The Tucson citizen., 1902-10-20
Fl SCr6dm6r at the Gardens
Leaves Championship in
the Balance
A Brace OF Errors and a Bunch 0
Hits Lose and Win the Game
at Different STAGES


bnt they couldn't win, as they said |
they would, And the championship is
still in doubt
WheW but wasn't it a corker? If
Dugan, with two men gone and two
strikes on him, hadn't slugged the ball
over the right field fence for a homer,
the Grays would have pranced home
slashing winners. If White hadn't
conceived a sudden ambition in the
seventh to throw McChesney's ground
er, of which he made a splendid pick
up, over the trees which occupy right
field, allowing Herb Drachman to can
ter nome from first, the Copper Barons
would have gone home with colors fly
ing, and exultation in their hearts. If
Captain "Chimmy' Guercio hadn't, in
the eighth, made one of those errors
which nav and then happen to the
best ball players, letting Godfrey score
on the fast third baseman's muff OF the
"Old Leaguer's'' throw, the pennon of
the Barons would have trailed in the
dust from here TO Bisbee, from now
till doOmsday. And if Godfrey, the
Baron's crack centerfelder, hadn't ac-
commodatingly dropped Herb Drach-
mans long fly in the ninth, and ''Spi-
der" McChesney hadn't filled in the
niche with a corking single over Sec
ond, the Papagoes would today have
had some mighty difficult explana-.
tions to make. ~s
| But these things happened, as things
will, and SO it was that at the end of
nine hard and valiantly fought innings,
from first to last of which. the crowd
made frantic efforts to congest the
| business of the throat doctors, the
score stood ''for" and '<agin." Then
| the umpire called it off, for it was a
little dark, and very dusty, and the
crowd about the lines was getting un-
ruly and there was deep feeling of
Willingness on the part of eighteen
stalwart ball tossers to call it even
and repair to the refreshment fcun
tain. ~ u
TRULY, truly, it was a peach. The
Papagoes were therein fact, here,
there and verywhere-wfth all the
articles generally deemed essential.
But-aye, there's the rub-so were the
Barons amply supplied with a grade OF
goods in no wise inferior. and in sufti-
Icent. quantity-not to win. Up and
down, down and up, the battle went.
Never for a moment was the strain re-
| lieved. Hits were as scarce as oysters
| in church festival soup. True, the
fellows had their hitting eyes with
them, but there was always man
where the ball went. Errors were few
i and far between, but what were made
counted in the result. In fact, every
thing counted. In very truth, it was
daisy, and If the supporters Of the
Papagoes feel like tipping their tiles
to the Barons, it is because they ex-
pect no less on behalf of the splendid
| team Tucson boasts, from the hackers
of the visitors.
! The crowd was the biggest of the
season-over 1200-a fourth of them
being from Bisbee. And say, that
Bisbee crowd was a feature Of the
show. 80. If it hadn't been for Vic
Hanny and his cohorts, a disinterested
spectator-if there were any such
could readily have believed they were
the whole thing,
| Both pitchers were in fine fettle-
The Great Rube'' was never greater,
and White-well, he was White, and
four hits, including one extra-base eff
fort by Captain "Chimmy," was the
best the Papagoes could do. The
Barons only got six off of Rube, and
! two of them were scratches,
The Barons had strong lineup.
There were several faces new to the
Tucson fans. kid" Bresino, one OF
the fastest short-stops in California,
covered the short field; Lewis, an
other Golden State acquisition was
at the receiving end of the battery;
McKenna. an easterner, who is a star
twirler. covered the initial bag. The
Papagoes had no changes. McChesney
filled Courtney's place in the left gar
den Otherwise the lineup was just
as it has been for two months.
Allen led off for the Barons, but
went out by the second to first route.
! Kid Bresino famed, and then Dugan,
with two strikes on him, raped the
ball over the right field fence for
home run. Godfrey followed with O
single, but it netted nothing, as Lewis
went out on a foul fly to Moon.
The score stood I to until the
seventh, when the Papagoes tied the
score after two men were out, on Herb
Drachmans hit and Whites wild throw
/ of McChesney's grounder, on which
Draohman scored.
In the eighth the Barons regained
their leads Bresino got a pass Du-
gan struck at three wild ones and re-
sumed his recumbent attitude on the
bench. Godfrey hit to Herb Drach-
man, who threw Bresino out at sec"
ond. Lewis hit into the trees in right
center for two bases. When Hogwood
returned the ball to the plate by fine
throw Godfrey was halfway between
third and. home. The Lacquer shot
the ball at Guercio to catch Godfrey
in his effort to get back to third. but
the throw was little wide and the
captain allowed it to get away from
him. Before it could be recovered
Godfrey had scored. The Lacquer
again shot the ball to Guercio and
caught Lewis, who attempted to make
third on the play. ...
In the ninth. after Guercio and Ford
had famed, Herb Drachman hit long
one to center. and Godfrey obligingly