The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-07-07
Came in from Farm and Camp and Country
Village
and ENJOYED THE HOSPITALITY
OF the People Of Kaispe~s Crowd at the Fair Grounds
Record Breaker--Progral1 arried Out Without
Htch--Magnificent Display Of Fire Works.

until the seventh inning was in
doubt, but in that inning the Blues,
scored seven men and clinched the
game. Pratt, McLaurie and Dyer
w3le the battery for the Blues, and
Crane and Weidner for the Stars. In
the first inning the scoring COM
menced, the Stars getting four men
over the plate on errors on the
part Of their opponents, who were
apparently ratified by the immense
crowd and made several inexcusable
errors. The Blues succeeded in fore
ing in two men in their half. After
that, it was a case of shut out on the
when they scored twice. The sew
enth and eighth were also blanks
for them, but they scored the final
run in the ninth. The Blues scored
once in the third and were blanked
until the seventh, when the Stars
to score seven men. The eighth was
blank, and as they had more than
enough they did not play their half
of the ninth. McLaurie started to
catch for the Blues, but was obliged
to change with Dyer in the middle
of the game, taking the latter's place
in center field. Macs hands were
in bad condition. and while he was
gamey, it was decided to change him
about His sore fingers did not inter
fere with his batting, as he secured
three nice singles out of four times
at bat Murdock at third put up a
great game, making some sensational
Stops that evoked applause. Pratt
pitched in mastery style, and from
the start had the hard hitting Stars
at his mercy He also fielded his
position in good shape, and made
some stops of line hits that were
beauties. Dyer played his usual
steady game, and took firmer hold
On the affections of the fans. The
field work of both teams was good.
Everything that came their way, with
the exception of long liner to G.
Dickey was taken care of. In the
first inning J. Dickey and Tillotson
ing to get a fly, and both sustained
severe cuts over the eyes, Dickey
got the WORT of it, anu was obliged
to retire J. Clay taking his place
Crane. for the Stars, pitched good
game, and would have held the score
down, had his support been better.
There were eight hits made off
Pratt. and he famed five. Crane was
hit II times, and he struck out two
The game was stopped once ON ac.
count of rain, but was played in fast
time and was good one from start
to finish. John E. Lewis umpired in
a satisfactory manner, and there was
little or no wrangling over his de
cisions.
: The races, following the ball game
: were commenced with half mile
, running race between horses owned
by James Parsons and P. Finley
best two heats in three. Parsons
| horse won the second and third heats
The heats were hotly contested, therc
not being heads difference in the
UISJ lWO, Dul tuS CulTu was WO1
handily.
: In the quarter mile dash there wa:
some difficulty in scoring, and whe1
5 the signal was given to start by The
Judge, Archie F. and Bay Billy wers
about two lengths behind. The bel
5 was rung and these two checked III
10 come back, but the others kept OF
going. so they continued, being en-
: tirely out of the running. The twt
Jockeys protested and no time wa
taken, but nevertheless the winner
4 were declared. Four horses were il
the race and the Parsons horse wa
l declared the winner, although in
e fair contest Archie F. would hav'
S been the favorite.
The 20 mile relay race was some
what of a disappointment, ther
{ being but two strings of horses er
! tered, one oneed by Finley and on
by Parsons. The latter's men handle
i The rider at the changing post in bel
i ter shape than Finley's men, an
: after five miles had been ridden, hi
y rider was almost half mile ahead
At the end of the thirteen miles Fir
Il Low oaye I'm the contest his rider be