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Show OCCIDENTALS DOWN AND OUT HELENA WINS BY SCORE OF 14 to 4. Dattlng by Montana Team a Feature of Yesterday's Contest With Salt Lake Aggregation. Although Iho sun was shining brightly; although the blrde wero singing their gayest spring songs, and the baseball -lmlng people of Ogden I were out in forco, taking advantage of their first opportunity to exhibit EaRter togs at an auspicious time, yesterday afternoon proved to-be a dark, dark day. Yes, brother, It was dark shady, If you will, but it wna not gloomy. Not, by any means. The air' about th Fair Grounds Baseball pnrk wns filW with the end man quips, and Jests of thf masculine fans and the girlish giggles and squeals ofap; proval or objecting bowls of tho feminine rooters. The occasion of this gathering was tho contest between tho Helena team of the Inter-Mountain league, who are doing their spring training In this city, and the negro Occidental, Baseball club of Salt Lake City. The colored brethren gathered from far and near in immense numbers to cheer their representative team to vlc- tory. They made their way to the grounds in automobiles, in street cars or walked but they got there and they cheered, nut the result was awful: Dusky damsels, ranging from a copper cop-per shad to ft very black black; dressed In everything that Is considered consid-ered 1909 spring fashions, wlfh thlr sportlly-lncllned "fren's" of the opposite oppo-site sex, rooted and rooted hard, mit nB ono poor white-trash rootrr exclaimed, ex-claimed, "It was like shooting trout in a rain barrel they couldn't get away." The gamo Itself sounded much like Helena all the way through. ThMr batting began to tell from the beginning, begin-ning, and they won all the way. The first Inning gave the Montana boys four runs after the Salt Lake team had managed to secure two runs on three errors and a clean single down the third base lino. Both teams steadied down to the gamo after the opening Inning, and it was from' then on, a home-ward journey for the Helena team, their batting and class counting at every step. They scored In most every period of the game, -and at tho end, had 14 runs and 13 hits to their credit Errors were plentiful as Is usual In early training games, but the class was there, and It la expected ex-pected that tho Helena team will give a good account of Itself In the corn Ing Inter-Mountain leaguo senwop, Tho featuro of tho game was the hitting of Helena's third-baseman, Morse, who connected flvo times for 2 three-base hits, 2 doubles, and a single. There were fully 1,000 people who witnessed tho game, but after the first two or three Innings the enthusiasm of the fans waned and at the close of the fifth many of them left the grand stand and made their way back to town. The gamo lacked the vim and sharp playing that attaches to professional pro-fessional ball, but it Is expected that tho boys will ginger up when they get into the leaguo gymnasium contests. Manager Huston is well pleased with the showing made by his men In the "workout" and expresses tho thought that ho will be able to select from his aggregation of players a team that will stand a good show of winning tho pennant in the Inter-mountain league games which will begin in Salt Lake May 6. Arrangements are now being made for a -game between the Helena team and one to be managed by "Dad" GImlin at the fair grounds ne'xt Sun day. The lineup in yesterday's game was as follows: Helena Occidentals Stts B. 6 Hawkins Kelley 1. f C. Burns Wesslcr 2nd b .Mlddleton Irby r. f.. Rogers Morse 3rd b.. Langloy Harmuth 1st b ..Lane Murray c. f Hargrove D. Thomas ...... c ...J. Burns .T.Thomas ..... p Harrison King Tennant Umpires Meade and Lenjly. Time of game. 2 1-2 hour.' ; ', ' The score by innings; Helena ........4 0 1 1 3 1 0 414 Occidentals 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 04 R. H. E. Helena 14 13 4 Occidental 4 7 fl Batteries Thomas, King and D. Thomas: Harrison, Tennant and Burns. |