Arizona republican., 1913-07-23

! championship a title until this week claimed by Tempe, rightly belongs, is a hard thing to decide That Miami has a better team than Globe is generally conceded by the mining i town ians, yet Tempe won it's games from Miami and played in just op- pOsite luck in the neighboring town. To settle this question enthusiasts i there are attempting to formulate some kind of a championship series to bC pulled off during the next state i fair, November to s.
 From the very start of the trip the local boys have been badly handf- capped. To begin with, only nine
 men, namely, Mutt, Tweed, Spikes, Griffen, Moeur. Williams OvideO. Mullen and Harris were taken. The manager, Frank Baum, and official rOoter, Charlie Sturgeon, were through demand included in the party. Next or the program of handicaps came the rain, striking the boys when they were some distance from their des- tination. In the dark of night, hea.y rain and wind the team pulled into Globe, wet, cold and hungry. Not a day was spent in the mining towns but what it rained and Satur-
 
 experienced in years by residents there was witnessed. The Globe field, and the grand stand, was badly dam aged. As a result the crowds attend { ing the double header games on the following day, both of which were won by the Globe nine, were decided ly small Tempe again suffered be- cause of the fourteen inning game in the morning, the effect being read fly seen in the evening contest. La Fevre, once a Bear, but now on the reserve list at Miami, took the box, but after a couple of innings the task looked hopeless. In the end. Harris. the star of the Tempe team. took the box and finished, but it was
 too late.
 By the end of the fourth game all of the Tempe pitchers had been worked, in fact il was worse than that for the team started without even one real pitcher. Twirling in the final game fell to Spikes, the regular short-stop and through hard pitching and exceptional support the game came Tempe-ward thus giving the locals one game the best
 Only one disappointing feature ap peared in the series. Mutt the local catcher. was badly spiked by Mount joy. of Miami, in an attempted slide to home plate. But instead of strik- ing the plate the spikes struck Mutt
 in the muscle just above the knee. While not serious it meant hard work and grit to keep in the game
 Yet. after 1t all. Mutt was the man that put the tieing run across the plate in the eighth with q single through the pitcher Again it fell to
 the diminutive Harris to add the fin ishng touches and score the win ming run with a sacrifice.
 That the mining town teams were generally outclassed in team work
 was readily conceded. vet they re-
 tained little the better of it in in dividual players.
 Both fans and players showed the Tempe boys most generous recep- tion during their stay there, and only because Tempe will meet up again soon with the Globe and Miami teams did the local boys depart from the latter town yesterday morning. State championship" was the ad- vertising term placed upon the five game series Yet in view of the way things turned out Globe is not fully deserving of the title. That the Globe team is Outclassed by the Miami players is conceded by all. but Tempe through it's turn of luck failed to bring this out An attempt, that will no doubt prove successful, with the right kind of boosting, is now being made by Miami and Globe parties to arrange for a series of state championship games to be played at the next state fair.