Arizona republican., 1913-11-05
CZECH CHECKS
 PHOEN|C|ANS
The Veteran Coast Leaguer Holds Locals at Mercy at All Times During Exposi- tiOn of Pastime at Grant Park

For nine short and agonizing spaces the Los Angeles team tOyed with the lCcals yesterday morning at Grant Park and took the fourth game of the present series. by the score of siE to one. Only the Veriest good fortune saved the locals from shut cut at the hands of that master checker, Check. who for some years rast has been figuring in just such playlettes all over these good United States. Check was opposed by Hatch hose main trouble was lack of con- troI and lack of support. The old rep for which the Phoenix team has been so noted all summer seemed to have expired with the end of the world series for none of it showed out at Grant Park yesterday.
 At that however the locals played hard. but it was easy to see that Tuesday is always their unIucky day. If there was any luck hanging around Grant Park, it was perched upon the flags of the heaviest battaliOns. Ev cry smash and from the score it can be seen that strike outs did not if gure in the matter at all, from the hickories of the local team was
 
 uEo were always in the way. If the baseballs had been packages of dyna- mite the visitors would have been blown to atoms more times than could be counted. for their especial bad habit was to stand still in the field and the ball if charmed from the end of the bat would promptly find it's way to the hands of the Angelenos.
 As for the AngelenOs work with the stick, it was entirely different IT Ritchie and his men got the bali at all. it was only after taking a hard chance. The number of assists. and the absolute impartiality in the put out column showed the little fel- lows were working all the time, to stop tht studied insults of the big fellows. There was however one par tlcular bright spot in an otherwise cloudy day. This fingered around the third place section of the field when the locals would not be batting. The halo settled around the shoulders Cf one Coke, who really starred. His companion of similar name Rock, pronounced Cook and generally known as such who is the pep back stop for Phoenix worked hard all the way through and seemed more like his old self.
 Its a sad tale. mates" but sad tales will happen even in baseball It started with the walking of man number one of the visitors team, yclept Wotell, and it continued with more or less 'Iurid intervals through out the whole. Two frames went hy before anyone crossed the pan, then all of a sudden, lot of blue 4-IIo h p~ly m their persons, began running around the paths. and when the smoke had cleared away, and everybody had got ten back to terra firma, there were -Four large and very green persimmOn- iCus looking straight marks upon the score calendar, representing that full total grievance against the Phoenix team on the part of the COastwise sailors.
 Several times it looked as if PhOe- nix would really score. In fact one of the visitors stopped to borrow a chew, or tie a shoe, and Duke Whit made streak over the rubber, mak- ing one mark in favor of Arizona and true progress, but after that the scores were elusive will O the wisps" absolutely refusing to be caught and empaled
 However to a lover of baseball there was something good at the park and the fans are missing something OG a very scientific nature by not t,oOping down to Grant Park by the thousands and helping out the distri- button of little red slips of paper with numbers on them that represent the right to pass by d man with wry face. who stands at the main gate to let inquisitive strangers in.