Winslow Mail (Newspaper) - July 25, 1908, Winslow, Arizona Mail VOL 25, 1908. No 26 Winslow Wins Interesting Last Sunday the Winslow baseball team won a very good game and by so doing won their twentieth consecutive game without a loss scored against The local team under the very efficient manage merit of Dr. Bazell and the cap of Tommy Baker have whipped what was apparently at the first of the season a bunch of sand lotters into a very respectable bull team that the town should be proud of. The boys have made several trips to the adjoining towns and have always acted like what they and are deserving of all the credit they They have met all comers and as we stated before have put all teams to the mat and should present indications keep up will finish the season with a perfect The challenge issued some time ago to the Prescott team was accepted by the boys of the city a mile high and during the convention of the Democratic party August 7th and 8th Prescott will witness some very classy ball if our boys play their usual Last scores were all made in one inning and outside of that the patrons of the game witnessed national league backed by handled the heavy work for the locals and Baca and Martinez officiated for the Flagstaff contingent and it may be said to the credit of both batteries that they played gilt-edge First baseman Peterson of the visitors made two very catches in the third either one of which if missed would have let in two or three Sprankle led the batting honors getting two single and one three bagger out of four times As was stated in these columns at the beginning of the season Winslow would support a good clean base ball team and it is indeed commendable to note that our confidences have not been Keep up your lick boys and as long as you handle yourselves and play the game that you have in the past you may rest assured that the support you and you will gain respect not only for yourselves but also the town you Interest in the national pastime has been increased during the past week by the formation of another ball club in at present known as the Second under the management of Clarence J. While those interested claim no ulterior motive the members of the Winslow club say it is merely a bunch ot soreheads and that they have not organized for the good of the as is but mainly to attempt to get together a ball team that will beat Winslow the continued winning streak of the latter team arousing the jealousy of some former players who were dropped from the However this may the are to play against Winslow next Sunday on the local grounds and it is claimed they have gathered together a nine made up partly of local and mostly of imported players hoping to administer a drubbing to the regular team A battery and short stop have been secured from a left and right fielder from while local men will fill the balance of the positions with Qua vie at Willis at Kelly on third and some other local man in center field unless they should succeed in getting some member of the Williams team to play that Thus it will be seen that although the claims to represent Winslow they will be far from a local aggregation and for this reason the friends of the regular team are saying some mean things about the promoters of the new From present they claim to have ample financial backing and a hot game is promised for next Sunday when the two teams It is doubtful though whether they can win the lack of team work and with the grounds being somewhat of a the team not }ret having been together for practice owing to the not being on the But it will be well for all lovers of the game to be on hand early and secure good seats as there will undoubtedly be a record breaking though being somewhat And forget to Another Cloudburst Hits Railroad Company Suffers Considerable District Attorney and Mrs. Geary returned home this week from St. where has been visiting her Mrs. for the past few Thursday evening another heavy rain visited this immedi ate section of the The extent of the rain was not as large as the one about two weeks but in some places as much The rain extended east about a mile and west about two The precipitation was the heaviest southwest of town which caused the The railroad yards were entirely under water and a small section of track was washed out and made impassable at both the east and west end of the The greater damage to the track occurred at the east end in the vicinity of the stock yards where about 1500 feet of track was undermined making it impossible for trains to enter or leave At the west end not more than three rail lengths was actually washed out but the entire yard as far west as the High Switch was completely under No. 2 was held at while No. 3 was allowed to come as close to town as it could be both trains getting to the depot about three o'clock Friday Freight traffic was temporarily but by daylight Friday all tracks were made passable and business The company cottages on the south side of the track were entirely cut off from communication with both board walks being submerged and that leading past the hospital being carried away by the water which was very deep and running quite rapidly between the depot and the Water got into some of these houses and caused considerable damage to the The depot building suffered considerable damage water being about five inches deep in all the offices on the lower floor as well as in the lunch counter and in the dining room of the Harvey The telegraph office was put out of business early in the evening owing to the cellar becoming destroying all the battery which was located in the The operators were moved up stairs into the office and continued their business from that Besides destroying the the flooding of the basement has destroyed all the records of the local telegraph office as well as the entire records of the division for many years the room wherein these were stored being a portion of the under part of the The basement attached to the Harvey House was also considerable loss of supplies resulting Early Friday morning an engine was spotted opposite the depot to furnish steam for a pump which was used to take the water from the the same being run into the lot in front of the reading This lot was badly flooded Thursday making it next to impossible to get in to the reading Water to a considerable depth on the streets caused no more inconvenience than muddy no damage being done to the stocks of any of the Captain Henry manager of the Aztec Land and Cattle at St. was here a couple of days this accompanied by his He left yesterday for New York City on a business A. F. the pioneer of Arizona paid this office an interesting visit yesterday He is now sojourning in Conductors Wing and Ward returned Friday morning from a business trip to the Parker Operators Lindsey and of were Winslow visitors Barney Rholes and wife returned home from a trip east Friday Miss Amie Dagg left Friday morning tor St. Joseph to isit Mrs. C. M. Service left Friday morning for the east on a Engineer returned from a trip to Nebraska Sheriff Woods was here Friday on official Klase and Luce have been working on the Grand Canyon line this degree Masonic Return to Flinn's Store for R. C. Creswell left yesterday for California on
