The Dickinson press., 1909-08-21
DICKINSON
CHAMPION

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Dickinson Defenders too Swift for
Montana Maulers-Reds Make
Brilliant Showing in the Series
of Games With Lewiston.
The series Of games played on
Saturday, Sunday and Monday with the
Lewiston team were by far the most
important of the games this season.
The Lewiston nine claim the cham
pionship of eastern Montana as our own
Reds are the champions of the western
Missouri Slope. So the -heralded
games were really to be struggle for
supremacy in a wide stretch of ter
ritory.
In Saturdays game the Dickinson
Reds covered themselves with glory by
winning by score of 8 to 4. 1t was
a spectacular game. an all-star aggre-
CATION in which the diamond fairly
scintil]ated with blazing consultations.
Grinnell eyrated, Connolly coruscated
while Asal awaited into the air after
impossible baI)s-and got them too.
Mcbride marathoned, Williams wal
loped out a homer and Kostelecky
caromed three great hits in which the
ball rose gracefully into the atmosphere
usually occupied by the Wright brothers
and demonstrated its feasibility as an
aeroplane before it condescended to
return to EARTH Out in the sunken
gardens the chief ball herder and his
assistants labored manfully with
refractory balls.
Nobody bunkered, nobody fooled,
nobody flubbed. The visitors scored
when they could and the game ended
in burst of applause from the specta-
tors that cracked the atmosphere
On Sunday i: was different. The
dazzling pyrotecbnics of the day before
gave way to cool. lsveI-headed work.
There were plenty of fouls and the
feathers flew whene yer one of them
pumped into Connolly's mitt with
dull sickening thud.
There were plenty of hits, too. but
most of them were grounders or infeld-
ers. that were gobb]ed up at the bases
before the hitter could get started.
Several worked their way around to
third base by hard, honest labor. But
always the elusive sphere failed to
connect with the hickory at the oppor-
tune moment and nobody scored until
the sixth inning. In sixth. Williams
punted his way to first Superior foot
work carried him to third and a lucky
blunder of the pig skin in running
against the big stick boosted him
across the plate and relieved the mon
otony of the goose eggs on the score
board.
In the eighth the visitors appeared to
have solved the cipher of Davis pitch
ing, for they scored one. and again in
the ninth. leaving the score to I, in
favor of Lewiston. ,vs
On Monday was played the most
interesting game of the series. During
the first inning both sides appeared to
be asleep, especially Dickinson. In
second. however, Lewiston scored one
and then Dickinson woke up and stay ed
awake during the rest of the game, so
much so, in fact, that three scores to
their credit ended the third inning.
In fourth Lewiston did some excellent
playing and scored two. In the excite
ment that followed one man kicked the
bucket-and spilled all the water out.
In the sixth Clemeo did the Weston
third-had 10 do it twice, too as the first
time was on McBride's foul tin and
Clemie was harked back to first, where
he was led in by the ear by the sleuth
who guarded that coign of vantage.
But Mcbride made good with a vacuum
cleaner next swipe that carried Clemie
to third and himself to second, and
swift shove of the ball later brought
them across the plate and credited
Dickinson with two more. Good play
ing on both sides characterized the re-
naming innings as was evidenced by
the fact that at 80 the people in the
grand stand and on the bleachers were
still glued to their seats. But the Reds
did not lose the advantage they had
gained and Lewiston made no more
scores.
The umpires were Nixon on Saturday,
Smith. Sunday, and Nixon Monday and
their decisions appeared, generally, to
give satisfaction.
The Lewiston team are gentlemen
and played q good straight classy game.
They will always be welcomed in Dick
inson. They left for the west on Tues
day.
The total score for all the Games
stands thus: Dickinson IA, Lewiston,
The score stands by innings as fol-
lows:
Saturday.
2 3 - S 6 = 8 9
Dickinson 3 o 2 o o 3 o O