Bisbee daily review., 1909-07-08
|CANANEA FOUND | CARDsSTACKED Mexican Ball Players Find Winning Games at Fl Paso
 is Difficult POOR OLD UMPIRE GETS
 IT IN USUAL LOCATION
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CANANEA. July 7.-The ball team
 returned from Fl Paso yesterday firm in the belief that they made IS good a showing in the Texas town as any team in the world could have done. They. played winning. gilt
 edged ball throughout the series: but,
 apparently the cards had been stack.
 ed and the outcome decided upon locals are partly to blame too; for
 everyone connected with the Douglas
 squad. from the resourceful O'Dono-
 van down to the bat boy. had warned them with knowledge born of sad ex.
 perience that the Pass City umpire could take nine blindfolded men and
 win from Pittsburg any day in the year. with perfect ease. It may oe that the Fl Pasoans did not believe that their team would survive nn- less they took two out of three from Cananea. yet it would have been far better had their chief instrument in winning the final game (the Umpire) been more diplomatic in his coarse and partial work. He did badly enough in the first game. was worse in the second, and was so rank in the last contest that the entire city sanitary force was busy all next day deodoriz ing the field. It is not nice to say these things. or good sportsmanship to claim that the game was lost through unfair methods. but the tes- timony of other teams that have got the worst of it. together with abuntl- ant witnesses in this instance are such strong proofs of the contention that it is only right that other clubs should be warned against going into a game where fellow by the name of Mackey is billed to play a leading part It wont take long for such occurrences as this to make Fl Paso sore spot on the southwestern base ball map.
 A few fans of that city may be be guiled into the belief that their team is stronger than others in this sec ton, but the games that must be play ed away from home will offset that idle fancy. Cananea will not be troubled with him again. however, since all games scheduled with thet club would have been cancelled had they not reluctantly inserted a clause to the effect that he would be ex- clujed from holding the indicator in any future series.
 All of this unpleasautness. this pre- arranged victory with money freely bet, this inefficient umpiring is not cal culated to help the team which tenn porarily prospers by it, and does much toward destroying the spirit of clean and friendly rivalry that base ball is supposed to foster and keep alive.
 Dugan is thinking of inserting the notice in a Los Angeles paper:
 To whom it may concern Relations and friends of Philip Kelly, bush league ball player, may locate him in Fl Paso, Texas, playing ball for forty dollars per month. He bears the dis of being the only deserter from the Cananea team in six years. Will be seen walking home next Oc- tober, very hungry and tired. No regrets
 MT. and Mrs. R. l.. OiNeill return ed from their two weeks stay in SdllOTilia seSltTCdN- uell two daughters. Lulu and Esther, who have been attending school in Los for the past year, accompan- jed them home.
 Mrs Bowman, who has been visit ing relatives in east Tennessee ic- the past two months, came home yes terday.
 The recent purchase of some mining ground down the Sonora river by the Phelps, Dodge O., for s150,000. has started considerable interest in that A number of local people have been holding ground in that sec tion for several years, hoping that facilities would some day enable them to either work or sell their holdings. It is believed that the Naeozari railroad will eventually be extended in that direction. There is a large scope of silver bearing land that would be opened up, and quite a number of Announcements have lately been made in that district Antiguas are numerous in that vicin- ity.