Arizona republican., 1915-03-23
COURT HOUSE BALL
 LOSERS PICK UP
 THE BATTLE GAGE
In Perfectly Fair Square Way, Re- publican Presents Truth About SNew War Between City and
 County Officers

l lenges issued by the city hall gang yesterday afternoon, calling upon the 1 county experts to meet Walter F. Brawner's men in to-the-finish
 baseball game on Friday of this week: l The consternation was in no measure due to any fear on the part of the court house athletes, who are confi-
 dent they can wipe the baseball dia- mond clean with the bush leaguers from East Washington street, but
 was rather on account of being com- peiled to accept such a meaningless challenge or take the chance of be-
 ing dubbed "pikers'' or 'quitters" or any one of a thousand other gentle | names.
 For fifteen minutes Sheriff Jeff Adams talked like a house afire when
 he was told of the effrontery of the | chief of police and then he issued l orders that any deputy sheriff who lacked confidence in his ability to send the city hall bunch scurrying south like a wildcat hit in the eye with a pack saddle, had better tender his resignation in writing at the first meeting of the Ladies' Aid Society. The result of it all was this:
 CHALLENGE (Written in Bloo-oo-d).
 You n-jawed, brass -riveted, gall venized lined, rnbber-tired, pussyfoot- CTS of the Hotel de Perrin, in course we accept your challenge, in fact in sist upon it. We regret to do this on account of your families. but the law must take it's course.
 If you all have the nerve to go down to Riverside Park at 2:30 o'clock on Friday afternoon, where laying of an office that don't count for any thing outside the city limits. We will promise to lick the everlasting tar out of all of you and then some However, we reserve the single right of challenged party. That of a choice of weepins The weepin in this instance will be the empire which same will be Miss Edith Jacobs, who i having never seen a real game of baseball will be. entirely unbiased in her, decisions.
 Come on now and see if you can finish what you have started or for
 ever hold yonr-peace.' - 1 (Signed) Court House Joints. y ''Yes. sir we will go after the i dog gone bunch from the city hali." said Mir. J. Adams as he thoughtfully stroked his whiskers and sent Deputy
 Harrison Williams scurrying north ar ,aIr whom to secure the loan of q few 1 baseballs and a fewer bats to begin practice. In half an hour balls were l flying back and forth in the rear of
 the. county jail like bullets over the border when Villa is in the vicinity. Then there was a council of war
 It ended in a lineup as follows: A.
 l.. Jones, manager: Ed Luke. night
 team captain; Harrison Williams,
 pitcher: Billy Woolf. catcher: (he
 said he. wouldn't. but he wilD Jake
 Linville, first base; Jim Murphy, sec ond base; A. l.. Jones. short stop;
 George Sears, third. base: c. l.. Stap-
 dage. right field Royal Morrell, cen
 ter field: Charles Cox left field. Su-
 pervisors W. A. Moeur. Frank Luke
 and Warren Peterson. Sheriff J. D Adams. Vernon Vaughn and w J Osborn, substitutes. Miss Edith Jacobs
 umpire; Judge R. c. Stanford, substi- ute and active umpire.
 The official score was fixed at 2a to 0 in favor of the court house and neither Miss Jacobs or Judge Stan | ford will be allowed to qualify fol their official positions unless they agree to this provision.
 Somebody let the cat out of the bag in a short time and thereupon Cihei
 Brawner was scurryng around looking for a reporter he could subsidize. Hs
 offered as high as fifteen cents tc secure an agreement that in writing
 tie story of the approaching demise of the majority of the police and fire departments, the city bunch would be given a shade the best of it But even the lure of the filthy lucrf
 could not bring q reporter to deviatt from his path of duty. that of giving q
 far and impartial presentation of ths facts. Probably Chief Brawner will
 succeed in getting his one sided view of the situation printed this. aiter- noon, but if he does it won't Effect the final analysis of whatever the end
 of it may be styled.
 Now here's the lineup, (peace tc their ashes) that Chief Brawner will
 thrust out on the firing line on Friday lafternoon, that is unless they hit the
 trail before that day and hour
 Delgado, pitcher; Mercer, catcher;
 Paddock, first base; Sullivan Gack)
 second base; Schroeder. third base;
 Brawner. short stop; Hunt. lnot .Gov) fright field; Gulley, center field; Behr
 left field. Wilkerson. Vadder. yoltz McGrath, Perrin. Thurman. Grove
 Duncan, Lopez. Diltmann, Nalenzuela Skidmore Simmons, ct cetra, substi- Stutes
 Miss Anderson, city umpiress.
 If the city bunch revOlts at anA decisions or starts anything, they .wil
 be reminded they are out of the city
 limits and thereupon the entire party substitutes and all. will be hurried be- fore Judge DeSouza, under change O. Ivenue from the east to the west pre-
 cinct Bail has already been fixed a
 $60O each. the price usually charged
 for bootlegging, which is another form
 of kicking.
 The game will be called promptly a | on U,-;<ox, o Ftorroov, nd