Arizona republican., 1903-05-14
THE LANGUID LEAGUES
Some Comment About Baseball Both
 East and West.

While AriZonas interest in baseball is spasmodic and this country is too far away from the scene of the operations of the big leagues to exert great deal of influence in the baseball world. th,, few steadfast and faithful fans that do live here feel at times like exercising the great American right to kick AnI this is one of the times. The fans have been taught to look upon the National and American leagues as the people who set the pace, and who ought to know how to play the game. but so far
 this year the scores of the big leagues read like the tally sheets from an old fashioned game of One -Old-Cat or will lage town ball. The idea of the bis teams day after day piling up scores of 15. IS and 20 when Billville and Thc1np- sons Center are making scores of to .. The scores of course do not always indicate the game. but repeated largo scores make the game look more like billiards than baseball. From a mere comparison of records thus far this sea son the minor leagues clear across the country have skinned the big players and it makes Arizona point with pride to q little game played on a side hill at the mining town of Congress year or two ago where it took 13 innings for either one of a couple of country teams to make score.
 Incidentally baseball is again enjoy ing a revival in certain parts of Ari- zona. Down south particularly there ;s talk Of something doing and the Tucson Grays seem to be getting their muscle up for business. while Nogales, Bisbe- Fort Grant and Huachuca are putting chips on their shoulders. There Is a little interest developing here among the High school boys and there is talk of a baseball tournament at Congress and another at Prescott in the near future. Arizona may not have any world wonders in her baseball ranks just now. but she should be ashamed of herself if her teams cannot make bet ter scores than the big leagues ha,e been doing most df the time.
 IL is pleasing to note, however that Oscar Jones. who is pitching for the Brooklyns. is making that team one of the record breakers so far His best press notices are coming from the enemy and that is surely hattering He seems to take special delight in lar ruping the Philadelphia team and the Philadelphia papers are sporty enough to take their medicine and come back with bouquets. The only criticism to be made of the papers is that they speak of Jones as a California product when in reality he is alfalfa fed and worked up his curves in the Arizona climate: He got his best practice in California after he left here. but he earned all his reputation and was a winner on the coast, coming fresh from the sun-k -kisse;s land. The Philadelphia American de- scribes a recent game between the Phillies and Brooklyn in great detail. and from it's story are taken the follow ing excerpts that show what the Quak- CTS think of Jones and his work
 "This. in brief, is the sad story of the Brasheared Quakers, whose troubles are growing day by day. They were well up to windward of Oscar Jones, | the Human lacking Jack, who hasn't lost a game this season, and would have finished first but for the mishap at second base.
 "Still, the game was not unpleasant to look upon, and the action was close , enough to keep the fanatics anxious. | Oscar Jones, another California phe- nom. is worth looking at. He has . motion like a man trying to remove a wet undershirt from the neck band, and if his contortions do not pain ! Oscar he must be wonder. His pitch ing had the locals badly tied up. A wild throw by the Californian gave then their only runs in tfe third"