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SPORT and Classified Section EL PASO HERALD SPORT and Classified Section Thursday, March Twenty-fifth, 1915. SPORTS, RECREATION, OUl'DOOR BY A. H. E. BECKETT Albuquerque Club Organizes and Has Disposed of Much of the $3000 Stock; Plans Are Arousing Great Interest in Phoenix Also; El Paso Team Is Being Incorporated for $10,000.

BV very day brlng-s further encour- make agcment for the promoters of the Rio Grande Baseball association. With the El Paso park site settled upon and several good managers in this territory to assist him, McCloskey has been able to give some attention to the other cities. The success of lieutenants in the other cities la Indicated in the newspapers of Albuquerque. Tucson and 1 hoenix. In Albuquerque, they have advanced matters so far that the tentative officers have been named.

O. A. JMatson is the president of the club and Ernest A. Davis, secretary. The club has named a finance committee to sell ytock and a large amount of the $3000 has already been pledged, George Reed is finding the "fans of the New Mexico city are ripe for organized ball and is meeting with great success.

Phoenix 1 liiuliiK I Phoenix, Jim Brown, an experienced man from the coast got things going on Tuesday and he was joined there today by Herb Hester. The Phoenix Gazette devoted more than a column on the front page of issue to telling of the league plans. Brown says he is meeting with much from the business men of and there w'ill be no trouble in getting that city lined up. That the somi-pro element in Phoenix sees how the wind is blowing is evident from the letters w'hich are being received here from McCloskey. Most of the semi-pro players are asking for tryouts in the new league and one man ood if he gels a chance with the professionals.

The ex-Belen man should be in a position to judge, for he has playeu professional ball himself, starting with the Fort Scott team in the old Missouri Valley league. According to Mr. Hall, there are a couple of youngsters at Albuquerque who ought to make good. One is a pitcher. Martin Quintana, an infielder with the Belen team, also I ooks classy, but is 29 years of age.

However, he is as full of pepper as a player in his teens and is a remarkably good hitter. A'ameM For C'Inh, Well, another name for the El Paso team and it listens pretty Carlin, 418 South Florence street, makes the suggestion. Here is what he writes; Beck: an old ball player and a fan, decided to send in a nickname for the El Paso Club. El Paso has been boosting for a long time and is noted all over United States as a boosting city, as well as being great on trade excursions. Why not name the team the of the P.

you for clean and honest sport, then, who has another suggestion to make for a nickname for the El Paso team. When you send in your sugg-estions, send along a short note giving your reasons for the suggestion. Good Word For R. D. Brown, a commercial traveler from Fort Worth is a 33rd degree ball fan and travels through all the cities Rsks for the management of the Phoc- which are lining up for the Rio Grando nix club.

Tucson is getting excited over the and when Jim Brown finishes his work in Phoenix he will move to Tucson. Bill Hurley may also go up to Tucson for a few days. Local Club. Silver City has been organized for some time and the incorporation of the El Paso club is now being taken up. It has been decided to make the capitalization of the local stock company $10,000 instead af $5000, as was association.

Before starting for Douglas. yesterday, he declared that the circuit Is an excellent one and the league should be one of the most successful in the country. Speaking of Nogales. Mr. Brown said that if R.

R. Peat takes hold of a thing, he will see it through and will, moreover, have the entire support of the city. is a mighty good little city and I would like to see it in the league. They have money there and they also have a pride in their originally intended, and a large town. If they get a franchise, the amount of this stock has already been subscribed for.

The only doubt about the league now is whether Nogales or Las Cruces will get the sixth franchise. An answer from the Nogales promoters is expected here within the next 24 hours. Speaks For Indian Pitcher. larger, towns want to have any idea that because is small it will not be in the race. They'll have as big crowds there as in any other town and you can bet, too, that have a team w'hich will be fighting for the not on Brown to (io to Phoenix.

With both Brown and Herb K' juviKuii I ii niiu inriu P. Hall, manager of the Belen, Hester in Phoenix, there is a little ball team, in now a resident of i squabble over the franchise for that K1 Paso and may go into city. Brown was on the scene first here. He had a conference with Me- I and got things lined up promptly, Closkey Wednesday and highly rec- NVhen Hester arrived, the coast man ommended Amado Gutierrez, a pitch- objected to turning- over things to er who has been with Belen for two I the ex-Salt Lake manager. However, seasons, for the professional league.

McCloskey has been working- the wires iJutierrez hails from El Paso and has hard and it is expected that Brown been a sensation w'ith the Belen team, will go on to Tucson this afternoon. Two years ago. he won 19 out of 20 as he is one of the best organizers in games and, last season, he came out the country and the very man to take aliead in 20 of 22 contests. He won yix games in successioii by the shutout route last season. Mr.

Hall says the big indian far better than when he was in El Paso and is a regular bear for work. He is a great hot weather pitcher and the warmer it is the better he likes it. Mr. Plall believes the big fellow w'ill hold of things in Tucson. President E.

P. Hughes, of the Rio Grande association, took and Hurley out to Ysleta Wednesday and looked over things there. It is hardly likely, however, that Ysleta will be chosen as the town for the second Paso franchise. This afternoon the program calls for a trip to Las' Cruces. His Experience When McCarty Was Killed Was Enough for Him.

Eastern newspapers are now trying- to pick a referee for the Willard fight in Havana. Tlie negro is said to be kicking on the names already suggested, which include those of Bat Masterson. Billy Roche, Jack Skelly and others. Some writers are coniraenting upon the fact that the of Ed W. Smith of Chicago, has not been meJitioned The reason is very simple.

Ed has simply declined to have anything to do with the fight. He was referee of the bout in Calgary when Tiuther McCarty w'as killed and that made him determine to quit the game as an official. When Smith was in El Paso, recently, he was telling some fans in the Paso Del Norte lobby about the fight and said: only knows what killed McCarty. take my oath it any blow that Pelkey struck. And when pronounced McCarty dead you can bet I was one scared man.

no joke about the way they deal out justice on the Canadian prairies. They clapped Pelkey and Tommy Burns, the promoter, into the cooler in jig time but they got out on big bail, i was wondering whether it would be safe to make a bolt for Chicago when a red-coated inspector of the royal northwest mounted police hunted me tip. Smith Was nicely, he said: Smith, I wish to place you under arrest but jxist want you to understand that you are detained in thi.s city until the That was enough for me. I toed the mark quick. They treated me like a prince but I didn't breathe easil.v until after Pelkey acquitted and the other cases were dropped.

I made up my mind not to referee another bout. And that why I told Jack ('hurley act in the Johnson-Willard When the fight w'as planned for Juarez, several names were suggested as referee, that of Smith being the most prominetit. He is acceptabbi to both sides but won't act. Jack Skelly, the old bantam who fought George for the title in New Orleans, was also suggested, but it was generally thought inadvisable to have a small man as the referee in a bout with two such men as Johnson and Willard. Curley May Officiate Eugene CoiVi, of London, is acceptable to Johnson and Tom Jones consider but Jack Curley objects to the Englishman on the ground that his fee is too big.

However, be very much surprised if you find Dick Klegin or Jack Curley officiating a week from next Sunday. VIEWLAW, FAVORITK, WINS I.IX OI.SSHlIli: HANDH London, March the favorite, won the Lincolnshire handicap, the first big event of the British flat racing season, Wednesday, Lord Annandale and Polycrates were second and third respectively. Twenty three horses ran. The handicap of sovereigns, is for three year olds and upwards and was run over the straight mile course. The betting was six to one against six to one against Lord Annandale and 100 to 7 against Polycrates.

Ill El I)E IN BILI.IARO CONTEST Chicago, Murch Huey defeated Alfredo Oro 50 to Wednesday night in the championship three- cushion billiard tournament, and thereby all but overhauled John Daly, of New York for the lead. Daly has won eight games and lodt one, while Huey has won eight and lost two. Huey will play Daly today and a victory would put him in the lead, while defeat would virtually him from the championship. In Wednesday game Huey made high run of six and De Oro five. By FRANK TTE ways of baseball managers, at times, are strange, strange ways.

The case of Roger Bresn- aiian, who manages the Cubs, is a fair example. Roger, who owns a ball player Jiamea Tommy discovered a short time ago that he would have no need for the services during 1915. At the same time Charles Herzog, who manages the Cincinnati Reds, discovered that he needed a veteran ball player, and he decided that Tommy Leach was the very ball player that he wanted to get. like to get Leach from the and if some deal can be mado will wear a Cincinnati uniform in 191.5” said Herzog. Did Bresnahan immediately arrange a tra(fe with Herzog for Leach? Did he sell Leach to Herzog and add a few thousand shekles to the bank account of the Cubs? No, Bresnahan He just released Leach outright, Herzog signed him up.

In other w'ords, Herzog got for nothing although he had publicly announced that he was willing to give ash or promising players to the Cubs for Leach, iv -if The town of New' Haven may become the fight mecca of the and probably the entire country. It is the only place in the east where 20 round decision bouts are permitted. Because of its comparative nearness to both New York and Boston it is very likely that some championship bouts will be staged very soon in the Y'ale college town. The fight fans of the east have i grown tired of the six, ten and 12 jound no decision bouts that are permitted in New York. Pennsylvania and Maryland, They have become con- I vinced that it is a waste of money to see tw'O fighters stalling through ten rounds, neither making any real effort to fight, because each knows that only a knockout can make for a victory, Just New Haven an areana big enopgh to house a crowd of the size that would be necesary to enable promoters to break ahead of Willard-Johnson Fight STEAMKII leave New OrleanH on 1st, ri Havana April 3rd.

EL PASO TO HAVANA and Return 92,20 CITY TICKET OFFICE G. the game if a championship bout were staged and big guarantees given to the fighters. But one can be built. thing is certain: Fight fans in New York and Boston would rather pay $10 and go to New Haven to see a 20 round decision bout than to pay $5 to see one of those awful shows that the New York promoters have been staging during tlte past year. Christy Mathewson was as a major league pitcher la years ago.

If you believe it read what was printed in Sporting Life in the fall of 1901: I Green, of the Chicago White Sox, w'ho was out on a barnstorming trip with Christy Mathewson, the youngster, declares he is afraid the use of snap in delivering curves may have given the Xew York twirler a permanent Injury. he could do was to lol them said Green. this Clark Griffith added this safe reflection. Mathewson loses his ability to pitch, it will be an easy exemplification of the old saying that a pitcher with speed is foolish to use GOV. FERGUSON HES FIRST BAI.I.

I-N GAME Temple. Texas, March I pitched the first ball in the game here to- day between the members of the St. Louis I Americans and the local team of the Middle I Texas league. Manager Hickey, of the Browns, caught the governor delivery. The game re.sulted in a score of 7 to 2 in favor of the St, Louis players.

SECOND DIVISION ARMY TEAM DEFEATS fORTL-VND San Francisco, March an allowance of four goals by handicap, the second army team had no difficulty in more than holding even the Portland, four in the second round today for the Polo as.sociation cups on the Burlingame field. They won by 10 goals to 4 3 A feature was the saving of nine goals by Capt. Hennessy. CHINESE BASEBAI-li TEAM 01 Tt LASSES ARIZONANS Tucson. March Chinese Hawaiian baseball team twice defeated the team of the University of Arizona, the second score being 10 to 2, The fielding and baserunning of the 1 Chinese team was brilliant, 1 WELSH OITPOINTS CANADIAN.

Windsor, March I lightweight champion. outpointed Pat.sy Drouillard, of Windsor, who claims Canadian championship in that class, in an eight round bout here Wednesday night. BY baseball for this territory is now a certainty. Three weeks ago there was difficulty in lining up enough towns to make a good circuit. Now the problem is to find room for all the clubs that want admission.

Spring has come. jgAN JOHNSON again shows his difference from John K. Tener by setting up a howl about the losses in baseball. If some one would find an effective way of keeping the noisy child quiet, baseball would benefit. 4r -Jf WOLGAST is now out with a statement in which he says he never gave any interview belittling Freddie Welsh as lightweight champion.

of being a he is, in my opinion, one of the greatest lightweights ever in the game. He has not refused to meet the best men in his class; he has defended his title more times every month, since winning it, than Ritchie did in the 18 months he held it; he has not played a holdup game but boxed for reasonable And then Ad goes on to pay his respects to Ritchif DHOENIX is taking up the professional baseball proposition in an enthusiastic manner. They want to wallop Tucson. And Albuquerque wants to put a damper on El Paso, Guess going to have some real competition this summer. DRING along your nickname for the El Paso ball team in the Rio Grande association.

had several names already suggested. Can you send in a better one? gRANCH RICKEY says the Browns will not win the American league pennant this year. Branch must be looking for a niche in the hall of fame as a truthful manager. KABIBBLE. KABARET PlPWr RAISE MINE TO PROTECT A fATMAN, THER onw oom for owe tme I DKE TO BE POLITE, BlfT VOU MUST UNDERSW4" AW MKT A Copyright, 1915.

International News AS VIEWED BY MODERN PITCHING STARS BY BIIiLY EVANS Written Especially for This Paper by the Famous American League Umpire. ILIj Doak of St. w'ho led the National league pitchers last season in point of effectiveness, regards a game he pitched against Boston late last summer as his one best bet. It came in one of the crucial series of the year, a series that had a great deal to do the chances. The other St.

pitchers had been unable to hold Boston in check, and while Doak failed to score a win, he held the Braves to a 1 to 1 twelve inning tie. Bill James, who ranked second in the averages to Doak, opposed the St. twirler and was hit twice as hard as Doak. Cloiie Beat A close decision in the fifth session which went against the Cardinals the only thing that kept Doak from winning in the regulation distance. St.

Douls scored once in that inning. The ruling that wiped out another run was made on manag Huggins at the plate. The official ruled that Huggins was out, while Huggins was equally positive that he had beaten the play. The Cardinals throughout the series had been getting a poor break in luck, and it is needless to say that the ruling was strenuously protested. Doak allow'ed only three hits and really should have been credited a shut-out.

lie Rapidly. Doak's sensational work last year In leading the National league pitchers was perhaps more itoteworthy than that of James. In Doak finished about 28 in the National league ranking of pitchers. To come from the rear to the top in one season is stepping some. experience also has been rather limited, which makes his year of great pitching- all the more prominent.

Of the 19 victories scored by Doak, seven were over the shut-out route, and in most of them he was pressed to the limit because of the effectiveness of the opposing pitcher, (Copyright, 1915, by the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.) IS TO MKET KILBANTE I.ATE IN March Attell, who arrived here Wedne.sday night, received a telegram from his manager in New York saying he had arranged for Attell to meet Johnny Kilbane. featherweight champiory in a 20 r-iund bout, in New Orleans the last week in May. The exact date will be set later. Kilbane will receive 55000 and Attell 30 percent of the receipts, Atliey cloth-ltned weatlier Mtrlp keeps out the cold. Rathbun-Mlx REICH KNOCKS OUT PELKEY IN THIRD New York, March Reich of this city, former amateur heavyw'eight champion, knocked out Arthur Pelkey.

of Chathan. in the third round of a ten round match here Wednesday night. It was a hard battle, Reich tak- inff the first round and Pelkey evening it up in the second. A left to the face and a right cross to the jaw sent Pelkey down for a count of nine in the third round. He arose and boxed for another minute, but a left hook on the head and several rights and lefts to the jaw ended the contest.

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