Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-06-29
GREAT DAY
FOR MOORE
Two Hundred lewistown People Ae'
company the Ball Team to
Rock Creek.
BALL GAME WAS A HUMMER
County Seat Aggregation Walk Away
With Contest But Meets With
Stubborn Resistance.
BALL GAME WAS A HUMMER

When II m 10 working up an
excursion in record breaking time,
the Lewistown base ball a un-
doubtedly walks away with the pas
try; and when it comes 10 running an
excursion as il should be run the Mon
tana railroad company occupies a po-
sition very close to the head of the
procession. Both facts were abund.
antly demonstrated last Saturday ev'
ening and Sunday.
The Lewistown ball team had agreed
to play a game with the ambitious
youngsters of Moore, the growing me
tropolis of Rock Creek bench. Rigs
were engaged to take the team out
there Sunday morning but about
O'Clock Saturday evening George
Stone, who is a 2i-carat ian, suggest
ed to some of the boys that they get
up an excursion and take out a train
load Of rooters. There are a number
of people who do not extend 10 the
local team the encouragement OF their
vocal chords when a game is played
here, and the players decided that
they would take the bunch out Ia
another town and see how they would
act.
Fred sheldon, when communicated
with concerning the project, rose to
the occasion like the good fellow that
ne is. He telephoneo to Manager
Robertson, who had already told him
to let the boys have the train if they
wanted 1t. The company, in order to
be on the safe side and also to en-
courage the boys to get together a good
crowd asked that a crowd of 70 people
or that amount of money be guaran'
teed. Several business men, includ
ing Messrs. Stone, War;, Wagner
Lane, Delzell, f. L. Wright and 9th
ers Immediately told the boys thai
they were behind them and TO go on
and get out the tickets. The tickets
were printed by $50 and a number
of the players and other persons were
sent out for the purpose OF selling the
paste boards and also to give the con
templated excursion a big boost. Be
fore midnight enough VI the tickets
had been sold to insure that those
who so generously guaranteed the
necessary amount would not have Il
dig up"
But those selling the tickets die
not allow their efforts to flag ant
were out early Sunday morning seek
ing cXcursionists. By noon all of tn
printed tickets, some 40 in number
were sold out. The train left the de
pot grounds at lis and was loaded
But when ii arrived at the Mali
street crossing the rest of the tow
was waiting TO climb aboard. Thos'
who were not successful in getting
tickets were simply required to ham
Conductor Butcher a PUNK and wer
given their return ticket. When tn
count IA made it was found tina
there were 1874, including the bal
boys. on the train, which consiste,
of two coaches and the engine. Ey
cry available space was occupied an,
Engineer Murray took the overflow
out and back on the engine.
1t vas n of the j~olliest and bes
behaved crowds that could have bee
found anywhere. The ride out Z
Moore, which vas made in IS minutes
was thoroughly enjoyed by all pres
ent. The entire population of tn
thriving bench burg turned out t
welcome the visitors. When they al
got of the train, Ed. Rink and HoI
ace Phillips Immediately proposed Z
the city council of Moore that a Ger
sus be taken in order that their tow
will be on the next map of the stat
in big letters.
The ball game was not long Il
starting. The Moore boys have no
yet received the uniforms which the
ordered two months ago. but present
ed a good lineup of seasoned player:
The grounds had been scraped an
We're better than the ordinary cour
try grounds. Lewistown went to tn
bat first. Stout reached first on
fielder's choice, stole second and THU
while Hendricks and Williams wer
going out, and with two strikes o
Skibe, tried to steal home but wa
caught by a city block.
This shut-out encouraged the Moor
boys and they took up their ter
poles with the intention of slammin
out a few but Skibe was too stron
for them, and Stapleton, CASTOR an
Combs went out in order. lewiston
got busy In the second and by mean
OF three good hits and an error. pl
three runs across the pan. They mad
one more in the third. added anothC
in the fourth and run in two in Ii
fifth. They were handed a bunch 4,
goose eggs in the sixth. seventh an
eighth, the Moore boys putting up
stubborn article of ball Throughout
. In the ninth the reds went in for Il
purpose of fortifying themselv,
against any more ninth inning ra
lies. such as robbed them of Il
game in Gilt Edge on Miners Unic
day. Some good hard raps sent Sc
en- men across the plate. bringir
their score up to IA.
In the meanwhile, the boys fro
Moore were having all sorts of tro
Bile getting around the bases.
was beginning to look like a shut-o
for them until the firth, when "
good hits put Barney over for Il
first rum. They were shut out in Il
sixth, but in the seventh, got OF
man over the rubber. This was Il
extent of their scoring, as the lie
town boys were playing the game
their lives and the way hard chanc