Show VI G MES VS BULL National Game Supersedes Fa Favorite Favorite Sport In Mexico GOOD SALARIES ARE PAID Escorted to Iho by buck buckIs 1 Is Tearful l Baseball Is but years old in Mexico bot It 11 has hul had a II most phe phenomenal until now it threat threatens ens to the tho traditional bull bullfights fights a n baseball name is In III u l Mexican city tit the play players ors ers escorted to 10 the tho In sui reys at lit the rate of o an 1 hour with a II brass band banel leading the procession and I hed sweet strains while till the game la Is in progress After ACter the game it Is a common thing for enthusiastic fans to present the win winners ners lIers with tips of oC goodly size Salaries In the Mexican und and South 1 I west cst leagues are ure always generous and the great hospital y of the people coupled with their tendency to voice their praise with gold pieces makes the way a of at the popular ball player ex exceedingly pleasant There Is one reut drawback Lo o playinG in this section of oC the country count however ancl that ID la tho fearful heat which frequently IB Is to tobe tobe be found If the baseball artist cnn can overlook this one objection o to play pIny playing ing IlIg in the southwest south west he Is III assured of or a I salary ot at nt least a I month clear of ot all 1111 expenses Two years ears HBO II go what Is now tho Moran team made a tour of at Mexico tho southwest states and tho en enthusiasm enthusiasm developed for tor tho great American game was 11 S cry surprising to the ot oC the Los team says the Im los Angeles Times Everywhere they were treated royally and LInd the American uniforms baseball outfits ot at play were the subject of ot much comment Manager Chavez plans to re repeat peat this trip with a n local amateur nine nIno this year ear will leave Icene next February with nn a of ot players under the name ot of on for a I three months tour The rhe trip Is Ie made In the in to ovoid vohl a the tho excessive heat ot tho usual baseball months OAME IS POPULAR To Illustrate the hold bold which br of Ilex Mex Mexico tho population ball has upon I ico Manager Chavez vcr tells a I story of ot the lust Moran Invasion of ot that coun the with tn A came jamo was played team on Foil Feb 1906 and anda andI scheduled for tor the same sallie salliea a I bullfight lI was day a In which a n famous Spanish General GeneIll admission bo be seen was to dor dol ns sion stoll to the tho bullfight was 60 GO cents w the tho game gamo seats scats In tha tho tor 01 grand grandstand bleachers were worth a II view cost and chairs stand ot the were worth oldest residents witnessed tho buU bul tight and tans fans attended tho game when Mexico nil over U Is tho same ball playing comO come into competition A letter received from Elmer yesterday esterday shows that tho Interest is even stronger at Cananea this year IB Is playing on tho Cananea turned turn d dout team and writes that tans fans out for tor a II recent game In that city nn admission tee fee of 1 ACtor tho game gamo RIegel was handed 20 by a afan who admired his pitching Cana fan fait has defeated Tucson In tour four out of or oca July 1 IS ISby tho last time on five fiyo games by b the score of at 22 21 to 3 Today the team meets EI Paso Tho In were at attended attend games by Gov GOI of tended tend cd regularly Sonora Gen Torres President Miller of DC tho ten Sonora banks and other no notables notables tables of at the capital city elt Monteverdi and Harry Smith the 1111 bankers of ot are arc backers of ot the Sonora league Last season Benson the league was ct back S 2400 playing which sum tho seasons by the lIlo and Monteverdi paleS paid to complaining directors which shows existent tho brand of ot sportsmanship there MEXICAN LEAGUE I Another league exists In the tho City of at Mexico headed by K I Knight for tor formerly merly of ot El Paso and Is In a pros prosperous pr s condition having made sev several lIe eral thousand dollars last beason tile the Arturo Carrillo manager of at Cananea team has stated that thal ho will win the Sonora league cup this year car even It lr he has hns to Import a whole team from Cram Los Angeles at any expense Rivalry IB Is very vory k cn tills this team and the JAS nine Each Ellch I has won tho valuable trophy valued at nt 1000 GOO once in tho HIli two years ears it Il has boon been offered To win it means retain It permanently and both to teams will make malee a hard bid for tor It year rear Chavez The Tho route to bo followed by and Ind his team tellI on tho next tour of ot tha tho includes nil all the baseball clUes cities In tho region The Kama will ho be a I series of ot three contests with the Tucson Grays After will bo be Tucson n of at In Negates No the tram will then cross tho border and nn 1 play pia at nt Banta Ana Mex 1 A week will be paused In tho capital ot another seven days will willbe willbe be consumed In playing nt It Las Lag J formerly the tho homo of at tho late lata Col Seymour tho great Eng Ens English lish sportsman ot of Mexico will bo the next town Here two exhibition matches will bo played After Atter another week In Hermosillo two names will bo be ort oft In Benson ArIz From Arizona tho team te 1111 will KO to Albuquerque where a II of ot one week Cok will wll d cido tho championship of ot Now Mexico A will ba bo baP P pent nt In Jaurez the tho border bordor and another In III m IMO PABO after atter which that American player will enter tho City of ot Mexico If Hero they the to lo tho tM bast In tile the City ot oC Mexico in a of ot two wv ks TOUR roun the local O LI boys I oK arrive at nt Her Hor and have through their I c they will l 1 e Joined by bytho tho Iho team of ot that city on the tho journey on through Arizona Now Mexico and Old OleS Mexico She Thu city of or ho money for tor IU I cam and tho thoIx Ix i team will go ns tho Ihu Of tho will play 1114 fop tOI tho of or Mex MexIco Ico when th tho party tho capital Hy y tho time Chavez and hla hili town a 0 park 1 I to b erected like tho lit Chutes here Thin l b backed by IY Harry H n J F sa of ot tho Hank pf Charts team will present nil n exceptionally strong stron battery Ho lOMp p and will lw taken aken with roro Mft h the t unan l 1 Tom of lit local fumo l lond ond the n 8 Mon Uca J u r CAthor and Silvia The balance of tho team tC will IK 00 composed of ot tho Tufts Lyon era who wilt will bo be accompanied by hy S D Tipton Tho r of or this team has lias been In baseball for fOI yours and believes that more marc cnn c n be accomplished l by a u hunch bunch of or mon men trained as a I learn om omIt cn If It tho UIO mon men ara aro not fill 11 ot the tho best bent thaw than with a nino of ot who havo huo not been beell used to playing together Chavez maks 5 the boast that ho has hM won more championships than any oth other er amateur manager An Att enumeration of ot them thell shows that his tram won tho Arizona championship from tho Tuo son Bon Grays winning throe three straight tho of ot New Ne Mex Mexico ico 10 by Albuquerque team two out of oC three tile the Mexican cham championship tram from and by beat beatIng IllS Ing tho Pierce Ariz A 1111 team which had beaten the UIO 11 Paso team and the roo champions of at Texas Before leaving on tho tour the UIO team had cap captured I lured a Co trophy rot lIy In tha Southern Cali California all fornia 1 |