Arizona republican., 1904-12-19
LEAGUE BASEBALL
That Is the Kind Phoenix
 Fans Saw Yesterday
It Took Eleven Innings to Show the Visitors but They Were Finally Convinced.

Phoenix IA and the Grays 3, with eleven full innings played, the tie be- ing ? to at the end of the tenth, is the record of the best ball game ever seen in Phoenix, and as good a one as person would care to see in any country. The tip given in yesterday mornings Republican was all right, and there were hundreds in the grand stand to see it materialize, though there should have been still other hun dreds. to whom it can never be ex- plained in cold type just what they missed. The Grays went to bat first and got two runs in the first inning, which might have been discouraging to some teams, but it only served to arouse the Phoenix bunch to a realiz- ation of the fact that the Grays, with their favorite pitcher, were out for business, and something had to be done It was done and the visitors struggled through nine innings more and half way through another before they were permitted to get anything better than a perspective view of the home plate. In the eleventh they were credited with their third and last run, but there was a string even to that which will be told about later on. They were permitted to become over familiar with first base and their re- | lations with second and third bases were still more remote and in decreas- ing ratio.
 Loman, the Phoenix catcher. only killed fourteen and helped another to breathe his last against a record of seventeen murders and complicity in l two tragedies the day before, while Woods proved himself to be only a novice in crime. Four men eied by his k,., q d. f before. he being particeps criminis in lone additional butchery each day. Armstrong, the Tucson pitcher, seem ! ed to be playing a first class game, in | fact they all did and had to to save themselves from annihilatiOn. But Armstrong only struck out three men, ] while Durham. for Phoenix, sent thir- teen to the bad, and even Karger, the day before. set five of the home lads back in the shade. Sixteen Phoenix men were left on bases, however, in dicating that the bases were carefully looked after by the visitors, and that only for their clever work the score of the day before would have been re- peated. Durham, the new pitcher for the home team, worked out. dbeauti- | fully, but he was little slow to begin | with. He had to get a little bit of a disgust on him before he hmbered properly. Flynn, for Phoenix. came to | bat at times under a handicap, and once at least he had to make a sacri- fee hit. Myers, the big one, was the comedian of the day, but he did his full share of the work and then some. The pleasingly narrowing details might be continued, but they may be studied out of the summary by the reader who wants more of them.
 There was one incident that de- serves special mention. After the game. a Phoenix kid who had been particularly irritating to Armstrong, which was his right while in the grandstand, undertook to rub salt on the Tucson pitchers sore places en route from the ball grounds to the gate. Armstrong coUrteoUsly asked
 him to desist.' \H He persisted and the | Tucson pitcher very properly threw him in the lake It had not occurred
 to the kid that the game was over, but
 he was only full of patriotic enthusi- asm, and will know better next time. There was one displeasing incident when Tucson momentarily left the field. Further reference to it will be
 found in the record of the seventh in- ming.
 GAME BY INNINGS.
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