The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-08-13
- Montana
Sports Tales
N of other days
By JOE l. MARKHAM. Chairman Montana State Athletic Commission
of Other duus

Quick thinking in the clutches wins
ball games, fightS-anyl kind OF contest.
D. A. E. Strip performed a quick,
slick operation on a Billings baseball
team some years ago. 1t was q Baltimore
Maryland city, witnessed an operation
that intrigued him. It wasn't at the
st. Johns Hopkins hospital that he saw
the slick surgery but at a hit-and-run
clinic on the Baltimore baseball lot.
In 1910 the doctor was manage n
sometimes first baseman of the Laurel
ball club. A brother, Fred, was catcher
and captain. Long before Gypsy Rose
Lee was heard of, the brother, wise
in diamond knowledge, would put on
cert opposing clubs. The S%tripplings
usually had two strikes on the other
teams before a game began.
In a contest with Billings, hat club,
managed to put three me on the
bases: There were two out. One run
Fast Trick Saved Game
The managing doctor was not play
ing, though in uniform. The batsman
hit a foul that was sailing toward the
Laurel bench. It was out OF reach OF
baseman. Doc Strip sighted the ball
coming; he leaped to his feet, grabbed
a glove, then shouted to the umpire,
Strip replaces Stripp." h doctor
lings was the victim Of a quick think,
ing operation. Laurel kept the lead
until the game folded up.
Sure there was a protest. Eddie Quick,
managing the Billings team, talked to
the umpire until he was red in the
face. The arbiter insisted h the sub
stitution "a legal.
Trick Was New
Nowadays a substitute must report
to the umpire and any lineup change
Is voiced by the official or transmitted
to the official by the jumps.
Such a procedure takes a minute or
more. :,
The quick. slick trick was uncorked
for the first time in Baltimore in 1909.
Jack Dunn, manager of the Orioles,
trotted it out in a game with Jersey
saw the maneuver. When the oppor-
tunity arrived, the doctor used it to
good advantage. 1t saved a ball game.
BILLINGS 81, FALLS ~ IN '25
BY far the most thrilling Montana
high school football AL championship scads ga I'm e
the 27-27 contest fought by Billings
and Great Falls in 1925.
Power, speed, passes, field goals,
fumbles, in fact everything was dished
out to the Thanksgiving crowd at
Clark park. 4
The game was won, lost, saved and
tied in the last two minutes, the teams
providing entertainment so rapid that
the packed stadium was groggy from
the sequence of thrills.
Power was Great Falls forte, Passes
attack. Both teams owned offenses
that couldn't be stopped:
Passes Offset Power
Led by Accord, Great Falls, in the
first quarter, Just plowed through tn
scored two touchdowns, the first on a
73-yard drive from kickoff, it looked
like a rout. The IA to 0 score in the
first was an honest difference between
the teams. Of so it seemed.
Billings started throMing ol passes t5e IN
to Worthington, to McFarlin, to Joseph
son and to Carpenter. When the quarter
ended Billings was II points to IA for
Great Falls. Two passes resulting IN
touchdowns, two conversions by Worth
ington, plus a field goal by the same
the ball game.
team in one quarter, the tables were
reversed in the second period.
Falls Ahead in Last Minute
In the third, Billings worked the
ball to within pay dirt: Instead OF go
ing for a touchdown, Worthington was
called back. for a try at a goal from
the field. His boot was true. Billings
was now six points to the good. It was
a nice lead. The team concentrated on
defensive tactics. That lead wasn't
Billings property for long. Accord, Ted
dy, Lux and Armstrong hammered at
the Billings line. Line smaSheS tore
holes in the fragile Billings forward
wall. The score was tied a few minutes
before the gun. Great Falls missed a
chance to go into the lead when the
try for the extra point went wide.
The teams battled on even terms until
two minutes before the curtain. At
this point, Great Falls had rushed the
ball to Billings vineyard line. Then
Lux fumbled. Out of the maSsed player
group, a Billings youth emerged in
possession of the ball. "Chuck" Berg
herm, deep in the end zone, eSsayed
to punt. The kick was blocked. Winter
ovid of Great Falls fell o. the ball-for
a touchdown. The try for added point
was good.
Billings Tied It at End
Linville, Billings quarter, passed to
JosephSon for 30 yards. Linville passed
to Josephson for % yards. Goal was
only Is yards and IS seconds away.
On the next play, Linville faded back,
taking another pass. The Great Falls
players in mob formation rushed to