The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-04-19
OCClDENT AIS
DOW N AND
OUT
HELENA WINS BY SCORE OF
IA to q.
Of Yesterdays Contest With
Salt Lake Aggregation.

Although the sun was shining
brightly; although the birds were
singing their gayest spring songs. and
the baseball-loving people OF Ogden
were out in force. taking advantage Of
their first opportunity to exhibit
Easter togs at an ausDicious time,
yesterday afternoon proved TO be a
dark. dark day. Yes, brother, 1t was
dark-shady, II you will. but 1t was
not gloomy. Not by any means. The
air about the Fair Grounds Baseball
park was filled with the end man qulps.
and jests of the masculine fans and
the girlish gigglcs and squeals of APP
provaI or objectlng howls OF the
feminine rooters
The occasion Of this gathering was
tho contest between the Helena team
OF the Inter Mountain league. who nre
doing their spring training In this city,
and the negro Occidental Baseball
club of Salt Lake City,
The colored brethren gathered from
far and near in immense numbers to
cheer their representative team to vic
tory, They made their way to the
grounds In automobiles. in street cars
or walked-but they got there and they
cheered, but the result was awful,
Dusly damsels, ranging from cop
per shade TO n very black black,
dressed In everything that is consld
cred 1909 spring fashions, with their
sportiIy-inclined "fren's' of the oppo-
site sex, rooted and rooted hard, but
as one poor white-trash rootcr ex-
In N,tf
In rain barrel-they couldn't get
away"
The game itself sounded much Ike
Helena all the way through. Their
batting began to tell from the begin
ming, and they won all the way,
The first inning gave the Montana
boys four runs after the Salt Lake
team had managed to secure two runs
on three errors and clean single
down the third base line. Both teams
steadied down To the game after the
opening Inning, and IT WAS from then
on, a home,ward journey for the
Helena team, their batting and class
counting at every step. They scored
In most every period of the game, and
Mt the end, had II runs and 13 hits
TO their credit Errors were plentiful
as is usual in early training games,
but the class was there, and II Is OK
pectod that the Helena team will give
a good account Of Itself in the COM
Ing Inter Mountain league seasop,
The feature Of tho game was the
hitting of Helena's third baseman,
Morse. who connected five times for
three.base hits. 2 doubles, and a
single.
There were fully 1000 people who
Witnessed the game. but after the first
two or three innings the enthusiasm
of the fans waned and at the close OF
the NTH many Of them left the grand
stand and made their way back to
town. The game lacked the vim and
sharp playing that attaches to pro-
fessional ball, but it Is expected that
the boys will ginger up when they get
into the league gymnasium contests.
Manager Huston Is well pleased with
the showing made by his men in the
workout" and expresses the thought
that he will be able to select from
his aggregation OF players a team that
will stand good show OF winning the
pennant in the Inter-mountain league
games which Will begin in Salt Lake
May 6 Arrangements arc now being
made for game between the Helena
team and one to be managed by Dad
| Gimlin at the fair grounds next Sun
day.
The lineup in yesterdays game was