Williams news., 1922-07-21
WILLIAMS DEFEATS
 KINGMAN 16 TO Z

 something to do with the judge ment exercised by Manager Shaul when he lined up h1s pitching staff for warm-up prior to the game with King man that day. Among the bunch is a Red Lake school teacher by profession, but who also incidentally is dry-farm- CT by way of diversion and chicken raiser through fancy. The Kingman Base Ball Club has requested we add right here that each individual mem Der is ready and willing to sub scribe to the fact that Professor Shill is also pitcher.
 By all fair interpretation of available dope" Riggs was the man to send against the Scor- pions from Mohave's desert' wastes. But notwithstanding the fact that Shill had been pounded from the box the last time he faced Kingman's hard hitting crew, when Manager Shaul looked far to the north and beheld what was happen ing in the Valley, he reasoned that if there was anything that should steady the nerve ana give power to the arm of Red Lake farmer-school-teacher- chicken fancier, it ought to be the sight of rain. How well this line of reasoning worked out, you have only to glance at the score. It has been a long time since such a game was pitched in Williams as Shill de- livered last Sunday. He had everything! High or low, swift or slow, every ball he de- 1ivered had a "hop" to it that was a marvel to those who wit messed the game. When bat ters like McMillan, Brayton, Able Bale, Clark and Lefty" Smith walk up to the plate and are powerless to place even one hit out of the diamond, some body is pitching ball.
 Not alone was it a fine eXhi- bition of the pitchers art, but every man on the Williams team played ball like a cham pion. It is safe to say that, with the pitching behind them that they had last Sunday, there is not team in the state of Arizona that could have beaten Williams upon this oc- casion. This statement is made in no spirit of local pride or boastfulness. It is the calm deliberate Judgement of not only the writer, but of several well-known baseball enthus- lasts from different parts of the state who witnessed the game. Among the number was form CT college player who now travels for a well-known east ern firm, and who has seen every game in Northern Ari- zona played within the past ninety days. This gentleman said that the Williams team as 1t appeared last Sun day was the best balanced team he had thus far seen in the North this year, and he has seen them all-from Lupton on the east, to Yampai on the west.
 At that Williams presented strange lineup. Cooke is out of the game, but did appear in the last inning. Harry Sel- mon was switched over to short in Cooke's place, while Dunn went to third, and Simpkins was behind the bat. Over in right there was a new face Hood. And what a hole he fills He is about as fast as they make them, and in the fifth brought the crowd to it's feet with one of the finest catches ever made on the local diaInond-a swift line fly from CJark's bat.
 Simpkins had very little to do behind the bat, for Shill was as steady as a clock. However. with little practice in that po- sition, he will make a splendid battery partner for Shili.
 Kingman's first, and what -should have been it's only run, was scored on a f1uke in the seventh. With one out and . three men on bases, Walker hit a high bounding grounder to short. It was not a hard hit ball, but took an exceptionally peculiar bound over Selman's