
A gentleman named Barbee, whom
some innocently intentioned person
had grievously misled into the belief
that he could pitch ball, started in to
do the pitching stunt for the visitors.
After eight hits, one of which was a
two-bagger, had been sent to various
safe spots outside the diamond. re-
sulting in eight runs. it did not require
the services of an adept in the black
art to convince the aforesaid gentle
man that base ball pitching was not
with him a bread-winning accomplish
ment. After this inning he was trans
ferred to the right outpost, where he
did good work. Hamilton took his
place on the firing line with the for
lorn hope of saving the game, but the
handicap was too great. and although
the visitors played stubbornly and
gave the new pitcher good support,
they were unable 10 overcome the
long lead piled up in the first half inn.
ing of play.
Lewistown's star wing artist, Boggs,
essayed to do the twirling for the
Reds and kept the miners guessing
all the way along. Nineteen of them
got cross-eyed trying to determine
which way his balls would curve and
failed to find out with three chances
each, and only five of them were able
to make the hike around the ring.
Tom Stout caught for the home team
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ing, when he suffered the breaking OF
one of the bones of the right hand in
taking an ''inshoot' from the bat. Old
reliable Lew Myers was substituted
for the injured player and was In his
best form. Baker caught for the Wis
itors and is undoubtedly one OF the
best in his position that has been in
a game here.
The home team added to its score
in nearly every inning and at the end
of the game the score stood 20 to ..
The large crowd on the grounds dis
played great interest in the game from
the beginning to the end. The Ken.
dali team Is weak in pitchers and
needs some practice. but 1t has the
making of a first rate amateur club
and the boys all comported them
selves as gentlemen, which made
them favorites, even If they did lose.
Charles Fredericks umpired the game
and gave satisfaction to both teams.