Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-06-04

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In spite Of the Indian band, which
playcd good music and ala It's best To
keep us IN d good humor. and IN spite
OF some real ny Cobb stuff pulled off
by Thrdbaaeman Davis at critical
moment OF the game, and In spite OF
some OF the strongest roofing ever
heard from one Of the smallest crowds
ever gathered. the Dukes were downed
yesterday afternoon by the Old Pu-
eblos In q game nbounding in quick
snappy plays and tense situations.
The final count was 4 To 3, with the
Dukes VI he rear end Of the process
zion. incidentally Tucson Jumps
from the cellar position In the league,
standing 10 n tie with the Dukes for
second place.
IIoratman was on the mound fOr
the visitors. aud there VIII be few
who saw him perform that viii deny
that he had our number Towards
the end Of the game the boys seemed
20 be getting 70 him, hnt always there
was "a solid stone wall of feldera be-
hind him to cut down our brave lade
IN the prime % their youth and beau
". Stadelll took rest yesterday and
didn't catch any line drives Deiseen
his toes while standing on his head
but the rest Of The team were there
TO make up for his Shortcomings. our
Nluggers eluRged their little smuggling
est lut drives that ordinarily would /
have been good for three or four
bases were only good for trip back /
10 the brnch. Wottayergonnado when /
things break that way
There wis nice little crowd pres
ent-~exclnsive and aristocratc lts I
sympathies we're in the right place, I
but there were not enough Of them
either the crowd or the synipathies.
II Is no longer a secret that Albupuer-
que Is now the weak slstcr Of the
Rio Grnnde association II the league
goes kerfloocs, you ana |, brother and
sister fan. cnn thank ourselves for il.
Interest In the game SO far has been
demonstrated mainly through the
telephone calls 10 the newspaper o.
flces tu find olu tile score after the I
game IL over, II WIS Unfortunate
that Manager Reed aid not make ar
rangemonts with the telephone com /
paiy to eharae admission for those
who use the phone IN this way, hut he
had 20 many other things TO attend
to that he couldn't get around 10 IT,
There Is also much enthusiasm on the
part OF the box car ble0chefs ana IN
the cottonwood trees back Of the
park. but the management $50 far has
not been able 20 pay any salaries ont
Of this enthusiasm
Getting back to yesterdays game
the leading feature Of the pastime was
the effort of Davis to go from second
TO the plate on an nfield ont. II was
the eighth inning there were two
down. we were not doing any hitting
TO amount to anything, and Brother
Davis figured Il out that something
just had 10 be did, And what's more,
he almost did it--in fact there are
others besides himself who hold
strongly to the conviction that he did.
However. Umpire Sterling was not
one OF these. An argument followed,
81 the course Of which MIR Sterling
got some dust on his clothes but he
still got away with the argument
Tucson didn't waste any time get
ting down 10 business Just as soon
ms things had started, Strooff, with
one man down, smotc two-bagger 20
center and cantered home a moment
later on RAIDERS single. RAIDER going
TO second on the throw-in. When
HUMPHREYS dropped Jurdans throw
60 catch RAIDER the latter took third
and then came along MeMurdo with
a single that brought the Tucson
shortstop over the platter.
Another brace Of runs was accumu-
lated by the visitors IN the fifth.
Brashear. first up singled to center,
and on account Of his bum propeller !
was given a runner, Mcconnell taking
up the burden Of his chief Stadcllts !
t4f ATaffanpgn {
and Stroloifs iniicld out carried him J
10 third. RAIDER WAS given pass and !
promptly stole second McMurdo p.
walked and then Fclts lined out
single which carried Mcconnell and )
RAIDER over the pan
The Dukes runs were scored IN the
second and seventh an The second
Trekeli, playing second for French
who was laid up for repairs singled !
over second. went 70 second on Rae a
del's two-bagger down right field
foul line. In the eighth with two u
down, Jordan walked, advanced a base Z
on Mufphy's single and scored on ,
humphries' single Murphy who had 4
taken second GA the play, scored on 2
one-haso drive Carman Is
ended the Inning hy hitting 20 second, @
forcing Huelsmau To-
Jordan pitched steady consistent q
game, and nine times cut of ten q
would have gotten away with The vic 81
tory. The breaks were against him,
however, aud the superb fielding ~
The visitors ut down the HIST uf what
would have been runs. la
Here Is he sad, sad story L.,
Tucson An H. Il. 20 A. n. "A
stadellL Il, -t,.t o oil n
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