The Daily Missoulian., 1912-08-24
AS IT LOOKS
He spells Il "w-h-e-l-a-n."

two tomorrow.
Erickson tried to slip something
over on Jackie Warren and Jackie
caught him at II. Three bases.
Artie Schimpff led em all. with
three blows. We have mentioned
Artie's ability and our idea of It.
PERSONAI@--Dc. strip: What do
yon care? They can't take IL out of
counts.
Blankenship's thumb is about well.
This shows up In his throwing. The
old boy Is still the goods and his hit
ting eye hasn't been closed by time,
either.
Don Cameron. the old-time baseball
star who is now living In Missouia.
will play frat base for the Missoula
Independents ON September II, the
date Of the benefit for the High
landers.
According to all precedent. a batter
fans after he has been presented with
a house and lot, an automobile. "A
watch fob or a lot of flowers. but
Mig Perrine pulled something original.
He hit into q double play.
Some chump started story uptown
during yesterdays game that Blank
enship had been hurt and some other
ehuHnp. II liz said. started an ambulance
To the park to bring the wounded
man back. wmt's coming off? Are
they trying to jinx the boss?
The Perrine presentation was ac-
companied by much pomp and circum-
stance but was Nither shy on oratory.
Mccloskey did the presenting, with
both teams massed about the plate.
aud we cannot understand how John
overlooked a chance like that to make
"A speech. IL may be that his soul
must first be narrowed by the umpire.
The prescienea Of President Lucas Is
positively uhcap1y Yesterday he pre-
dicted Oriets fiomerun and foretold
the fate of, iWhslan. when the latter
poked Il three base hit to open the
seventh and died on base. Also, just
To show that these were not flashes.
he prophesied that Ogden would not
score in the fourth. when the Apostles
filled the sacks before man was out.
A letter received yesterday by Man
aser Blankenship from Connie Mack
asks him to have Bush report to Phil
adelphia at Detroit, whore the Athletics
will be playing September II, 12 and
10. This means that Zamioch and
Bush, who have bssn rooniss all sea.
son, can go east together, Zamloch
reporting to the Detroit Tigers at the
same time. Tho two players will start
east from Helena.
Jack Mccormick the cerberus OF the
ticket office, has handed us a pair of
specs. owner unknown. We have the
glasses and will give them to the
owner providing he wants 'em. Also,
Ping Brodie, groundkeeper and chief
of staff announces that he has
sweater and sunshade. which have
been left at the park by some lady
bug, who. probably. didn't know how
the weather was going to jump and
wished to he prepared for arctic or
equatorial temperatures.
Bush and the Highlanders climbed
out of a bottomless pit In the Ogden
fourth, Schimpff singled and Chang
non messed Jensen's rap. Murray
rolled to Bush and Leslie paved the
ball all over the center of the dia-
mond. This filled the bases, with none
out. Strip hit to Bush and Schimpff
was forced at the plate. Wood slipped
a short fly to Tobin and Jensen was
compelled to hold third. for he was
half way down the line when the pill
was going to get to 1t, we reckon.
Oriet threw Whalen out at first and
the inning was finished. q,
oh, my word! Listen to the Fergus
County Democrat: "One pleasing fea.- |
ture of the present series was the
canning" of Stevens by the manage
ment last night. Stevens is an old
time ball player who knows lot
about the game and Is still a fine |
hitter, but that about let's him out |
While his batting has helped lot.
his work in the field has been re-
sponsible for the loss of practically |
all of the games the White Wings
have dropped this season. He was
responsible for the winning scores
being made Sunday and yesterday,
when LeWistown had fine chance
to tie up the score in the fifth and
tby agreemenD deciding inning. he
deliberately walked off OF first base
and permitted himself TO be touched
out without making an effort to get
back TO the bag"
Helena independents: Opposed to
Bitrolff on the firing line was Heiena's
latest acquisition to the pitching staff.
Mr.. keenan,, late OF Missonla. The
newcomer had "A glorious time of II
till the eighth. Nine hits We're
gathered by the invaders during the
afternoon, but these were kept well
scattered until the eighth, when
couple of twobaggers perpetrated by
Fortier and Devereaux, sandWiched in
with base on balls, the locals lone
error and long Fly, netted couple
of markers for the Lakers, tile first