Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-04-17
BISBEE LOSES
TO CHINO 1871
IN The OPENER

Chiefly due to the wildness of Har-
per. Bisbee pitcher the Chino Cop
per company nine took the mine city
team into camp in the opening game
at Hurley Friday afternoon by the
score of 1S to 1.
Bisbee outhit the Chino team, get
ting six safeties to but four for
Chino but the mine city players made
five errors and Harper walked ten
men.
The game was called at the end Of
the seventh inning due to cold
weather. In view of the fact that
the miners had not been in the field
in regular line-up before and that
they have had no practice, they
played good game, the reports from
Hurley state.
Green hurled for Chino with Doug
las catching him while Harper and
Rote made up the Bisbee battery.
The score r. H.E
Bisbee
Chino ................... lib
c. E. Stradley of the Bisbee team
stopped in Douglas long enough on
Thursday en- route to Hurley to give
and an idea of the opinion they had of
their own club.
"Wednesday the team, which has been
hastily mustered from the Orange Belt
league and local players, donned the
Bisbee uniform for the first time and
started limbering up and getting ac
quainted as team for their initial
game at Hurley. They know they can
play fast ball and they are in good
form individually, for they have been
playing all winter, but they realize
that they are handicapped by a lack
of>team work as only few have play
ed together this year
shorty" Reese, who had a tryout
with both the Cincinnati Reds and the
Los Angeles Coast league club, is hail
ed by the Bisbeeites as the fastest
shortstop that local fans have had the
pleasure of seeing. They have prob
ably forgotten the last time they saw
Buck Weaver in action, and lose
sight of the excellence of the absent
in exultation over the exhibition before
them. Reese is eliminated from the
major. leagues only because of his
small stature.
A. Rote plays any position but
pitcher. Rote has played in the same
team as Stradley who said the former
could fit I'M anywhere on the diamond.
Stradley will play first base, his reg
ular position, and Archiletti, Reese and
Rabbit Geraty will take care of the
infield. Dorman, who was sent here
by Bert Whalingh probably will be
used in the field. Harper, a six-footer,
was brought along for mound work,
the only pitcher of any ability Stradley
could get on such short notice. j. w.
Cruz, who has been working out with
the local boys for some time, probably
will take another garden position, with
the third field filled by Perz Frank
Champion Barney Barnhill or some
other local Bisbee player.
Stradley has several other players
in mind if he is unable to get his
present lineup into a winning ball
club He wants to get one or more
pitchers to relieve Harper and has in
mind Dutch" Greiger, a Los Angeles
semi-pro, who has speed, curves and
thorough knowledge of baseball. If
Flock can arrange a leave of absence
from the Copper Queen black smith
shop Stradley will give him try
out, and Bisbee fans feel that the
husky HEAVIER will make good.
The Bisbee team has the fighting
spirit Manager Strad1ey said:
1--WE may not win our first series
but We'll be fighting every minute
and after we get organized am con-
fident we can keep in the first sec
ton if we don't lead it, which hope
to do. 1 didn't have much choice in
selecting the ball players in Los An
geles because all the other leagues had
grabbed most of them up, but don't
think for a minute / brought along a
bunch of hams although / will say
they are swift could have gotten
two or three teams together if I had
not been so particular but knew that
railroad fares do not grow on trees,
so l picked only five because / felt
certain they were the only ones who
could make good"