The copper era., 1903-06-04
Clifton Wins Base Ball Game

\ very good game OF base bail was
pulled of sunday last on the Clifton
diamond between the Morenci and
Clifton teams. Morenci made Bit
ter fight from the beginning and put
up q strong game, but the Clifton boys
were too much for them. As the ERA
stated last week, the Clifton boys had
declared their intention to win this
game, thereby putting both teams on
equal honor-. the record being one
game each.
The game was very clean one, due
to the fact that both teams played fast
ball. and occupied about an hour and
forty-five minutes. Hardly any rag
chewing" took place, auch TO the sat
isfaction OF the spectators The Clifton
roOters were out in mum bers with their
tunnels and overlooked no opportunity
to use them. Following is the game
by innings:
Clifton took the field and MOrenci
proceeded with the stick. The first
two batters failed to reach first. Bru-
becker scratched to first and Mcclellan
retired the side Clifton then went TO
the bat. Wallet led of and succeed
ed in reaching first. The next two
men sacrificed. thereby bringing Wat
lett home, and the next man went out
to first. 2-Morenci retired in one,
two, three order. They redeemed
themselves by returning the compli-
ment to Clifton. 3-Noll led of for
NOrenci and went out to first. Fiem-
ing and Williams were the next men
to Rat and both reached first in safety.
This encouraged the boys and when
they retired they had two scores to
their credit. Clifton was again shut
out, the score now standing > to l in
MOrenci's favor At this stage OF the
game things were little interesting.
4-Morenci retired the side with one
man on third base. Clifton went out
in one, two, three order. This was
an exceedingly short inning. Not 4
man on either side reached first T.
Morenci awakened and succeeded in
getting one man on first, but he never
came home. Clifton also retired with
a big 60" it now began to look as
though a l game would be the result.
1-MOrenci failed TO reach first. Right
here is where the Clifton boys got in
their work. The first man up died on
the road to first. but the next two sue
ceeded in reaching first and finally
crossed the plate, putting Clifton in
the lead-3 to ,. S-Morenci retired
with another ''0'' and Clifton added
another run to its majority. MO
renci was again shut out and the game
was over.
All the players on both teams played
good bali, but Hug. Williams and
BeaviS deserve special mention. Will
liams swiped up "a high foul. In order
to make this catch it was necessary for
him to run through a rock pile and
against a barb wire fence. Beavis,
who is Il regular mem Der of the smelter
team, played short stop and won the
applause OF the grand stand 10y his
suappy and fast playing.
Minor Simms. the old reliable Cliff
ton pitcher, performed his duties well
and succeeded in getting ten strike
outs to his credit. He let the Morenci
down with six singles
and two doubles. but they were well
scattered and did little damage. Bru-
becker got six strike-outs aud let the
Clifton boys down with four singles
aud one double.
There will be base ball on the Clifton
grounds Sunday. Two games, one in
the morning and the other in the after
noon, will probably be played.