Arizona republican., 1912-05-12
FRIDAY |S
 BASEBALL DAY
Not the Common League Kind But the Sort Put Up by the Elks When They Want to Start Something

The man who invented baseball will grow enthusiastic on next Friday. May IT, if he is alive, when he real izes the symphonies and variations on the national game which have been overlooked all these years. and which will adOrn the main theme at the Elks' Home building fund game to be played at Eastlake park on that occasion.
 Any oi5: dub can go out and hurl around an innocent and unoffending sphere of white horsehide. or clout the defenseless thing with a big willow club But it takes a baseball | Paderewski like Brady ONein to put 1 the fine touches on the national game. and play the theme with cataclysms ! of melody that will make a big league ! event look like a pan of cold cOdfish ! gravy in comparison.
 Brady is one of the late recruits to the game In his opinion. as attorney | generalissimo of the Elkuses. this ! event will be quite unparalleled in the history of Phoenix Charles
 PishOn, who has just arrived from a 1 long distance. will stand on the home | plate and impersOnate a Hungarian ! viOliniSt playing the "Kreutzer Son : ata" with the willow. and the frantic 1 endeavors he will make to connect with Leecrafts elusives will probably make Rigo. the gypsy fiddler look | like 2 dub.
 Senator Wood of Maricopa. will render a calliOpe solo, entitled, When the Dear Alfalfa Bloom is on the Valley" and he has to sing a verse while running between every base if he ever hits the ball. Frank DeSouza
 of the Democrat and MT. Higley of
 The Republican have been author
 iZed to act as assistant commission
 CTS to sit on the various corporations
 of other players. when notified so
 to do by w. Paul Geary, if anything
 unforeseen occurs to interrupt the mel
 OdV or mar the harmony of the oc-
 casiOn
 A carload of butterfly nets and bi
 cycles will be on the sidetrack of the Santa Fe tomorrow These will be
 used by the Outfielders in chasing
 and catching flies. Other insects will
 not be accepted. All flies caught may
 be turned in to the board of super
 visOrs, who will pay a bounty for the
 fly-hides. if the same are sworn to by six witnesses.
 All outfielders catching flies while on the bike are entitled to add the value of little casino" to the score.
 New rules are being formulated.
 and will be used on everyone but the
 spectators
 Every Elk in the club will be as signed some heroic part between now and the daI of the game, and as
 there are about 500 of them. some
 thing almost as good as what has heretofore been announced may be expected. although there is no inn
 agination strong enough in Maricopa county to dream of what will ac-
 tually occur
 All for the small sum of fifty cents There will be no license required tC
 laugh or cheer; and one microscopic four bit piece admits to the entire K performance This show is not in tho e baseball trust. and all players will be { released after the game, and giVer
 three options, of going to the asylum . indefinitely, going to Governor Hunts u uplift club or going back to home s and wife and make the best eXplana {, tiOn possible under the circumstances : Remember the place and date n Eastlake park. Friday. May r. 1912 s at 1 o'clock D. m.