Arizona republican., 1908-05-21
TM PRESCOTT GRAYS
 ISSUE A CHALLENGE
Want Three Games. with City League
 Team the Coming Week.

The Prescott Grays are out with challenge. Yesterday General Agent
 Goldsworthy O. tke Santa Fe received message from Prescott asking him | to formally present the challenge to | the Phoenix Baseball League for three l games to be played Saturday after noon. Sunday morning and Sunday af- | ternoon, Mar 30 and 31. in Phoenix, | the charge for admission to be 50
 cents. The message was turned over
 to the secretary Of the league.
 The challenge has been practically ! accepted, the executive committee of : the league having at a recent meeting
 held at A. w. GalDin's store. voted to
 give the Gra~s games on these dates if the- requested it. It was also ten
 tatively agreed that the Santa Fe be
 asked to run a special excursion to
 reach here at least for the Sunday
 games, hoping thereby to have some
 300 mountaineers in the city to swell 1 the crowd.
 The Santa Fe has already arranged | to give a special excursion rate to Phoenix of $3.50 for the round trip and
 it is likel- that another invasion such
 as marked the baseball season last
 summer, will come down from the Pine | City for the contests. The Grays will | be strengthened up for the games and | they will need to be bolstered up in some places if they hope to win any of | the contests, for the All Stars of the ! city league will be up against them. | The All Stars will not only be the | fastest fielding bunch of amatuers ever seen on the local diamond, but they will be the pick of the heavy stickers and will hammer the tar out Of the
 average pitcher. This nine should be 1 considerably stronger than the Fra | ternals which held, the Crays to close | scores in the recent games in Prescott. | But the Grays were then hardly get | ting into the harness after their win ter hibernation. while the Frats had | had much conditioning and practice in games with the other two teams in the local league.
 The Gra-s last Sunday defeated Congress h-- a margin of thirteen scores. It is understood that Glen dale, reinforced by some Of the players who will not be engaged in the game
 Sunday between the Maroons and Fra
 ternals, will go to Prescott Sunday for
 a game. A lambastins will be the
 probable outcome for the Cra-s will
 be considerably faster than thcy were
 in the first games.
 A formal acceptance of the Grays'
 challenge will be sent to them today and arrangements for their reception here will be made l. is likely that an excursion will also he run from Mesa and Tempe, as a number Of the Mesa boys who are members of the city league will be in the games. The All Stars will be chosen b. the executive committee Of the league. If three games are to be played, it is certain that some fourteen or more Of the most deserving players in the three hines will be given a chance to try out in one oe the contests. Their chances will be somewhat determined by their fielding and batting per centages. base running and throwing ability. Before leaving, Gormley presented his choice of fifteen men for an All Star nine and it looks good to the chronicler of these columns. A captain will be pick ed for the All Stars and four pitchers worked out previous to the games. It is likely that Saturdays game will be a double-header, the Y. M. C. A nine playing first the substitute team of the league. The coming of Prescott will be looked to with much interest by the local fans The MaroOns are more than anxious to take the game Sunda- from the Fraternals, and they believe they can do it for no team can win all the time Delgado, Quires and Grijalva will all have a chance in the box against them while Williams will probably do the twirling for the Frats. Naturally the Orphans sympathize with the Maroons for a Frat defeat would be somewhat of a salve for their wounded feelings after the late lamented fall-down of last Sunday.