Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-06-05
THE GREAT BALL GAME.
Power Mercantile Company Team Wins
From All the Americas.

poned base ball game between the
POWER Mercantile company team and
a picked nine representing All-Amer-
lea was finally played Sunday after
noon and resulted in victory for
/ The Power boys by score of II to
/ IA. A big crowd witnessed the CON
test, which was more exciting than the
past season league championship bat
tie. For several innings it was nip and
tuck. win the Power team barely in
The lead, until finally the All-Americas
TOOK balloon voyage and before they
landed, several runs had been piled
up. The Power players Immediately
afterward showed that they were not
afraid of the airship by also going up
and once more the score was about
even. A tumble by the catcher. a bad
throw and an equally bad stop allow
ed the Power aggregation to score the
winning runs.
Taken altogether. is was pretty
Sood game, and as remarked before.
the excitement was of the triple extract
kind. Bert d'Autremont and Walter
Lehman formed the battery for the
All-Americas during the major part
OF The game, and then Kreplin reliev-
ed Bert and pitched fine ball during
the remainder of the contest The bat.
terry did good work. although the
Difchprs ri l.
times. Gillian on third A. d'Autre-
mont and Deaton all distinguished
themselves both at the bat and in the
field.
For the Power team. Rathburn and
Tabor formed the battery and were
quite eftective. Knight and Simms
both fielded well, and Symmes wrap
ped out some hits that went far TO-
ward winning the game. The others
on both sides did the best they could
and kept things moving all the time.
The lineup was as follows:
Power Mercantile company-Rath-
burn, pitcher; Karcher. first base; AL
brecht short stop: Acly. second base:
Merrilees (Biedler), third base: Tabor.
catcher; Simms, left field; knight,
center field; Rehor right field
Observation-Disclosures, pitcher and
second base: Benjamin. first base;
Lenhart, short stop; Bert q Autremont.
pitcher and second base: Gillian. third
base; Lehman. catcher: Deaton, left
neld; A. 'Autremont. center field:
Henley. right field.
Notes.
\. Biedler, third baseman for the
Power team, is a thorough sportsman
and refused 10 take any unfair advan-
tase OF his opponents, catching balls
thrown to him in his teeth instead
OF his hands. He may have dropped one
or TWO, but he gave a fine exhibition
OF ball juggling. and was much an
plauded. Also. one of those II runs
was his'n. After the game his admirers
presented him with medal inscribed:
You done noble; angels could do no
more"
Mr.. Benjamin was a victim of mis-
placed confidence. All through the
game his team mates persisted in
throwing the ball at him when he
wasn't looking, and this was done
once when Ben was holding a long
distance conversation with the left
fielder over the marriage of King AL
1onso. There happened to be three men
on bases when this occurred. and
they all pranced home. Of course the
joke was on Ben, but he took it good
naturally.
Albrecht, the former Sioux chief
brought dismay to the hearts of his
antagonists several times by uttering
his terror-inspiring war whoop.
Eu. Baker acted as umpire, and dio
well. Before accepting the position,
he secured the backing of the Baker
family, which occupied a section of the
bleachers, so of course he was safe.
One of the big surprises of the day
was the running catch made by Swede
Sam, and he was given hand for
ms 1lne work. Sam was more surprised
than the spectators the first time but
he repeated the performance later in
the game. He also did some great
STICK work. and after his first time IN
II was noticed that the fieders went
away back when he grabbed the hat
Acly played a perfect game and his
victims We're many.
The backbone of the Power oggre-
CATION was the batatery. Raathburn and
Tabor kept their wits about them all
the time, and no matter what the tenn
tation was, refused to throw the hall
away.
Bill Abel was chief mascot for the
Power boys, and was at all times ready
to bet million dollars on his men
Symmes was suspected of having de-
signs on the left hand chimney of the
brewery. He sent the ball after that
chimney several times. and once
brought in all the runners, but was
trlcked out at second, thus meeting
the fate of all heroes.
Tommy Knight gathered in diff
cult fly and also distinguished him
self at the bat.
kreplin'S pitching was generally