Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-06
BOXING ATHLETICS

Passengers will be landed at the en-
trance in ten minutes travel from the
heart of Ell Paso. The course will be
nine furlongs in circumference, with
chutes for mile and seven furlong races
1t will resemble the Los Angeles course.
Lyman Davis will be secretary and
Mars Cassidy starter. The Juare2
Jockey club is composed of prominent
turfmen in the east, the west and
Mexico.
The club expects to give about fifteen
stakes, beginning with the Chihuahua
handicap of $4,000 on the opening day.
1t is proposed to race ninety days, six
days a week, six races each day. There
will be open bookmaking and perhaps
the mutuel machines may be used.
They've gone and been and done it as
follows in the Texas league. This is
from Shreveport, La:
Umpire Derrick tonight gave out the
information that he has rendered his
resignation to President Allen of the
| Texas league, to take effect August /.
His reasons for resigning from the
staff, according to Mr.. Derricks state
ment, is his intention of engaging in
other business pursuits. Mr.. Derrick
says that he and his wife will leave in
the early part of the week for Chicago
where they will spend a few weeks
after which he will go to Atlanta, Ca,
to look after a business proposition
which awaits him there"
The suicide of President Harry c.
| Pulliam of the National league. the
news of which shocked the baseball
world, adds another to the surprisingly
| long list of prominent baseball mel
| who have taken their own lives, says a
Buffalo writer.
! Heretofore the suicides have been
! In VA1n ri1Nc rD nj
nearly a dozen famous players are
/ found TO have died by their own hands
The first player to take his life was
/ Catcher Frank Ringo, who drank
poison at Kansas City April IL, 1889
] He was part of the famous Philadel-
phia battery of Coleman and Ringo
| both players joining the Pittsburg team
after a long term of service with the
Quakers. Ringo had retired from base
/ bail and was a travelling salesman for
a cigar firm at the time of his death.
Pittsburg was the scene of the next
baseball suicide, Edward j. McNabb,
| the Baltimore pitcher and native oil
Buffalo, shooting himself and dying IN
stantly at the Eifel hotel In Smithheld
/ street in 1894.
Ed Crane, famous as a pitcher and
| said to have made the longest throw
in the history of baseball, although he
was never given the record officially,
| swallowed poison and ended his lie at
Rochester in 1896.
The year 1900 witnessed the terrible
act of Martin Bergen, the Boston Ma
tionals' star catcher, who killed his
wife, three children and himself.
In July the same year James Nc
Calligan. with the New York Giants
for a while, suicided by cutting his
throat.
January 12 1908. Winnie" Mercer, the
famous pitcher, then with Washington
and managing a transforming trip 20
the Pacific coast, ended his life by in
| haling gas in a San Francisco hotel.
March 2S, 1907, Charles (Chick) Stahl,
manager of the Boston Americans on
the spring training trip, drank carbolic
acid and died at West Baden Springs,
Ind.
Two days later P. D. Murphy, a
minor league player and former team
mate of Stahls, who had gone to Fort
Wayne to attend the latter's funeral,
committed suicide IN the same manner
as Stahl.
Within a few months of Stahls death
three minor league players, Alvin
Bayne, Bob Lakswert and William G.
Palmer, took their own lives.
The death of Ed Delahanty, while re-
ported as a suicide at TIE time, Is held
to have been an accident by those who
were closest to that great player. He
either jumped from or fell off the In
ternational bridge at Black Rock while
en- route to Buffalo from Toronto.