The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-19

Never in the history of Smelter
has there been such crowd as as
sembled to see the match yesterday.
The first train, consisting of two
coaches and a baggage car, reached
the depot at about 1880 a. m. and
no sooner had the crowd been un-
loaded than back to Ely went the
train for another load. The second
consignment got in just in time for
dinner and at 2:30 everybody was
fed and happy and all hands started
for the grounds.
It is estimated that fully 600 peo-
pie witnessed the game which fol-
lowed. The weather was ideal and
everybody was in good spirits and
confident of victory. 1t didn't take
long to get started and from the drop
of the hat to the last ball the inter-
est never tagged.
The umpires were Messrs. Long of
Smelter and Porch of Ely, and their
decisions left nothing to be desired
All in all it was a good,clean. fast
game and Smelter and Ely enjoyed
themselves to the limit notwith-
standing the disappointment among
the Smelter's routs.
While the game was in progress,
the grounds surrounding the old Nc
Gill house were we'll filled with la
dies, babies, and not a few of the
"men folks" who preferred an after
noon of quiet comfort to the more
strenuous pursuit of watching the
game. The gold fish in the creeks
and ponds of the ranch came in for
a large share of attention, one gen
tleman taking home as many as la
of them as souvenirs of the visit.
Still other parties put in the day
looking over the extensive works.
The many different plants were visit
ed in turn, and every courtesy was
shown the strangers by such of the
force as happened to be on duty.
The weather was hot, very hot,
and many of those who came will
carry back mementoes of the day in
the shape of sunburned faces, necks
and wrists, which it will require a
period of several days (and nights)
to enable them to forget.
1t was a happy, care-free crowd,
however, and Judging from the dlf-
ferent expressions heard on the
grounds. the day will long be remem-
bered as one of the pleasantest in
some time.
Gun Club Shoot.
The feature of the Gun club blue
rock shoot was the work of j. M.
Anderson of Smelter. While with
ont practice for many months past,
Mr.. Anderson nevertheless took up a
strange gun, over an entirely new
tran and field and made 20 straight
dead birds.
This gave him the Browning gold
medal, which he wore with evident
pride during the afternoon. Upon
the conclusion of the shooting. how
ever, his sense of justice impelled
him to return it, to be shot for again
next week at Ely.
The shoot began at o'clock in the
afternoon. The men were warned
before the sport began that any man
breaking the rules by coming to the
firing line or leaving it with his gun
loaded, would be promptly fined
There was slight breeze when the
shooting began and it lasted while
the first two squads were firing, but
when the last squad toed the firing
line there was perfect calm.
The men were divided into three
squads. Mr.. J. NJ Anderson of the
third suuad did the best shooting OF
the day, killing twenty birds out of
twenty shots, and thereby wearing
the Browning gold medal The rest
of the sportsmen did very good work,
most of them making good averages.
The trap shooting, taken all in all,
was very interesting event and even
when the baseball game started, held
large number of spectators. A
number of Smelter sportsmen joined
the Ely gun club. The scores were
as follows:
First squad
Frank Daily ........ ....lS Dirds
J. A. Fessler 49,. -. lS Dirus
Erank Irving 16 birds