The copper era., 1909-07-22
Clifton Team Returns With Three Scalps.

The reorganized locals made their first appearance on the road last week, visiting Douglas and Bisbee in defence of their just claim to the southwestern championship. The amount of free advertising so kindly given them by the Fl Paso Herald acknowledging their superiority by their half page explanation of how we managed to win, caused the peo- pie to sit up and take notice, and was a great help in swelling the gate receipts.
 This seems to be a period of base ball reorganization in this section. Earlier in the season we entertained Bisbee on the local diamond and took three straight, but since then the Muckers have been greatly strengthened, so that the return games on their stamping grounds were looked forward to with keenest interest.
 On Friday morning Manager Riley loaded up his clouting outtield, the
 
 the joy combination that goes to make up the fastest aggregation of ball tossers in the southwest, or as the Herald billed them ''Congress of Rough Riders and Maneaters. 2" When the goose town accommodation came to a full stop in Douglas, much to the surprise of the natives of that place, the combination tumbled off, and immediately went into action against the "Demons.
 Now Douglas, so far, hasn't made much of a dent in the baseball at mosphere of the southwest, but a casual glance over their lineup dis closes the names of some pretty fast men. Well, the long and tiresome journey didn't seem to worry our boys in the least. They were there for business and were not long in settling down, as was shown when Caul, the first man up, started things doing in the run column with a good natured wallop on the horsehide, good for one round trip.
 Fehrman commenced the work on the slab and until the fifth held the Demons to five hits. In the fifth they tied things up and McCleary took the burden off Fehrman's shoulders. The locals immediately took the lead again in the sixth. Scanlan beat one out and Kelly scored him with a double. Kelly was caught at the plate on Mason's hit, but Williams lined. one out that brought Mason across. Although Douglas cut hit our bunch they couldn't score any more. Down there they say Douglas was slow on the bases, but say, just glance in our error column and read the answer.
 Clifton. .......4 46 6S Z SSs. g 5 } C Douglas. as.......O o o l 12
 On Saturday the team moved over to Bisbee to open the return engage ment. Scanlan was sent to the firing line. The game was fast one, and | though the Muckers had the corners full in the opening round they could not make it stick for a run. Scanlan held them to five hits, of which two went good tor three bases. but that bunch. behind him took care of the Muckers when they did get on.
 For the locals it was the old, old story, punching hits. Riley started the rally in the third with q crack ing single. Scanlan followed as usual by beating out bunt, and then Kelly came along with a two cushion drive to the fence and Riley and Scanlan rambled in.
 | 4 6 7 9 r. h. e. Clifton. 2 0 C 0 c 2 Bisbee .......O o o 0 o O o 0 o
 On Sunday afternoon, just to show that his heart was in the right place McCleary duplicated Scaulan's per formance and the Muckers drew an other zero. In the mean time the locals enjoyed another little swatfest and ran over seven by the way of diversion while Bull" was applying the whitewash, and allowed but two