The roundup record. [volume] (Roundup, Mont.) 1908-1929, 1912-07-26
MILES CITY GIVEN
ANOTHER BEATING
RouNDuP's STEAM ROLLER BALL
TEAM FLATTENs THEM OUT

The Roundup ball team, accom-
panied by about Is fans, went to
Miles City Sunday to repeat the trounc-
ing they gave the same team, or what
was supposed to have been the same
team, here several Sundays ago. Ac-
cording to the score, % to 2, the
game appears to have been a some.
what one-sided affair, but neverthe-
less the accounts are that 1t was a
good game with plenty of interest to
keep the fans awake.
The following is the Miles City Jour.
nails account of the game:
1T must have been the new uni
forms.
Nobody appears to be able to give
any other reason for the holocaust
at the ball grounds Sunday, when the
local team became the worst defeated
of any ball team that the history of
Miles City records as representing the
town. twenty-five to two. That's all
that Roundup did to the team that the
Sunday before defeated Forsyth y
to l. Yet it wasn't quite the same
team, either, as Welch, Kelley and
Shearer, who played against Forsyth,
were not in this cataclysm.
Roundup scored on the first ballot
Fletcher, the first man up, being given
a passport good to first base, by Jones,
and the succeeding batters attended
to getting Fletcher safely over the
border. Miles City's first inning was
characterized by Varco being thrown
out at first and Hardy and Bush elec-
trifying the audience by striking out
In the second Roundup didn't do
any business. as close fielding cut
Off Jennings and Kane, while Round
up Jones was unable to solve the
acrostics of the Miles City Jones and
twanged his aolean harp three times
and sat among the mourners. In this
inning Miles City got little lip salve
by scoring one run and the teams
stock went up accordingly among the
wager earners Oil the sidelines. Casey
put grounder to the pitcher, who
nailed AFTER at second. Casey stole
second and was brought around by
Hanrahans biff to second and Frye.s
single. Hanrahan and Frye were re-
tired on plays
'.Then the funnel-shaped cloud came
UP with leak in the funnel. Roundup
started jubilee. Bases on balls, hits,
errors, wild throws and bonehead plays
were scrambled together in the widest
confusion and when the inning was
over Roundup looked into its litter
and found seven more runs. Miles
City's stock on the sidelines suffered
a great depression of prices at this
time and did not recover during the
rest of the game. The team fielded
uniformly-that is to say uniformly
rotten-all through the game, as it
takes lot of bad playing to make a
tota4 of Il errors-to say nothing of
those that were forgiven by the scor
keeper.
: rom the second inning or to the
eighth Miles Citys score was about
as cheering as page from funeral
directors journal. On the eighth
Hardy added one to Miles emaciated
score while Roundup had kept going
and coming during the innings until
they had trail worn between the
bases, which led all the way home.
In the eighth Roundup had another
Juicy inning They only made five
runs that inning, however, showing
that the eighth inning is not as good
an inning as the third inning is-some-
times. In this inning Fletcher fired
up and walloped the ball over the fence
and out among the meadow larks. He
apparently was not satisfied with his
effort either He felt sure he could
do better, SO in the next inning he
tried again. There is difference
of opinion as to which of the two hits
went the farthest Not great diff
filed and still to be ex-sufficient for
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