Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1914-06-18
TWILIGHT BASEBALL BEGINS.
Regulars Will Attempt to Hold Outlaws
in Check Tomorrow Evening.
(By Breezy Short.)

baseball game of major league class
better not miss the contest scheduled
for Friday evening at the ball park be-
tween the local regular team and an
aggregation Of as-beens, recruits and
cast-offs known as the Outlaws. The
word aggregation is here used under
protest as Manager Gilbert Eimers in
sists that his club is an aggravation,
not an aggregation.
This game Friday evening is the first
OF a series of twilight contests to be
dished up in five-inning style during
the summer, as long as the national
game is popular locally. The contest
will be called at 6:15 O'Clock, o. M,
sharp, after the stores and shops down
town have closed and all the fans and
Harnesses and players will have no ex-
cuse for missing out.
The regular team which has several
hard contests in prospect, including the
game Sunday at Kamiah and the h"r-
ripilating contests during the three day
tournament at Nezperce next week, will
go into the game at full speed and with
all its star players, excepting the regu-
lar pitcher, in an effort to get all pos
sible practice at all departments of the
game. The regular club will have two
or three new members-players who
have never appeared on the local lot in
regular match game and who are
highly touted as the goods. Included
in this category are Godeon, ineman for
the Pacific telephone system, who has
played for years at Spokane and Pull
man, and Altman, who recently arrived
from Illinois and who is said to have a
brother playing regularly on a Chicago
team in the big leagues. Both these
new men have been working out daily
with the locals and look like real finds.
By the way, the Outlaw bunch is not
what could be catalogued as a second
rate team. Uncle John Snyder will
twirl and that means smoke and speed
galore. He will give the batsmen of
the regular club the best he has and
show 'em up if possible. They want
batting practice and, chances are
they III get it when Uncle John pitches
Miller will do the backstop stunt and
Pap Jarvis will hold down third, with
Young Kabat, Brandon and Gilbert
Eimers as the others on the infield
Fisher, Medved and Arnold will pull
fly balls out of the atmosphere in the
gardens. The reserve list of players
on the Outlaws bench is simply stupen
duous.
Janasco will start in the box for the
regulars and if the Otu walstaekfififif
regulars and if the Outlaws take too
} kindly to his offerings a relief twirlel
!, will be used. The others Of the regular
cub will be Brown catcher, Ap amsoI
first base, Godeon second, ingram sLo
stop, Strong third, and Branscomhe
Manager Hub Wood will hold aimscl1
in reserve, ready to go in and pull th'
, game out of the fire if things become
, threatening. One of the iron-clad con
ditions of the contest is that the re
gulars can use only the players her
enumerated while the Outlaws are a
} liberty to spring any talent they choose
j, Remember, Friday at 6:15 o'clock
Big Game at Nezperce.
What appears to be sizing up for tn
red hottest baseball festival in the his
tory of these parts for some year
back is the tournament at Nezperc
next week when the four teams whic
met in Grangeville during Horse shov
week will clash again for the champion
ship of Lewis and Idaho counties.
The opening day of the Nezperc
tournament is Friday, June 26 and o.
that afternoon Grangeville will NEE
Nezperce in the first game of the bat
= tie. On the second day the Kamial
: Indians and the Cottonwood club, tn
two teams which furnished that menor
able 3 to 2 game in Grangeville on Ma,
81, will clash, the winning team to NEE
= the winner of Fridays game in tn
: championship and final contest on Sur
9 day, June %.
u Comparing the two teams on tn
/ form shown at the local tournamen
s last month, Grangeville should defea
9 Nezperce in the opening contest
n Notice l said "should,o not "would.
If Grangeville does so, the locals wi
o;<hor CoffopuOn1 n