The Daily Missoulian., 1913-04-29
Missou)a's Season Is to Ope1, Today
When Danny Shay and His Vig;)a1tes
Tang1e With B)a,1ke11sh;p's Champions
Er1ss Band. the Governor,
the Secretary of State, the
Attorney General. Mayor
Rhoades and President
Mu1roney VIII Introduce
Baseball to the Garde1,
City Today.

"Laaydees and Ge- hentlemen. Thuh
! battrees for today's game. For the
home club--Annis and Blankenship. For
Helena-Cooney and Crittenden Pla-ay
| baWl!"
! At 8 o'clock this afternoon Umpire
La Rocque's bovine voice will below
| those words to Missoula fandom Mayor
+, James NJ Rhoades will heave a shining
| Goldsmith, marked with the signature
of President e. c. ,Mulroney in the
/ general direction of home plate and
Missoula and Helena will begin a /
struggle for Union association honors |
1t ought to be the biggest day in |
the c:tys history. The champions of
the Union association are the wearers |
of Missoulas unies; last year the city |
turned out to see the tail end club start
the season. Even the public schools |
are going to observe the day. The |
high school and the city schools will |
open at s o'clock this morning and will
! be dismissed at / O'Clock III order that |
every youngster may watch the OPEN
ing game.
1t is the duty of every citizen to be
in the stands this afternoon when |
Blankenship's men take the field. Com
petition will be closer this year. Every
team in the league is stronger than it |
was last season. and if Mssoula is to
win the pennant the club must have
strong support.
The Highlanders are prepared to play
championship ball today There is no
need for telling any Missoula fan that
the team this year is just as strong as
it was last Annis, most experienced
and craftiest of Blanks tWirlers will
occupy the box this afternoon and it |
will take a mighty good ball team to
beat him.
Blank has decided to start today's
game with the following lineup:
Daschhach, left field l
Perrine, second base.
TOhin, center field.
Bassey, left field
Carpenter, shortstop.
carman first base.
Changnon, third base.
Blankenship, catcher.
Annis, pitcher
The game will be preceded by pa
rade in which will be automobiles car
rying the two ball teams, President E. |
| c. Mulroney and the officials of the
local club, Mayor Rhoades Governor
! Stewart, Secretary Of State Anderson
and Attorney General Kelly. The pa
rade will be preceded by the Missoula
band 1t is up to Missoula to follow the
/ musicians to the park.
| The Vigilantes, led by Manager
Danny Shay, arrived in the city yester-
| day afternoon in the pink of condi-
! ton. We have only an ordinary club,
says the crafty Danny Shay. There
isn't a single star in the lot but the
team is well balanced and works hard
and WELL The men all work for one
another; that's the best thing about us
We are in splendid condition after a
good training season and will play our
| best ball tomorrow. If Missoula can
beat us tomorrow afternoon she can
beat us every time we play, for we are
going to do our best"
The Viglantes will play as follows:
| Spencer left field.
| Kelley, center field.
Quigley, second base.
Lussi, first base.
| Clyner, right field.
| Cronin, third base.
Menges, shortstop.
Crittenden, catcher.
| Cooney, pitcher.
| IN the Helena I1neup tnefG are SeN-
! eral men familiar to Missoula fans.
Spencer, Quigley, Lussi, Menges and
/ Thompson have all played here before,
| Thompson will not catch today, but
will sit on the bench with keenan,, an
other former Wearer of a Highlander
! unie. AS to the merits of the Helena
| club we refer you to "Dud' Richards.
who compares the Vigilantes with the
iIighlanders after having seen both
teams at work. Mr.. Richards:
On Sunday we hied ourself to the
ball park to watch the Vigilantes play
the last game here before going up
against the warriors # the Peerless
Leader c. d. Blankenship. Having
spent several hours a week Watching
the Highlanders go through their
training we We're Interested in know
ing just what kind of team the Mis-
soulians are going to be up against
in the opening game today. The High
| landers, from what we saw, are not
| going to have very easy sledging in
the initial series Of 1918. The Helena
club Is a strong one and is going to
Missoula to get the scalp of the W. k.
Blank.