The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-04-24
TODAY Is THE
DAY TO SHOUT
Butte's Champions Go After
Scslps of the Elders.
ALL TO HAPPEN AT WALKERS
IF NECESSARY GASOLINE AND
sAWDUsT WILL BE BURNED.

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The weather man will have TO come
stronger than he has all week if it IS
mis- intention 10 keep the Butte champions
and Salt Lake team from crossing bats
this afternoon at Walkers. Even IL he
should keep busy all night. the cOmbina-
ton framed up against him is so strong
That the boys viii still play ball Old Sol
himself. who seems 10 be IN league with
the man who handles the weather, has
been sidetracked and in his place is
barrel OF gasoline and 100 pounds OF saw
dust TO be used if necessary 10 dry out
Killed. all over the diamond. saturated with
gasoline and then set on fire. The burn
ing of Rome By Nero for his own
amusement will not be a marker to the
blaze down at Walkers. Yesterdays rain
evening as fast as it fen and unless it
pours down this afternoon there viii be
lively times at the baseball park.
Manager Walter WiImot and his band
OF champions arrived in salt Lake yester-
day afternoon and after laying down
their luggage and bat bags announced
that IL was their intention to clean up
everything in the baseball line in Zion
today. They said they came all the way
from Kansas TO take n fall out Of the
Elders before tacklng the Indians at Spo-
kane next Tuesday and nothing but the
reddest kind of gore would satisfy them.
For the past three weeks the Miners have
,'een eating UP the baseball teams down
sround Kansas and now they are after
digger game. Wilmot SAYS his men are
all in fine playing condition and that he
has much stronger team than last year
Nearly all Of the Butte players are IA
ntliar to Salt Lake fans there being but
Two changes In the lineup since last sea-
son. HoffmeisteT at third and dad"
Clark at left field. Park is well known
here and in ogden where he has played
Tor the past four years, and Hoffmeister
Is n former National League player. Swim
dellsi catcher. Schaffer at first, ''Piggy''
W ard at second, Runkle at short. McHale
At middle field and Spencer at right we're
al on the team last year. For pitchers
Ntlmot has Bandelin Of last years team
ana SDOrcr a new man Jim Conner and
Charlie Howell. Butte's two other twirl-
ers will meet the team at Spokane.
The Cleveland correspondent Of the
Sporting Life says the Clevelands VIII
keep but one left-handed pitcher. and IL
lies between Hickey and Hess for the
I3o. with prospects in favor of Hickey.
The latter. however made a poor show
ing in recent game
A Pittsbtirg paper saws Of Pfister:
The only slab man with the Pittsburgs
who seems to have taken a back seat
seems TO be Pfister. from the Pacific
coast. He is wild and ragged. Sickness
Is blamed for the mans showing. There
is something in the southpaw. otherwise
the management would have bounced
him long ago.
McCloskey finds it hard work 10 get
teams to play practice games with Boise
and has hit upon a novel plan for a game
with the High school boys. which is
certainly unique. The game is to he
played as follows. according to the
"a movement is on foot for n double
discount game between the league team
and the High school nine on Saturday
afternoon at Riverside. The leagueTs
will put out six of the boys every In
ming and for each run scored by the lat
ter one viii he taken from the other side
fhf- han6fppn IL not enough make
the game even, McCIoskey will furnish
the school boys with a battery. Such
a game would be great practice for both
the High school team and the leaguers
and would furnish any amount Of eX-
element for the spectators. The school
boys have "A clever team and If they can
he induced to meet the big men on the
terms suggested the game ought 10 be
worth seeing. The school children would
likely he admitted for . cents and no
doubt they would attend i'm large num-
bcrs to cheer their comrades
There is at least one pitcher IN the state
Of Missouri who was shown by the Butte
team the kind OF baseball players they
have out in this country. His name IS
'PodEe' Alloway and he IS one of the
pitching staff on the Kansas city team
While Butte was playing in Kansas City,
AllOway ran across Piggy W ard. an
oId-time teammate Of ms. He asked
Ward what he hit in p. n. L. and Ward
said a little above the 80 mark. Turn-
ing around 20 a crowd of bail players,
AlloWay said. well tnat must De a
brush league II Piggy Ward can hit
The next day Alloway went in for Kan
sas City and in the third inning he was
knocked clear out Of the box by the Min
ors Ward had faced him twice and got
n two and three-baEger out of the Two
times up. Alloway has a better opinion
Of p. y. 7. ball players now.
While away on their eastern training
trip the Miners played I'm all six games
and won four Of them The Miners beac
the Kansas City American association
IN by a score Of to I. Topeka was beat
en- by a score Of 13 to 3, the Leavenworth
team twice by scores of > 10 , and . TO
2. Two games were scheduled in Denver,
only one being played on account of the
weather. and Denver won by score or
. 10 ?.
Eddie Householder has found a berth
with the Little Rock team and is certain
" keeping up his reputation of being able
60 line the ball TO place or safety as well
as the next one. The managers are pre-
dieting great things for him. Tim Hur-
Icy. the utility man Of the team. IL well
known to the local followers of tho game,
having played throughout the northwest.
sam LaRouue. who held down the third
cushion for the Butte team last season,
IS now managing and acting as captain
for the Savannah. Ga. team in the South
Atlantic league.
Manager T. Gum writes from Castillo
Springs that he has two teams of DlqNprs
On hand and that the past week several
interesting games were played down
there 10 put the boys in shape for the
coming season. These teams are made
up Of amateur players from all over the
state and line up as follows:
First team-Done, c.. Hall p; TOmei-
son, ID; Beck, Oh; Butterfield, SIS; King
CD. Gum. If: Peterson. CT. Clark RI
Second team-AfcIntosh. a.: Bates. D.:
BOyack, ID, ClaybOrn. 2b.: Thomas. SIS;