Arizona republican., 1911-08-28
TEMPE

HALBERT ..................p pitcher
 PHOENIX
 NORTON .................. catcher NELLIS ..................s second base E. SCOTT ...................f first base A SCOTT ........-.-...--...t .thlrd base OSBORN .....--....-...... centerfleld WALL ................... .leftfield hNON LEJso !. pitcher
 The crowd to witness the game was a generous one in size, enthusiasm and roofing ability, giving a very fair deal to both teams. The intake al the gate was something like S75, out of which of course expenses must be met, S10 worth of balls, alone, disap pcared. The purpose is now to per fectly uniform every one of the three local teams and otherwise put them in good playing order. so that the public will enjoy the games. The ownership of the park has also prom ised to mow down the weeds which cucumber the field and in which the players are liable to catch their shoe Corks and be seriously hurt
 The game itself was cool and slow and accurate in all except two innings the fifth and ninth. Gill always puts more ginger" into a game than al most any other pitcher, and that had something to do with the closing eN- Citement and the enthusiasm of the clssing inning. But those two innings were the ones wherein the game got away from the cool fellows to a cer- tain extent, and where the runs were made. the umpire giving the visitors seemingly a shade the best of 1t on one or two close decisions.
 In their half of the Sth inning Cap tain Gill relieved Halbert in the box putting F. Joyce at third and Sides in rightfield.
 The baseball game at Eastlake park, yesterday afternoon, was more than anything else, battle between two of the finest little pitchers ever seen on the park grounds. Halbert, of Tempe and Knowles, recently of Los Angeles. where he has had experience with the university team, and now of Phoenix, where he has relatives and will probably remain, showed the fans how to pitch successfully.
 They are curiOusly alike. to all out ward appearances, in build. in action as pitchers, and in modesty of person al bearing. Both are clean, cool, head working young pitchers. They differ as pitchers in one point-that of de- nd oF ba ,an Ja1 bert is probably the coolest pitcher in appearance, ever seen on the diamond here. with the simplest and yet most deceitful and effective delivery of the ball The testimony of the players who went against him yesterday was that he delivers almost nothing but a straight ball. well over the plate but he delivers it in a way that make: a batter think that it is sure to gC wild, though it does not, and invari- ably with a rise that to batters who are looking for incurves, outcurves ana drops, as well as rises, is most fool ing, as yesterday showed. At first Morris of Phoenix. who was receiving him, made some rather bad plays. but Halbert kept perfectly cool and witt a seeming command of the game, anC so prevented any bad results or any nervousness on the part of the team
 Knowles, on the other hand. is equal ly cool and calculating, and inspires confidence equally well. but his deliv- cry has more variety, and he is equal ly usable elsewhere on the diamond
 Phoenix team did the generous thine yesterday. It Is perhaps not quite right to say that it lent the Tempe team players, but it is true that thres or four of their number were players who have become identified with tho Phoenix club Their names will b, readily recognized in the lineup ana batting list of the Tempe team fol the day; though this can hardly bt said to have had any appreciable ef- feet upon the outcome of the game Not nearly so much, in fact, as the substitution of Gill in the pitchers box in the last two innings. during which the game. which had been so nearly won by Halbert, came as nearly be- ing lost by Gill, whose delivery while 1t looks much more professional. is not nearly so effective in preventing hits After the Phoenix team had made up their own nine. and severa