El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-09

Is DOth games from BlSDee SdIuIUdS
and Sunday for the glory OF Douglas
and the benefit of the grand stand fund,
say the smelter city chaps. Let's see
was not some such representation made
as to the Mavericks taking both from
Bisbee last week But that is ancient
history and this is no Fourteen Years
Ago column.
Automobiles have Deen whizzinS pack
anu forth DrIs, cen Cne baseball PARK
ana the minor plaza. Carpenters, JOIN
erss Telephone LEemen and newspaper
men nave hurried around with a 1dLt-
Diaz day rush on their persons Ii was
ali because The Herald wanted TO con-
meet up its fan friends in the south
=. est dIrect with the Washington park
GROUNDS so they could have the result
OF the batting battles by rounds.
private Telephone plant mas been in
stalled to connect the press box at
Washington park with the editorial
oepartmenc OF The Herald. LeBrands
smashes, Stanley Gray's song bird DaI
and Dalrymple's running catches IN
deep center may be heard over the
phone by the entire southwest Dy way
Of the baseball edition of The Herald
AS fast as the plays are made at the
ball park they will be called over the
telephone into The Herald office and
a man at The Herald end Of the hne'
with a receiver over his head and
typewriter in front of him, VIII write
il down and have il ready for the
printer as fast as the game moves 10
do this The Herald has had TO nave
strung three miles Of two-strand cop
per wire between its office and the
grand stand. The Tri-State Telephone
company put in the service, but 1t is
private, independent line and ii Is not
necessary TO call central 70 get con-
nection. The connection is direct be
tween The Herald editorial rooms and
the press box in the park grand stand
sos days in the year.
Did Ell Paso see the real champion
of this and other worlds, ChrlSty
Mathewson last fall at the baseball
tournament? The bills advertised him
as the one and only Christy. The base
ball management paid him several hun
dred bird seed for pitching the series
and the papers printed pictures of him
as the giant of the Giants. If this be
so, who is the blOke whose pictures are
being printed daily in the sporting sec
lions Of the city papers with. the Chris
ty MatheWson label on them The
Mathewson that FL Paso knew was
big, fat, boyish looking chap with
complexion like down caster and
chew of star in his face No so these
socaled likenesses of Matty- He looks
more like a dock waIloper or q coal
HEAVIER than the hero of wv on In The
Ninth, by Christy Mathews son." 1t is
not the same face that Christy wore
when he and Rube Waddeil shook hands
before the camera at Washington park
last fall What's the answer?
No longer win the sport writer's as
ISOLATION have to drag out the defensive
retort to the effect that it is not nee
esSary 10 be able to lay an egg to
know a good one, when some performer
accuses one of the serb blers' frat. OF
knowing as much about what ne IS try
ing TO write a giraffe does about
the fourth dimension All that Is now
necessary TO dispose OF the naughty
one is to point with pride 10 one Rob-
ert Edgren, New York sporting writer
and authority on things pugilistic and
basebalHstic. Robert Edgren in addi-
! tion to having his name in Bat. Mel
sons immortal tome entitled Life and
Battles of Bat Nelson" is a worlds
champion Putting the rubber cover on
his Remington the other day, Edgren
| stroIled out to the park where numer-
Gus athletes Of world reputation were
| holding q meQal 4eSl- Being SO1c-
what OF a giant in his own right. Rob
| ert boy picked up the discus, that, an
| cient emblem of Grecian strength, and
! in a moment of absent mindnesS, hurl-
! ed the steel saucer so far that he
| broke Martin Sheridan's world record
/ and likewise Martins heart. Edgren
now has his record in the books as the
| ''champeen'' of all discus thrOwers and
| is now privileged to write pieces for
| the paper about himself and his early
history while attending California uni
versity.
| Douglas hammer brigade is busy
! again but it is the carpenters building
! the grand stand who are doing the
| knocking this time. Douglas denies
! that there is a home team knocker in
| that camp.
Truesdale is again in a St. Louis
J uniform. He is playing with the
! Browns at second and making good all
over again after being billed back to
| the Texas league.
For an evenly matched pair 81 base
| ball clubs, the Boston and Chicago
! Americans seem to get the prize. They
have been playing nerve racking fin
ishes such as made the old South side
Sox so popular in the old days
Cananea will be over Friday night
for the Saturday and Sunday game with