The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-07-20
oN5ebatt AS us PLAYED
Travelling Men and a Local Club Pn.
up g Great Game of Bali at
the Driving Park.


There vas Il real ball game out at
the driving park yesterday after
noon, when Il team OF travelling men
wiped the earth with u bunch OF To-
cal ball tossers. The Mitchell boys had
l3 scores in all. while the knights
of the Grip accumulated but
10, but inasmuch as it took the locals
the first seven innings to make their
runs, while the "heIIing and calico
p%eddlers" got all theirs in the last
three, the latter maintain that
they played faster ball, and are
therefore the best team.
1t took the boys that eat at The
Widmann the first five or six innings
to got limbered up and if the game
had lasted two innings longer they
would certainly have won out, at the
gait they were going.
Out of sympathy for the home
team. who came so near going down
to a terrible defeat, We refrain from
giving their names, but the chesty
travelling men will De proud to see
their names in print, after talmost)
winning such a hard fought con
test. Everyone OF them played ii
star game.
Erllard. the meat uIan, was III the
box. and the way he took orders tor
balls and strikes was going some.
He could trim the buttons Off the
batters jacket, or throw the ball
over the race track, gust as it hap
pencd. Ostnelder. the chair mao.
was behind the bat, aud me could
stop everything except his noise.
The famous Gibson (gilll displayed
his millinery sltnpieS at first base,
and The only ball he caught was one
that struck his mitt when he wasn't
looking and stuck there. But mis-
base running was IA feature. Not
satisfied with going the entire dis
lance from first to second le always
went Is or 20 feet beyond, SO that if
the baseman couldn't catch him 90
ing he could when he came nack.
Woodward at second base had his
dry goods samples right with bin.
and every time the ball came his
way. took an order Tor immediate
delivery. Swan. the stove man, who
played short, is really huiit for
lighter work. but he made one good
hit and Sc geral fine stops-wlien he
stopped TO pick up his hat. He says
it he could rivet a stove griddle to
the bat he could hit safe every time.
Clapper at third was the candy
kid, and shared honors with Swan
in fine inield work. Both of then
expect to sign with Sioux CITY next
season. In fact, they would sign
most anywhere. Smith in left field,
another dry goods man, showed
symptoms of having played the
game before. He made several fine
running catches that were all right,
all right. Mccarthy in center field
didn't get a fielding chance, hut the
way he batted foul liners outside OF
third base made the Mitchell pitcher
very weary. Carroll. the little trunk
man, completed the team. lie was
the star bunter of the bunch. o,
would be il he could make the bat
connect with the ball. He start.d
in to play short, but be couldn't see
over the tall grass between him and
first base, so he was transfer red to
right field, where the grass was still
longer. 1t was first thought he was
still out there when the boys came
back for supper, nut he vas reported
to have been seer about The Wild
mann later in The evening.
Hough, the cloak man. was ON the
side lines aching to get in tie game.
so he batted for Gibson in the
ninth. His beautiful slide to second
was II OF the features OF the game.
though the pumire very unkiully
called him out. And by the way,
"e mustu't forget the Jumps
BaIkeI. the type man, otficiated in
that capacity, and before the game
stuffed both hip pockets with waste
paper so the players would think he
was fully AIMED. The plan worked
tine, and "Bntfalo Bill's'' decisions
WENT" no matter how. raw. The
only ma who dared TO sass him
was Swan, and Swan would sass
a Fiji Island cannibal if ..he was to
be eaten the next minute.
The crowd had a lot OF fun out OF
the game. and so did the players
There is talk of another game next
Sunday.
P...S.-At the last minute the home
team sent in a committee saving
that they have decided to he brave
and risk the humility of their
(almost) defeat even if their names
do annaHr so Wa amend thnm bore.