Albuquerque morning journal., 1910-07-18
ERRORS At SHORT
LOSE GAME FOR
SANTA FE
Five MiscueS by Lent and by
EdmundS, Who Succeeded
Him, Gives Albuquerque the
Better of 1t in Well Played
Exhibition,

terday?
Or was It Just common ordinary
baseball luck?
In any event, the Ancient City Peer
less club was defeated by the AIbu-
querque Grays at Traction park by the
score of to /. If the game wasn't
the best of the season. it was just as
good as the best and the fans were
well satisfied with the exhibition.
But to go back to the jinks and
back to the reason for the locals win
ming out, 1t might be remarked at
this stage of the game, that Santa Fe
lost because of five errors at short.
Lent made two bungles in the first
inning, which cost a run. Lent was
benched and Pop" Edmunds was put
in his place. Pop" is a good ball
player and all that, but he had an
off day yesterday. Either that or it
was the cross-eyed girl in the grand
stand that succeeded in getting both
Lent and Edmunds in such a frame
of mind that they just couldn't hold
the ball. All the players on the SAN
ia Fe club with a possible exec eption
of one or two, were satisfied that the
presence of the girl with the bum
lamps in the grandstand won the con
test for Albuquerque.
The links" took her position in the |
Erandstand early Even before the
game started Lent and Edmunds were
noticed several times peering over in
the direction of the place where the
girl sat. Both old time ball players, |
they reluctantly admitted that the
girl was jinks. She was a very pret-
ty girl, dressed in pink--a pink pie |
ture hat, a pink frock, pink parasol |
and her cheeks were as pink as her |
frock and whole lot more alluring !,
But-she was ever so slightly cross !
eyed. An evil omen, for a girl in pink /
and cross-eyed, to be sitting on line |
with third base, some of the members
OF the visiting team nearly lost their
nerve even before the first round be- !
gan.
Even at that the Santa Fe boys play
ed a fast and snappy game Every
man on the team held out against
the influence of the "jinks." All with
the exception of Lent and Edmunds
TO the average observer of baseball 1t
was to be plainly seen that both of
the men who essayed to play sh oTt,
were fighting against big odds. That
they didn't make more than five err
rors between them is in itsels an in
dication of how we'll they fought
against the "girl in pink"
The game was called at 2:55 and
was full of ginger all the way, being
played in an hour and fifty-five min
utes Stafford for Santa Fe and Bugs
Newmyer for Albuquerque were both
in splendid trim and the fans saw
some very good pitching by the young
amateurs who will not always pla"I
brush league ball and won't have to
join in with Waco, Texas ut that
Bugs especially seemed to have
everything there was yesterday. He
famed fourteen without trying very
hard, was only touched FOR n single
solitary hit and didn't issue pass. ,
Stafford struck out haif dozen
Grays, issued free transportation 70
one, and was hit three times. With a
total of four hits and four runs for
the nine innings. the exhibition was ,
even better than expected and rcotins ,
and cheering by the fans was generous I
at all times.
Errors by the Albuquerque players +
were as scarce as hens teeth on I
Uncle Hiram's farm down ir Indiana,
Pete" Hidalgo. and Johnnie Alar- +
Id being the only Grays to distinguish !
themselves by kicking the bail around.
outside of Lent and Edmunds, SAT-
ford was the only Santa Fe man Y
against whom an error was chalked. d
he making miscue on a throw 10 sec b
onG in an attempt to catch runner n
mapping. y
Albuquerque started things going 4
right off the reel in the first inning. n
Chavez and Gonzales quickly famed IA
the atmosphere thrice each in rapid 7
succession and retired to the si1elines h
kunz got to first on an error made by h
Lent at short. Stealing second. kunz
scored on another error by Lent. who
threw wide and high to first. on hit p
by Weeks. Weeks was rut out trying Il
to steal second. ending the round, with ST
first blood for the Grays. Il
The Grays were successful in scor- al
ing again in the fourth and the sew h
enth. In the fourth round Gonzales II
drew a pass and went to second on d
Edmunds' error. A hit by Weeks 81
scored him. Weeks opened up the ie
seventh with sizzling two bagger q
and went to third when Stafford threw
10 second In an effort to catch him ~
asleep at the switch. Alarid hit 70
Clancy. who shot it to first hoping u.
Tor a double play. "Guggenheimer Va
Echberg was slow in handling the ball is
and made a poor throw TO home. gs
where Weeks had been for several bs
seconds. enjoying the glory Of max NJ
ng a clean run around the bases in m
! very few moments. Clancv's work ps
yesterday was fully up to his standard. ca
bis fielding being brilliant. At bat le
Clancy was weak Bugs" Newmyer ri