The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-04-05
Notes
from
the
Anvil


A snowstorm in the morning isn't
an infallible sign of a ten-mile hike
in the afternoon. At that you've
gotta bandit to a guy whose imagina-
ton is strong enough to picture the
enjoyment the ball players got out of
a run they didn't take.
Ping Brodie is a Scout! You
wouldn't think it after watching him
shovel snow from the frozen half OF
the baseball diamond, but he is.
What's more, he is burning the candle
at both ends. He is scouting for
Blank and for the manager of the
Philipsturg ball team. Johnny
Trewhela has loosed the secret.
John returned yesterday from Philips
burg, where Ping worked as hotel
clerk during the winter, with the
news hat Scout Brodie has a string
of Granite county stars under Mis-
soula contracts there and that he has
agreed, in return, to steal a battery
for Philipsburg from B~lankenship.
Brodie won't say anything for pub
LEGATION, but some such thing is to be
expected Of these wicked hotel clerks.
At that Ping is earning the right
to work a sideline- hat portion of
the infield which is screened from the
afternoon sun by the g%randstand still
carries several thousand square feet
of ice and snow. Ping faces the
painful duty of removing the. whole
iceberg. He has carried most of 1t
outside, and was working on the rest
of it, up to his ears in mud, when he
wa Interviewed yesterday. Give
me a couple of sunshiny days and I'll
have. this field clear said Ping.
when l get through with the park
this year you won't know it. I'm 60
ing to level the infield and fix up the
outfield. If I, can do anything to
help Blank win the pennant it will be
done.'
Jack Helfrich is an imposter. We
didn't discover The. real king of the
fans until yesterday. The man who
! rightly should wear the crown is non
other than M. Solomon, the W. k,
tailor. Mr.. Solomon knows more
about baseball statistics than any
other fan in Missoula- He is a real
bug. He knows how many games
Joe Wood won and lost last year; he
knows Roger B%resnahan's batting
AVERAGE; he knows what John Nc
Graw thinks of the situation in
Mexico; he knows the prospects of
/ every major league team. What he
doesn't know about baseball isn't IN
the book. He. is the real king. King
Solomon! Some class, what?
Yesterday morning we printed a
solemn warning to recruits, advising
them not to play pool with +.
Daschbach. C'F"' for FISH. We
AXE it back. Yesterday Treckell, the
lanky hurler from Kalispell who has
become so thorough a favorite with
the fans during the last day or two.
challenged Dasher and beat him sew
enteen straight games-or something
like that.
FRERE! MON DIDU, NON!
The weather has cleared, the crisp
has been taken out of the atmosphere
at the lower end of the Bitter Root
valley, and Clifton Douglas Blanken-
! ship has sent for his players. Ills a
long time since. Brother Stone of the
Missoulian saw the first Bitter Root
robin, this year.-Great Falls Leader.
The Aggies have elected Max Will
comb captain of next winters basket
ball team. Wilcomb has played GEN.
ter for the Farmer quint for two years
and is a mighty good player. Hart
man is the only man on the team who
will not be in school next year. Cot
ner, Lott and Hodgkiss will be with
Wilcomb. Charley Mann. who played
with the Triple BIS this year., may en-
ter the farmer college. next fall.
Nevertheless, We will place a small
wager on the varsity any old time
there's a chance.
The Highlanders will work out on
the park at 1870 this afternoon, I'M
less they take a ten-mile hike, in
which case they will york out on the
park at 1870 this afternoon.
What do YOU think of the boys?