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Show HELENA IS HERE FOR OIOERIES Manager Irby Says That His Team Will Now Emerge From Cellar. Helena' aggregation of Union leagn pennant ehaaara, under th leadership of Charley "Blnbb" Irby, It In tba city prepared to open a ern-(am V . rlt with Cliff Blankanahip'a chanv plena' at Cooley park thia afternoon. Kex Adm or Herb Tox wUl b on. tba mound foi Irby 'a men tnia afternoon, and Oaorga Hummel, tha flalt Laka youngstf,-wlinikly-f acr-tae-aana- tor. ' Irby' men are the cellar champion to date, owing to a bad atart; but, according ac-cording to the Helena manager, they will he up and doing from thia on. The CHARLES "BLUBB" IB3T. f7U known ball pUyer, who U maaaf- ing the Helena clnb. team has inst struck its gait aad, with the addition of aoveral new men ef . known ability, Irby "a -buneh wheotd be able to give Salt Lake all kind of trouble this work, becs it i often the tailendcra that mak thing aa-pleasant aa-pleasant for the leader. The Helena team will be strengthened strength-ened this week by the addition of Woods, a fast and hard hitting In-fielder In-fielder from the Rock laland team of the Three-I league, and by the return of Catcher Baker, who haa been out ef the game for a week with an injured hand. Both these men joined Helena here last night. The Helena team arrived ia towa last night and ia stopping at the Moiurri. Manager Irby take the position posi-tion of Helena at the bottom of th percentago column philosophically, d-, daring that before (he end of the tea-son tea-son the position will be reverted. He . nay it i better to be at the bottom of the list at th fjrtt of the season and ' at the top of he lis at the last of -th reason, tbsn at the top of be list first and at tba bottom last.. Thug far Helena ha won but three game, although it ha. lost several by a narrow margin. However, Irby is etrengtheaing the weak placee, and tt actually -counting on getting tha majority ma-jority of the series with lalt Lake, He says bia team started off with a handicap han-dicap of a lack of training aad tkeea earlv season defeats are juat what was needed to discover the weak plaeea and to get the team in proper anap. He is far from discouraged and believe that ke ha an excellent chance to bring hi team to the top and keep it there. ' . |