Arizona republican., 1911-09-12
UNCLE SAM SENDS CRUISERS ID GUARD AMERICAN LIVES
A WELL PLAYED GAME 0A NEW BALL FIELD
And Anybody's Victory Up to the
 Last Minute.

Athletics ,.....O 0 0 0 01G Q 2-6 Phoenix ..... 70 1 o 8 1-7
 Athletics-Smith. ss, Kennedy, 3b.
 Pima. c. Gonzales 2b, Godfrey p, Felix cf, Castle ID. Quiros. If. Belt If.
 Phoenix-Brown, ss. Norton 2b.
 Burke. c, Knowles, 3b. McNulty, 1b. osborn, c, O'Toole, If, Wall. lf Nellis, pitcher.
 The score. though belated one day.
 tells as well as anything the story
 of the second scheduled game of the
 Salt River Valley league It was
 fought hard and well from the start
 to the finish-a little too well in one place.
 Everything about it was interesting
 The pitching of Godfrey was a rev
 elation He showed at first the lack
 of recent playing and was hit quite freely but after he had warmed up a little he showed curves and con
 trol and speed that will make him
 welcome in any baseball company in
 the Salt River Valley. It is suspect ed that he has been welcome else where in still faster company. The
 fielding in the game was both poor and good by spots, but some of it.
 especially a triple play from second
 to short Towering second). to first. Gonzales Smith Castle. catching two of the Phoenix players out at sec
 ond and first, was one of the swift
 est and most brilliant seen in the valley playing for a long while Knowles for Phoenix did some nice fielding
 While Fire Chief Sullivan did very well in the main as an umpire. what semed to he needed there as at other times was an umpire sufficiently ia miliar with the rules of the game to give quick and correct decisions. There is some hope among the play CTS that now that A Fl. Tebben is home he may consent to again take | his former place in the game. There lis also some talk of II. F. WynkOOp being asked tO serve also if he shall come to Phoenix to live. These are considered perhaps not more accept able but more competent than others as umpires.
 Burke who was responsible for much of the talkfest, does not eX- pect to play again. as he is suffer ing yet from the effects of ptomaine poisoning which he underwent about year ago. and his physician has forbidden such violent eXertiOn as ball playing owing to a weakened heart. resulting from the poisoning. If there had been a book of base ball rules on the ground much of the
 misunderstanding would have been prevented. no doubt. by the perusal of the following rule, which was
 pointed out at the time by Mir. Burke Gonzales and Godfrey of the Athlet- ics batted in reverse order during
 much of the game. but no objection
 was made until the first half of the
 ninth inning. when the Athletics came
 to bat with Godfrey. to be followed
 bv Gonzales. and Godfrey made first
 on a safe single.
 he rule referring to the batting or der is as follows:
 Rule 51-The batsman is out if he fail to take his position at the bat
 in the order in which his name ap- hears on the batting list unless the error be discovered and the proper
 batsman replace him before he be-
 come a base runner. in which case
 the balls and strikes called must he counted in the time at bat Of the proper batsman. But only the prop CT batsman shall be declared out. and
 no runs shall be scored or bases run
 because of any act of the improper batsman. Provided. this rule shall not be enforced unless the out be declared before the ball be delivered to the succeeding batsman
 Should the batsman declared out under this section be the third hand out and his side he thereby put out the proper batsman i'm the next in ming shall be the player who would have come to bat had the players been put out by ordinary play in
 the preceding inning. There was a good attendance.