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Show 1 MAN TO BAT! M Miners and Eiders to r i Meet Today. ' i lj;!r Champions Will Show Salt ' ): Lake Players How to jjl! Open Season. ! .. Game Will Be on Exhibition One, With Jimmie Wiggs Rubbering 1 j for the Locals. jii1 I t NLESS the weather man breaks J J Jj his promise there will bo a 1 I baseball came at Walker's field ' , this afternoon. Last night . '1' the barometer was on the rise and the " Indications were that ZIon would have 1 fair weather today. If a rainfall does ' , 1 not occur in the meantime the Butte M Miners and the Eldera will met in an 'I ., exhibition came this afternoon nt 3 j ; rclock. i Last night the grounds were sticky, . i but there was no water v upon the , ' I ground. This morning the diamond will i' be "fired" with gasoline and sawdust ! and with the- assistance of Old Sol the , field will be in fit shape lor a contest p this afternoon. i i j The Smoketown balHosscrs reached, the cliy last evening and put up at the j ICenyon hotel. A delegation of the ? i ' Salnty was on hand to welcome the Miners, and a balltossers' reunion was f held last evening. . ' Many of last year's champions are I with the Butte team again this .year, "Piggy" Ward, Shaffer. Swindells. Bandelin, Rankle and McHale are back and the Miners will no doubt be as t i . strong this season as last, j! . At present Wilmot Is shy on pitchers. Sporer and Bandelin are the only twlrlers with the Miners now, but Con- J r.ors and Howell, two new slab artists, ' will join the team at Spokane Tuesday, i ... Despite the fact that Butte had the strongest team In the league last year, ' the Saints believe that they will win , this afternoon. The local players are ' in good shape and hope to take the Miners' measure today. ( "Big Jim" WIggs and Frank Esslck 1 will hold down the rubber for the f . Saints, while Bandelin will do the hon- , , ors for Butte. 17 a , "falats" Davis may umpire the game. 'Ht Following is tlm line-up of the teams: Salt Lake. Butte. Unusen ..c Swindells Wlggs. Esalck p Bnndclln i ( Kcllackey 1 b Shaffer . ( Oelmos 2 b Ward Flynn 3 b llofimcistcr i Bruyetto s. s Runklo t i ! Muller 1. f Clark ' V Weed c. f McIIalo , , l Clmlln .-.r. f... Spencer 1 . , i " ' Ul Manager Wilmot reports had weather i lis most all the time the Butte team was ' 1 1 away on its practice trip. The Miners I , J were at Fort Leavenworth. Kansas City, Denver, and played games with ' I ' several of the Western league clubs. I 1 1 I , The Spokane team returned home ' Hu from Lewiston Friday, and Big Chief j Charley Riley says his band of Indians i' ' i are in shape to make the Butte Miners , J y' look like suckers. Carney and Rocken- j ) ! . field are on tho Injured list, but will be 1 ! . Jible to play by the opening of the ( v , ' league season. Both men received bad I , i , sprain while working out at Lewiston. 1 ) ! j ! ' i "Picgy" Ward is on the warpath as ' "i the result of a cruel trick played him 'j I recently by his fellow teammate3. : t ; - Ward was fast asleep on the Union Pa- i ,; ciflc train between Cheyenne and Og- 14' I1 den yesterday, and as usual was entcr- $ I s talnlnr tho occupants of the car with an exhibition of scientific snoring'. "Piggy" was making a great hit with the laymen who were in the Pullman, but some cf the ball tossers, who desired de-sired to sleep a little themselves, were hlghlj' indignant. After listening to Ward's sharps and flats for a few minutes, one of the ball tossers Just who it was "Piggy" does not know approached and carefully deposited on the sleeper's bare wrist a penny that had been heated to a temperature tem-perature of about 4-11-11 Fahrenheit. With a ye)I that would have shamed a leather-lunged Comanche, "Piggy" sprang to his feet and for several seconds sec-onds danced wildly about the car, fanning fan-ning the air and trying to escape from the scorpion which he imagined had seized him. In due course of time Ward discovered discov-ered what had really happened, and now he is laying awake at nights planning plan-ning some way to get even. Spokane has more pitchers than any other team In tho league. Dammann, Loucks. Carney, Hogg, Moser and Tem-pany Tem-pany are at present practicing on the rubber for the Indians. V Over in Boise, Ida., McCloskoy and his men have stopped practicing ball and developing a batting eye and have gone to work shoveling on a new dyke, In order to protect the grounds and cjubhouse from the high water threatening threat-ening from tho river to float oft' the home of the Infants. It's a good way to develop muscle, but some of the Babes don't think 11 good for the eye. 9 Manager Rellly received a letter from Heinle Deisel yesterday, and the fielder has descended quite a distance from his lofty perch. Nothing has been determined deter-mined in his case as yet. Klopf has not been heard from, and it Is still a question ques-tion whether he will be played at all this season. With Frary's good work on first, Reilly Isn't so much in need of Klopf. and can afford to allow the Seattle Se-attle man plenty of time to cool off. |