Arizona republican., 1913-07-25
HEATER MEN PLAY BALL
 FIND II HEAVY WORK
Chicken Dinner the Several Bones of Contention-Who Pays and
 Who Eats

Believing that the Sure-enOugh local
 baseball teams are not the only ones
 that can put up gilt-edged exhibits of
 the national pastime, the employees
 of the Coliseum of this city chaI-
 Ienged the employees of the Empress
 to a match game to be played at the
 Polk street grounds for one good
 chicken dinner, the losers to put up
 the dinner for both. Good.
 The two teams assembled in uni-
 form and out, at the grounds yester- day afternoon amid a crowd of admir-
 ing chorus girls and others, to con
 test for the aforementioned chicken
 dinner. Everybody. played until he
 was stiff and sore and feeling if sitting down will be hard work for a week. The statement is made every
 body" but this is in slight error-one pretty ticket-taker. sVho had prom
 ised to keep score, did not show up for his duties. and in consequence where everyone else was complaining last evening about the weather and several other things, the ticket-taker was sitting around laughing at them. He will not get to eat of the chicken.
 It was certainly some game. Fin ally everybody-there it goes again had played until well tired, but in the absence of the scorekeeper it could not be told whether the score was 19 to in favor of the Coliseum, or IS to 9 in favor of the Empress Any way, 1t was known that A. II. Reeves, who used to work for the 'thins" in the Elks' games here, knocked q home run and then laid down and touched each Lase from the home plate, say ing himself the trouble of running around the sacks Slim Brady pitched for the Empress and "IfelNy" O'BrIen worked q similar stunt for the others.
 The reason Reeves knocked the home run off Brady's delivery was to get even The other day the two went down to swim in a water hole in the river The hole looked mighty good and Slim" went in first. He can float like q battleship and has about the same displacement. so that when Reeves wanted to go i'll. the wa ter was too deep for him and lie had to be content with Wading around in the sand until Brady came out and the pool resumed it's normal lepth.
 Brady in trying to beat out a scratch hit to first, stubbed his toe 1n a mesquite root and fell down, but t didn't stop his progress, it being 'ound he could roll faster than he could run. The umpire declared him safe showing sympathy. Every other decision was against the Empress. 1 It was rumored that the Coliseum had with "hiZZumps" 10 get in Dn the feed if that team won the l game This was assured when | Reeves wanted to umpire and play l -hird base both at the same time.
 Ben Massey, who was supposed to 1 )e stationed in right field for the | Empress. made his getaway early in | he excitement and vas found seven l blocks from the grounds when it ,ame his time to bat. Massey was 1 rying out another inspiration of orig l nal ragtime Pickett kicked at this l because he had not been allowed to | write the words, but let up when Ben | assured him There ain't no words; ] ts all music"
 Anyhow, the question now remains, | Who is going to get q chance to | play rastime, picking on a chicken | ,one?"
 oh, yes, the following is the official | ine-up for the slaughter: