The Coconino sun., 1920-07-02
BATTERY "A" TEAM TOO
 MUCH FOR KINCMAN
Happy Days! H-a-a-p-p-p-y D-a-a-a-y-s!


 H-a-a-p-p-p-y D-a-a-a-y-s!
 Kingman, the unbeaten baseball team of northern Arizona, their big banner proclaiming: "Nine straight; this is the tenth" turned sad faces wearily westward.
 Their banner wasn't the only thing they left in Flagstaff.
 There were three special carloads of Kingman players and fans, besides two or three auto loads.
 They were bunch of good sports, as good losers as they would have been winners.
 The result of the game is best told by quoting the remark one of the Kingman fans made after the game. He said: Flagstaff spotted us six and then beat us."
 Oh, boy! It was some game.
 Howard started in the box for Flag. A drizzle had wet things up lot, and the big fellow had no control. When the session was over kingman had six runs. They had the game sewed up right there-they thought.
 Things ran pretty evenly until the middle of the third, when Howard be- gan to slip again. Manager Cress halted the game long enough to send May into the box, transferring How ard to right field, calling Mackey in.
 May had everything on the ball. Flagstaff's score began to creep up. Soon it was six to nine; then tied, and at the end, it was IA to 10 in Flags favor.
 Howard fully redeemed himself at the bat. A screaming three-bagger and sacrifice by him brought in runs. We have sweet ball team. Good tempered, not crab among them, but every man fighter for runs. It was this fighting spirit, the never-quit spir- it, coupled with real ball-playing and team work that pulled the trick.
 There isn't team in Northern Ari- zona that can take two out of three games from our team now. Flagstaff is again a baseball town. They are all for a winning team. But for the lowering clouds and driZ- gle the attendance would have been twice as large. As it was, the team | had good sum to their credit after paying expenses. Flagstaffites who hadn't attended a game in years were there, yelling like wild men. A couple of hundred fellows were going around Monday with the same crack in their voices they had when they were IA years old.
 During the seventh inning, Dick Connor and Burnell Osler swiped the big Kingman banner. After the game it was draped with crepe, hung on the fire engine, and George See, Rube Neill and Gene Henderson, with sew eral others, took it around down town with gong and siren going.
 It is reported that one man bet 15O head of cattle on the game.
 Clarence T. Pulliam, for Flagstaff and Kingman's umpire did most satis- factory work.
 Kingman had cleaned up Williams, San Bernardino, Winslow, Needles, Oatman and one or two other teams before coming here.
 Billy Borum had a refreshment stand at the grounds during the game, a welcome innovation.
 Among the ninety or more kingman people attending the ball game were: M. B. Dudley, Brooks Dudley, Carl G. Krosk, Thos. Devine, J, H. Rosenburg, C. A. Dutton, E. A. Shaw, w. c. Da- mon, Postmaster Chas. Metcalf, Ike Bartholomew, County Treasure Wayne Hubbs, J. c. Wilson and wife, MT. Kushness and wife, J. w. Patter- son, manager of the Kingman team, and wife.
 Most of the Flagstaff fans, before the game was over, were wise to a most interesting bit of news, and the Kingman pitcher, George L. Knorr, came in for a lot of kidding, which, however, didn't seem to interfere with his pitching. Accompanied by MT. and Mrs. Patterson, Mr. Knorr and Miss Viola M. Johnston, of Kingman, had visited County Clerk Tom L.. Rees' office at 9:30 the night before, where they got license. Justice of the Peace R. J. Kidd, forewaned, was at hand and made them man and wife. Following is the summary: