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Show LOSERS PRESENT A UNIQUE ALIBI I A most curious alibi was sprung recently for losing a baseball series, but it Is one which has more truth than fiction in it, accoding to scientific scien-tific rensons which are judged to be correct It relates to the failure ofi the Minneapolis team, thrice cham-pionso cham-pionso of the American association, to triumph oven the Denver team, Winners' Win-ners' of the Western league Denver won four of tho five games played and accomplished it so easily that there was every reason to believe be-lieve that the Denverites, although In a circuit of a lower classification, were far superior in plaving ability to the class AA flag winners Jack Hendricks, manager of the Grizzlies, gave out an Interview before be-fore the .games started stating that he thought the Denver climate would prove a serious handicap to CanUl-lon's CanUl-lon's men And so it proed Hugh McCredle, Sr . on his way to Portland from a trip to Oklahoma stopped in Denver land met a number of the Minneapolis players the night after they lost the j third game. Rcnlized Difficulties. They had just begun to realize that they were up against a stiff proposition proposi-tion in icgard to the climatic condi- tion and altitude Dropping the first two contests had been thought to be the result of their long, hard trip across tho country, blU when the third also went by the board there was a different storv to tell The pitching staff of the Millers had been complnining of the difficulty difficul-ty to get their curves to break properly, prop-erly, and had practically .given It up as a bnd Job on account of the rare condition of the air Denver Is hung up nearly one mile above sea level, and the resistance to' a ball is much less uuder normal playing conditions Accordingh the visiting pitchers were obliged to use fast ones in preference to tho curves, and oven hero thev were placed at a disadvantage because a hard-lilt ball will carry much farther than in a lieavlrr atmosphere Players Get Mad. Mr. McCredic said that the entire club were as mad as a kid who had just had an Introduction to a hornet, and were trying to discover some rea. son to claim the had been jobbed Denver having the advantage in being accustomed to the conditions, had a much easier time than it expected. The same conditions held good regarding re-garding the base running of the two teams In the rarefield atmosphere the Millers were down and out after they had made a sprint between the sacks, and it took a three-baggor for them to completo a half Journey of tho diamond At least this is the story which is being peddled around in the east as to the real reason wh the champions cham-pions of a Class AA, league were I wallowed in tho mire b a bunch of Class A boys |