Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-07-31
DIAMOND DUST

Ene wound maue III the uedrth VI
all Ferryville by their former visi-
tation. And they came with a
record a yard long and three feet
wide, and notches enough on their
guns to make the best deadshot in
Texas hunt his hole some sudden
and heap agile. They came into
town with much confidence and
more swagger. Did they leave the
same way? No-not hardly
The game went twelve innings to
a finish-Libby's fnish-and one
can almost imagine what nice
little game it was when he learns
that it consumed twelve whole in
nings and the score was 3 to z.
Both teams made score in the
first inning, and then the game got
so gol- blasted hot that the writer
must have gone bugs temporarily.
At all events we neglected to make
the proper notes of the game at the
time, and so are unable to give our
readers a detailed write-up. But
we say that the Oldest Inhabitant
emphatically asseverates that the
game was the best seen in Bonner
town "since the spring of '48." In
any event it was the best the writer
of this humble column has ever
witnessed here-that's cinch.
Pitcher Raasch, of the Montan-
ans smiled quizzically-even ex-
posing his brilliant worries in sar-
donic glee at the vain efforts OF the
Dreadnaughts to hit him safely.
He was hit plentifully, but the
team behind him were always in
the way and spoiled most of the
good stick work of the home team.
| In the last of the twelfth, the
Nreadnapghts, who had the last
"a at the willow, made the win
tally somewhat as follows;
re It to the visiting shortstop'
.,b "a, 'gingly used the pill for a
1911 ), vt long enough to enable
;, "a the initial angle Of
;, then hastily grabbed
' ~ the ha,l and threw it over the
6rst hasanoon,s Sp-piece and little
Carl hoofed it mer. usy ~ H
Upon arriving at tn ~ .;,,,o,
ing no sign of the bali MA w. -
hoofing it. But just tn,
hide appeared and schoo. e -.
be nearly out, but the seco y
man threw the ball at the SAT-
stand, little Carl came pa. ANe'
home into the outstretched arm.
his comrades and the awful su
pense was over.
Almost from the first the writer
a peculiar thing which set
him to thinking. Raasch, as we
said before, was hit freely, but the
ball somehow seemed always to go
straight at Montanan. This kept
up until we could stand it no long
er and whispered our suspicious
into the shell-like ear of Heather
shaw, cop. Result: Bill corralled |
the whole Libby outfit at the close
OF the game and began a rigid inves-
tigation. Result No 2: In the hip
pocket of each player was found a
powerful magnet of the size of an
ordinary iron horseshoe. Raasch
stamped a shapely foot in impo-
tent rage, but all to no avail. The
unrelenting Bill carried his med
ding vestigations further and had
both balls used during the game
cut open. Result NO. &: A small
but powerful magnet was found In
the center of both bs liz. This ex-
plains everything. Oh. it was a
great game!
The Tigers of Standpoint were
reported to stop off here Tuesday
on their way home from Kalispell
but got cold feet and went or
through. 1t GEMS as though the,
nave been si,1e-ste'p pipg Bonner
Ferry for so Long now that weir
beginning to wonder if they aren'
afraid of oar rellowne Dread
naughts.