Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-07-09
AT SILVER CITY.
Albuquerque EIks Took Part ia the
Big Celebration.
SKETCH OF THE BALL GAME.

n visit of the delegation from the
Albuquerque lodge of Elks was one of
the most enjoyable events of the cele-
bration and was thoroughly a%ppreciat-
ca, not only by the members of the
local order, but the people of Silver
City generally. The Albuquerque boys
did not reach here until the afternoon
of the Fourth, on account of the train
being late, but thle Silver City herd
was on hand at the depot, with the
band, and gave them a rousing well
come. The visitors were all in cos
tune. A line of march was formed,
and preceded by the band and accom-
pahied by the Silver City Elks, the AL
buquerqueans were escorted up Bull
lard; street to the lodge room in the
Silver City National Bank building,
where a lunch had been provided.
Ffom the time of their arrival until
thor departure, the Albuquerqueans
proled themselves royal good fellows,
full of fun, and assisted very material
ly in making the celebration the sue
cess that il was. They entered into
~theSspirit of the occasion and took as
mucn interest in seeing TO it that
everybody had a good time as did the
Silver City boys. Spot Moore was
especially happy in his character
sketches, and furnished much amuse-
nient OF several occasions.
The visitors left Saturday evening,
the members of the Silver City lodge
accompanying them to the train and
inviting them to come again and that
soon. The visitors had a private Pull
man a at their disposal, and fully
maintained the reputation of the order
as being composed of the best people
on earth"
The delegation was composed of the
following: Thomas Hughes. j. J.
Sheridan, Charles X. Newhall, ID. J.
Abel, w. B. Moore. Sheriff Thomas
Hubbell, Frank Hubbell, l.. A. Sawyer,
George Albright, r. w. D. Bryan and
Judge B. S. Baker, of Albuquerque;
Sheriff Cipriano Baca and John Kosky,
of Ueming; Judge F. w. Parker and
District Attorney w. H. H. Llewellyn,
of Las Cruces, and II. NJ. Dougherty
and Abran Abeytia, of Socorro.
The Base Ball Game.
The only piece of literary fiction *
tant that will serve as a parallel to the
description of the ball game is the cele-
brated copundrum found craven on the
cap stone of the arch of the old Corin-
THAN Temple, excayated by a party of
explorers ent out by the London mu-
scum in 1916. This is as nearly as it
can be translated. Why is the stroke
oar of Cleopatra's barge like a man
who has lost his collar button? The
answer is because the older you grow
she is still your mother. All the wise
heads of the world have been trying to
find some sense in this and because
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bic to do so is the reason that it
affords a parallel for the description
of the game. An accurate description
without the aid of a microscopic APP
paratus with photograph attachment
would be impossible and ever with
this aid it is scarcely possible there
is a man alive with bumps enough in
his Uranium to absorb it without at
enc giving renewed force to the de.
man | for increased hospital facilities
in this territory for the proper care of
the Insane.
1t was fierce. l. was a wonder. Any
thing like it or even nearly like it, I'M
less the people knew that they had the
whole OF the Great American desert to
escape in, would have led to q riot.
Maybe it is a cause of sorrow that ii
did not lead to a riot; for then il might
not have Happened. If it had not hap
pened there would have been less to
regret, though it must be mentioned as
a fact that there are some who do not
remember it, at least that is what they
say. The only thing real about the
game was the ball and the bat. There
was some mention of other hats on the
field. but the real one was that used in
a non commlttal inoffensive way to hit
the ball.
Pretty nearly every player put on by
Albuquerque was a ringer. they show
ed they had had long practice, daily
practice. This gave them all the edge.
The first incident of the gam was
when Frank Jones hit a corker to left,
Ii went up about 100 feet and some
body in the stand called out there
o a high ball" and the entire Albu-
querque team made a dash for the
btiss, recognizing their bounden duty
to 20 after all the high balls in sight.
was a great display of team work
only they thought they had to go down
town to get it.
After this they settled down some.
what and the game was going very
well until O'Rielly caught a fly bali
and the game Lad to be stopped while
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did it. Space fCrbids a full detail OF
all of the incidents and space is a
great savior of the newspaper man
when he is trying TO write something
he doesn't know anything about. The
silver City team played a sort of come
and go game. That's as near as any
ore can get to il. Ashenfelter saved
the day by a great run and slide TO the
home plate. 1t has not been made
clear why he saved il Of what he saved
it for. but it is the proper thing to say
that he saved it even if Silver City did
not win. Al Cards figure was a reve-
laticn. No n ever guessed it before,
Ed Layne missed the chance of a great
play by stopping to laugh and the lack
OF support cdused Bob Golding to get
out Of the hox. From all that is said
about it the pitcher who succeeded
him needed more support than Bob
Yet all he got was a safety pin from
Major Appel. He needed that, too.