The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-09-01
BATTLE FOR
SUPREMACY

Tomorrow afternoon the first
game in two weeks will be played
on the home grounds between Kali
ispell and Whitefish. These prom
ise to be the fastest games that have
ever been played on this diamond.
and no one should miss seeing them
both, and help root for our team in
this championship struggle for base
ball supremacy of the Flathead
valley, and of the state.
Since our team has been gone it
has been strengthened up WONDER
fully, and some of the fastest play
ers in tie northwest will be seen in
the line up. Kahspell has also Sc
cured II faster bunch since they
were here last, and it is not going
to be KIDS game by any means.
1t will be professional ball all the
way thru. Kalispell and White
fish have outgrown the amateur
stage. The managers have been
building up and strengthening these
two teams for the past month until
they have the fastest bunch Of ball
players that ever wore a uniform in
the state.
In fact they have added men
from the professional ranks. There
is professional pitcher with each
team, and several of the others
have been included in professional
Iine-ups. Gus Thompson, who is
pitching for kalispell, is well
known IN baseball circles, and came
here two weeks ago from the coast
league, only on a very tempting
offer in salary from the Kali
lspell management, to pull them
thru the rest of the season. Skill
man, who did the pitching for
Whitefsh, joined the ranks when
the team went 10 Hamilton, and
halls from the SanFrancisco league
team, where he made mark for
himself in the baseball world by
his skill full manipulation of the ball.
He demonstrated his ability week
ago in Kalispell when he pitched
against Thompson, and all the Kal-
ispell baseball fans voiced the opin-
ion that he is great and that
there is nothing to choose from be-.
tween these two pitchers.
Kalispell and Whitefish are pro-
badly the most evenly matched and
fastest aggregations in the state,
and will put up a great exhibition
here tomorrow. Last week the
three games played ir Kalispell all
resulted in their favor, but they
were won by such a close margin,
only a difference of one score in all
the games. that it was no disgrace
to loose. 1t was playing steady.
level headed ball all the time and
it was only thru an occasional hit
or error that either side made a
gain. 1t was anybody's game up
till the last man was put out.
One thing noticeable is the in
thusiasm that baseball has awakened
in Kalispell when these two teams
play. 1t seems that every one has
the fever, and even on week DAYS,
the grandstand and bleachers are
filled with fans to witness these
teams battle for the championship.
Whenever Whitefsh is chalked up
to play down there, every one
knows that they are going to see
great exhibition of ball. The man
ayers have lived up to the peace
contract that was made couple, of
months ago and everything runs
along like clock work. This is the
kind of baseball that the public ap-
preciates and gets Enthusiastic over.
On account of the attendance at
the last few games here being so
light, Manager Coins had a hard
time to induce the Kalispell mana
ger to bring his men over here, be-
cause they are always sure of good
turn out down there, and makes
more profitable proposition, but
Coins feels that we ought to have
a few Of these games at home, so as
to give the people here who cannot
get to 60 to Kalispell a chance to
witness what their team is doing.
He feels sure that when his men