PHOENIX (Ariz.) Oct 2.--Phoenix has organized a baseball association with Dave Goldberg, a Phoenix merchant and a former baseball player of local renown, as manager. W. S. Goldsworthy is chairman of the association and Frank De Sousa, secretary. Chairman Goldsworthy is now in the East looking up league players who will be at liberty after the closing of the season, October 6. Manager Goldberg and Secretary De Sousa are corresponding with a number of Californians who would like to pass the winter in Arizona. They hope to get together a team of some permanency, rather than an aggregation of stars. It is probable that Pitcher Jones will be secured from California.
    There was a prospect that a part of the Midland team from Texas would be signed after its late engagement in Tucson, but that team is understood to have been secured by Douglas. El Paso has signed eight Eastern League players, and Albuquerque also is getting into the field with some real ball-tossers.
    A baseball tournament is being arranged in Tucson, to be held October 20 to 27, inclusive. Over $3000 has been secured among the business men of the town for the expenses of the tournament and the prizes, and $4000 will undoubtedly be guaranteed. Each team that comes is to receive $100 on expense account excepting the leaders, who are to get, according to place, $750, $350 and $250. Besides Tucson, it is expected there will be representatives from Albuquerque, El Paso, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Cananea, Douglas, Tombstone, Huachuca Fifth Cavalry, Phoenix and Globe. A new grand stand, with seating capacity for 2000, is to be built.
    Northern Arizona appears to be out of the game. The Humboldt team broke up after its last game in Prescott and now the Prescott team has passed away, after a short season at Tucson, in which it defeated the local team and then was taken into camp by the score of 4 to 3. About that time Manager Elliott concluded he would drift back to Prescott. A few days later the Tucsons played the Texas Midland team, in which the visitors took two games, 3 to 1 and 9 to 1, and Tucson, by batting Pitcher Bradford all over the lot, took one game, 9 to 1.
    Globe went down to Cananea to celebrate Mexican Independence Day with 106 excursionists. They were disappointed, for Globe was entirely out-classed, losing the three games, 12 to 2, 7 to 1 and 4 to 0. On September 23, the El Paso team went to Cananea, to be given the same treatment, with scores of 3 to 7 and 18 to 9(?).
    Thus far in Arizona, the disbanded Prewitt team has made the best showing, losing but six out of twenty-eight games. Cananea, out of twelve games, has lost four, and is believed to have the best team now in existence in the Southwest. The Phoenix Athletics are at the tail end. They have been playing with the Mexican Maroons of Phoenix, and will have the final game next Sunday.
    Mortie Graham, the strong first-baseman with the old Phoenix team, has gone to Cananea, to take first bag of that club. Part of the Prescott team has gone with the Tucson association, and in the last game with Midland there were four Prescott men in the Tucson nine. Redmond, former captain of the Prescott team, is now shortstop in Tucson, and has been made captain.
    Sargeant Wyatt of Troop D, Fifth Cavalry, one of the best members of the Huachuca team, will take a place on the Tucson team within a few weeks, having been supplied with enough money to purchase his discharge from the military service. L. H. Taylor, secretary of the Tucson City League, now is manager of the Corbett team.
    There has been correspondence from Los Angeles, which seems to indicate a yearning in that city for the presence of Herman Wynkoop, the star umpire of Arizona. Wynkoop is generally believed to be the fastest and most accurate man who ever handled the record in the Arizona field.

Source:

Unknown, "Arizona Baseball, Big Tourney For Tucson," The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Friday, 4 October 1907, p. I7.

    The "Herman Wynkoop" who excited such interest in Los Angeles in the article above, was Harman H. Wynkoop, the 4th son of Col. Edward Wanshaer Wynkoop, and an avid baseball fan. According to Kevin Wynkoop, (Harman's great-grandson,) Harman later lived at 3702 Sheffield Avenue in Chicago, right next door to Wrigley Field where he had season tickets to the Cub games.

    Harman's Grandson, Robert E. Wynkoop, wrote me on October 20th, 1998 to say:

    "He worked nights at the Tribune and in those days the Cubs only played day games. He had a season ticket right next to the Cub's dugout, was known to all the players, went to every game. On the rare occasion he missed he could see the game from a balcony. When I was a boy in SF we didn't have major league baseball and I adopted the Cubs along with the Yankees who had a number of SF players. My grandfather would send me baseballs from time to time signed by Cubs stars (Gabby Hartnett, Guy Bush, Stan Hack, Kiki Cuyler, etc.)"

    "PS- Wish I had all those autographed baseballs now. They all went directly to the sandlot games I played in."

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