Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-28
DOUGLAS FANS
 IN GLEE OVER
 COMING SEASON
First Match Game Played On Sunday With Pearce - Games With Cananea and BiSbee Are Arranged For

DOUGLAS. Arizona, April 27- Manager O'Donovan of the baseball team has made up a schedule of Sat urday-Sunday games for May. At the request of Cananea, Douglas will open the season there May l-2, and the Cananeans will come here for return games May s-9. The games of May I5-16 will find Bisbee and Douglas playing, but this morning t was not known whether these games will be played at Bisbee or Douglas. If here, then on the following Saturday and Sunday Douglas will be. in Bisbee. The last Saturday and Sunday of the month will find Tucson here, the man agement of that team having sign fled to Manager O'Donovan a willingness to come here any time.
 Clifton. also, is after games with Douglas. but as the schedule is filled now for weekend games for May, the Clifton bunch cannot be aecommodat ed until later. A letter from the Clifton management says the team is stronger this spring than 1t has ever been. which means that Douglas would have to strengthen to make even a favorable impression against that team.
 Never fin the history of the south west has baseball started of with such a rush as it has this season. showing that this most vital of all sports and dearest of all to Americans is increasing in popularity each year Manager O'Donovan was in Bisbee Saturday and he reports that the mother city is plumb daffy over the national game. Not even the great sn. f,T sn- .1I. enthusiastic as is now being manifest ed there. Cananea, too. has a strong team, as is to be expected of that camp. where times are never too bad for the game to be supported fiber ally Clifton and Tucson again are on the baseball map. and it may be expected that Morenci and Globe also will have good teams. Then theer is Courtland. which. while not strong, at present, Is potentially a good base ball town, and efforts VII be made to place a fast team there. This would furnish a circuit of four towns that would make Saturday-Sunday baseball a success from a financial standpoint. Cananea, Bisbee, Courtland and Douglas are all so closely connected that good money could be made off of Sunday games, it is thought.
 
 In this little arrangement. however. there IS one discordant feature, which. it is hoped, will be eliminated this season. Canauea has always mani Tested a disposition to be a triie "chesty" in matters baseball. espe- cially with reference to Douglas. for which there has been no real occasion. Some recent correspondence from that camp published in the Interna. tional placed Manager O'Donovan of this city in a bad light over a matter with which he had no connection whatever It would appear to a cas ual observer that the Cananea team and management in the past have set themselves up as little tin baseball l. gods before whom all else must kow' tow or be damned Feelings down at that end of the line have been none too sweet towards Douglas since that unforgettable game here of the fall of O7. when baseball partisanshiT became heated to a dangerous extent Douglas won that game in a sensa tional manner and Cananeans drop ped a big wad of money on their fag orites Then the season of 1908 came on and in series of six games Doug las won four. which. to say the least did not salve the feelings of the ar dent Cananesns.