The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-09-02
MILLER CAPTURES
FORT WESSINGTON
Trenches Taken by the invaders
Baseball, and Carnival

By Staff Correspondent at the front
A large army of Mlllerites drove
to Washington Friday to attend the
celebration advertised for Thursday.
FRIDAY and SATURDAY.. They had a
street carnival Of the usual kind. an
aeroplane flight. a ball game-and
saloons.
1t was not given to the vision of
this scribe to decide which attraction
had the greatest drawing power.
We can but sufmise hat Miller
would look coldIy upon a carnival,
as a crude attraction of the primi-
tive frontier habitat. And as Miller
is a dry" town of course there was
no attraction in the liquid refresh
ments.
There remains the ball game as
the main incentive, with a good
road. a view Of fine crops and a nice
day. Is side attractions. As Miller's
local team was to play
ball this was enough, as stated,
to draw a large crowd, via the
horseless carriage.
And the stage was set for some
game! The Washington sports had
secured Morrison. the clever Miller
backstop, for the week, and a pitch
er from DeSmet, who boasted a
seasons record of 80 games won out
of 80 played. Thus fortified and with
an umpire nicely groomed for tie
occasion the Wessingtonions were
so confident Of slipping one ever on
Miller that they produced a choice
and varied assortment of coin of
the realm and insisted upon beirg
sporty.
In self defense the meek and mild
hammered young men of this cul-
tured hamlet come back to those
ancient days of their fathers. now
only told of in story and legend,
when the object of life was to get
action on ones monev, and get 1t
quick-whether on a foot race. a
boss race. OF merely CHANGING a 500
on which rain drop would reach
the bottom of a window first. In
about thirty minutes those Sand
Creek Sports looked like a Russian
left wing after a German drive-out
of ammunition, but making a mas
terly retreat!
AS usual when money is injected
into any game of pure sport, the
feeling became rather tense. Two
umpires were selected. Robert Shea,
of Bates. and Peter Geiver. an an
Gent relic of the once famous Wall
Lake team. The first four men up
for Miller touched I'D the WessiDg-
ton mound artist for two scores and
the umpires locked horns on a deci-
sion-the crowd dividing with them
according to their native heath.
The situation was strained, but
after a brief diplomatic convention
between Chief Justice Levi Hubert
and the High Sheriff OF Hand, dIplo-
macy prevailed. and the game went
on. with Virgil Gardner and Leo
Murphy as umpires. But when
Garry leaned up against a fast one
for a homer, Spanie for a three
Dagger, and Carlton for a double.
with scores romping home like John
rabbits out of a tree claim when the
ground is covered with snow, that
imported pitcher heart was broken,
and the home rooters abandoned
their cut out. The net result, with
the narrowing details omitted, was
l3 to a in favor of Miller.
Washington is a go ID town, a busy
mart of trade, located upon an
imaginary line dividing Hand and
Beadle counties. Through her
suburbs flow the purling waters of
tho LITTLE sfroom in which opciapf
history tells us the pioneer Hill
Billies+ dumped aLcopper. ..still"
when they had a wireless from Levi
Haines to duck, "the cops are
comin?"
But her young men can't play
ball with Dummy Campbell's classy
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