The copper era., 1905-07-06
MoRkNcf 6; CLIFTON 5.

MORENCf 6; CLIFTON 3.
 The game between Clifton and Morenci last Sunday was truly ball game and belonged to either side. At no stage of the game was the victory assured for either side, but as the game advanced nearer to the ninth Morenci gradually crawled a little higher with the final result of 6-3.
 Clifton was hooked up pretty well with Rube Armstrong in the box and he had the most of the Morenci hit ters on his little wagon. The first inning opened with Morenci at the bat, they scored two runs, which looked little bad for the home boys. Danenhauer smashed one over second and stole second, Hunter followed with hit and Meyers landed a safe one, scoring Danenhauer; Dunn sacrificed scoring Hunter; Williams hit safe scoring Meyers. Things now looked interesting and Armstrong hit safe to left, but Armstrong mis- understood the umpire and was put out when in the act of returning to bat, making two out. Dudley made the third out on long fly to center. The score remained 3-2 in favor of Clifton until the third when Morenci tied. It stood B until the sixth. when Hendricks led off with a single and Ashley, who was considered an easy out landed a home run. From this time on Morenci held Clifton made in the first inning. When the fatal ninth came the Morenci boys were on their guard to prevent the locals from taking a batting rally. Quilting led off with a safe one. Danenhauer followed, but failed to land the ball safe, flying out to Ran dolph. Hunter sacrificed and Price struck out and the game was over. The pitching of Armstrong was steady, though at times the Hill City boys landed safe ones when they were needed. Rube is considered the best twirler that has performed on the Clifton diamond this season and the team that played behind him were thoroughly satisfied with his work.
 Clifton seems to be out of luck this season. Meyers, the best hitter on the team, got his right hand split in the third inning and had to retire from behind the bat, which was in- deed a severe shock to Clifton and groan of relief to the Morenci boys. Doran went behind the bat and caught a strictly tirst-class game, ac- cepting several very difficult chances without an error. His work was commendable and illustrated the fact that he is not such a dead one behind the bat as was thought by a number of fans. Price occupied right field after the third inning, but fell little short on his usual line drives.
 It cannot be said that Clifton lost the game either on errors or lack of hitting. The locals led by one in hitting and the three errors made were of no benefit to Morenci. Just that lucky horseshoe which Morenci seems to have planted in her soul this season.
 It seems that the more Morenci wins the more the locals want to play and when Clifton does get a good pitcher located permanently there will be different tale to tell.
 Randolph made couple of timely stops on first for Morenci that prac- tically saved the game, as each time it was the third out with two men ready to score.
 Ellis on second, Quilting on third and in fact all of the boys played a good game Sunday, and all they have to do is to keep up the good work and the Morenci scalps will soon be- gin to come home.