The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-07-10
MILF SPRINGS CELEBRATED

baseball games and to eat loo oroo
and drink lemonade. People came
from lar and near; from Mt Idaho '
me butcher Creek country. Fairyiew 7
Nineplpe. Sunnyside, and several from i
1rangeville We're out to enjoy them.
selves In good old country fashion.
Perhaps the main attraction was ,
the baseball games that were to he ,
prayed, not saying anything about a
sumptuous dinner that was brought by !
everyone and spread on the ground
IN regular camp style. A table per
maps seventy feet long was sprea
upon the ground, and arranged ON
each side in real Indian fashion. the
crowd was soon filled up on the chick.
en- strawberry pies, cakes and numer
Gus other good things, notwithstandin
that the department of their interior
Was made more vacant by the long
wait, by reason of the first baseball
game reaching into the afternoon, but
the baseball tension run high, and tw.
O'Clock did not seem so late.
The first game was played between
Mllt Springs and Mt Idaho. except /
ing the battery. that place being filled
by Earl Moses. pitcher, and Boss
Brown, catcher. Everyone knows
those two players as being old hands
at the business. Milt Springs play
ed their regular lineup excepting one
and his place was filled by Hugh
Cowan. Rufes Case, pitcher, and
Chrisey Hazelbaker catcher. Mt Ida
no took the bats. Finley and Goan,
the first two at the bat famed very
nicely. Moses reached first on
grounder and Boss Brown made a
complete fan. Milt Springs walked up
to the plate and received the sentence
of the umpire without murmur; the
frs two tanning. The third batter,
Len carp, made a two Dagger and
was finally brought in on two wild
throws made by the pitcher and catch
er. Jimmie fans, which puts the side
= out, giving tally to Milt Springs.
Mt. Idaho comes to the bat a second
time and A. Brown, Shelton and Hays
fans; making pretty clean record.
In the second half of the second Jay
carp, Chrisey and Casey all hit the
air. In the first of the third, Rice,
Cummings and Finley batted, none OF
!, them reaching first. Milt Springs in
the last half of the third made hit
. but died on second. In the first of the
fourth, Moses lifts nice big fly out
in the field where Oscar stays and II
drops in his glove. Boss Brown
knocks an infield fly but is taken il
: by Casey A. Brown fans. In the
last half of the fourth, Jimmie make!
it to first but gets no farther. II
- tn, first of the fifth, Shelton gets tt
80 first ON hit, and Finley gets hi
- which lands him at first Finley i
80 caught on second and Hays and Ric
= 90 out at the bat Milt Springs goe
out at the bat in the last half OF IN
ny makes a score, which evens up tn
game. This raises the excitement t
=" high pitch. In the last half OF tn
~ sixth Milt Springs goes down in Dc
va feat at the bat In the first OF TN
10 Sc zenith, Mt. Idaho does ONE yer
- hard playing and get man on thlr
NJ and on second but Milt Spring
tigLtens up and no scores are mad
nu In the last of the seventh Milt Spring
III brush out couple of little groundel
i and never reach first. In the flr
of the eighth Goan gets htl
grounder but never sees first. Mos'
II nuts nice fly out over the pralr
which lands in Oscars NIT aga
Vi and Boss Brown fans. In the Id
'ne of the eighth, the Milt Springers II
eal in five tallvs How does this lo'
ooo when Moses pitches and Brown cat'
VIII aso In the first half Of the nlne'
Nei the Mt. Idahoers get one run MAXI
iol- tba score six to two in favor OF |
nat Milf Springers Morgan umpired'
All the boys did good playing d
urg they are to be highly commenced
Sal furnishing amusement for crowd
ew- three hundred people just as goou
zion they would have gotten in Cotton"
ould watching the leaguers play
low The second game in the aiterno
uire voc nlaved between Milt Springs d
era Butcher Creek. Milt Springs play
their regular team, with the >"
that mite her and catcher. Boss Brown
lade the pitching and Moess the 'a ,T
G in for Butcher Creek. Gilbert MuI
hen ana swank OF GrangeyiIle pia!
min with Butcher Greek also. BOSS
The pitching in the fifth inning
How 90 home. Munro takes MS pia, -,
the is changed for knighten' +"
changes are all made in the same