Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-31

With a characteristic baseball
crowd, clamoring for home runs and
Grabbing occasional close decisions by
the umpires, organized baseball was
revived in Great Falls with a double
header on the Earring park field Tues
day afternoon before a crowd OF more
than LOCO persons.
In the first game of the afternoon
Fritz Wertin's Ingots triumphed over
the west side crew by an 8 to /
score and in the second game the
Elks shut out the Eagles to the tune
of 4 to 0. The feature play of <he
day came in the first half of the
seventh inning of the second game
when Jack Armantage, the Elks
sturdy mound man. clouted the ball
over the left field fence in the Mis-
souri, river for a home run, scoring
two men ahead of him. The next
longest drive was made by George
Bross, catcher for the Ingots, who
garnered a three-base hit when the
ball sailed over the head of the west
side center fielder,
Mayor r. NJ. Armour tossed the ball
somewhere in the vicinity of home
plate. and Cherpeski. lead cff man for
the west side crew. swung equally
wild and Umpire Jack Bronson called
the first strike of the game. Cher
peski grounded out and the crow
loosened up with the first applause of
the afternoon.
Weather Stopped Practice
For the opening games of a late
season, which has all but eliminated
practice. the teams showed up well
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thusiastic support on the part of the
fans. 1t was a baseball loving crowd
that attended the games and they
talked baseball talk at the players
and the umpires. Old timers in the
s%oliloouized on 1.-THE good old
DAYS when Great Falls won the pen
nant in the Northwestern league and
sent players every year to the majors.
Others averred that the Electric City
will again see baseball Of the vintage
of the days of old. One things a GER
tainty. Great Falls is a baseball town.
And when Advantage sent the last
good ball in. the game for a ride down
the Missouri the fans yelled with a
gusto that, sounded like a Babe Ruth
greeting.
To Mrs. Anna Bross the league is
indebted for four husky youths who
contribute a good brand of baseball
and all of whom acquitted themselves
creditably in Tuesdays games. Three
of the boys play on the lngots team
and Matt Bross, q utility outflelder
for the Elks. fielded all of his chances
perfectly and handled some fast drives
with a speed that robbed the Eagles
hits that could easily have gone for
extra bases.
II was a great day for the kid
along the tracks back Of the grand
Bill Mckee. manager of the
Eagles team, presented a wrecklng
crew that knocked a series of long
fouls off Advantages de-
livery that soon depleted the supply
new balls. Nearly two dozen new
hall were taken to the field for the
games and all Of them except the one
floating down the river returned
to the city in the pockets of kids who
the fouls that went over the
stand.
Band Gives Concert
A short concert was played by the
municipal band. 4 couple Of marches
md a few rollicking popular tunes
were rendered by the organization and
the crowd a~ppIauded with much en-
thusiasm.
From the showing made Tuesday
afternoon none of the teams have any
particular edge that stamps a GER
ain aggregation as the most likely