Arizona republican., 1913-10-06
When Umpire Calls Ritchie Safe at Plate, Scoring the Winning Run in Last of Ninth, Jewels Grow Very Irate
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Game is Good All Through, Showing Mesa Can Play Ball When Players Will Hatch Equals Strike-out Record

With that gentlemanly spirit and kindness which is the synonym for the Mesa baseball team, the Gem City aggre egation in the game with the Solons yesterday afternoon took the Salt River Valley loving cup for grabbing, and established for them selves the best record for beefing that yet has been set on the Grant street grounds They opened the game with the same system which marred it throughoutt by demanding a second umpire. They fought every decision which either umpire called from the play balI' signal till the time when they threatened a free-fOr all fight at the end Of the game, and they showed a generally grabbing de- TcanOr on all sides of every ques- tiCn. They called "robber" and thief at tine men on the fieu from the grand stand. they hooted the players of the Phoenix team. and they brought upon themselves the unanimous decision of the true fans. that there is no sporting blood in the Mesa baseball outfit.
 Outside of the grabbing the game was a good and a fast one. There were few errors. there was plenty of fast playing and the teams of both sides showed that they knew the game from start to finish.
 Mesa used a. pitcher who is a pitcher and except for the first inn ing, Hatch, the new man for the Southsiders had the Phoenix sIuggers in the air. He put the ball over with the speed of demon. and he held 4I-
 any other team against whom they have played, except Fl PasO. In the first and before he had gotten thor Cughly waremd up, the home team put the ball to the woods a couple of times, and coupled with classy base running and stealing the Solons slipped three runs in on the new man. But after the first there was little hitting by the SoIons. They glommed altogether off the big star just five slim hits, two in the first, one in the fourth and two in the last frame and ii the support given to the Phoenix aggregation had been award ed Hatch, the Mesaitcs would have assuredly grabbed the game.
 Incidentally the Jewel hurler equal ed the record for strikeouts which
 
 same southsiders. Hatch slipped over the three necessary on just twelve men. which shows that he did some pitching and that with the proper support coupled with the hits that his team smashed out he should have had the victory
 Hall was in poorer form today than he has been for some time His steam seemed diminished and the breaks refused to act in old form The splitter which he has not thrown for the past year. was his mainstay in the tight places, and he found it the saving grace of the box. He al lowed altogether eleven hits, but the team work wrich his packers dis played pulled him out of all holes in time to save him defeat
 The fielding work on the part of the Solons was not alone brilliant but steady. At all points the men came to the rescue of their mounds man, and nipped the Southside rallies in the bud. In the sixth with two men on, and one down. Whit took fast one from Mullins bat. plotted Griffin at second Cnassisted and doubled the batter at first. Again in the eighth with one on second and one on third Whit took a drive out of the air which had it kept on going would have netted the Mesaites two tallies
 In the ninth. after Mesa had tied the score in the eighth. Ritchie took first on single. was advanced to third on Barton's bingle, ard came in cn the long fly which Glow clouted into right Also he was the direct cause of the near-riot which so well showed up the fighting spirit of the Southsiders. When he came to the plate. Morris. catcher for Mesa, took the throw from right and made
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