Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-08-20
FORDS BOUND
SOUTHWARK
Ais Ready for Big, Final
Game With Brannans
LAST INVASION OF TUCSON
Excursion Will Leave This
Morning With 300 Pass
engers Declares Manager.
Ball Fans Flock to Stand
ard of Phoenix Nine.
LAST INVASION OF TUCSON

The Phoenix Fords will invade Tue
fans three hundred strong. After
three weeks of preparation the final
game between the Fords and the
Brannans will be played this after
noon at Elysian Park, the scene of the
first defeat sustained by the Phoe-
nix nine at the hands of the Brannans
who can play ball in a fashion several
hundred miles removed from slouchy.
Their worst enemies on the diamond
admit il, and it was remarked that
after the first game in Tucson there
was no tendency on the part of the
Fords to attribute their defeat TO any
thing but superior playing by their
opponents. When the second game
was played at East Lake park three
weeks ago the tide of battle changed
and victory came rushing in in full
regalia to perch on the base ball bats
of Chris Whites team. Even then
there was no growing Memory Of
he first session at Elysian was still
strong in the minds Of the Phoenix
players.
The game today will probably be
the fastest game Of bali that has been
played in Arizona this season. Men
who have seen both teams play i'm the
two former games, and who believe
they are competent To judge the com
parativc playing abilities of any two
rival teams on the face of the earth
after they have seen them play twice
together declare that there is no way
of forccastine the outcome of the meet
this afternoon. II is not known wheth
or any money will be put up on the
game but what money goes up will
necessarily have To he even unless
some ultra enthusiastic fan of the old
Pueblo city, or of Phoenix, allows his
admiration and loyalty for his home
team To influence his judgment To- such
degree that he is willing To cndanger
his purse on a rash bet
Unless something goes wrong in
the yards. the excursion will leave for
Tucson this morning at o'clc
sharp from the depot of the Arizona
Eastern Already more than three
hundred tickets have been sold, and
there is no doubt that the capitol
city will send the largest aggregation
of fans south that has ever gone out
Of town to attend an event Of the
kind. The Industrial Liberty band
will turn out to make the trip, and
all he players will be on the train
when it pulls out with the exception
of White and Harter. the 1st baseman
who left late last night in a Ford auto
for Tucson. White is anxious to COM
plete all arrangements for the game,
and il is his intention, he declared,
To fix things up in such a way down
in Tucson that when his players ar
rive they will not be called upon to
take part in any festivities until after
the game.
THAT is one of the reasons why we
lost that first game" he said before
leaving Il don't attempt to deny
that the Brannans put it all over us,
and i'm "A straightway, fair and above
board match. but we might have
brought a different score home if we
had Just little less entertainment
before the game. Not that | believe
i'm slave driving, or in bullying my
fellows into cutting out all the Jolllil-
cation. or anything like that. but
there's a time for everything, and the