Arizona republican., 1919-06-01
Caput sdys:---

There was no need, Allen of Whipple Barracks, for you to Challenge" the sporting editor of The Republican to print your communication. He is not alone willing but glad to give Phoenix fans a sidelight on the estimation in which Phoenix is held by the Whipple soldiers as a ball town Furthermore the tart letter you sent us, Allen. is in direct line, in some respects, with the very criticisms that "Caput' has launched against the sportsmen of the capital city.
 There is no answer to your financirl "phuippis" against Phoenix If the ball fans of this "city' care not to spend their dough" to see ball game. it is unfortunate but a fact that we who care for baseball cannot alter. We are glad to state, however. that your team put up the prettiest and snappiest game of ball last Sunday that we have seen in this little town since the season opened. But, you must admit that it was far more of an event to have the Phoenix team visit Prescott than it was for the Prescott team to visit Phoenix. That may account for the difference in re- ceipts.
 Your intended unkind words about the sporting element of our city, how ever, are, in a sense, justified, and upon the same basis that "Caput" has twice appealed to our baseball readers, that Riverside park is inadequate ia almost every essential for popular ball ground.
 The sporting editor witnessed men in automobiles that refused to pay to see the game and in one instance, saw q uniformed collector order one machine off the field. This was right. All others that were sponging on the gate receipts should have been treated the same way.
 i On behalf of the regular fans" of Phoenix, I am yenturing an apology for the disloyal sportsmen of the city; on behalf of the same fellows, ask you to recall fhat the ''vile umpiring' was exhibit/d by your own Captain 1 Van Horn. No protest was made l against Umpire Price, for the reason ! that his work was as near perfect as has been seen on the local diamond at any time.
 1 With this introduction and comment we publish the letter you challenge us 1 to print:
 Prescott is a town. Phoenix is . city Anyone but a real honest-te- 1 goodness baseball fan would not hesi- tate to make that comparison, but after the game between Phoenix and Whippie Barracks on Sunday last there was a dark cloud hanging over the sporting record of Phoenix. Facts and figures will help to demonstrate the Justification of that remark. Las1 month the Phoenix team visited Pres colt, and met defeat at the hands o1 Whipple Barracks; score being to T; gate receipts S39e.O0; ground rem nothing; loser received s173 which wal sl4 more than the stipulated 70 pel cent; weather conditions, raining a intervals. Last Sunday, Whipple Bar racks team visited Phoenix; score 4 tt ? in favor of Phoenix; gate, S273
 ground rent 20 per cent of gate re ceipts; loser received guaranteed amount of s120; weather conditions fine.
 In spite of uncertain weather con, ditions, the Prescott fans turned out il numbers, and everybody who saw tht game, either from the grand stand o
 from their own seats in their machine
 paid to see it, when Phoenix visited
 Prescott.
 But, when Whipple Barracks visited
 Phoenix, the gate receipts were anae mic; weather conditions elegent
 crowds of machines parked in the out