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ERNEST J. LANIGAN JOHN E. WRAY JAMES J. CORBETT FRANK MENKE NS V i OLDFIELD TBS DOWN I MONEY; WHITE SOX BEAT EL PASD 1 G T0 1 ; " SIIS EOJFJpiZED BALL Manager of White Sox Says Amateurs Can't Stand Up to Mark Because of Lack of Regular Training; El Paso Uses Three Pitchers During the Game; the Chicagoans Pull Two Past Double.Plays. YOUNGSTERS MAY SECURE BERTHS FIE ONLY ISjfp WIN EaceDriver Cares More About "Winning in the Big Meets Than in Cleaning Up Cash Eacing Exhibition Events on the Small Tracks; His Heart Is Set on the Great Indianapolis Speed Grind. SPORTING PAGE SPORTS, RECREATION, OUTDOOR LIFE CONDUCTED BY A. H. E. BECKETT ("BECK") BV "BECK." TUB biggest possible boost for professional baseball in El Paso was given Thursday afternoon, at Washington park, when this city -was unable to field a team which could mve the Chicago White Sox even a Kood batting practice. "I'm mighty -Aad vou're going to nave profeseional ball here," declared Clarence How laml manager of the Sox. after the exhibition had progressed three or four innings, "for He want to have oppo sition in these games and no matter now nard tnese amateurs try wejr reallv can't stand up against profes sionals for the simple reason that they have not been trained properly. ;.ext year, when we come out here, we hope to find a good professional team We'll probably beat it. but at least they can give us a. battle." Thursday's exhibition was a mighty poor one. The Sox did their share, hut the locals were half scared to death at finding themselves on the same dia mond as Lena. Blackburn, the first $10 000 beauty of baseball; Eddie Col lins the $54,000 constellation, and oth ets who have made marks in the na tional game. Home Team Actually Scored. Three singles, a wild pitch and an ciror let the home team tally a run ii the first inning. They were so Mta peered by the fact that they had rcred that for the rest of the game thej were busy trying to figure out how it happened. Faber began show ing some speed in the second and the locals had no desire to hug the plate. He fanned three in that session and Xjnvilles double in the fourth was the unh break in the one-two-three mo notunj until the seventh. In the eighth, Milan and Peaxsen rapped out singles, but JSddie Collins l .--..a . awlallS.lAn .. ,1... ,&. .. . ' f . au vrnim LKH. U4. tuc irv u J 111 UIA1 10 000 by starting la snappy -double 7l.i Only one more out was needed in The inning, but just to show they -nulH do it, the Sox added another double play. BnrlrMtn "Wan Removed. Burleson started to pitch for the Io ta. but had such 3. bad arm that he ouMn't even "wind up. The Sox got to hi in so hard that six had faced him v ith onlv two out when Clarence Row land nnt to manager Pomar and wanted. to know if he could loan Ma a. pitcher. This sort of thing will only hurt tsebalL" Pomar waved him away ith the remark that he had some jtitchers of his own. Ho then sent Short Weiss' to the mound. "Weiss was ome improvement and retired the Sox ith four runs. The support given Weiss was ragged and the Sox added two runs in the sec ond on Blackburn's triple. Xearys or- . rur and relschs double. Weiss s issued . two lliissa I mflllp n wilri nftfli .idl al. 1 lowed: two hits in the third. AVkH a I lwace of bad errors, this gave the Sox. fie rvns. - j Lewfx Was an Improvement. 1 Pomar then decided to send Jaclc4 T.ewiK to the mound Jack had steam to spare but wai weak on control. He pulled himself out of some holes, however, and had onlv one bad inning. His work greatly improved when Dalv went behind the bat. catching for the locate as well as the Sox. Lewis start ed off with bis new battery partner h; fanning J. Collins, the first strike oat to the credit of ji Kl Paso hqivei He kept un, the good work b whiffing j Kclsch and the Sox players were all' THEIR ONE AS VIEWED BY MODERN PITCHING STARS DY niLlV EVAS Written Especially for This Paper by the famous American Umpire. A MAJOR league club Is always more than satisfied if from the army of recruits tried, out each spring, one real star is developed. It looks very much as if the Brooklyn lub picked up such a player last year in Pfeffer. On a second division club that played some mighty erratic base- hall during the season, Pfeffer made ai terj remarkable record. Out of 34 starts he won 21 games and lost only 1 1 for a percentage of .67 1 When it it remembered that his dun finished in the second division with a mark less than .S4M1. the work of the youngster looms up all the greater. Imeriean League Passed Pfeffer. In this connection. I recall a very interesting story that has Pfeffer in the leading role. Three years ago the Brooklyn youngster was strongly rec ommended to an American league manager. Pfeffer was with rho Grand Kapids club of the Central league at the time. The man who recommended 7'feffer had seen him work more by accident than design. He had intended leaving one of the cities In the circuit Around the noon hour, but missed his train and decided to lay over for the nfternoon. He took in the ball game to kill the time and saw the Brooklyn i cruit pitch a great game for Grand Tlapids A friend of the traveling man was the manager of an American league club. Ho wrote blm about Pfeffer. The manager, acting on the tip sent one of .his best scouts to look VOTJ cannot compare even the best l-ea dy-to-wear clothes with our tailored-to- your-measure garments, becau.se a world of difference exists tbe differr-nec between something made expressly for you and something made for "anvone who happens along." 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The Chicago scribes have to send In box scores of all games and it will be interesting to see the Windy City papers and see what they were able to do in this respect. There were 'about 500 fans who paid their money to see the exhibition and about 300 others who watched over the fences. The Scoring. The score by innings: R. H E Chgo. White Sox.VlSjTSl Olx IS 17 2 Pomar Stars 100 M 17 7 Batteries: Sox Faber and Daly: Po mar Stars Burleson, Weiss, Lewis and Neary, Daly. Foul Tips i J Collins rapped out a homer in thi third. Eddie Collins hit for a. circuit in the fifth. The Collins family was happy. With careful coaching and a good catcher. Jack Lewis will develop into a. TiitriAr worth while and Bar set a tryout with one of the Rio Grande j league teams. i Clyde Milan not the Washington j scar, out toe ai i-aso amateur nan died himself well and divided the hon ors of the home team with Kinville. m3,,nfour nice Ctche" ln the cen" I l The White Sox. used the following I batting order: Quintan, left field. Blackburn, shortstop. Eddie Collins, I second base. J. Collins, right field: 1 Felsch, center -fteW; Brief, first base Breton, third base; Daly, catcher. Fa ber, pitcher. Brief isn't as brief as his name might indicate. f- Of the Sox team. Quintan, Felsch and Brief are newcomers and all appear to hare the real stuff In them. Manager Pomar's aggregation start- ed 10 bat in the. followii in the. following order: Gal lafSfir. -1 MMm: Milan. lon; Casskly. rifehjU; ,tPearonj first: Masons third KhsElHeal.' center; Xeary. catcher: 3e 7 iiiirplYTrpiii I Burleson. pitcher. Some of in enanges were: Weiss re- placed Burleson; Lewis replaced Weiss. ano vi eiss went to snort insieao 01 McXamara. The other changes were lost in the shuffle. Milan copped the onlv two bucks i that the manager had to fciart with for i the runs scored bv the home club. I I The players an snovtea a nearty re- spect for the decisions of Harry Kane. The must have noticed the bulge on the sleuth's right hip. BEST GAME League Pfeffer over. After watching him work three games, the scout returned and JMrtd that the supposed star did t S?effe?Vwaa ?osTTo Se JEZ league It also nroven that aonu, of I tbea'me's wS, mel -annahTll. ' tne games wise men can make mis- , takes. enrly Made o Hit finme. In his first real year as a big leaguer. Pfeffer came witbm an ace of accomplishing what many pitchers work years for yet fail, the twirling of a no hit game. On September 1 of last season, in a game against Cin cinnati, he shut out the Reds S to 9 "With only one hit. After two , men were down in the eighth. Tingling, who was pitching for Cincinnati, made the only safe hit of the game for the Reds. (Copyright, ISIS, by the Wheel er Syndicate. Inc.) HIGH SCHOOL BOY KtTFPS ) LEAD IN GOLF CONTEST Pinehurst. N. C April 2 P. K. Rob inson, a New York high school stu dent, maintained, Thursday the lead gained in the first qualifying round of the ISth annual United North and South amateur golf chamoionshiD. finishing at the head of the field with 155. Fran- cis Ouimet, national amateur cham- I Vion; Walter J. Travis, Garden City. L. i- ana Jesse uuiiiora. or Kntervale. . TL, tied for second place with 15C. Phil Carter, of Nassau, L. I, and Irving S Robeson, of Rochester, made 1ST each for third. UNION MADE JJMIMMiliBm Have Some of the Old Timers in the Training Camps on-Uneasy Street. Marlln. Tex . .pril -How many ! of the old timers are going to sun iv e i the pruning made necessary by the i new 21 plaver limit law in the Sew lork club? That is the question that the regulars are worrying over here on the eve of the! departure north It seems as though mighty few of the old familiar faces feel anywhere near secure about continuing as such at the Polo grounds in New Tork. James Henrj Smith, a recruit, has been working behind the bat real often of late, and John McGraw smiles se renely and contentedly aa he watches the lad nail a straight one to second base. If Smith maintains the batting eye- ht has been uamg. he is expected to give "Big Chief" Meyers a hard run for the possession of the catcher's mask. Smith can take the deliver) of Tesreau. Matty and Marquard like a veteran ana works wen with Pol Per- ritt. the "nesv dot" from the CardI nals. It looks like bad news for Long Iarry McLean. Somehow. Rube Marquard does not seem to be living up to the form he said he had concealed on his person I wnen ne arrived 10 train Tne Kobe is .. b. . - . not strong on training, anvwar. nor on shaving, either, for that matter, and he skilfully avoided the raxor for 10 das before his wife arrived in Martin tin friends thought he contemplated raising a beard and mustache and do ing a Bily Sunday act," as they put it. Rube has wished himself out of the odium of the "second team," in which he was cast In the tentative lineup. But with the twirling staff reinforced -with Perritt. anil with Vm( bh,iT Land Schuoo. deliverira: broadside like '3,"??"; ?ub? cannot,b"! admit to "" that he has no sinecure, ,. ' rug, -V eal..y cared for. ne,r us insures a nome mat is at- '. ' l sanitary. Use them .irf-i- i ,. i..,i- Nothing more appropriate. Beach's Art Shop, 104 Pioneer Plaaa. City NatL Bank Bldg (Advertisement.) "Beck's" Amen Comer BV "WILLARD jlans triaraph tear," says a headline. Counting chickens before they're hatched again. ' QLD age is not one of the essen tials of a big league ball player. Some of the fans were sarprisedt the youthful appearance of Ray Schalk, the White Sox first string catcher who warmed up during the game. Ray made a big hit with the women. He is a handsome boy. SUITS TO MEASURE nsCtOal WKJ, WARNING The fnmoun Dundee' ityntem In irldrly Imitated. Me hare no connection with any other utore. In this city, and there fore ortre you to come to the rlsht place SAN ANTONIO ST. Opposite Stanton ORDERS PLSGED FOR UNIFORMS El Paso and Las Cruces Teams Are Being Lined Up; Players Secured. i Orders were placed Thursday night J for the- uniforms for the El Paso, and I Las Cruces clubs of the new Rio Grande I association. Bill Hairley came mi from Las Craces in the morning to see the White Sox and renew old acquaintance with Pants Rowland of the Chicago team After the game. Hurley and Mc Closkey placed the orders for the suits The road suits for both dabs will be of blue material with 'white lettering, while the nlayers will have nattv white t or cream suits for the games on the Home grounas. Hurley is enthusiastic over the city of Las Cruces. He showed telegrams .u T TT m baaUh ..4f W a from Dr. Winchester, president of the Mbany club of the New York State league, and W. P Hayes, president of the Utica club of the same circuit, and a letter from the Virginia club of the Northern league, all offering him posi- I tions as manager, but Bill is sweet on the New Mexico city and declares that j it looks better to h-m than the offers j from the two ilsss B cities of the east. ' tuner snnmo iMayerx. There was an enthusiastic meeting of the Las Cruces fans on Wednesday night. Before the meeting broke up. $500 in real money was In sight for the club .-nd a committee had been appoint ed to raise the remaining 12000. There is no doubt ?s to the standing of Las Cruces and Hurley wa bnsv Thursday night sending out wires and letters to pla era. He has already grabbed onestar pitcher, a man who was sold to the Texas league for 1500. but who rfMa'tAike the propo sition made him and- who promptly snapped at the proposition of Hurle. who is an old friend. Hurlev quickly 'BECK." COME people had an idea that the team which represented El Paso against the White Sox is also to represent this city in the Rio Grande league. Such is far from being the case. Ho player in Thursday's game has been signed b7 any of tbe Rio Grande clubs and only two of them are likely to get a chance to try out. AflAGNATES are going to try to prove that ball players are slaves, eh? We!!, if they are they had better tip Clirence Rowland off to hide that White Sox special train. That's too good for slaves. T7L PASO'S showing in the national Hexathlon of the Y.S.C.A. is something to crow about. While the official figures have not been given out, dispatches from New York, published Thursday, indicate that the local athletes are mighty near he top in associations of their class throughout America. And thjs is the kind of advertising that does El Paso good. JJANDBAIX is soon to start at the "Y." And it's a grand game to start the perspiration in the dog days. It's too strenuous for a fat man. a J5 r- ittDmci TV QELTI IflSTlS NOT WHATHAKB Mc ILL WHEN MEVER. DEAIS IT ALWAYS SnlhXSMEFUNNDl T etT Soot) CAKIS Rirr-wic. ic arranged a deal with the club which holds his contract and the pitcher. Sam my Br, will report at. Las Croces on April 10. Itoche Will Tryout. SlcCloekev also started gettine after plavers and will have the kid Brother of "Jack Roche, the hard hitting- St. Louis catcher, for a tryont. lie is in San Diego, but will report April 10. If the youngster can hit anything like his brother he will more than make jrood. Jack McCloskei. a son of the manager, will tr for third. Toot Bliss, a crack catcher with class B experience, is in Oakland and Just let out bj the Oaks, who are Bet ting down to the player limit. He will be found with either El Paso or La rruce. Kitty Brashear wired from San Bernardino that he had nine men slRncd for Jim Brown's Tucson dab. while Joe Mathes has a bunch in St. I,oute for the Silver City teem. Just what George Reed is doing in the way ef players for Albuquerque is not Known. dk uwnii is no slouch wnen it come to grabbing the talent and it is a safe bet that bo has been lining up his men for a week past. llulsmau. one of the hardest hitters in the I'nion rssociation last year, -will be found with the Mceioskevites. while Beft Daniels, a pitcher and outfielder who had a tryout with Oakland this spring, is also a prospect for this league. If he comes, hjf will go to Las Cruces for he is an old friend of Hur le. Ttonlantt I 12ntbUKlatIe. Ilurlej and McCioske) had a lonfr chin rest with Pants Rowland Thursday. Kowland is ter enthusiastic over the league and told tbe newspapermen that with managers like McCloskey and Hurley here, the league should be a hum mer He played with both McCloskey and Hurley in the old Northwestern league, and Jim Browiu non the magnate at Tucson, was one of bis players, being an outfielder at that time. Rowland used to manage the Gray's Harbor club in the Northwestern and it was then that he grabbed off hie famous cog nomen of "Pants." Talking to the writer. Rowland gave both Hurley and McCloskey strong boosts and put in a good word for Geo. Reed at Albuquerque. Howland had seen Jim Brown on the coast and was surprised to hear that he was In Tuc son. "Jim's a better hustler than he is a ball player, but he is a mighty fine business man and will make good on anything he tackles. When he played left field at Aberdeen, be always did his best, even if he didnt set the league on fire. Then Jim discovered that his forte was the business end and he has been at it ever since and has been delivering the goods 17 San i By IF yon held about SO records for automobile racing before you were St years of age. you would think that you had don pretty well and were entiled to a niche In the hall of fame, wouldn't yofc? And wouldn't you be content to go after the dollars and let the fame be chased by some one else if you had those 50 records ' well. Barney Oldfield had the rec ords and be had quite a nice chunk of the long green, too Barney was gathering in the kale in great fashion on the small half-mile and mile tracks throughout the countr He was the fnst great drive to start racing on the tracks in the small cities. And It paid. Barnex soon became the largest individual stockholders in the Firestone Tire com pany and was well loaded up with Los Angeles and San Jose real estate. It got so that about five years ago it was a hard Job to coax Barney back onto the track when the racing sea son opened He thought he had done his share of record-smashing and was willing to let the other fellows have a chance i antft to maah Records. T'hen Jack Griffin, advance man for Oldfield and Thompson, reached town a few davs ago. the writer asked if Barney was going to make the circuit of the small tracks again this ear "Nothing doing in that line fur Bar ney," the advance man declared. "Bar ney is turning down fat offers ev v week for exhibition races. No sir. Bar ney has become ambitious. He wants to smash a few more records." Barney can a erage SS0.000 to S73.000 a year on the small tracks, and that more than ant other driver can make on the big or small tracks or both But be has an idea that he must go after some real fame and It is the 300 mlle races, the big sweepstakes and -o on that Barney wants. According to Griffin. If Barney could have his pick of all the racing cars at Indianapolis, he would be perfectlr satisfled to go in and win the race and not ask for a cent of prize money. Han Plenty of 3Toney. The writer has known Oldfield for about ten jears. Barney has always been a great money maker and a good spender. He is probably the wealthiest of the professional speed merchants THE HERALD'S circulation depart ment has been doing some .figur ing on the question of baseball uniforms for the boys' teams of the city and ha now worked out a. proposition so that even- team the southwest can be equipped with a modern "uni" if the players will each give two or three hours of their time to help line up sub scribers. Recreation superintendent J. H. Stine has declared that all teams should have uniforms. They are now offered to the teams under such conditions that everv player has a chance It won't take more than a few hours for a hustler to earn a baseball suit that is modern and com plete in every respect. So, if you live in El Paso, drop in at the circulation department and see Mr. Fris or. if io live out -of town, write him a letter Ask him to tell joo about the uniforms. Mr Fris has taken a lot of trouble to get good suits and he likes to talk about them. Besides the matter of a league, which was referred to at length in this column Thursda3", there is another reason wh we want to have records of all th, boys' teams in the city. Arrangements are under way so that all the young ball players mill have a chance to see some of the games at the new profes sional park. If you want to go. see that your name is on the list. All teams m organised baseball keep careful record of all players wno are signed, plavers who are released and players who are traded to other clubs. Send us the dope about your players. The other teams all like to see what your team Is doing. Just as you like to read about the other fellows. The voung soccer plavers are remind ed that the annual banquet of the grammar school league and the presen In Boyland Snap For Tennis Players : :fj But You 11 Have Genuine Pennsylvania Hand Made Championship Tennis Balls a new shipment of new, live stock; sold everywhere for 35c; while they last, each The Stock f These Balls Is Exceedingly Limited, and You'll Hatic to Buy Quick if You Want This Saving Price Krakauer, Zork&Moye's, S. I. Francisco Street "BBCK." but he isn't satisfied with the a-noui.t of fame be has gathered That's why his managers hae hid to turn down numerous offers for exhi bition races after the aeho-auto events at Washington Park J week from Sat urday. Barnej Is coming to El Pata to oblige his fellow Elks and because this city happens to be on his rout to the next big race Barney has his ee on the big J5009 Oklahoma C , race in the near future and on te j Indianapolis speedwav events. Th e isn"t the mone in these rai- thit i he is turning do n for exhibitions 1 But ambition has been awaken-. i it I his soul and Barney is out to win mote fame. Ills Big Races. Barney d- ided to get into the in-df-rbilt rates in 1914 and when he fin ished second beaten by a bare tao minutes due to a tire change, that am bition of his ias kicked awake Ba -ney then had to try at the Indianapolis speedway eent and finished ahead of all the other merican drivers. Vii bition" began to yell for more Then he went into the Elzin ro.il races, finishing third one day a'l fourth the next but using a slow -ar This rather Jolted "Ambition" but Ba--nev then tackled the hardest ra e on the circuit the Corona road rac- i averaged 8 1-2 miles an hour for SO I miles without a stop but finished -ond The fact that he had smashed a'l world's records for non-stop runs did not soothe "Ambition." M on Los Angeles-Phoenix Event The Los Angeles to Phoenix race an other heartbreaker. was his next -tempt and "Ambition" seemed baT -fied when he won. But the long d -tance races were becoming pleasures to the speed king and he went into t Vanderbilt and Grand Pruc races at b i Francisco a few weeks ago only to be beaten. Barney had. to wipe out th ir defeat. He did it in the Venice 'c 1 race when he went the full 30" mil-1? without a stop and won handiiv week or so later we find him at Tucso i where he ripped off another victor , this time ISO miles without a stop Kl Pnsoans are to see him in one his old time stunts, furnishing t it. thrills on the half mile track But Bai ney's heart is set on the 500-mile g'-tnd. i at Indianapolis and the 300 mile ra o at Oklahoma City. School Sports, Juvenile Sports, Boys Amateur Sports, nnd Q afw and Gossip of the "Kutnre Greats." BT "BECK." tation of the championship pennants will take place at C. A. A. gymnasium a week from tonight. Tbe Pittsburg Federals used socr- -as a sport which helps them to gee Into good physical condition. The Cana dian soldiers now at the front in the European war plav soccer when the are not in the trenches. Thev sav th 1 1 I it is the finest kind of sport to "loose i j up the muscles which have become st.rf vu vi auircu vuai i9 us t,isf3 iicmiir' But the grammar school boys of El Paso pla the game because it hlpg their jrrowinj; muscles ami develops them into fine oungs men. TKER rRKDICTS GOOD SRASO.V IV BASER LI, Chicago, in, April Z. Internal strife anions the big baseball leagues hs Ein place to harmony for a time at least, accord tug to John K. Tener, pres ident of tne NatHmal league. The aapgPB of 1913 promises to te one of -4he best professional baseball has experienced. ' he said "The war m Europe will keep people vrith mone. to spend here at home mnd their atten tion naturally -will turn to outdoor sports." AVny "Notf Beach Art Shop for appropriate sou venirs of Kl Paso and the southwest A varied and complete assortment on display 104 Pioneer Plaza. City NatL Bank Bldg (Advertisement ) bur neighbor knovrn that clean cjiI and full weights mean fuel econotn Do you R. C. 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