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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1902
Page
13
In Portland on October 4 Butte won a close baseball game 2 to 1 as Engel and Dowling held Portland to equal hits. A bases on balls, fielding miscues, and tight pitching shaped the scoring with Butte taking advantage of Portland errors and two walks to secure the win.
Butte 9 Portland 1 details show a sacrifice hit by Schils and stolen bases by Ward and Murdock. McIntyre and Vigneux added two base hits. Dowling walked once, Engel three times, Dowling struck out six and Engel five. Portland left on bases five. Game lasted 1 hour 4 minutes with 2 000 in attendance. Umpire McCarthy.
Pittsburg wins contested game amid mud and on-field smoking by Captain Kelly Seymour and Donnelly. President Dreyfus refunds gate money and charges Keily, attendance about 1,200. Batteries Phillies Zimmer Beck ley Seymour Vickers Peitz Umpire Day. Boston and New York split a doubleheader ending season.
St. Louis and Chicago battled to a seven inning tie at League park this afternoon. Only 15 spectators attended as the game ended with a scoreless draw. Batteries Yerkes and Weaver for St. Louis and Morris and Kling for Chicago. Umpire Brown.
The Great Northern railway will continue Saturday and Sunday excursion fares to Pasin Boulder and Alhambra until November 15.
In a pitchers battle at Tacoma on October 4, Thompson of the Senators allowed three hits and fanned six as the Tigers’ defensive miscues in the second inning led to three runs. The Senators avoided further damage, with careful fielding limiting Tigers’ scoring beyond that frame.
Charles Dyer arrested again on charges of running a sure thing swindle on East Galena Street. Detective Murphy and James Joseph file the complaint. Dyer bonds $100, with a second man James Wallace also held on $100 bonds for the same alleged scheme. The device uses nails and a rubber ball to bias outcomes, with operators claiming victory for themselves.
Seattle won 4 runs in the fourth to seize the lead and held on after Spokane started with three in the first on McKevitt’s three-base hit. Husen made a spectacular one handed catch to end the last inning. Pfeister and Stovall led the hitting for Seattle while Stovall tired from overwork.
A string of visitors stopped in Butte including J. E. McIntyre from Helena and F. R. Andrews from Fort Benton. Notables such as Charles Hoffman, ex state senator, and J. 8. Ellis, head of Ellis Paint, were in town. Marriage licenses issued to Mikander with Lain, Montin with Magnuson, Proske with Smith. Leary and McNamara wed at Sacred Heart church, Leary owning Tonopah mines.
The second performance drew a small audience with mixed regard for the show. Reviewers praise some songs but condemn others and criticize certain performers as brazen. Management is urged to refine the company and improve its acts before the final Batte show tonight.
Thomas F. Fitzgerald, administrator of the Thomas Ford estate, petitions the district court to appoint him receiver of ranch property owned jointly by the estate and John Brannigan. Don Hayes, former administrator and receiver, died in Seattle on August 23, and Fitzgerald asks to succeed him as administrator and to be appointed receiver.
Miles Finlen, once of Butte now in Oak Park near Chicago, travels to Salt Lake City and Coconino County Arizona to discuss a 500 foot wide blanket copper vein traced 15 miles. The Coconino Copper company tests show ore 8-15 percent copper with plans for a larger plant and water ditch. Finlen also handles eight two year olds and other racing stock in the East, noting a Butte Amalgamated Copper sentiment shift and his losses in the stock decline.
A large elk, the season’s first, was exhibited yesterday at a local market. The animal was killed in Elk Park by Lou Kuhlman who has just returned from a successful hunt in that area.
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