The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-12-04
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some, getting the choice odds of three
to one Only One-third of the pile was
matched. and maybe the bettorS from
Billings weren't glad.
Anaconda won II to O. Billings was
on the defensive in every quarter. The
Anaconda offense was potent. The win
ners gained 36l yards from scrimmage
to rs for Billings, which tells the story
of a clean cut victory. Sugrue, Domit-
rovich and Conroy were the backfield
aces for Anaconda. Sugrue scored two
touchdowns; Conroy converted twice
and kicked a field goal; Domitrovich
tore off substantial gains time and
time again. Searles, Crimmons, Gnose,
Murphy. P%arequin, German, Emmons
and Sullivan played like heroes and
grid victory the school ever enjoyed.
Billings Too Confident
The high-scoring Billings team, that
was never content in any game with
less than five touchdowns, was played
off the boards. Never did Billings
threaten. Morton, OrDonnell, Lund-
berg, j. Palmer, Ryburn, Aleeo, Scilley,
Bowman, Pyhthian, A. Palmer and
Harma wore the orange and black. Only
one substitution was made during the
entire game, Fabrique replacing Lund-
berg for Billings.
An overconfident team that took the
game lightly was knocked for a cooked
hat by q, scrappy, well-trained gang,
who had nc fears of the big bad wolf.
There was a celebration at Anaconda
that night. It was a honey of a dem
onstration-a big night-a night of
gladneSS.
Billings took the news as a shock.
It was hard to believe, harder to take.
Even now. 16 years later, talk of that
championship game with Anaconda, is
taboo at fan gatherings at the Sugar
City. The headache is better forgotten,
than revived, is the Billings philosophy.
OLD OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES FEUD
The late Nelson Bud" Story, one
time lieutenant governor of u COM
monwealth, son of a Montana illus
trious and beloved pioneer. vas a sports
enthusiast. Bud was a rabid baseball
fan as a young man, but so was every
resident of Bozeman in the infancy
years of the present century. Bozeman
had great ball clubs in those days. Liv-
ingSton, its sister city, 26 miles to the
east, was an arch diamond rival. Liv-
ingSton, too, had ball clubs worthy of
the name. Bozeman fans at times,
thought Livingston teams were too
good.
In this baseball tale, the characters.
in addition to Bud Story, are Emmett
Brown, a baseball bat, a $50 bill and
the Livingston man who bet the forty
nine and n simoleons with Story,
whose name just doesn't occur to me,
though I have peeked at directories
hoping to hit it.
Emmett Brown, who has to be in
still a resident of the Gallatin city,
though temporarily sojourning in Spo-
kane, in a government capacity, first
won prominence in Montana as a base
ball player. Honors and prominence,
in other ~endeavors, have been flowing
his way, as time marched On. Browns
reputation as an athlete preceded him
to Bozeman. He quarterbacked a Notre
Dame football team; likewise won sew
eral letters in baseball, being account
ed as one Of the sweetest diamond per-
formers to graduate from N. D.
A Star From NOtre Dame
Notre Dame wasn't noted for its
great football teams in the Brown
days. The Rockne era was back a dozen
The South Bend institutions athletic
boast and pride was centered on it's
baseball teams, when Brown roamed
the Hoosier campus.
It vas in 1902 that Brown was signed
to play with the Bohemian club. His
ability was sung all over the wheat
producing valley; yea, tales Of his bat
ting and fielding proves were scattered
recklessly and fervently in advance of
Browns coming.
Bud Story was one of many Brown
boosters. Emmett first displayed his
wares in a game with Dillon. He was
given everyone's okay. A game with
Livingston was to be played. On the
day of the game between the rival
towns, played at Bozeman, Story, in the
lobby Of the Bozeman hotel, declared
that Brown alone would bat in enough
runs to win from Livingston. A Living
ston man asked Bud If he wanted to
back his opinion with dollars, on the
result of the game, and particularly
on Browns possible hitting perform
ance.
Bud, quick to respond, made two pro-
posalS; n of them a fair bet; the
other, M of enthusiasm, rather than
good judgment.
Bet Homer on First Chance
I'll bet you $50 that Bohemian wins"
said Bud, land another $50 that En-
met Brown hits a home run in his
first time at bat"
The Livingston man, a wise bettor,
put Bud behind the eight ball.
II only have $50" said the gentle
man from Livingston, but I'll bet the
chunk that Brown doesn't make
home rim on his first trim tn tho ploto ,,