The Coconino sun., 1920-08-20


 gers-Carlson, Fennell, Robinson, Hays. Struck out-By May, 8; Smith, 3; Knorr, 1. Bases on balls-By May, |; by Smith, 4. Hit by pitcher-O'- Connor, Hammeslaw, Mackey. Sacri- flee .hit-Carlson. Stolen bases-O'- Connor, (2), Gray, McMillan, Robin son.
 J. c. Clarke umpired the bases, and MT. Cline, of Kingman, at the plate, both performing most satisfactorily.
 Manager J. w. Patterson, of King on Saturday morning. Others up from Kingman were Mir. and Mrs. Andy Devine, Mrs. Harry Price, wife of the catcher; MT. and Mrs. Duchness and MT. McMillan. Several of the Wins low team and six of the Williams team were among the spectators. So were several from Ash Fork, including Charles E. Burton and Harvey Pitts.
 Pretty close to thousand iron men changed pockets as result of the game.
 An amusing feature was the resur- rection of the banner, "Nine Straight This is the Tenth" Kingman brought here few weeks ago for us to hang crepe on.
 And now, let us indulge in a little repartee and billingsgate:
 The Mohave County Miner, of King man, in support of the Kingman Wildcats" claim the state champion ship and in derision of Flagstaff's claim, asserted last week that King man leads because it has the highest percentage of games won. The fact is that Kingman nor any other team can claim the championship on per- centage basis, because conditions here are not as in the big leagues, where each team plays an equal number of games with each of the other teams in the combination. Kingman has been playing lot of weak teams, at least two of them, for several games, being California teams. How do Cal ifornia victories figure in the Arizona championship question?
 Furthermore, the Kingman editor misrepresents (probably from lack of knowledge) the facts regarding the games Flagstaff has played this sea- son. He says: "Williams beat the Champs three straight games; Wins low hung the flag on them, and so did Clarkdale and Jerome"
 The truth is that the Battery has played just one game with Williams, the first of the season, before the team was organized at all, and lost the game. We have taken three out of four from Winslow and won from Clarkdale in the only game played. Jerome has one game against us to its credit. So the Kingman Miners fact percentage" is about .002.
 To further clinch this argument and drive the rusty iron into the soul of the Kingman scribe, let us whisper sweetly into his ear that Battery "A" has beaten Kingman two out of three, getting more than twice as many runs in the three games as Kingman.
 As Manager Charlie Heisser rises to remark in reply to, The Miner:
 "Had the sporting editor of the Mo- have County Miner refrained from writing the above article, until after last Sundays game between Kingman and the Flagstaff Battery team, we dare say that he would have experi- enced change of heart, as the King man Wildcats were tanned to the complete satisfaction of all concerned in fact, it was the concensus of opin- ion of the Flagstaff fans, that the ex- hibition of the national game, as put up by the so-called Wildcats was the poorest seen on the local diamond for many moons. It is very apparent that the Kingman writer knows but very little about the Battery teams record for the season.
 "We are willing to admit one thing and that is--the Kingman scribe has a wonderful imagination or perhaps is