The Red Cloud chief., 1908-05-22
Base Ball at Bozeman
By n TRAMP, in The Dry Goods Reporter for May

unless Millisan was u professional in
disguise.
! couldn't play baseball, and told
Fisher so, and | said that Id see that
Milligan wouldn't play-much-and
Fisher told me to write an acceptance.
My headline read:
I'VE accept the challenge If tn.
Curs.' and then l proceeded tn paint
the firm of Westfull " Casey IL nice
yellow green
When Fiber read our announce
ment. the next morning, he was dc
lighted, and appointed our shoeman
captain of our team.
Both stores being closed up at 1880
T.. III, every day, so the boys would
have time for practice, and the papers
gave us n column of news" regular.
l. looked as if both stores were
going to have good advertising out Of
it, anyway.
Blu, besides that. both firms we're
dead set to win.
They hated ich other so that Keith
err side would have lost the game for
five hundred dollars.
We had contracts drawn Up that
none but employees or owners Of the
stores would be allowed to play, and
the BoHenian ball team loaned us their
park for that afternoon.
/ attended the practice of both teams
and it was a cinch that our boys were
the best players, except
That exception was Milligsn.
Milligan was going to be pitcher.
and I heard from several sources that
he used 10 pitch for the Detroit pro-
f%essionals.
I never saw him at practice with W.
& C.is boys, and they told me he was
so good he didn't need to practice.
The fact was that lubber had Il sore
thumb that he had mashed with a
tack -hamm ar, and he was trying to
cure il up in a hurry, by the time the
game came off.
The noise that Milligan was "A hot
pitcher got circulated 81 strong that
Fisher came 10 me and says, Tramp,
you can't play ball and | want you to
see that your side.kicking hobo don't
play, either. ] want you TO take him
out the night before the game and get
him so ora-eyed that he can't do
nothin' but stay at home all day. Just
! draw on me for expenses"
: Well, that looked pretty soft to me.
That was good times ahead, for fair.
Tie game las to come of on Friday,
and both stores we're to close in the
afternoon.
Each firm got out swell invitations
to the affair and had baurers about it
swung across the store fronts.
Admission to tho public q to be
10 cents per head-rcceipts to 80 to
the Bozemsn hospital and tue stores
! hired n brass band TO lead the teams
70 the grounds.
On Thursday evening, down at the
boarding house, | gets next TO Mill.
gan, aud begins to talk baseball.
Well, you know Milligan thought
that ] was at last interested in base.
ball, aud that was enough for him, and
you couldn't have torn him away from
me with a rope and tackle.
After supper We stroll down to Bar
ker's Place and played pool until
eleven o'clock. and all the time ] was
having Barker serve us the Happy
Water good AMI plenty.
By eleven, we were both tired OF
standing, and took chairs at n table
and Barker's cook served rs up 8
dandy supper, with four kinds of wine
had a hundred dollars of Fishers
money. and orders to spend it, which
did.
About twelve O'Clock, ! suggested
that we order a cab from the livery
stable. and take a ride with the tor
down, which chan'e Milligan jumped
at, and had Barker to put a quart OF
bug-juice under the seat with Il bottle
of Mauitou water and sugar, glasses
, and spoons.
We let the cabby in on that deal
and that layout Of liquid refreshmets
} didn't last twenty blocks.
Barker keeps open all night, SO ".
drove back for supplies,
tips it Off To the cabby that AN