El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-02-12


league would be a go. Ell Paso
voted unanimously in favor of the in
PRODUCTION Of organized baseball into
the southwest. Bisbee seconded the
motion and it now looks as if the vote
would result in a majority for the pro-
posed league. Douglas is bucking on
the proposition. Rather Danial A.
O'Donovan is bucking, and as Daniel A
is the head and shoulders of baseball in
Douglas, the opposition is there strong.
To overcome this opposition will be the
hardest task of the promoters Of base
ball. That it can be done, there is no
doubt
The proposition as made by Messrs.
Harbuck and Kahn is q fair one and
means the eventual salvation of the
game in the southwest as well as the
solution of every difficulty that was
encountered in the brief but stormy in
dependent career last year No more
Insulting remarks from players will be
tolerated by either umpire or manager
under the new regime. Discipline,
thing that was woefully lacking last
year, will be enforced by the playing
manager. The game will be out on a
paying business basis in time, and the
subscriptions by the supporters of the
game will not be like throwing money
down a deep well, but will be contri
button to the cause of organized base
ball, which viii become self supporting
in time. A subscription of one share of
stock, price ten bones, will be sub
scription of that amount, not for 1910
baseball, but for baseball for all time TO
come in the southwest, which is to be,
for all time to come, the home Of our
fellow fans.
II organized baseball is good medi-
cine in the east, north, south and west;
it is likewise good dope for the south
west. 1t is a success in these various
points Of the combass. Therefore it is
the thing for their action. That is the
answer. A boost for the Cactus league
is a boost for baseball in the Great
Southwest. Boost, brothers, boost.
White against black, giant against
e comparative dwarf, man against
devil; the fight pictures OF the Johnson
Ketchel fight, which were shown in
local motion picture theater this week, |
proved a number Of things, yet left a
number of other things still hazy in the |
minds OF the fight fans. That Ketchel !
was whipped before he climbed through !
the ropes, there is no doubt after see
ing the fight films He was out |
weighed outclassed and outfought; |
that is when the negro cared to fight. (
Most of the time he would play with /
the Grand Rapids boy as a black cat |
would with d mouse, striking him with /
his open paw and parrying the white /
boys futile efforts 10 get through that /
black bulwark of fists and muscled /
arms. Only in the clinches would Stan. /
have a chance to land, and even then /
he was locked in that repulsively black
embrace so that he could not move a .
muscle until the referee broke them |
apart His efforts TO find Johnson's /
vital spot with the so-called mastoid |
blow behind the ear, was pitiful TO one
who realized the hopelessness of the |
white boys efforts
When the black demon, looking more /
like q creature of the Internal regions
in his skin-tight trunks, black skin and
shaved head, would crash in those blood
bringing blows in the latter part of the
fight, there was nothing but sympathy !
Far the game chap who had the nerve
to go against the inevitable, as Stanley
Ketchel had. His lips bursted, his eyes
were BACKED and the blood could be
plainly seen in the pictures, smeared
across his ashen face in the final
rounds A merciful referee finally
counted the boy out after he had sent
the black to the mat and had taken it
full length in turn. Ketchel never did
nave a look in and II was q merciless
that allowed such a match to
De made
The things that need explaining are
more interesting. Was the apparent
sailing of the negro only his craftiness
or was it the confidence which comes ! r
rom a prearranged schedule by which
he fight was TO go over ten rounds
With the consent of all parties and with |
he cut and died double knockout to /
ollow2 This would permit Ketchels l.
riends 10 collect their ten round bets
nd also give the white boy a consider
bile amount of glory by staying that
ong with the black champion. 1t has
,een said that the double barreled
Knockout in which Ketchel floors john
on and the negro returns the compii-
nent, was rehearsed before the moving
,icture machine at least twice in order
o get a good film. If this is SO. it lis !
ems very much like fake. In fact the
Whole fight, as shown by the pictures,
.as the earmarks of being fixed. II it
ras fixed the films prove nothing. If
was on the square, they prove little
nOre.
johnson is clever, fast and cunning.
lore than that the films refuse to tell.
lie never had to extend himself once
uring the fight, AMI he had no more
nance TO show his real ability than
e did against poor little Nate Pinder
n that Thirty-fifth street bar room
ne only FeTo1Cl can arrive 81
: 70 wait for the big show on July 4th,
rher q white man equally clever, larg-
T and brainer will face the slant
rowed black in the squared circle.
The big three-Johnson (Ban, not
ack), Tom Lynch, and Garry Herr
lann-are to sit on Johnny Kings
ase the 2Sd. And at Cincinnati, too.
What VIII the harvest be, gentle one?
,asy-beer.
The way that big. husky rules COM
sittee romped on the poor, emaciated
anne of football should call for the
ervices Of the s. p c. A
T'hat long delayed, much interfered
-sth dinner match which has been post
ored numerous and sundry times be-
suse OF wind. water and weather, will
e played at the Country club Sunday
.aybe That date has been announced
n the golf match with the big feed in
le dining room at noon as the piece de
.sistance. The same pairs will play
1nday as was announced for the orig
al dinner match which the weather
an fuzzled-