Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-05-01
(From Tuesdays Daily ]

been tclegraphcd to turn the grounds over to the High school girls for basket ball. Cigarette money has gone southward from the pockets of numer. ous fans, and the Phoenix Athletics have been trundled homcward with the juicy part of Sundays gate receipts reclining clingingly against the sides of Curlcy Rinderlc's inside pocket, while Kurlcy Kohl wonders what caused the Whirlwind."
 Twelve to ii in favor of Phoenix. , That tells the tale. The lads from the sand hills met the mountainsidcrs and took lem into camp, but when all was 3 over the "winncrs of fourteen straight victories' had not added another vie.
 tory that they could crow very loud about, for the Diamond Jos tossed off i: the game n dozen different times. Here is how it happened:
 Tn A game so full of errors that the official scorckcepcr used up dozen
 lead pencils in vain endcavor 10 keep track of them, after which he quit in disgust, at the end of the third in. ming, the Phoenix Athletics, Sunday af. ever witnessed ball game in this city, took the fat end of the gate receipts M from the crstwhlc mighty Diamond Jos t by the score of 12 to II.
 The fact that the game was SO full of errors was all that made it interest d ing from the start. as Phoenix had five
 runs to Prcscott's goosc-cgg. at the X end of the first half of the second in
 ming Prescott scored twice in its half,
 however, and the spirits of the local
 fans revived. In the third Phoenix got
 two ,morc, shutting out Prescott. In X the fourth, Prescott again scored twice, H Phoenix getting a shut tout
 Two runs in the fifth inning made a E total of nine for Phoenix, with Pres :.f colt an apparently hopeless second with M only four runs. The boys from the lS$ sand hills took the balloon route in & the last half of the inning, however, M and when the fireworks subsided, Pres z. cott had tied the score.
 '3 In the eighth inning Phoenix broke the tie, scoring two runs, and making x another in the ninth, giving them n . lead of three runs, when the Diamond Jos came to the bat for the last time. 't& Two runs secured before two men f were out left Prescott in fine shape to 1 tie the score, having succeeded in get 3X ting a man to third. The entire crowd W of spectators were on their feet and 4X yelling when Hodge, for the Diamond < Jos, came to bat, succeeding w. Bur M gctt, who had been struck out for the <58 fifth consecutive time, and who, when '< the third strike was called on him the
 last time, threw his bat high in tn,
 mir, back of him, into the crowd neal
 the fence, no one, luckily, being hit.
 3 Hodge reached for n good one, go, M it on the side of the bat. sent the bal f<1tired by Lewis, who, lodging int,
 the crowd, caught and held the ball Hlcspite interference from some of th, rmall boys standing near by, and th'
 game was over
 ' It was not the good playing of Phoc ~ pix that won the game. any more thar
 | was the good playing of Prescot <. which nettcd them their eleven runs }} During the first three innings ten CT ls3 fors were charged up to the players, af ter which the official score keeper lief
 his column blank. Tho remaining si, .2' Innings were more replete with error <: ven than the first three. Infcld hit ': were muffed with startling regularit. \ by both sides, and the Phoenix outfeld
 brs found much trouble in stoppinl Ehat should have been singles, allow
 ng doubles, and in several case. Triples, through their inability 10 hea,
 he ball off as it came rolling toward x N hem.
 zx The Diamond Jos showed lack O N pam work, and the Athletics showe pr from the championship form whic
 ad won fourteen straight victories
 pclgado, the star twirler, got touche
 D for fifteen hits, as against eight oi Filson.
 Sunday the local team will play tn
 Brome team at Granite Dells, and O
 le following Sunday win play th Ak1nt;cs kn Dknao,v sveo.suAa a