Albuquerque morning journal., 1910-07-31
GRAYS GET STAGE
FRIGHT; RATION
HAS CINCH
GATE CITY BUNCH GET
III BY SCORE OF IA 10 2
Cold Feet Solely Responsible
For Defeat Of Locals Who
win Be in Better Form This.
Afternoon.


The Albuquerque Grays met !
singing defeat at the hands of th'
Ration baseball club at Traction parh
yesterday afternoon, the exhibition
ending with the score IA 10 2 In fa-
vor of the visitors. II was a plain
case OF stage fright for the Grays II
they had got into the game ana plns :
ed agRressiyely they w3n.d have ~
least stood chance 1f making the
score a little more prcssn' tbie.
The locals never had Il ghost of =
show TO win. however, nig "Rab. Ell
der having the Grays on his hip al
the time Elder never thought u net
essary 10 put the "ziz' on his dchv-
cry and the fans all wondered what
he would do Il he ever turned himsclf
loose. The big fellow was master OF
the situation at III times ana II IS M
necessary 20 add that tho Irish behind
him did their part OF the work Hpu-
lin. captain and first ba lemea, Is he
nearest thing 10 IlughIa .lennings ef
Detroit that has ever been seen Ia AL
buaucrune. BOulln has tho "eye. yi'
down pnt nnd also at1ops 20 lie
ground once IN a while ana picks nn
"A blade OF grass which he slides
through his teeth
The Grays were up against the
hardest game of the season yesterday
ana IL ls 60 be deplored thai they were
SO little prepared for Il. There was
a great hole az shortstop, Donovan, a
recruit from the brush league beinR
entirely incapable TO all appearances
OF holding down that important posi-
tion. Five glarlng errors were marked
up against Donovan, while he famed
four times out Of five times up. An
other reason for the / to score was
Baca who essayed TO do the twlrling
for the locals. Baca Is all right. but
he ~ no match for the bunch of heavy
htters that are carried along by The
Ration team. without exerting them
selves AT all the visitors hit Baca
eleven times. while he was only sue
cessful In striking out six. Tlder for
the Miners, struck out ten and was hit
seven times Ia addition TO his not
very brilliant work In the box, Baca
made q trio of errors which were
costly. Luna. supposed TO be the
only errorless fielder In existence.
made himself conspicuous by muffins
two pop flies that any high school
player could have fielded without try
ing And Burns, the much -heralded
infielder. who WAS at second, made
four mispiays that on three occasions
developed Into runs. In all charity.
between Donovan, Burns ana Luna n
was comedy of errors, Giving the
Graya credit for their many COM
mendnhie exhibitions during the sea-
son II may be said that they had an
Off day yesterday. The Miners are
hard 20 beat at any stage Of the game,
their lineup being composed as il is,
of professional players who
have had years of experience The
Visftnsf played a pretty game ycster-
day They are there with the team
work and nearly every man on the
team II a good "sticker" II there were
any men ON the team that can't hit,
they failed 20 Indicate such state OF
affairs Yesterday,
Good Exhibition for To-day.
MT Fan. don't stay away from tho
game to-day because of the lob-sided
score yesterday, Al IN all, the game
wasn't so unlntcrcstng as 1t might
have been The team work on the
Ration team WAS worth the price OF
admission The visitors are bah play.
ers. every one of them and are up to
every inside detail of the game. This
afternoon the Grays will have an ops
poriuniiy TO show their mettle Weeks
OF Texas league fame, will be given
the chance oi "a lifetime to show
whether or not he has amy big league
material in his six feet OF brain and
hrawn Ana Johnnio Alarid will he
at shortston Instead of Donovan rro
fans viii be glad to see Johnnie back
on the joh after his brief stay with
She Santa Ie Peerless The G-avs
have decided that they need Aiaui in
their business aud he win in an pt ,b.
ability become a permanent fixture at
short.
The exhibition this afternoon viii
herin promptly az 3 O'Clock Ii wns
hoped 10 have "a double header but
the Ration boys have been playing all
week ana are not favorable to play
ing eighteen or twenty innings of ball
IN four hours. SO the game viii be
single header. although u may last
longer than nine innings. The Grays
are known 60 have plenty of talent in
The iine-un ana with Charlie Kunz on
the diamond today 20 steady them
down IhaN should ulnv efrnrlfes hall.