Arizona republican., 1913-11-14

There will be game Sunday, Phoe- nix and Mesa playing.
 Unless it rains.
 In case it does open up a flood in the afternoon, the Phoenix real estate deal CTS will pay the score by purchasing enough tickets to fill the grandstand. Which is some unique stunt. Anyway, it shows that the genus and the species real estate dealer are closely allied in the animal kingdom, and that the new adage, ''F'an is an animal" is also true.
 To tell the truth about it, Phoenix needs the coin. A deficit of about $350 remains from the fair week series, and the association is anxious to get this cleared up.
 The Phoenix Phan is of the opinion that after a short recuperative series with Mesa, the valley ought to drop baseball until spring. when the crowds will be hungry for it once more. He advises short snappy series in order to get back on a level footing and then a rest. The Phoenix Phan is a real baseball crank, and he can deprive himself of his sport awhile if by so doing he can help the game along for next year.
 Anyway, Johnson will pitch for Mesa and Big Hall for Phoenix, and it will be a battle royal.
 Phoenix will have an unusually strong team. There will be a try-out at Grant Park tomorrow afternoon. at which time Umpire Murray of the American association will act as scout for the SOlOns The following day he 'officiates as umpire. All baseball ma terial that has an itching to see if it's good. may get a good keen judgment passed on itself at the park tomorrow The best men win the places. for the Phoenicians must be as strong as pos sible to go against the Mesaites It is a sixty per cent cut for the winner and the loser takes the rest, and if the series is to help Phoenix's lame finances at all. at all Phoenix must manage to get more runs across than the Jewels
 Francisco Castle. who plubs all the time he's not mixing up in Maroon baseball management, gets up on his chair to address the meeting as fol- lows: ''The Maroons will be in the running next year. They will make every team that has shown in the val T1ey so far look like a bunch of class Q recruits. We are going to get in some new material and improve our old stuff Our tired out pitchers will get real rest this winter and will be ir good condition for the opening of the spring series" After which the manu- script says: Applause in parentheses.
 It will be worth the price of admis- sion Sunday to see and hear Murray umpIr1ng the game. A Mesa fan, who Is pretty well aware of the enthusi- astic, not to say fervid nature of the Jewels, allows that he will bet money no Mesaite successfully or more than one time on any of Jim Murray's de- cisiOns. There were no takers.
 If it rains Sunday the game will count just the same The real estate men so highly value both a good rain and a good ball team they are talking of buying the grandstand out in case the heavens open and the waters de- scend. Were for THAT"
 Phoenix is entertaining two sterling baseballists. They are Eiselstein anC Murray. Eisel was captain of the ChiI. licothe team, and there is talk of him being made leader of the Phoenicians now that Yves Ritchie hath went iron here. Murray is the man of whom the Sporting News says: Anybody whc knows him knows he's the sduares sort of an umpire. Nothing on eartf could corrupt his decisions"