The copper era., 1909-07-22
Fl PaSO Papers Professional PreVari-
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 For years it has been reported that the Fl Paso papers have been friends to Arizona and the Clifton district jdst for what they could get out of us in cash, but when it comes to a square deal, even in as small a propo- sition as baseball game, they un- ceasingly lie about us and print stories absolutely without foundation. named Lamer, who halls from Los Angeles and has succeeded in con- vincing Fl Paso that he is the only ball player ever created. Just like to Clifton under the imagination that we had nothing but weddings and thought he could run ever the local players. Lamer fatly acknowl- edged that he had no right to coach on the inside of the diamond, but offered as his excuse the fact that the coaChers box was not marked off. But if he plays in the Arizona league he will learn to stay out of the dia- mopd even if the box is not marked for him. 1t was not wholly the fact that he got into the diamond that caused him to lose the use of his right hand. He was cautioned that he was out of place and instead of acting like gentleman he in dulged in a flow of profanity that would have been a disgrace to the lowest ball player on record. Being a rather husky man himself he imagined that he could win a scrap and add even greater laurels to his already windy reputation, but he ran up against the wrong fellow and got his hand called to a queens taste. For the past two weeks the Fl Paso papers have been bowling and snort ing over the loss of this player, who would have been a wonder to h5ve pulled the team to victory when the rest of them could not play fast enough to keep warm even with the thermometer at 110.
 On account of the Clifton team taking the conceit out of a bunch of would-be ball players and licking a bull-dozer who ought to have been thrown in the historical Clifton tun- nel, The Fl Paso Herald is now call ing us maneaters and everything else. Facts will always right wrongs that have been circulated by such sheets as the Herald. Clifton really has one of the cleanest ball teams that ever played in the southwest, which fact will be demonstrated as the team plays on outside diamonds. The ERA can hardly believe Man ager Cummings,o of the Morenci team, would be responsible for the article which appeared above his signature in the Times of last Sunday. If he did he is not the man we have always thought him to be.
 The Herald has also cast a re- flection on the manner in which Cliff ton treated its pet ball team while in Clifton and intimated that they had to go to Morenci to be entertained. The fact of the matter is that the visitors were given full and free sway at a dance on Saturday night and the evening before leaving they were rendered a Dutch lunch, which all seemed to enjoy. They were transported from the hotel to the ball ground free of charge and in fact shown every courtesy except to hand them a game, which in all obability would have cured the soreheaded manager of the Fl Paso ball team, who no doubt is responsi- ble for the lies that have been pub lished in the Fl Paso papers, over which he is showing a great deal of control.
 In speaking of treatment of ball teams it can be truthfully be said that Fl Paso is the Shortest" of any town in the southwest. Outside of putting the team at the cheapest hotels in the city, the Fl Paso play CTS, manager and whole concern never see the boys except on the diamond, where the umpire usually puts the finishing touches on. Oh, yes, we almost forgot to mention the fact that Fl Paso does not have the courtesy to give visiting ball teams street car iransporta ation to and from the ball park. People living in glass houses should not throw stones. Get after your sore-headed White Sox manager and teach him to acknowl- edge when he gets outclassed on a baseball diamond instead of lieing about it.