Arizona republican., 1913-08-11

one of the sights of the city yes terdav morning was that of a solemn Visaged young man by the name of TribolIet driving an autorunabou with a flat back upon which was rid ing q small white horned goat labelled 'Tempe's Goat" The solemn visaged young man just drove along paying no heed to the fact that some folks peered at him as he went. and that he had Tempes goat. The sequence to this slight remark is that in the aft ernoon of the same good day. Barn grover. Ritchie ct al. in the presence of a court and jury composed of one thousand yelling specimens of the gen ms, old Man Ultimate Consumer. pro cceGed. by the entirely appropriate score of five runs to four. tu annex the entire assem- blaze of nannies possessed by Tempe. together with several old goats. in one of the most gingered ex- hibitons of national pastime ever ca vorted through an the old town lot. down about where the circus grounds used to be
 In the assemblage of fans that gath cred in spite of the leering clouds and occasional sprinklng drops of rain. were several residents of Phoenix who so far forgot their home town as to make themselves hoarse striving to present to others of their citizens. the quality of loyalty needed to be for the outsider and just what virtue there is in being against the home team. This sort of virtue had it's own reward yesterday afternoon for those fellows were decidedly in the minority. mak- ing the mistake cautioned against the celebrated Mir PicllWick in shouting with the smaller crowd. It has been remarked that this virtue was it's own reward. and it surely was. for those chaps didn't win.
 However for all that there were nine genuemanly young fellows in very un- tidy gray baseball suits trimmed with red. who behaved themselves in q very exemplary manner, smiling in the face of defeat and vOWing that as for them it will not happen again. These nine young men represented the ath- letic pTowess of a suburb of Phoe- niN about nine miles up the creek which spriteIv suburb has heretofore with religious regularity annexed all kind of live stock supposed to bear the brand of Phoenix and to be kept in baseball parks. This time. however. old Man Good Luck" who usually att tends the games played by these gen temanly young fellows aforesaid. was absent with his stock of horseshoes having stopped to tie his own shoe. and lost his pass 10 the grounds in his hurry to catch up. That is the story in a nutshell from some standpoints There is another story
 Tempe but for Ferguson's error in the third frame would have obtained but two runs against the five achieved by the locals. But F'ergie generously claiming the whole fault came back and out of four additional chances that came his way accepted them all clean ly for good outs or assists. Then in three times up he soaked out three hits. scored one run himself advancing one runner two bases. All this repre- sents some attonement on Ferges part.
 The local team showed a great deal more pep than at any time this sea son. It was a display of pep that was appreciated by the fans who filled the capacity of the grand stand, over flowed into several hundred chairs on each side thereof. and 150 of whom were in automobiles. It was the larg- est crowd seen at q ball game in Phoe- nix in years. and it was the best game
 
 As was predicted it proved to be pitchers battle with the honors go- ing to Busted AIitt Bill of the locals Spikes, however, pitched an elegant game and had splendid control a [ all times, He was hit harder than was Barngrover. who with better support would have had but half the hits reg istered against him. \ glance at the tabulated score will show that the local infield worked great deal better than at any previous game. TogneriO, Ferguson. Ritchie and Franz make a hard quartette to beat. and they are kept humping by Pep Cook behind the bat who runs the team with great judgment and has an unerring peg to second. Only one base was successfully stolen out of the four tries made yesterday on Cook
 Prospects are bright for the locals from now on. and unless a slump is taken there is no reason why the pen nant should not be grabbed by the Ritchiemen. The story of the game by plays reads as follows:
 First Verse
 Tempe Busted Mitt Bill took bad start. His first delivery was d strike, but the. second took MulIin in the short ribs and a base was taken. Spikes flew out to Ritchie in the short garden. Hudson popped to Ferguson. Mutt drove hard to short but Muillin was tagged coming down No runs. Phoenix Spikes had something during this inning and he quickly famed Harry Robson and Salome Franz Tognerio lifted one back of second and Hudson was there. No runs.
 Second Verse OviedO skied one back of short and