Arizona republican., 1904-09-06
HOLIDAY
How It Was Observed in
 Phoenix Yesterday
Baseball and Other Festivities at EastlaKe Park - The Ceremonials in the City.

 free-for-all success. Everything was | free form the lemonade to the fights. |
 Eastlake was the center of attIac- tion. Several things happened at that | resort. In addition to the dissipation of shooting gallery there was baby | gallery operated by small boy who | went hoarse with the glad shout, "Ev- | cry time you hit a baby you get a good cigar" Meanwhile the target | rifles popped and cracked with the joy | of the occasion and half dozen anna teurs actually organized a poker game upon the stage of the park theater. This mild diversion failed to outlive the baseball game and at it's conclu- sion there was an equal division of the spells, which goes to prove that social ism Is the enemy of poker.
 Of course the baseball game was the big show. Like everything else the game was without money and with out price. Numerically it was d mas todonic success. Every available scat ..l the grPr1stand was taken and the overflow crowded the diamond. 1tI was this pressure within the enclosure which caused an afternoon of turmoil for Hugh Evans, who undertook to keep the small boy on the public's side of the invisible dead line. In this in- stance the small boys name was Le- zion. Moreover he was from Mesa and believed in his inherent individual and proprietary rights. It may be that be was looking for trouble, or that he was over sensitive. His side of it was that he had been abused by a bigger man; that he had been man-handled and in- suited and that what had been a sim gular offense should be collectively avenged. He happened individually to have been a juvenile Mormon and the individual juvenile Mormon easily be- comes collective. Two or three band ed together and waylaid MT. Evans at | every oppoItunity. At the end Of the ninth ending they realized that oppor- tunity for vengeance was fast ebbing | away and they planned for the third | time a sweeping united attack. Sc many people surrounded them that Mir Evans was able to side-step them un- | til he could be spirited from the | grounds. At matter of fact he had no desire to engage in a Lulliputian war. Public sympathy was about ev- | enly divided. but of course, had the | odds been toIerably balanced as to numbers, MT. Evans could not have l fought with those so many years his | junior. For all that, no one may gain | say that three or four boys some four | teen years of age have sharp fists, nor can anyone who witnessed the affair
 doubt their sincerity in the matter. | They had a double purpose at stake, one being revenge and the other he- ing to make good their word, for they had solemnly promised themselves; 10 chastise the oppressor. Despite their l spectacular pluck thus exhibited, they | failed to entirely corner the market on | juvenile disturbances, for it is stated | that the conduct of the mayor of Mesa
 was so displeasing to the sympathies of two or three small lads of Phoenix that they arose in infantile wrath and swatted the visiting official in the open face. It is very, very wrong to be "Is- respectful to ones seniors, but Labor Day is an event and baseball is di- rect appeal both to ones local pride and personal disabilities. Thel efore w1en
 even an honorable has the audacity 10
 wish ones paraticular star a 1isnal
 setting it is hardly to be expected that
 one who happens 10 be at the ripe age
 of thirteen lusty summers, can and will
 restrain his outraged feelings.
 II
 was the only excitement afforded by
 the game. On the contrary these small conflicts were completely overshadow- ed by the excitement of the contest
 proper. It was a ten inning game, the
 score at the end of the ninth being tGr
 and ten. In the last half of the tentt
 Jimmy Walden made the eleventh score
 for Phoenix and handed the home boy: l Gil Walden is a kleptomaniac and Mess
 should report his case to the authofi
 ties He stole two bases in that las
 mad half and this. superb larceny dit
 the work for the ambitious Alfalfas Be it known, however, that whatsoave the Mesa boys lacked in score the. made it up in socks. Far be it from s' feeble typewriter as this to attemp ] a description of those hose. Suffice it t
 say that they eclipse the sun, sham
 the moon put the stars to flight am
 enshroud the rainbow's glory in a pal l of gloom Phoenix E-~ one comfor l which lies in the irridescent blindini | flame of the socks of McNulty who's P glad attire as to calves nobly sustaine s the Phoenix contingency.
 In the beginning Mesa appeared t
 be in the ascendant. At the end O ). the first inning the score stood: Mesa e 1; Phoenix, 0. They began the thir e inning at a tally of four and four. Me d sa in the fourth promised Phoeni 5. woeful tidings, making a total of fiv s runs and shutting Phoenix out. Tha
 was Mesa's last luck Gradual
 Phoenix worked out it's own salvation
 In both the sixth and the sever;t a innings Phoenix scored twice and i
 the eighth made the last run necessar
 to tie the score. Then they began = play. Mesa was up with big Delgad - in the box pitching for life. The d couldn't find him. Not a man lived d reach first They went down in th
 order of one, two, three. Mesa retire Il to the field thirsting for revenge. The n were satisfied. Young Bert hunsal e er one of four players of his nam l. went into the box and twirled phenoH d enal ball, repeating Delgado's perform ,f ance of flaming three straight. Near l. while Mesa's special train had pulle
 I'D parallel with the diamond and '- was announced that the train woul g not wait for a tenth inning. There ws