The Coconino sun., 1920-08-13
FLAGSTAFF WINS STATE
 BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
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full. Yell, you spectators! Yell, gosh
 darn your hides!
 Now comes Gilliland, and reaches
 hrst on fielder's choice, bum play by
 the Indian second baseman, Amos
 being thrown out at third, but Brown.
 ing reaches home.
 Scores tied. Oh, for another hit!
 O'Connor on second, Gilliland on first
 one out. Whose next at bat? Charlie
 Gray. Come on Charlie, good old boy
 Swat the pill, old kid Break up the
 game! You know you did it at Wins
 low. Do it now!
 Suffering snakes, see that beautiful smash into left field! O'Connor's
 home. Games over. See you again tomorrow.
 Features of the first game: Fine pitching by May and some very heady
 base running by him and Gilliland, in which they made Hefflin, the Phoe- nix box artist, look like torn cigar band. May stood still half way to second on a steal and the Phoenix pitcher held the ball and looked at him while Gilliland stole home.
 But Fred Browning's stick work! Five times at bat, five safe hits. Right here let's call attention to the fact that in the game the following day he was four times at bat and swatted three safeties. Old Happy Days, you're a wonder.
 In the first game a remarkable fea- ture was the retiring of three Phoe- nix batters on a total of exactly four pitches.
 Our boys went into the second game under-confident. Duke Cross, on the mound for Phoenix today has a repu- tation for pitching no-hit games. Guess we can't get anything better than an even break on the two games.
 But then we wake up to the fact that we can hit Cross. He is a clev- CT pitcher, with awful speed. But he ain't such a much, after all, to us. Let's go after him!
 Phoenix got one in the first and an- other in the second, when bad throw home let Thomas have home run on a three base hit. Phoenix held the lead until the seventh, when we got a lead of one, Phoenix deposing us and herself getting another lead of one in the eighth. You may guess there was some excitement at this time. You are very good little guesser. There was.
 Tom Rees, Paul Coffin, Charlie Clark, L. C.. Riley and several others were just plain nuts. Hank Lockett, reserving her until then, bet his old COW on the outcome. Tim Reardon had his arms around Professor Creag- CTS neck and Jimmie Swinnerton and Dr. Frederick Monsen were sitting in Milt Powers lap.
 Howard up. Hit to short, who fum- bled. Carlson bingled. Hanley drew a pass. Bases full.
 Here comes Captain Mackey. Takes his graceful position at plate, scratch es left ear with right toe, which is signal for squeeze play. Pitcher sees signal and everybody running after | he begins to wind up for throw. | Throws three feet wide of plate to keep Mackey from bunting, but latter reaches ball for perfect bunt with Howard only ten feet from home. | Pitcher over-throws trying to head | Mackey at first and Carlson comes in. Then Browning comes up with his third hit of the day and brings in Hanley and Mackey. Amos, Gilliland and O'Connor all fly out in left field.
 Our boys won the game with hits when they were needed, good fielding, brainwork. In the latter requisite they had it all over their opponents.
 Gilliland's playing deserves special mention. In the first game he scoop- ed a.fy from the ground in deep short, getting a peck of dirt with it, and threw dirt and all, beautiful peg to first that spoiled what looked like a sure hit. In the second game he fell down attempting to handle an infield hit, the ball dropping couple of feet beyond his outstretched hand. He threw himself along the ground, slap, ped the ball with his open hand square into the second baseman's mitt, get ting the runner.
 Despite Cross reputation, he had nothing on Howard, who hurled for Flagstaff, good at all times and most effective where it was most needed.
 Flagstaff now holds the baseball championship of the state and don't care who knows it. If any other team doubts our right to the title, that team IS hereby cordially invited to come up here, where the air is fine, the water SoOu anu tic uidHlOnu 1dSL, ana get good trimming. We have team here that don't know when it is beaten-l and for that reason isn't.
 Just where politics has any call to take hand in the control of baseball in this state is something that per- haps Governor Campbell can explain. Miami claims that the governor has recognized them as cham pions of the state.
 Governor Campbell was not elected to the position of state umpire. He has made very bad guess if he thinks he was, another if he thinks Miami is entitled to the state cham pionship, another if he thinks his say so will make Miami the state cham pions and still another if he thinks for a minute that Miami can take two out of three from Flagstaff. If he really { did pronounce Miami's team state champions, and has the courage of his there's room up here to place a thousand or more dollars of 1