Arizona republican., 1911-08-11

GAME CALLED OFF
Fords Will Go To Tucson August 20
To Play Final Game With
erannans.

Word was brought yesterday from
Prescott by p. p Hastings, general
passenger agent of the Santa Te, Pres
colt & Phoenix railroad, through whose
office negotiations have been carried
| on for ball game between the PhOe-
nix Fords and a Prescott nine, that a
game in the mile-high city next Sun
day afternoon will be an impossibility,
for the good reason that Prescott has
no ball team worthy of the name.
/ Several months ago Prescott had a
creditable aggregation of ball players.
but one by one they drifted away from
their manager until at present nothing
remains of their former greatness but
a hallowed. and haloed memory. The
Prescott ball team is no more, and the
FOrds will have to defer their next ex-
cursion to the north until the team is
resuscitated, reorganized and whipped
into such shape that they may be ac-
claimed worthy adversaries of the
Phoenix Fords.
Great sorrow. il is understood. pre-
walls in Prescott because no game will
be played there next Sunday, and a
large portion of the Phoenix pOpula-
ton wore their habitual expressions of
cheerfulness at half mast last night
when Mr.. Hastings latest message was
noised around from headquarters at the
city ticket office of the Santa Fe.
Prescott feels the need of lively game
to drive away the dull care Of warm
summer days. and Phoenix wants to
play and beat and best Prescott on
general principles. so both have rea-
son to feel sorrowful and downcast.
There was a grain OF consolation.
however, in the cup OF bitterness and
disappointment gulped down by the
Ford players last night when the plan
for the Prescott excursion fell through.
They knew then, positively, and be-
yond any reasonable doubt, that they
will go to Tucson again on August 20,
one week from next Sunday, to meet
the Brannans in final game On their
own grounds at Elysian park, and this
is the realization of their greatest de-
sires
The Brannans are probably the best
were organized, and they feel positive
that a final game will give them the
victory. AS it stands now. Tucson is
one game to the good, and Phoenix the
same. 1t will be the third that will set
tie the question, and it can't be played
too soon to suit either White, the man.
ager of the Fords, or Sullinger, the
manager of the Brannans.
Phoenix will send another excursion
with her players when the twentieth
rolls around, and it is probable that
big exodus of ball fans will take place
on the day Of the final game Every
follower of the game who thinks he
knows the difference between a ball
bat and an AK handle, or the difference
between a pill and a cantaloupe. will
make it a point to arrange to take in
the big game. The Fords will be
fighting for the championship of the
territory. which they hope to annex to
their other honors before many months
have rolled away. and the prize at stake
will draw one Of the largest crowds
to the final game that has ever wit
messed a ball game in Arizona.
Gill will pitch in the next game at
Tucson. Nellis will take his old posi-
ton. and the team will be unchanged.
White feels that he has at last found
the right places for the right men, and
his players are located just right to
deliver good ball, and bring hume the
championship.
The fewer changes the better. will be
his motto from this time on. I'm sat
isfied with the Fords the way they are
right now" he said last night. I'm
not hunting a new man for this POSI-
ton or that. My men work together
like old leaguers. and the only thing
we have to do is to keep up our form.
and go strong on our daily practices. 1
expect to see my team win the final
game with the Brannans, and i we do,
we are going to issue a challenge to-
any team in the territory. and contest
for the championship of Arizona. IT'S
worth trying for. and the FOrds are the
boys who can win it,"