Sandpoint Cougars Humiliate Newport, Forcing a Team Shake-Up

The Sandpoint ball team, accompanied by their brass band and about 200 rooters, arrived Sunday morning on a special train via the Spokane International and the Idaho Washington Northern Railroad. They arrived about the same time as a rainstorm which threatened to put a quietus on the game, but, sad to relate, it cleared up, and Sandpoint proceeded to do things to our boys that everlastingly wiped out the memory of the bunch our boys handled a few weeks ago.

One man hit a fly to deep center which ordinarily Young would have handled with ease, but in order to carry out predestined order of things he dropped it, and the sorrowful tale was told. Before Sandpoint was retired every man on the team had faced Fox and five runs had been safely sacked away. But why give the harrowing details of errors, wild throws, etc., with which our fellows saddened the rooters. It is sufficient to state that they tumbled over themselves with anxiety to fatten their error average and give Sandpoint runs. Fox pitched a winning game, but his support was worth mentioning. Sandpoint had a new pitcher named [??] who was there with the right goods. He is a new arrival from [??] Mont., and either the heavy hitters who had been acquiring local reputations for several weeks had lost their batting eye over night, or else this was the first time they had been up against class pitching.

Schurch will captain the new team from now on, and with a new catcher and two new infielders confidence in the team will be restored. Newport's fans are enthusiastic over the game, and with the promise of improvement will overlook last Sunday's fiasco.