Arizona republican., 1904-10-10
BASE BALL BATTLE
Phoenix Team Won YeSter-
 days Game
The Grays HOtfOOting for Home With the Record Unchanged - It's Two and Two.

Yesterdays ball game was all right; one of the sort the Phoenix people have been wanting to see for a long time and there was a fairly large and very enthusiastic audience out to enjoy it. The Tucson boys said they did not consider it as good a game as the day before but there is a belief that their judgment was prejudiced by the score which stood, Phoenix 9, Tucson 8. The score did not run as even it is true but the Phoenix team played much bet ter ball than it did the day before and it can hardly be said the-visitOrs did much worse than they did the day be- fore. They had the misfortune to make their errors at times that brought dis aster, the Phoenix team making runs immediately after, that never could have been finished only for tEe errors. This made a big discrepancy in the scores, though it did not materially af-
 in the playing, which continued to be fast. As against only one exciting incl dent of Saturdays game there were
 three or four incidents yesterday that brought the roOters to their feet and though the sympathy of the grand stand was mainly with the home team the fovors were not all shown co 1t and demonstrations followed two or three fine plays by the visitors.
 In the last part of the sixth inmng Cunningham at bat was hit on the left cheek bone by Pitcher Armstrong, who raised lump on his face as big as a baseball He stayed at his job till
 he got to first, wheE- Avery run for him
 and Cunningham retined from the
 game, Pancho going in as substitute
 when the seventh inning began. Tn ' the sixth inning Walden was substitut-
 ed for Davis. Walden taking center
 field. He was the right man in the
 right place. for he caught four beau tiful flies before the game was over. two of them knocked by Godfrey, who seemed desirous of giving Farmer Jim a new start in life. This good acting
 brought Walden vociferous applause from the grand stand and it was so uu- 1 expected that he did not know how to acknowledge it till Captain Loman ran
 and pulled Walden's cap off his hea q | and made him bow. Pancho was ,lso l properly placed and proceeded to catch "a liner fly and make a double play to
 first. before he had hardly found bis
 place on second. Wfnsor did himself
 unusual credit yesterday. but in one in-
 stance might have done still better had
 he been a little quicker under the hat.
 He caught a red hot liner to left field.
 a runner being between first and sec
 Ond. The fly was low down and some
 thought it was grounder. They were sure of it when he threw # to second
 base instead of first. He put the man
 out at second but had he thrown to
 first he would have made a double play
 and put the batter out also. As a re-
 suit the play was credited as ground
 ball when it was really a fly
 l Woods, the crack catcher Cor the i Grays, hardly lived up to his reputa- 1 ton here. He was safe enough behind the bat but he did not watch the bases ! cleverly. nor was he real good in throw l ing. The result of it was that a half dozen bases were stolen on him. while T LOman, the Phoenix catcher. only per mitted three bases to be taken on him ] in both days.
 i Armstrong. who pitched yesterdays game. did not seem to be so much of ! a cOnundrum to tho Phoenix players as did Karger. though it was said by some of his fellows that he was rot doing his best work yesterday for | some reason. Wimp on the other hand i seemed to start the thing right in the
 first inning and played a pretty good game all the way through.