El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-05-27
MORENC|M AkESA
REPLY To CLIFTON
Manager Of Morenci Team
Saws MOrenci Has Been
More Than Square.

! c. Z. Tyler, manager of the Morenci
| ball team, takes exception 10 L. X
/ Crawford's article from Clifton on the
! Morenci-CliftOn ball series He writes
in part;
| L note in the issue of your paper OF
May Is. the write up of the game be-
| tween Clifton and Morenci- MOrenci
has played in Clifton for expenses
amounting to $40 for the past 20 years
] and now that MOrenci has put in a ball
| park that is a credit to any town OF
! $4,000 population. it is no wonder that
! the fans Of Clifton wish TO visit Mo-
renci on some excursion day for the
purpose of seeing baseball played on a
! baseball diamond
Clifton has prOfited at MOrenci's eX-
! pense for thsee long years and it APP
pears that Clifton would have some
consideration for sister town.
Morenci has not Cancelled game with
! Clifton TO my knowledge, which l think
the Clifton anagement viii admit. The
! schedule as arranged in Bisbee was 10
be eight Sunday games between the two
, towns before they went away from
| home then Saturday and Sunday games
were to be played throughout, but Cliff
ton asked for a Saturday game three
weeks ago, which was granted by Mo-
renci-
When Clifton asked for return Sat
could not draw crowd owing 10 the
mines and stores working, from which
the MOrenci club must look for itSkat-
tendance, but MOrenci agreed to- play
gain in Clifton, provided Clifton pay
the expenses of Morenci, Clifton to take
| the gate. Consequently two games
were arranged for Sunday, one in the
morning and one in the afternoon.
which would have been played S ar
ranged only for the heads of three de-
partmentS wanting TO run an excursion
to Clifton in the afternoon.
The MOrenci management knew moth
ing of the proposed change until noti-
fled Friday morning and Immediately
took same up with the management Of
Clifton, stating that we were willing to
do as they wished. Later We were notified
! by long distance phone that Clifton
wanted the excursion and would play
one game The former arrangements
were cancelled and the train chartered
on very short notice. 1 happen to know
that there were not three who went
on the excursion who did not go to the
ball game.
Clifton could we'll afford to play
several seasons and supply half of [
support in appreciation of what Morenci
has done for her in the past.
Morenci has never refused to play a
Saturday game in Clifton, consequently
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from MOrenci.
There viii be no attempt 10 play off
any back games by Morenci as she
stands ready to back up her arrange
ments at any and all times. The Mo-
renci management did not ask for a
change from any part of the schedule
as arranged and does not want the pub
lie to be misinformed
Morenci has not taken advantage Of
| Clifton as to games played, and We
think that we have been very lenient
as we allowed Clifton to furnish it's
own umpire and have abided by the UNI
pire'S decisionsN until, after losing two
games under unsatisfactory circum-
stances, We complained and asked for
! an umpire from both places, as balls
and strikes all looked alike and the
complaint was mutual from both places.
It is the general opinion that No
Tenci has the best of the two teams.
At the time of canceling the morning
game Sunday, Morenci did not know
anything of Clifford's and Masons leav-
ing.