Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-08-14
What Phoenix Thinks.


 ments on the game as follows.
 The above special telegram indl. eates that Curley and the Phoenix Aih. letic base ball team, were handed some. thing beside which the battle of Water loo was not circumstance and Gcttys burg only joke. It is suspected that The valley boys didn', get close cnougn 'o even find fault with the umpire. The most unexplainablc feature of the report is why, with such cyclone un der control, the Prescott managers per mittcd the visitors ,o get any runs at aIl. If they could manipulate destiny m such way, what was the purpose ot tne mountaincers in holding out any mercy at alll Why did they not sink the gah in right from the start, and Keep 1t there until tho victim was dea 1, and his hide nailed to the wall9 Sucb barbarity is hardly looked for in the twentieth century. Had there been no runs at all on the Phoenix side the team could have pleaded stringhalt o, locomotor ataxia. There is harrow. ing fear in Phoenix now that the boys are so slow they will not he able to get from the ball ground to the depot in time to catch the train, unless it is four hours late. As for pitching, it seems Co have become lost art with the Phoenix players. The records show that Williams was once n stem .windcr. but he seems to have run down yester. day. The others who succeeded him have also done some good work here in the valley from time Co time, though they never had SO notable n reputation, but yesterday 1t seemed that Prescott was what is known in scientific circles as m Irresistible force. It can only be accounted for on the theory that the ball grounds were drugged and ey. haled n noxious gas that affects only th, people accustomed to low alti- tudcs. tAll that Phoenix can say Co Prescott Is 'Takc your old champion. snip; we didn't want it any way!'
 But seriously, the dispatch rather in. dicates that Manager Taylor had or ganized n surprise party; that he hal invited the Humboldt team to help him give the visitors n good time. There will probably be no complaint on that score, but Mir. Taylor must feel pretty cheap over it; about like the United States and England would after corn. bining their navies to make demon stration before the Fecjec Islands, or like Jim Jcffrics would after sending for Battling Nelson to help him despoil a baby of its nursing bottle. But never mind, the baby will grow. This is n great climate down here, and next year Mir. Taylor may really need help. Any. how, he ought to go pick on Tucson, or some kid of his size."
 Notes of the Game.
 Of the four errors credited to the Grays Cole annexed three and Wilson one.
 Rcdman stole four bases, the Grays purloining q total of eleven.
 Hudson, considering 1t has been many days since he played any posi- ton but short, was all there with the big mitt at the job of receiving Bar nett's twisters.
 The Grays, owing to Elliott being on the sick list, and Reymiller out of tho game, had to make uss of Long, Col' and Redmond, from Humboldt. They should nave used High school boys. Wilson's game at third, with one ox ception, was faultless. His batting Ii expected to improve as soon as hi hand Is entirely healed. If tho grand stand is . criterion, the "Kandy Kid' is the best third bssemsn ever seen i' northern Arizona.
 Mitchell and Farquhsr rob the gam of a great deal of excitement by thei playing. They should miss . few O lem occasionally, instead of gobblini everything that gets in a mile of tbei mitts, just to surprise the grandstand
 That side-step, out.and.in, what-is-i' which Mir. Barnett uses every now hn then, must he worse than the famou spit ball. No batter has touched yet, and many have refused to swin ht 1t, only to stare in stupihcatio when Mir. Umpire says "strike."
 WANTS WAGON ROAD TO BE Ex
 TENDED TO COPPER BASIN.