Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1924-04-24
BELT BALL CLUB
IS SHAPING UP

Ball practice has begun although the
weather man has been turning on q
cold breeze with very little sunshine
The team worked out for a couple Of
hours Tuesday evening in the presence
of a goodly number of the faithful and
the evidence was inspiring. The in.
field looked good. Last year there
was a hole somewhere between second
and third that you could drive a COM
bine through sideways but this hole
seems to have been filled. w. ]. Low
~ is filling it and he handles himself
like a professional Knight on third
is in good form, Adamson at second
is going strong and Spec Daniels at
first is stabbing them all. Vern Dan
iels in the receivers box hasn't missed
one yet. Culver has his batting eye
and the team plays together. It is
TOO cold for pitchers to work out very
hard, but do you .know-we have the
hunch that we have something.
Stockett has brought the entire Le-
high BAH ground down 70 centerville,
bleachers, diamond and forty acres of
Judith Basin county along with it, and
has parked it alongside the high school
we understand. If our grounds don't
prove satisfactory or if there should
happen to develop jinx in connection
with them, we might run over some
dark night and swipe the whole out
fit. 1t will probably be left unguard-
ed. If there should happen to be
few good players asleep in the bleach
ers we might bring them along too.
The Leader, says that the Miners
swear that Belt shall not win a game
on the Centerville grounds this year.
Sounds bad, doesn't it?-but if they
get to going too strong, here is a tip
for some Of the fans: Find out the
brand of liquid dynamite that some
of the Belt players sampled last year
and send few gallons over with their
compliments. 1t is almost certain that
even the Miners could not carry the
load.
We would suggest to our neighbors
over the hill that we might furnish
added attraction to the fans by build
ing something like judges stand out
in front Of the bleachers and open on
all sides in which to incarcerate R. !
W. Wilson and G. W. Merkle during
the games. Il would be as good as a
score board. Any one could tell
which team was ahead at any moment
by simple watching these gentlemen.
Should we be lucky enough to win
game over there it might be well to I
be prepared. 1t has been suggested Y
that the road up the hill at Center
vile be widened enough to allow ten
cars to mount it abreast and that
something like Pig-ehute be con-
structed from the top of the hill west
of Belt in order that there might be
no delay in reaching our own stamp
ing ground OF course when there is
q game over there no one in Belt would
think of staying at home but the best
of generals before going into battle
map out a line of retreat If the
would kindly see the county
before May 18th and
have this attended to it would relieve
the spirit Of apprehension in this
camp.
AS for the A. C. MS and the Pow
ers, they are keeping their hole cards
buried and we don't know whether
they have pair of deuces or a bob
tailed flush. The Great Northern p,
team is also an unknown quantity but
there has been so much stuff printed
about the West Siderp that we shall
expect them to uncover a real team.