Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-08-14

The Northern New Mexico fair ex'
cursion to Ration on SUNDAY was IN
every way Il most pronounced sue
cess. The interest manifested and the
glad hands extended by our neighbor
city on the north were what everyone
remarked who was patriotic enough to
! make the trip. About two hundred
and fifty people. accompanied by the
Las Vegas Military band, left Las
Vegas in the morning at 1;l5 and
when the train was ready to leave
Ration at s O'Clock IN the evening the
guests of that city were congratulated
at the station by not less than two
thousand people assembled there to
say good bye These excursions are
prov ing great success and are the
best method yet devised by the fair
management for the advertising OF the
fall festival Ration will be here at
the fair. that is certain.
The first part Of the program pre-
l
sisted in trip to the top of the lofty
eminence back of the city which re-
joices under the euphonious sobriquet
OF Goat Hill. The enterprising Ra.
tonites were determined that Las
Vegans should be delighted by the
\ magnificent prospect that fills the
eye from the top of the hill. Accord
ingly they had conveyed to the top
several cases of the Gambrinian fluid.
The bait worked like charm and It
must be admitted that few of the Wis.
tors failed to ascend the eminence.
The band climbed to the lofty band
stand which they had the distinguish
ed honor of dedicating. the Gate CITY
musicians having not yet found suffi
cient courage to essay the difficult
,scent
The base ball team played two
games, one Saturday and the other On
Sunday: the core in the firs game
was to 3 in favor Of Las Vegas and
the game on Sunday was a Slaughter
, of the local team, las Vegas winning
by The score of IL to |. The game
would have been total blank for
Ration had 1t not been for the inexcus-
able error of Rathburn on third base,
and the bad judgment of Upton In
not throwing home to nab runner.
The Blues new pitchers, Nash and
!. Cable. are here Nash pitched the
first game and seven innings Of the
second he was relieved by Atkins In
the eighth, owing TO the inability OF
the Ration team to connect with the
smoking hot ones he shot over the
plate for their edificati0n. Mr.. Gable
from Kansas City met the team In
Ration, arriving on No | Sunday but
did not participate in the game hav,
ing pitched ten-inning 90 game at
Hutchinson. Kas,. the day before. He
will don a Blues uniform at once and
: he initial work out" to win the biz
prize at the Albuquerque fair will be-
: gin at once. The Blues now have
fourteen men and with pitching staff
composed Of Nash Gable and Fan
: ming certainly ought to make good In
the fastest sort OF company Mr.
= Gable saws that James Durham has
: been signed by Albuquerque and will
probably pass through tomorrow fol
!, The Duke City.
~ Saturdays game as a whole was nc
!, particularly brilliant exhibition Of bal
u playing. Nash did brilliant work wher
he had to, for instance when he hat
three men on bases and none out, fan
ming the others in one, two. three or
der He has fine control. daZzlinl
:. curves and his change of speed |,
: very effective. Nash made two three
? baggers during the game.
Almost the first bah thrown smash
! ad the right finger of Browns hand
:. but he bound 1t up aud caught an el
y roress game His throwing to <ec
;. ond was superb Rathburn carrie,
off the honors in the fielding, MAXIM
y two uncommonly hard catches. som
beautiful stops and throwing perfect
- W. However be had one error. Dt
- lin. the capable center. showed hi
= batting ability by making homc'rur
~ Ten hits were made off Schemp an
- Ellis, who took turns for Ration, Will
:. Nasl., only allowed six scattered one
7" Nash made six strikeouts and tn
Ration brace made eight The un
J, hiring was nncommonly good and th
:" Vegas boys distinguished themselvt
BY accepting all the decisions withol
= nlurmur
Al Ration the people were hungl
:, for the "Vamos to Vegas" buttons an
every button that was taken along VIZ
pinned on the coat or shirt waist
=, some fair Ratonite. 'Vamos
,,s Vegas" is the cry all along the lin
!. The fair management has wired 4
" several thousand more buttons, wi