El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-08-08

SPORTLETS.
By Tim.)

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Baseball in heaven is the startling
suggestion made by Rev. c. Julian
! Tutthin in his Congregational church
at Mattapoisett, Mass. We want to
! hear what Billy Sunday thinks about
it. Also, what game do they play in
hell? Please, Billy wag thy ever ready
tongueI
Let's see; Ell Paso was on the Cactus
map this week end. At Clifton 1-2; at
Clifton a. Not so bad. Then Bisbee
had TO pound the stewed prunes out
der Cananea, 4 TO 3. Such gay life.
Memo
What no, Barney Oldfield has made
a new record The old fields don't count
now. Ooke) This time Barn drove his
200 Benz at Breeze Park mile track,
near Philadelphia, in SO 3-5 seconds,
lowering the track record De Palma
had made in Fiat at 1:01. Oldfield
made three goes. the first in one flat.
Robert A Gardner OF the Hinsdale
Golf club, the national champion, won
the annual invitation tournament of
the Glenview club Sunday
Des Moines was shut out at Denver
Sunday, the locals making two talHes.
Hitting was ordinary.
Best finish on the Butte card Sat
urday, was the feature event won by
Harlan Maid by a head. Seven races
were run.
Eddie Walsh held Washington to two
hits at Chicago Sunday. Conroy made
both of them, but Chicago won 40.
Recruit McLean's batting featured.
Pitcher Coombs, of Philadelphia, did
the most to shut out St Louis Sunday.
The field was damp and soggy.
A strange thing wifi happen today at
Minneapolis The locals will play one in
ming with Columbus to finish a game
uncompleted on June 30 lit will be
done after the regular game according
to the decision of president Thomas
COvingtOn of the American association.
Making it three straight from New
York, Detroit Sunday Won a Al vic
tory. Summers worked up a shut out
but lost it through faulty support.
New York state league representa-
tives met at Utica, Sunday, and accord
ing to the statement of president John
II. Farrell, the league may become de-
funct. This season will end 1t unless
Sunday ball is permitted, they say
Lincoln called at Topeka Sunday and
took both games of a double header.
One was Sill victory.
At Paris, France, Sam McVey and
Jim Johnson. the American heavy
weight pugilist, fought 10 round draw
Sunday.
<ADCl INif4dl, the pnSnOmen2l runner
of the 1rish-American Athletic club.
forced Melvin W. Sheppard to add an
other worlds record to his long string
Sunday, when he breasted the tape a
winner over Kiviat in a special geo
yard race at Celtic park. New York.
three yards, winning in the great time
Of 1:57 Is. This betters the figures of
2:01 2-5, made by Glarner the Olympic
Athletic club half miller in 1908 by
Is seconds.
A 15yearold Dorchester girl, Rose
Pitnoff, succeeded Sunday In swimming
from Charleston bridge to Boston light,
at Boston, a feat attempted many times
by many of the best distance swimmers
OF the east, but heretofore accomplish
ed by but one person, Alois AderIe, of
New York
G X c. Billings, owner of Lou Dill
lon, has gone to Cleveland to drive
his trotter. Uhlan, 2:O2 IA, at the open
Ing of the grand circuit meeting there
today. in an attempt to lower the
worlds record to wagon without the
aid of wind shield The record is
2:O3 "a made by Major Delmar i'm
1903. Billings recently drave Uhlan a !
mile to wagon in 2:O2 "a. but the per-
formance was made at an anna teur |
meeting and was not a technical rec |
ord.