Arizona republican., 1913-04-11
LAID OUT WITH
 CHARLEY HORSE
Republican Baseball Fiends Are Nursing Stiff Joints Game Week From Sun day Will Be Hummer Also. the Picnic

Ole Chollyhoss and q nice bunch or glass arms were the main and
 most notable thing at The Republi- can office yesterday, where the base
 ball microbe has lit. and got in his Sood work to beat the cars. North
 second street was all messed up with alleged ball players at times vester
 oay' with members of both teams perspirlng like hunks of ice on d Phoenix pavement in summer time. me incentive for the gruelline lractlce Is the prospect Of eating d iihe supper or merely paying for it dccoldlng to how well d team plays. ne printers and the office men are cdii! counting their small change in cIder To make sure that there will De enough for the pro rata payment I ih case victory refuses to perch on the particular banners. From this if may be inferred that neither side 1 IS entirely confident of winning the contest. Or the whole. the upstairs Has the best of 1t. (Note, this story | was written upstairs) But entirely ] dSIue rom that, the business office l ana editorial rooms are lucky in the
 possession of one Big Chief Meyers.
 a Johnny kling-he spells it without 1 the Coast League star. Reeve.
 the society and sport editors and
 others of even less fame For in stance, the sport editor is going to
 keep score, thereby gaining the right
 to be called the tenth player on the 1 upside. The society editor suggested 1 that. It doesn't seem necessary to ! me Tor our men to run all the way around those little sofa pillows. Why not let them run to the first one
 ana then back again. That surely would be much better than going all the way around, and besides it would not melt your collars down" Fine
 idea. In solemn conference. the up-
 stairs team has formally thanked the
 society writer for her timely and
 valuable hint If any upside player
 fails to singe second or third on his
 frenzied way home. this will be giv-
 en as an excuse. and the courteous
 printers must say. very well. let il
 go this time"
 On the whole. the star peroformel for the topside bunch ought to be
 the scorer, who will remember wher,
 he is from and slip in the winnina
 tally at the proper psychological
 moment There is no doubt that tn,
 game will be literally speckled witt such moments The umpire has no yet been discovered It is not a cas, , of selecting, hiring or otherwise de signatng this official He will hay , to be arrested, arraigned. charged , tried and found guilty of some hein , ous offense against the public goo , sense before he can be sentenced t z the job of settling which is a bal n strike, safe or out for the brillian o ! aggregation that is going to contes 7 on Polk street grounds q week froI z 1 Sunday afternoon.
 v The Picnic
 o The Republican force will | 9 mighty busy this Sunday with d pic v v nic to Granite Reef Manager Si V Wolf of the Annual Arizona Repul " lican Granite Reef Picnic and JuT v ket (self constituted has gOuge v everybody on the paper for nun " Der of good American dollars f' " which he extends the privilege ~ accompanying d certain young lac " his own choice-to and from u ~ Diverting Dam The Prairie Ora. 'o hound has been chartered to do u
 heavy work It will likely take . :" day Sunday to pull the picnic off ~ proper style, but some provision W ~ be made to select d representative ~ the palladium of the liberties 'o Arizona's people to stick around al ~ consult visitors.