Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-05-16

when we looked around liopewell
field az a.A4 o'clock yesterday AFTER
noon expecting TO observe the familiar
,otund and smiling vountenance OF
ou Mahaffey, We didn't find him.
Instead. there was n young man at
dnpper appearance and authoritative
bearing. who answers to the name OF
sterling, occupying the place that Lou
used 20 occupy and working nc the
Job that Lou used TO work at. After
II was an over and the official scor-
er'H figures showed TINT beyond the
peradventnre Of doubt We had lost
the game by 4 score of to 4, some
body advanced the theory that Lou
had carried our goat away with him
and that sterling had brought along
INK 20 take lis place.
However. this theory viii not stand
the test OF calm philosophy In the
first place, Mr.. Sterling officiated 10
capable and satisfactory manner,
calling EN- all jist az ne saw EN-, re-
gardlesa OF whether II hit the home
team or the visitors Aud then again,
careful analysis of the figures shows
that Mr.. sterling didn't have anything
like az much 10 do with our mlsfor-
tunes as did one Lefty Russell and
eight ~ his companions IN crime, tu
say nothing Of the fact that our old
pal Jimmie Murphy had a had day out
Ia the middle mirden
Nobody blnfnea Jimmie In the least
for he has hcrn go uwfully good in the
past that he WAS overdue for "A reyers
sal Of form. And thcn. te top IL nll
off, Il was rafting good game even
IL wee did lose. The best Of them lose
sometimes YOU know. The Boston
braves lost yesterday also, and who
are we to think that We are better
than the world champlons2
For four days l.efty Russell had
been working out IN right feids and
Tor all we knew that was his regular
trade, We couldn't tell by looking nc
him standing out By the fence that he
was pitcher and therefore we we're
somewhat scornful when Sterling an.
nounced that he would do the slab
work for the CulcianA This attitude
af mind quickly changed as the south
paw gent began 20 open up his bag of
tricks. and II didn't take us Ions 10
zee that we were up against seine real
pitching.
comparison of figures falls 10
show that Lefty had such a whopping
bis edge over our own Waldschmidt,
who worked his first fun game yester-
day. The lad from Las Cruces gave
up total OF eleven hngleg only two
less than Waldy, but the psychology
OF the situation---the distribution OF
the wallopa aud the tinieliness OF !
them. to say nothing of the matter OF
support AZ critical moments - gives
the heft OF the argument to Lefty |
Also. II gave the game 70 his team
Things started off as II we we're go
ing 10 do the same old thing In the
same old way. In the first stanza |
Murphy made an impressive begin
ming BY alamming out two-baggef !
He took third on ilumphries' bunt
end scored on Iluelsman's single to |
left Davis then hit right ana Car
man walled lluelsman scored on
French's lnfield hit and the inning |
was ended when Herriott hit into i
double play
Ia the fifth the locals scored again |
when with two down HUMPHREYS sim I
gird to center and scored on Huels- |
mans three nnse drive 10 pecp center, /
and Ia the seventh another run came /
over by means of twu-bagger by |
Murphy and a single by HUMPHREYS,
For Las Cruces the scoring began I
in the third. Seaton and Hurley sim
sled IN succession, uoldie advanced |
thein BON WITH sacrifice and SeHton /
scored on pfleiger's sacrifice IN to
huolsm0n. Ia the fifth, Goldie sim
gied 20 center. took second on sacrl- |
flee, went 60 third on bliss infield \
out and scored on Wildes single. mi
the slNth Black WAS safe when Muir |
ply spilled his fly TO center. Russell
flew out 60 left. hut Black took see-
Qua on the play went to third on Sen /
tons ont al first and scored on Iiur.
icy's single to left
Il was In The seventh that the WISH |
tors took their lead ana the game 4
With one down bliss singled over
short Ia his eagermess To make a I
double PLAY unmphries booted Wildes /
stounder and both men We're safe (
Murphy dropped Lees easy fly aud 4
The bases We're loaded Blank hit al
hot one through the pitchers hoN (
which French handled. getting the |
fnnnc az first hHt Rliss scored ON 1
the play 1he beans were spilled 4