Arizona republican., 1910-11-30


 1 ford. Except for this effective little foul play. the chances are not one
 in a hundred that Phoenix would
 ever have scored at all. ~ Incidentally the writer heard it admitted by a
 Phoenix player that Crawford was
 jumped on purposely in order to dis
 able him, and others heard the Phoe-
 nix players say during the game that
 they would 'get" Merritt. Lowry,
 and one or two other Prescott play
 CTS. Apparently there was "fluke'
 in carrying out this scheme so far
 as Crawford was concerned. and
 there seemed to be no lack of ef-
 fort to make 1t good with the Oth-
 CTS. This sort of work cannot be charged to altitude. or cold weather: at least these things do not move the Prescott boys to act that way.
 Tt is believed" says the Republi- can of Friday. that the cold wealth CT in Prescott contributed materially to the defeat of the Phoenix stu dents" Considering that the game was played on one of the most per feet days of an ideal Arizona Indian summer, this must have been in tended as a joke. However. as an excuse it serves quite as we'll as any of the others assigned. The Phoenix boys themselves expressed unquali- fled delight with the weather.
 In your Saturday issue it is claimed that the Phoenix team encountered
 "a bunch of mountain giants five or ten pounds heavier than Phoenix
 L~ have been intended as a joke. There was not a man on the Phoenix team who did not outweigh by at least twenty pounds the gallant little "Stumpy" Ross, our right end, and it is a safe venture that Phoenix out weighed Prescott at least five pounds on an average. The Prescott boys weigh on an average 145 pounds fully dressed-this means about 136 pounds as they are weighed for the game. If the Phoenix boys do not weigh more than this, they will be given the best dinner that the Yav- apai Club affords the next time they visit Prescott, in order to fill them up with something that will make them weigh up to their appearance. Next the responsibility for defeat is placed on the altitude. There may be in this. The Phoenix boys were certainly taller on an aver age than ours. and to the extent of the difference in height they were breathing a rarer atmosphere Other wise they were no more affected by brevity of breath than the Prescott boys. Next the officials fall under the accusation of being Prescott partisans." More impartial and &C., curate Judgment could not be asked or expected than was rendered in this game. old.- experienced football men without exception declared that the decisions were faultless. and it is certain that the penalties imposed on Prescott were more costly on the | whole than those suffered by Phoenix | How the Phoenix boys can claim ! that they. made three touchdowns Is i beyond comprehension. They crossed | Prescotts line fairly just once. An other time. as already pointed out. | hey took the ball over after it be- | .ame Prescott's, and still another | lime they crawled over with it after t was down. And in this latter in stance. they claim that the Prescott | cam pushed the player with the | 'all over. Think of a team pushing | he opposing players over it's own ;oal line? Wouldn't that jar you?
 As a matter of fact. Phoenix made | ts only touchdown in this quarter, II md not in the third. as enormously II eported. Phoenix did not get with n shouting distance of Prescott's 'oal except in the first and last Iuarters. and when the game ended Prescott was we'll toward the Phoenix ,oal. and only the final call of time Ieaded them off
 The advantage was with Phoenix n the start. as it won the toss. took he kickoff. and elected to defend the outh end. thus giving Prescott. the of sun and incline of he ground. Of course the teams hanged territory with each quarter. ut the initial quarter is often the ecisive one in football And Lowry. he Prescott fullback, was deliberate ' smashed in the face by a Phoenix layer as he was running down the ield. There. was much unfair play ng indulged in by the visitors Yet 'rescott won the game. but the 'hoenix boys by no means accepted heir defeat in the manly way that the 'rescott boys did in Phoenix last ear. Al the close of that game the 'rescott boys walked up to their onquerors and congratulated and heered them. They also. fin writing nd orally. challenged Phoenix to a eturn game in Prescott. which was efused. They also sent to the Pres ott papers fair account of the anne, giving the victors' entire cred :, and making no excuses. This is ar from the way Phoenix did here lst Thursday. They did not offer
 word or sign of congratulation but sulked in their tents" They did not nd have not challenged Prescott to
 return game. and the reports of the anne, evidently sent out by them, ere extremely unfair, and wide of ne truth. And the real and only xcuse for their defeat is that the rescott team outpIayed and out them at every turn. Tn nly one thing did Phoenix show to dvantage. and that was in kicking oebel certainly can kick. And this lay be applied to the whole Phoenix am and taken any way the reader esires to take it. But in the exc ltion of plays-in the use of the 'rward pass-in the exercise of football sense,'' the Prescott boys imply eclipsed the Phoenix boys. It as no hard luck story. It was sim ly good playing and good team 'ork with Phoenix on the defensive lost of the time. It is perhaps regrettable that any should ever have be-