Arizona republican., 1910-01-23
Everybody Had a Crack At the Ball Score Was Is to 9-Tempe Normal Now Stands at Head of the List
ARIZONA REPUBLICAN CUP
 SERIES.

Tempe Normal. 2 0 1000 U. s. Indian School. ....1 500
 Tempe High School. ...1 800
 Phoenix High School. .1 2 .333
 Mesa High School. 10 .000 The long row of zeros in the per
 centage column that represented the | standing of the Coyotes in the base i ball series for the Republican Iro- ! phy melted away yesterday. when the l Phoenix high school defeated the l Tempe high by the surprising score 1 of IS to 9. The Phoenix boys now | nave one game to their credit with | two lost, and have an indefinite row 1 of figures three in the percentage column. They stand fourth in the list which is headed by the Tempe Normal with a perfect record of | two games won and none lost The game played in Tempe by the Indians i and the Normals resulted in victory i for the latter by the close margin of to 4.
 Mesa is at the foot of the list, but that does not mean very much as Mesa has played but one game that with Tempe high. and lost by a close margin. The Indian school has won from Phoenix high school and lost to the normal.
 Yesterdays game at Eastlake park
 was remarkable for the number of
 hits made on both sides. The Coy otes got twelve hits from the delivery of Brooks and Dimes. while the
 Tempe boys got away with six from
 Hahn and Williams. Brooks and Dimes were hit savagely. while Hahn was seldom hit. but gave away first base on balls a number of times nine times. to be exact. He also performed the feat of hitting the batter five times In several of these cases it looked as though the batter was a willing victim, but some of the balls that Hahn sent over the plate were so swift that the batter ducked away quickly for self-preser- vation.
 It was batters game from start to finish. Every good batter on both teams increased his average Statis- tics are not available for the batting averages of the visitors. but for the home team, Williams now leads with a percentage of 800; Ambler follows with .333; then Jones with .2S6 and Tolleson with .273.
 Tn the earlier part of the game in particular, Tolleson caught in first rate style for the Coyotes. Halm's delivery is pretty swift and not easy to hold. Orme. who was put on first early in the game, played in good form. worthy of an older player.
 Amber took all batting records for the Coyotes by making two double base hits while Harris. for Tempe, did the same.
 Tempe went to the bat first and got away with three runs before they were stopped. Then Phoenix went up and did the same and the score was equal In the second. Tempe came through with a zero and the Coyotes started off on their win ming streak. Seven runs in one in- ming is an awful record. but that is what the Coyotes did in the second The whole inning was nothing but batting practice for the Coyotes It ended with Brooks being forced from the box. as Williams. for the Coyotes. had been knocked out in the inning before and replaced by Hahn.
 Preston was the first man up and he struck out. It did not look then as though there were going to be any runs for the home team this inning Tolleson. however. got hit. Johnson sent one to the pitcher. who threw it to second and caught Tol- leson Harris at second. made a wild throw to first and the fun be- gan. There were two men out and Johnson was resting easily at sec ond when Amber came to bat He drew first on balls. Hahn got hit and Johnson scored. Jones sent liner to second and Ambler crossed the plate. Orme was hit by the ball Williams strengthened out curve and Hahn and Jones both got home. Bennett sent an easy one to pitcher who made rather wild throw to first and Williams and Orme scored.
 After this disastrous inning the score was ION to 2 for the home team. No more tallies were made till the, fifth when Tempe annexed three more runs. Four men who came up to bat in succession were either given first on balls or else nit by the pitcher.
 Tn the sixth both sides made two runs. In the eighth just about the time the comet was due to appear in the west, the Coyotes began to hit the ball again and sent little comets all over the field. They sim ply tore up the ground with them.
 Johnson sent a hit down toward first Ambler struck out because he misinterpreted the signals. Hahn got base on balls. Jones' comet landed in center field and came down so fast that it was dropped. Orme did the same in left field and Johnson cross ed the plate. Williams knocked one