The daily sentinel., 1912-08-09
MOOREHEAD TELLS
Of WORK IN UNION
ASSOCIATION CLUB
Former Smudger Captain Writes
Interestingly Of One Time
Local Ball Players.

seasons, tells of the latter's doings in
the Union Association, where he is
an outfielder for the Butte club.
Jimmy tells some interesting
things about his fellow players in
the circuit. as well as some news
from former Smudgers. He expects
TO return to Grand Junction after
the ball season is over The letter is
worthy of full publication and is as
Z follows:
Helena, Mont, August Z.
I Friend Joe:
! Received your letter o. k | guess
was In Salt Lake at the time you
mailed 1t to me in Butte.
we are now playing in Helena. 1t
is battle between Helena and Butte
Tor the championshi poi the cellar.
] Helena is below us few games, and
We intend putting them on down.
we beat them a game yesterday, 1
TO 3. 1t was a nice game. Dell, the
/ big Fellow that was tried out by st.
Louis this spring, worked for us, and
Bryan for Helena. Dell struck out
ten men. He holds the record of the
league for strike-outs, having 13 to
his credit, and this record was made
against the Missoula club, who are
at present fighting Salt Lake for the
leadership of the league. He has the
most speed | have ever seen and has
/ the build behind IL to make second
I Walter Johnson-stands about feet
inches and will weigh close to 200
! pounds.
There are some very fast men in
this league. good many of them are
come-backs from the Big Show On
our club We have Dell, from ST. Louis:
Jess Stovall, with Detroit in 1903
has brother now managing a club
in the Big Ring. Whaling, our first
baseman, was with Shreveport, La.
Two seasons ago; was hitting 339 the
last figures shown by President Lu-
cas- OF this league. shannon, one of
our catchers. halls from the Southern
League, also the Western. Klein. a
left-hand twirler from the Los An
geles club, 20 years old. is slated to
go up. Levy, playing short, is from
the Northwest League Joe Mathes,
second-baseman, is the most sensa-
tional base runner in the league, hit
ting about 800 and can hit either
right or left-handed There is a
fight on between st. Louis and Phil
adelphia for this man. He is but 20
years old and weighs near 1S0.
. " = hhNt EoOu tluus bul some OF
them lack experience
| have been playing good ball in
center field and am used once in a
while on second base. The last fig
ures issued by President Lucas | was
hitting 319. Have six home runs to
my credit. Whaling. our first-saeker,
mas eight to his credit.
Every home run in Butte means
$20 to whoever gets it. | got five OF
mine in Butte.
While We were playing in Salt
Lake last week | met Rex Graham.
Guess he does not think much of the
Butte club. We lost six out of seven
games to Salt Lake. Some of them
We're hard-luck games
Bill Davis. utility man of the Salt
Lake club, is Denver boy: also
played third for Fort Collins when
the Smudgers We're battling them for
the state championship. He is lead
ing this league in hitting. at last ac-
count it being over $50.
Hester. who played first base for
Fort Collins at the same time, is cas-
ily the class of this league in field
ing, but he cannot hit.
Gibson, now catching for Great
rails, was at one time in Grand
junction with the Kansas City Red
Sox.
Murphy of Great Falls, an out
fielder and one of the fastest men in
the league, comes from the Denver
western League club.
Weaver, catching for Salt Lake.
Is easily the class of the league. He,
also, is from the Denver club.
suppose you know about Toner
at Frisco. He has been doing we'll.
Anheir and Dow are in Alamosa.
playing independent ball; also Hons
ka. Pratt was in the Oklahoma
State League the last | heard: also
Tiny Mcneil, / understand, is with
Mobile in the Southern League.
| understand that motorcycle rae
ing has taken the place of baseball
in the Junction. II is too bad. Col
orado is sure on the decline in base
ball.
Montana is the best state | have
been in for some time. Butte is on
the boom: Helena also.
well, Joe, l guess | will close now
may see you when the campaign
starts at the factory. May stay in
Butte. as there are good jobs there
Tor all of us who want to stay; but
my wife does not like it there. 1t
is little too high for her. Hope
all the fans are well. Would like to
pull off an old-time series there with
Fort Collins or Trinidad once again? :?
Ha.
/ am going to send you a schedule.
II you wish to write me. you Will
know where to find me.
Please say hello to Casey and
Jones for me at the Palace. So long,
i Your friend,
JAS. A. MOOREHEAD.
Cut glass chean fhic waal. % ~.