Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-09-25
TOURNAMENT CLOSED
WITH MONKEY SHOW
Secretary Sellers Made Hi
With Spectators by Giving
Money Back.
PLAYERS WALKED HOME IN RAIN

The base ball tournament of the
t%wenty-ffth New Mexico territorial
fair closed yesterday with a brace of
farce games. Las Vegas and Clifton
took part in one, the game which was
supposed to decide which should re-
seive first money and which should
take second, and Ell Paso and Trinidad
took part in the second game. The
championship game came first, and it
was a case where the main event was
pulled off before the preliminary, and
both were rotten, pardon the express
sion. The first especially smacked of
flavor similar to the closing game of
the tournament OF the twenty-third
territorial fair, when three teams tied
for the money, and divided it the
night previous to the play-off, Santa
Fe going home with its share, leaving
Albuquerque and FL Paso to play a
game Of tag for gate receipts. The
fans that paid on that Sunday did not
get their moneys worth any more
than those who did not ask for their
fifty cents yesterday.
The trouble began brewing Saturday
morning when Las Vegas defeated
Trinidad, tying Clifton for first and
second place. Saturday night, it
seems, these teams wanted to cut the
money, without playing the tourna-
ment off. If the precedent of two
years ago had anything to do with it,
they had this right, but the fair asso-
citation, believing that the people
would like to see the tie played off,
decided differently.
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for third money and it was arranged
that they should play that tie off yes
terday, too, which was done good
grace.
There was a dispute about the di-
vision of the gate receipts. One re-
port is that the fair association want
ed to divide the money into five ways,
each team taking 90 per cent and the
association taking the rest. Another
is that Clifton and Las Vegas wanted
so per cent net expenses. If this
deal should have gone through, lrln-
idad and Eel Paso would surely have
had a kick coming. So many stories
were afoat about what really aid
happen that the real truth is only
problematical. but it is thought that
Las Vegas and Clifton were to get so
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penses of all four teams. and they all
went into the field with this under
standing. And it is believed that they
started with the purpose of playing
ball, but discouraged by a bad begin
ming, the Clifton bunch showed the
yellow and laid down. Las Vegas
made four runs in the first inning and
seven in the second. Chief Myers
threw the ball into center field, while
three Blues ambled home and nobody
seemed to care on the side of the
Miners. They were all rotten, except
ing Sears on first base. Sears made
the most spectacular catch of the
tournament in this game. Charles
Daniels was particularly rotten, and
Smiley Williams muffed one, but ii
might not have been mentioned. Well,
they dubbed through the nine innings
as quickly as possible. Many buckets
of beer were carried in front of the
grand stand over to the players stand,
The beer quickly e~vaporated, and il
wasn't a very dry day either.
At the close of the second inning
Secretary Sellers appeared before the
grand stand and told the people that
he believed that they were being hum
bugged by a farce game of base gall
and all of those who wanted their
money back could get it at the ticket
office. The 300 people present eagerly
accepted the invitation. The majority
of them hiked back to New Town
while a few returned to the grand
stand to see two teams Of ball play
ers make monkeys Of themselves. AT
ter monkey stunts, they walked home
in the rain.
The Clifton-Las Vegas game result
ed in a score of IS to Z, in favor Of
Las Vegas, and the Trinidad-El PasC
game went to FL Paso by a score Of
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