Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-10-17
PITCHER MAKES A BAD BREAE AND COPPER CITY TAKES
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NUMBER OF ERRORS FOLLOWING GIVES THE LOCALS A
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Dope Fiend of the Ancient City Hits the Pipe, Dreams Dreams and Sees Visions-And Globe Will Not Take in the Coming Tournament.

InlngS concerning the Tucson base ball tournament are boiling, especially as regards the participation of the Globe baseball team. The abnormal heat has arisen over the elimination of the thirty day rule which the management of the tournament advised the local team was effected for the aceommoda- tioH of Douglas, Bisbee and Phoenix. But even before the Globe team had been notified of the change in the rules. which only occurred after wire had been sent to Tucson, we hear of a rep resentative of the Tucson team over in Albuquerque hiring ball players for the Tucson aggregation. Of course Tucson isn t after the dinero; but at the same time it is too bad that the ancient viii lage cannot enter three imported teams instead of only one and keep all of the money at home. And now Tucson pre- fers the presence of the Yuma team to that of Globe. Following the publica- tion of telegrams interchanged between Globe and Tucson arrangements, the Tucson Star turns loose this bunch of dope:
 "There is the latest story of baseball duplicity in a nutshell. Globe stands in the position of rank ingrate, hay ing received bid for the tournament only through courtesy and after consid- erable discussion, beaeuse so far away that there was little hope of financial gain from the presence of the team.
 "They are ungrateful because when Globe held a tourney last year, they were shy of teams and begged Tucson to send representatives regardless of the fact that Tucson was almost totally unprepared, and would have little chance at the money. A team was has tily put together, and money raised by few good sportsmen to pay for the expense of the trip. Manager E. Drach- man went into his pocket for whatever money the fund was shy. Globe pays fo rthis kindness as above outlined. but the change to Yuma will be all to the good. {"
 Now what do you know about that 2 Globe, the Crank ingrate," receiving a bid to the tourney only "through courtesy" and still the contest was ad- vertised as opened to all baseball teams in Arizona, New Mexico and Fl Paso. And because "there was little hope of financial gain from the presence of the team.' And all this time we have been led to believed that the baseball tour nament was arranged to give the na- tional game in Arizona boost, instead of for the financial gain of Tucson or the promoters of the contest.
 The Globe tournament is cited as an other example of Globes ingratitude, but the Stars informant forgot the fact that the Tucson team which par ticipated in the local tournament last year was guaranteed $250 for expenses, which they received, not having played fast enough to land the money. The Tucson management is offering $l00, win or lose, to help in the expenses for outside teams and the coming tourney will last twice as long as the local one, which means twice the expenses to take an outside team there.
 It looks more and more as though the Tucsonites were trying to work "rab- bits foot' on the local boys. Frcm the games played during the past sea son it was apparent that had the thirty day rule remained in effect, Globe had an excellent chance of getting away with the big end of the purse, and even when it was discarded, Globe was never notified of the fact until Tucson papers containing the item arrived here.
 Manager Prochaska of the Globe team first expected to take his team to Tucson, strengthened by three outside players as allowed in the rules as first made, although it would cost much more than the expenses of any other team which has entered, but he has de- cided to withdraw. Among the other teams entered are the Wichita, Kan, team, which will represent Phoenix; the Midland, Texas, team, under the name of Douglas; the Cananea team, with Los Angeles players; the Bisbee team with players from all over, and the Tucson team, with Colorado, Kansas and New Mexico players. A tournament conduct ed along these lines may be all to the good from financial standpoint, but it will be of little good to the sport.