Bisbee daily review., 1909-08-24
"REMINISCENCES OF CANANEA
 BASEBALL

Douglas town recalls the stirring events of two years ago when he and the stranded Midland bunch fought their way into the highest graces of Shelter City fandom and won a win ter home. At that time Cananea had what she always expects to have. the premier nine of the copper region. When the wandering band of Texans got accustomed to their new uniforms. their first desire was to come over and play rings around carillo's under estimated stalwarts. Those were great games. the ones pulled of on the local grounds. A trainload of rooters came over with hearts aglow and uplifted heads; and, when the first Douglas batter cracked out three-base hit, a mighty shout from their ranks permeated the air. How ever, he tried to. stretch it into homer, and was retired ten feet away from the ultimate station; Sir Burton Whaling remarking as he touched him out. Young man. you are leagues and leagues away from the plate That struggle went to next was cinched by the same aggre- gation at the ratio of 12 to 2, Walters being the loser in the contest. The following day 400 people accom- panied the team to Douglas with the intention of rubbing the sting of defeat deeper in. But right here is where Walters saved the sinking ship and made his name synonym for joy all over the city of furnace fires. Elmer Rieger pitched wonderful ball for Cananea that day. yet his support wavered at critical times and Walters was the victor with the score board looking to against the visitors. Though with the two best out of three Cananea had few regrets to register.
 There were some real ball players among that scrappy bunch of eighteen men, and without refiecting upon the pftscHl Qudai4s tHde ID bc'hs uauo-s cut, it is safe to say taat the south
 west rarely sees performers of higher class. They are scattered now Of the Cananeans. Rienhardt is
 the only one who is on he present team. Dugan is temporarily out of the game but may don his glove be- rara .pasbar ypnpth ao paScad lack Horn is also hors de combat and will not play until next season. Fleet footed Mike Ryan has renounced sportiye pleasures for the more iucra- tive vocation of shift-bossing in the veta mine Hardy Holt has moved to Douglas and has quit playing ball in order to play more often with the baby. Bert Whaling is catching for Seattle. but goes to the Detroit Tigers next spring. Rieger is still with Shreveport, though the St. Louis Browns have nailed him for next sea son. Chick Arnold, the best of all. has been purchased by the Chicago Nuite SOA duu is Suic to shihS hh the big show. Frank Hodges went to Peoria last spring. but was dis pensed with on account of his usual failing-hostility to discipline.
 Walters and Harper will be the only members of the Douglas squad who participated in the memorial series. Cram is with Dallas and Brad ford with Galveston. Yohe was re- gently sold to Shreveport by Calves ton: Corr is wearing Bisbee uni form and Earthman was in the Ar
 kansas league until the paymaster resigned. Doc Carey is still pulling teeth in the smelter burg and Shorty Lewis has dropped from the limeiigk; altogether. As long as baseball con tinues to be the leading sport in this section. SO long will the memory of these neve-to-be forgotten games re
 main It's sweet to think of them now and then, but sweeter still to realize that all the bitterness they brought forth has been dispeiied.
 Charlie ogden was made an unwiIl- ing example of how vigilant local of ficers are, one rainy night this week. He had been over to the club until a late hour and desiring to escape from the heavy downpour which overlook him on the way home, he sought the
 Cananea News company's store. of which he is manager. for shelter. The wary cop had never seen anyone go into the building at that particular hour and proceeded to get busy about the time ogden unlocked the door. Ogden produced all the credentials he had in hand to show that he was
 within his rights. but 1t did not go with the ofyicer and the luckless manager was escorted to 2 strange lodging place for the night. He ef fected his release next morning with little dificulty.
 R. F. Richardson, a conductor on the narrow guage railway. died in the local hospital yesterday morning af- Ter very brief Illness It was not
 believed that his ailment was of a serious nature and his death came
 as complete surprise. Richardson
 had been in Cananea nearly eight years. was man of high character,