The Apache sentinel., 1943-09-10


One of these golden periods
OF rapture came at the outset
of the game, when Third Base
man Moore, (who later was to
bring grief aplenty to the fol-
lowers of the Sou nine), first batter
to face the be-mustached Saenz of
the Nogales Internationals, sent the
ball from his bat over the left field
wall for a home run.
Several moments of unrestrained
joy came to the followers of the
when their idols score FIVE runs.
The above were the especially
bright and wildly-happy moments
for the Fort Huachucans. There
were a few others, but none to COM
pare with the start of the game and
the momentous fourth inning.
The game was somewhat like the
story of the Negro marksman, who
said:
st don't make. a bullseye every
time shoot, but when I do shoot
and I don't make a bullseye, it
causes talk"
The game did. and still does, cause
talk!
The Umpire?
The game causes talk, because the
followers of the, Sou nine still as
sert that the umpiring was far from
II.
Maybe they have something there,
but "Play Ball. is not, at the mo-
ment at least, "geared. up" for eth
er a discussion or an argument, so
he'll let it go at-"Maybe the fans
have something there"
BUT, the Internationals have the
ball game and that is what REAL
LY counts.
Neither team was superior to the
other on the Nogales diamond last
Sunday. AS matter of icy fact
neither team has anything to brag
about. Both teams played lot of
sloppy ball, ball that was far below
the standard of the kind of ball they
have played in the past and the kind
of ball they are capable of playing,
and ball that was much too much
interSpersed with white hot argu-
ments and white hot words.
Pitcher Saenz, who completely
"handcuffed" the Sou batters on
the Posts diamond, to win handily,
several weeks ago, was greeted with
a home run, a two bagger ana a
three Dagger in the first inning and
from my vantage point I could see
his tiny mastaches curl and come to
a SINCE, so bewildered and humiliat-
ed was he. Later he was to be the
victim of run rally, and still later
he was to be relieved from the role
he had so inadequately filled for
seven innings.
Made US Look Bad
And so it went with the entire No
gales team, a team that in its pre-
game warmup was strongly reminis-
cent of the best of Big League teams
on one of it's very best days. But
when the pressure was applied by
the SCU-ers, the Nogales-ites looked
like rank "bushers," and played as
such most of the time. However, IN
the ninth inning. the lads from
ACROSS the Border" made US look
bad on the final play of the game,
a bunt and run play worthy OF the
best that baseball has ever produced.
Pvt. First Glass Walter Mccoy has
lost ground. He is steadily losing,
in fact. He walked 10 batters last
Sunday and allowed 10 hits. Many
of SOUS. followers will say that it
was the UMPIRE who walked 10
batters, but such was not the case,
not by any yardstick of common
sense discussion. True, it is quite
possible that the umpire missed sew
eral good ones on Mccoy, but not 40
(the equivalent Of 10 walks nor half
nor quarter that many. Mccoy SIM
ply wasn't himself, either on the
mound or at the plate, for he was
the victim of several Strikeouts, and
did he swing at that faSt-movlng
pellet
But then, pitcher is not expect
ed to play the WHOLE game. There