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EL, PASO DAILY HERALD. TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1901. PAGE TIIREHL ' -: r ... Sports and About twenty candidates for the base bail team and over a hundred rooters enjoyed an after noon of the sport at Athletic Park Tuesday afternoon. There were several new players out and after all had been given a chance te warm up Red Sullivan and Capt. Charley Krause chose up for a game. They acted as captain. of the respec tive teams and both caught behind bat. The new rules were used and as was expected shortened the game and save the pitcher much the best of the batter. The rule making each foul ball a strike until there are two strikes on the batter is a big advantage to the pitcher as is also the rule calling the lall when a batter is hit by a pitched ball. The rule requiring the catcher to play within ten feet of the plate at all times is also a help to the pitcher in that it steadies him at all times. Thus it may readily be seen that the new rules help the pitcher more than anyone else. Will Shacker was in the box Sunday for the first time and as predicted in the Herald some time ago, more than held ha own. Shack pitch ed a good game and was given perfect support by Red Sullivan behind the bat who has done more than anyone else to develop Shack into a pitcher. Shack would have won his game Sunday had he been given good' support in the infield. But for the first game of the season it was an interesting contest and the spectators thoroughly enjoy ed it. Starkey to Remain Here. Starkey and Krause were the oppos ing battery and did some lino work. Starkey at times let himself out and had the opposing batters completely at his Mercy. He is a good heady base ball player, and is agreat addition to the team. He played with Wheeling, West Virginia, last year in the inter state league and was one of the best players in the team. He is a carpen ter by trade and stated yesterday that he intended remaining in El Paso this season and work at his trade as he has a permanent position with one of the local contractors. He will be one of the regular pitchers for the El Paso team this year and when not used in the box will likely play in the infield as he is a fast fielder and a heavy batter. He did more than anyone else at Albuquerque last fall to win the tournament for the Albuquerque team. At the City of Mexico he had the op posing batters completely at his mercy in each game that he pitched and stood next to Zinzer. the heavy-hitting third baseman, in batting. Starkey speaks well of Shacker's possibilities - as a pitcher and will assist in coaching him. est: REIFF MAY RIDE FOR CROKER. lv ' If 1 Johnny Reiff. the clever lightweigh t youngster who carried off such high .aoaers on the English turf last year, has just arrived on the other side. He has signed signed for William C. Whitney, but may also serve Richard Croker, the Tammany chieftain. " ' Afore than once Sunday afternoon after getting himself in a hole Shack- ; er would "split the plate" and either force- Ihe batter to hit the ball or strike bias out. Iri the first inning Sullivan and Shacker scored on errors, the next three men being retired on errors. For the other side seven scores were made In the first inning on two hits and several errors. After that Capt. Kraase's men could do practically noth lag .with Shacker and the game was more Interesting. For four innings Shack retired the batters in order, striking six men out in two innings. After seven innings of play the game was called with the score seven to nine In favor of Capt. Krause and his men. The line up was as follows: Su Hi van Catcher Krause Shacker Pitcher Starkey Pollard First Base Hill J. Jacoby .Second Base. . . .Palmer Wilson Short Stop.. ..H. Jacoby Walters Third Base Irwin Rogers Left Field Minus Barnes Center Field Niell May Right Field Phillips Umpire: Hunter. ' In Wilson. Hill. Palmer. Waters. Phillips. Blay and Pollard there is a lot of good material. They are all new players here and will be given all kinds of encouragement. The new pitcher from Wisconsin has been on the sick list for several days but prom ises to come out next Sunday and pitch for one side. There are several players in the city who have not shown iu so far this season and an effort will be made to get them out next Sunday. a them are Sike oung. Fred cVawnW and Charley Davis. All of the three are old ball players and could do much to help the young Player, out One thing is certain, and that is that FJ Paso will have a winning team this year. There was a large crowd out at the I- links Sunday and several good scares were madef Interest in golf in iHugsTto on the inergse wd some Sportsmen Information, which it is hoped will not prove true, comes from New Or leans that, "Parson" Davies. the well known sporting man. is threatened with total blindness. For dome time Mr. Davies has been under treatment at New Orleans, and the very best ocu lists in that section of the country pro nounce his case hopeless. His trouble is said to be what is known as an op tic stricture. For several years Mr. Davies has been conducting a sporting resort in New Orleans, and his place is well known to many El Paso people, Probably no sporting man in America is more poularly known and better liked than Carles E. Davis. It is only a few years since he took an active in terest in all big pugilistic events, and his word has always been as good as his bond. He backed Joe Choynski against Bob Fitzsimmons and also looked after the Cahfornian in several important battles in the nineties. When Peter 'Jackson was an aspirant for the world's championship honors. "Parson" Davies offered to back him against John U Sullivan, but John L. dre wthe color line and Peter Jackson was deprived of the opportunity to make good his claims for the title. Da vies also managed Tommy Ryan and several other stars of the ring. At one time Davies was associated with Tom O'Rourke in pugilistic enterprises in New York. He once took Jackson to England and afterwards backed the black champion when the latter toured the country in "Lncle Tom s Cabin. "Here is a splendid instance of a properly brave and manly spirit." says Richard Harding Davis in Everybody's Magazine. . It has nothing to do with "the arms and the man." but has for its hero a young man who used to at tend a certain school in New York City He was on the school foot ball team and one day his mother appealed to me to assist her in persuading him that football was a demoralizing and bru tal pastime. "It isn't that he won't give it up that I ask it. 'she said, "but he doesn't want to give it up just yet, and for some queer reason." I assured him I knew of a hundred reasons for wanting to play football and asked him what was bis particular reason. "When I am trying for a fre catch, and am looking up in the air at the ball," he explained eagerly, and I hear the oth er team charging down on me and know that I'll be thrown whether I catch the ball or not. I get terribly frightened. And I ask mother to let me play on until I ge over being scared I hate to stop as long as I am afraid of them." Buck Freeman, of the Boston Nat- ional league team, will coach the La fayette base ball team this season. Freeman made a sensational record in Washington n 1899. when he led the entire National league in home runs, with a total of twenty-five for the sea son. This caused him to be called "Home Run Freeman," a title which he did not live up to last year with Boston. In his first game with Boston which, by the way. was the opening game of the season, against Philadel phia, he was called to bat I nthe elev enth inning with the score a tie and two outs. The first ball pitched to him he sent over the right field fence for a home run. The crowd went wild and he was often called upon In a pfneb to repeat the act. but during the entire season he only secured six home runs; but he got twenty-one two baggers and eleven three-bagger. According to the New York Tele graph, Mr. John Harvard, professor of nava architecture at the University of Glasgow, in the course of a lecture the other night, said: "Great Britain has always been sev eral years behind America in yacht construction. The problem is to reduce weight without reducing strength. The plea that British yachts have to rross the Atlantic has done duty as an ex cuse too long. "Development ha been steadily in the direction of lighter hulls and more sail, but we are yet behind the Amer icans. The veil of secrecy surround ing the conception and construction of ltritlsh challengers is perhaps neces sary to prevent obstructions of secrets, but thve are secrets which if any other knew them be would only regard as things to avoid." Diamonds and all other precious atones bought, sold and exchanged. If you want the value on any precious stone we will give it gratis. Silberberg Bros., the Diamond Brokers, 102 San Antonio street, next to First National Bank. Fl pn;o Steam laundry, 'Phone 47. SLOAN MAY STAY. May Confine Himself Exclusively to the American Turf. I I T?D SLOAN. Tod Sloan is the only Yankee jockey who achieved success abroad last year, who is doubtful about riding there again. Sloan does not know whether he will be licensed. Henceforth he may confine himself to American race tracks. Re ics From The Orient A RETURNING SOLDIER BRINGS BACK A NUMBER OF INTER ESTING CURIOS. Arrow Heads Made of Mahogany, Cart ridges Made of Tin Cans and Match Heads, and a Chinese Official's Queue. , Harry Goodman, an El Paso boy. who enlisted In the army In this city under Lieutenant Curry in September. 1899, and joined troop B of the 11th United States volunteer cavalry, returned to his home in this city Saturday night after seeing sixteen months of hard service in the Philippines. Mr. Goodman brought home with him several interesting trophies of war from the far-off domains of Uncle Sam. He has about a dozen arrow heads made of the hard mnhogony and co- coanut wood. Some of them are al most a foot long and have a series of rude barhs running throughout their length. They are all hand made and it seems they would be too light to hold an arrow in position to reach the spot intended bv the archer. These heads came from arrows cap tured at Ligao in southern Camarines. in the extreme south end of Luzon. They are the weapons of the Bicol tribe who are an inferior cluts of natives. About 5000 of the arrows were found stored in a house in Ligao. which the natives evacuated upon the approach of the American army. It seems that the house where they were found was the home of an arrow manufacturer. Mr. Goodman also has about a dozen cartridges, a few samples of a lot of S000 rounds which were taken from the bodies of dead Filipinos after the battle of Guinea Batan between troops B and D and a body of natives which were unexpectedly encountered while the American soldiers were on the way to Malaboga Hill. Some of the cartridges are made or old tin cans and others are in hulls which the natives picked up where the civilized troops had thrown them awav. These were reloaded and in some cases they were enlarged to make them fit the Filipino's gun. Some were modern cartridges that had never been shot and it is supposed that this fact bears out the supposition'that the nsurgents are being supplied with war material by some civilized country. The home made cartridges are made by taking a match head for the cap. which is placed in the ljottom of a rudely rolled catrldge or old rusty tin and then covered with powder. A whittled-out bullet Is then placed In he end. Such a cartridge it seems would make the man behind the gun stand in as much danger as the enemy. mt it is said the insurgents well un derstand the danger of shooting such loads and will not bold their gun to their shoulders. Mr. Goodman's collection of relics , iav he seen at Kiefer's store on Elf Paso street and witn tnem 18 as Ritasi- " . . . ly a trophy as has so far been brought or sent home from the Oriental seat of war. It is a long, black queue, which in itself is not interesting to people who see such things dangling down Celestials' backs every day. but it is the story that accompanied it that makes it give creepy sensations fo one s flesh. Walter Maurice, a soldier who en listed at Ft. Bliss and went to Pek'n with th 9th U. S. Infantry, sent the queuf to Fred Kiefer. ara-ompauittl by a storv to the eilecl tnai ii from the hend of a Chinese official in I'ekin after the head hail been cut from the otlicinrs body in compliance with an order from the English government. The official was a second class manda- Tbrt same soldier sent Fred some, - . S 1 1. 1 . . . very lieautuul specimens ui vmurau art. They are pictures in attractive colors on rice paper painted by a Chin ese artist. One is a stage scene from the plav "Aladdin's I-iinip." as pre sented by the Chinese. Another is a srone in a Chinese park. All beau tiful at a glance on account of the loud contrasting colors, but when looked at with a critical eye it is seen to be much inferior to the work of the Amer ican artist. IV ft i rrosaft.'1 fee 0 A GRAY DAY. Wltbic the woodland'! umbr drpth 1 A l;t. wwt not! awakes and dice, . . And sadly Ihmtii'li '.lr swjring bouichal The wc-t wind on its mission aitghs, While rloudy Itiilnws northward roll Actom the low, gray skies. The sounds that matfo the woodland pay Awhile, ma if with crivf. are route; The linnet has no heart ti airifr. And Kilent is the IWaekhird's flute; Kaushl tirft a.e thai fuint note of song And sad .-&ili:itt lute. Sam Wood in Chambers' Journal. i The ion el o ThonL 1 By M. Quad. Copyright. 1:00, by C. E. Lewis. , They culled him ".Tudfre"' Dale, be cause in the far west you never "mis ter" a man -when you can call him "colonel" or "judge." As James Dale looked more likf a judge than a colo nel, they culled him as I have said. He was a mine owner, and when things went wrong be could make hot times for bis engineers and foremen, but be didn't do it in a vulgar way. He was always a gentleman even when be cussed the hardest. As a matter of fact, the judge's motto was "good form." and he carried it out in hU clothes, bis cigars, his dinner aud the way be took the news when a fall of rock in the Emma mine buried 12 men at once. What be said on that occa sion was. "Please wipe your feet on the rug next time." What be did was to fill out 12 checks for $1,000 apiece for the respective widows. I have It on good authority that 'JwlgQ Dale was not vulgarly startled when he received word from Denver that his handsome wife, to whom he bad been married five years aud who was visiting friends, had taken, an old lover's arm and severed conjugal rela tions by eloping. Others got the news about the same time, and they couldn't find nuythiujr to criticise iu bis con duct. He went through the daily rou tine Just the same for three or four days, and he had the same placid look and the same even voice as be called his bead clerk Into the private ofhee and said: "Thomas, I am .coins away for a few days, and you will take charge." "Yes, sir." replied Thomas, and next morning the judge was on bis way to Denver. Jla picked up his clew there without having ell towed anybody or soiled the polish of his shoes. He met friends nud talked politics and real estate and initios, and. lighting a fresh cigar, be took a traiu for the east,. Arriving iu New York city, he paid a detective to locate the couple, but he didn't lug out a gun aud shout at the top of bis voice that he was an Injured husband thirsting for gore. He simply threw a couple of big goldpieees on the table to pay for the information and descended to the cafe for lunch. A steamer was sailing for the Mediterra nean nt the end of the fourth day, and when she departed the judge was one of Iter passengers. There were more than a bundred others, and as' the weather was also stormy for the first two or three days out no one comment ed on the fact that the passenger who was registered as Major Davis stuck close to his cabin and bad his meals brought to him by a steward. Judge Dale had changed his name, but be had no idea of changing bis identity. There were laughter and conversation and a clatter of dishes as all the passengers j finally gathered for dinner for the first . time since lt-aving Sandy Hook. To the right of the captain sat one of the handsomest i;idies and one of the finest i looking jrt:.Vmcu ou the list, but tak- en nlioge.!; i it was a grand array of wc.nl ill j.ti.I . ni lure. Dinner was fairly under way. and the-lady on the can-j tain's i i;;!it was beaming, when she . LapiH-neil to cast ber eyes down the j table, and her face went as white as death In n second. Half a dozen peo- pie caught her words as she whispered to ber supiOHed husband: My God. John, but there Is the Judge!" The man looked, and the color went out f his -beeks. and his jaw Tell. Near the foot of the table sat the man who bad taken a new name. He was cool and placid, and only the ghost of a smile hovered around bis mouth. lie ' looked the woman and the man full In j the t yes for a mioute, but made no t sign of recognition. j "What is it?" asked the captain as j "Mrs. Bcir.is" shuddered and gasped nd seemed on the oTut of faiutiug. ; A a sudden Illness - heart trouble!" Kill' she stammered as she left the table for ber stateroom, followed by ber suppos ed husband. Tin-re were wonder aud curioRlty, but little was said. "Good form demands that such Incidents 1k passed over as easily as possible. There were those who thought It might le heart trouble and others who susiceted the presence of the "major" bad something to do with it. but that was no place to com pare notes. Neither of the pair was seen again that evening, though Ma jor Davis was very itiui li In evldeuce until a late hour. At breakfast next morning Mr. Iteinis apiieared alone. His wife was better, thank yon. was his reply to iminlrers. but thought It best to roni:iin quiet for a day or two. Not once did be let bis yes roam around the talile, but be i.uew that Major Davis was there among the rest, lie knew that a pair of steel blue eyes were scanning bis troubled face anil that a pair of soft white hands were sicbing to grip bis throat. After breakfast, as the men sought the smok ing room. Mr. Itemis started to act on a ptau which bad doubtless loeu talk ed over with bis wife. He walked Straight op to Major Davis aud begun: "Judge. 1 don't know what I etu saj In extenuation, but I" "Excuse me. sir," interrupted th titer, "but yon have evidently made a mistake. I think the gentleman called the judge has passed iuto the salon." Mr. Iteiuis looked at the 'major like a man seeing ihe face of death in a nightmare, and beads of M-rspiration started out on his forehead. "Your- your wife is better this morn ing. I think I heard you say?" queried the major in eotirteoiis tones. "Y-ycs'" "Glad to hear it. She should beware of ovei-excitetneiit. Weather seems to have settled, iiinl we are making a fine run of it. Have a light? No? Well, I'll walk a little." Mr. I.eniis stared after him as If see ing a ghost, and his breath came in sobs as he finally turned away. He bad seen the mail whose home he hud despoiled a dozen times or more, and he believed that Judge Dale stood be fore li i in. Still there might lie a ebanee that it .was simply a wonderful resem blance. Such things had been known. It must have been this faiil't hope that buoyed up the wife lo appear that aft ernoon. A wife should be able to Iden tify the face, figure and speech of the husband of even a fortnight, but the elopers hoped for a miracle. Major Davis bad made several acquaintances, and Mrs. Bemis had no soouer appear ed than bo was ready to be introduced. "I am honored." be said as he made his bow. "Permit me to offer my sin cere congratulations on your sioedy recovery." "I-1 thauk you." "It was your husband I met this morning, I believe, and for a moment be took me for some one else. It Is queer bow you'll often find two people looking so much alike as to deceive you at first glance." "Y-ycs. it is!" she stammered, lean ingti the back of a chair for support and shaking through bloodless lips. "You do not find in me a resemblance to any gentleman called the judge?" be queried as he looked her full in the face. "N-iio t hat is" "B'it I am keeping you. Tray, be seated, and I think I see your husband coming this way. Hope the fine weath er will put yon in good spirits." At every meal Major Davis faced the guilty pair. Some of the passengers fius'jccfed nothing, but others insisted that there was a queer mystery afoot. The major gave nothing away.' It wouldn't have been - good form. The woman avoided him as far as possible, but two or three tiuies a day he found excuse to speak to her. If she had hoped for a miracle, her hopes were dashed at the first close sight of him. Major Davis was Judge Dale, and Judge Dale was I lie husband she had fled from and disgraced. She knew him for a quiet man. but also for an Implacable one. He was torturing them at the stake, but that would not be revenge enough. In bis desperation P.einN again attempted to.approach the man he had wronged. He couldn't plead for himself, but be would plead for the' woman. "Judge, it was my fault, and on me should fall your vengeance." he said as be cornered bis man. , "Mistakeu again. Ha. ha, ha!" laugh ed the major. "Really, but I shall come to think that I am your judge's twin brother. See what a cloudless sky and how beautiful the sea. I trust that your wife has had no more trou ble with her heart. She s not looking at all well." "God! God! But what a man!" gasp ed Bemis as he turned away with a bunted look Iu his eyes. The steamer was to call at the Azores. One morning about 10 o'clock she made harbor, and It was given out aboard that she would not get away before midnight. Everj'body was anx ious for a brief run ashore everybody but Mrs. Bemls. She feared that she might overexert aud bring on another attack of heart trouble.- Mr. Bemls had decided to stay with her when Ma jor Davis bunted biro ont and said: "I trust you will make one of a little party going ashore, and that yon will bring your revolver along, as I shall mine?" v "The party is Is" began Mr. Be mis as bis face blanched. "A very exclusive one jnst the two of us, you see. You have a pistol, I suppose?" "Yes." "Ah. of course I We may find game, you know. Do you wish to speak to your wife first?" "No." "She's gone to lie down, eh? Well, let's Ik? olT." The two engaged a boat as soon as landing aud pulled away to a wooded rape, and two bout's later a dead man was brought back In the boat. It was Mr. Itemis. lie bad accidentally shot himself while shooting at a bird, or at least the major said so. and no one doubted bis word. He told his tale without excitement. He was cool and serene as he announced that be would remain and see the body placed In Its grave, lie came aboard the steamer with the personal effects of the de ceased, but be did not ask to see Mrs. Ilemis. lie delivered' everything to the captain, and as be added the sum of $.". MK) in gold it is probable that he told at least a part of bis story. When the accident liecame known, and It was found that Mrs. Bemis was to go on with the ship Instead of ashore to see her husband to bis last resting place, there was an outcry over her want of fueling, but It did not reach ber ears. Fhe was in ber stateroom under the dtctor"s care, aud none of the passen gers saw her again. When the major bad finished his work at the island, he took a sleauier for New York and borne, aud upon entering his office at the usual hour and in the usual way he said to his chief clerk: "Thomas. I am back and feeling bet ter. 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