Arizona republican., 1910-01-01
FIRST GAME
 IF SERIES Redskins and Coyotes Will
 Fight For t Today MAYOR CHR|sIy IN BOX
Dr. John w. Foss Will Take a Whack at the First Ball and Brady O'Neill Will Try to Catch t-"Repub- lican" Trophy Series

Headed by the High school band a crowd of fifty students in masquerade costume paraded the city streets last night and announced to all the world two facts: first, that the baseball sea- son has opened. and second. that the Coyotes have sincere intentions of an nexing a beautiful silver cup that The Republican is to present as a trophy to the winner of the Valley league series
 The celebration started off with a serenade at the office Of this paper and after that was over they marched down Washington street. where they spread abroad the glad news that the first game of the series will be played today at Eastlake park
 The masqueraders were adorned with bathrobes. pajamas and burnt cork. Considerable ingenuity had been expended in devising costumes suita- ble to the occasion. The students let their artistic sense run riot: a tuft of feathers here and bunch of whiskers there, all added to the general deco rative effect The air reeked with en- thusiasm and high school yells.
 It was but the first note of the eel ebration. The game today between the Indian school and the Phoenix high school will be preceded by a parade in which the two teams and the stud ents of both schools will take part. It will start from the Central school at ? o'clock with the Indian school band at the head. The Indian nine followed by the braves who will do the roofing will come next, and after that will come the High school Coyotes and also the valiant football team adorned in their new maroon sweaters-the squad that never lost a game and did a great deal to add to the prestige in athletics throughout the territory for the Phoe- nix high school Then will follow the long line of Coyote rooters who will, later in the day. shatter the circum- ambient With yells that would make a real coyote ashamed of himself.
 The parade will march down Center to Adams, then west to Second avenue and down to Washington street and east to Second street, where cars will be taken
 The ga me will start of eith Mayor Lloyd ChfiSts in tre box---ilo. fnis iE not a misprint. The genial mayor has -iadly consented to pitch the first ball in the opening game of the Valley ieague series. The man at the end of the bat when he pitches will be Dr. John W. Foss. and the mayor will try not to hit him if he can. Dr. Foss says he thinks he can hit the ball if the mayor can pitch it over the home plate. In fact, he said he is just going to smear it off into left field for couple of bases or maybe a home run if he can get somebody to run for him. Back of the bat with the bird cage over his face and the mitts on. will be Eugene Brady O'Neill. whose duty will be to catch the ball and put out Dr. Foss when he comes around again af- ter his home run. Whatever happens when the first ball is pitched will count in the game.
 After Dr. Foss has sent his little aeroplane over the fence then the game will be resumed by the regular playefs. The batteries will be: For the Coy DttS. anu utSoU soflitH. lpi thc Indians. Kill and Resvoloso Hahn is depended on to pitch the entire game.
 The general lineup for the Coyotes. subject to change. will be: Bennett. left field: Williams. right; Jones. short: Orme. first; Hahn. pitcher: Johnson. third; T. Smith. catcher; Os- born. center; Tolleson. second. and Hurley and E. Smith on the bench Of these players five were with the team last year.
 The Indians are made up of about the same proportion of last years players. Their batting order will be Patrick. second; Harris. short; Russell. third: Bostick, first: Captain Valen- zuela. center: Resvoloso. catcher: Lewis. left: Pablo. right. and Kill. pitcher.
 The Indians are generally considered to have strong aggregation of field CTS, perhaps better than the Coyotes. Rut on the other hand, the Redskins are not supposed to be over strong at the bat and they may have some diff ficulty in solving\ Halm's curves. The game will be umpired by Tebben. one of the three official umpires chosen by the association for the task of ad- indicating the series.
 The game will begin promptly at 8 o'clock. Eastlake park was chosen for the first game as it is little more accessible than the Indian grounds.
 over in Mesa another game of the series will be played this afternoon between the Mesa high school and the Tempe high school. Ernest Williams of the Mesa high school. who was dis barred by the association. has been reinstated and will play in the field. The Mesa boys did not, want to lose this player so another meeting was held and Williams was admitted with the restriction that he is not to play in the battery.
 It was also proposed that Ambler of the Phoenix high ~was also