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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-18
VIII Johnson's Yellow Streak Lose Him the
Big Fight? He Has Been Known to Fake, Too
By
Horace II.
Shelton

Marvin Hart was a clear mark for =
clever man like Johnson. The negro
fought him. Hart and Johnson both
owed some money they wanted TO pay
Hart was told before he went into the
ring that he must stay the limit or lose
every cent of the purse Johnson was
warned that if he knocked out Hart he
would be barred from further fights
on the coast The fight was joke
Hart stumbled along through the ~
rounds without landing a real blow and
was almost out from his own exertions
at the finish. Johnson kept out OF
Harris way all through the fight, oe-
casionalIy landing a few stiff jabs IN
Older to keep from getting in front
of Harris haymakers- Hart got the
decision, but had as much right to
whip Johnson as a fox hound has
against a bull terrier
With Sailor Burke. Jack O'BrieR and
others, the big negro has fought some
very bad battles.
There are lot of the wise ones who
believed Tommy Burns, who has also a
rather shady reputation, allowed John
son TO whip him. With all this in view
if il was not for the other principals
any one could readily believe that the
big fight would be a fake.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-18

Cleveland yesterday and the visitors
lost, to s.
only one favorite won at Buena Vista
yesterday while two heavily played Sec
Ond choices helped little The poor,
dear PATIENT suffering public
The third game of the season was
taken by Boston at Detroit yesterday
Collins was invincible-
Players from FIT. Bliss. glory of the
islands, will wander over to the smell
ter diamond this afternoon. 1t may be
exciting.
Sandy Ferguson. the Boston heavy
weight. won a newspaper decision over
Jim Barry, of Chicago. in 10 round
boxing contest last night at the Maud
Junction pavilion OF the Pacific A c.
in Los Angeles. Police. during the six
short round preliminaries, watched
closely 10 see that the milling did not
become real prize fighting In two pre-
Iiminaries blood was shed and the
bouts were stopped
Still another extra-inning game was
played at Brooklyn yesterday. Chicago
won in the 18th by a one run shut out
Friend Harry, the fayOrite. was left
at the post at LatOnia yesterday. I.
vi Green, second choice, had it all his
way.
Omaha took the final game of the Sc
ries from Lincoln yesterday. The locals
made many errors
OlambaIa easily won the Suburban
fandicap al Sheepshead bay yesterday.
The horse belongs to R. T. Wilson, jr.,
! and won against a handsome field
Yale won the deciding game Of the
series with Princeton at New York yes
/ terday. The crowd was record
Hodge beat W. Curdy by default and
/ Barge T. won over Dent SO on Y. NJ
4 G. A courts Friday.
! A horrible 400 pin margin stood be-
( tween CampbeITs and Lehman's teams
/ on Washington park alleys Friday
night. Chase set a new mark for three
! games in competition, making 661-
( Scores were:
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-18

In the big leaeuA this year condi-
lions are almost exactly opposite what
they were last year, when there were
rip-snorting, Fard fought, ner' e rack
ing pennant scrambles in both leagues
from the time the starter put the teams
on the track
This year that is not true. In the
National league there is some class to
the fight being put up, but it is entirely
different in the American league
Just how tight the National league
race really is was recently amply
demonstrated when Philadelphia
dropped from a tie for first place to
seventh place in 10 days. Chicago, New
York, Cincinnati and Philadelphia are
all putting up the race of their lives,
and Cincinnati, the outcast, is making
the show of years.
In the American league the Athletics
have been walking away with things
and their great lead has in a measure
caused a lack of interest and it looks
as If nothing could stop that aggrega-
ton from walking away with the bunt-
ing.
Lately. though, Detroit has been
calmly walking to the front and dur
ing the long hot summer the veterans
or that team may De aDle ID cilLhO
into first place. The men are playing
better together than at first and several
weak spots have been filled M. The
fans have not yet lost hope in Hughey
Jennings's aggregation and are hop
ing for the best.
Chicago is the greatest disappoint-
ment in the American league. That once
powerful team is hating hard time
keeping from pushing st. Louis out of
the cellar championship and just why
is hard to tell. The team looks strong,
but it does not seem 10 be able to win
games.
1t also now looks like Jim McAleer's
Nationals have a bunch which might
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-18

up he will soon head the second sack
ers in fielding average. He hits the
bail on the nose every once and a
while also.
The fact that Dallas reached out
and took Thebo from the Waco team,
is again raising the charge of syndi-
cate baseball and that Dallas owns the
Navigators. 1t looks like the charge
was true.
:.
DoWney. Davis and Casey, of the Ok
lahoma Indians, are known as the
auburn triplets. Their hair is so red
they have to wear white caps to keep
from binding the Unlocking fans.
Three weeks ago the friends of Char
lie Weatherford, of the Fort Worth
team, were wondering if he would go
the pace At that time the pitcher was
Ill and was not showing form. Of late.
however. the Austin college lad has
| been making all teams look alike He
looks like he would be one Of the best
! before the season is much older.
Umpire Westervelt, who was mobbed
by the Galveston fans, and attacked
by various and sundry of the Texas
| baseball players, has been signed by
the Virginia State league as an UNI
pire- Westervelt left the Texas league
! Of his own vo1ition, because he claimed
that president Allen was letting play
ers come back into the game before
their time of suspension expired
Stova1, the first baseman with CIeve-
! land, is a graduate Of the Texas league
He is a brother Of Sam StovalI. who
played with San Antonio for many
years The Cleveland first hasemar
IS playing his regular steady and ex-
cellent games again this year Time
seems to have no effect on him.
In recent game between Boston and
Cleveland Speaker. the Texan witt
/ the Beaneaters, got three hits and one
run out of six times at th1 bat. The
hits came at a time when they helped
/! in the run getting very materially.
| Every time Waco gets nearly to the
| top of the ladder some team gives the
city vigorous kick on the nose and
! down it goes again The Navigator.
are having mighty rocky road Il
| travel
Spangler, first baseman for Calves
| ton, is showing up in fine form. Man
! ager Donnelly is showing that h
knows how to get the best possibl,
| work out Of his men
I
French is one of the outhelders 70
San Antonio who is welding the viii
low in great shape He is also dOini
q fast fielding stunt.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-18

With the Jeffries-J johnson fight only
a short time off, the only interest of
the fans is in the real condition of
the two principals in the contest
According to all reports both men
are in fine fettIe. 1t is agreed that
Jeffries has the wind, the muscle and
that all the extra fat is gone. Elk
perts say that he is in as good physical
condition as he possibly could be. He
is showing fast work with the gloves
and on foot While he. is probably not
as good a man as he was ten years
ago yet he is a wonderful athlete and
all of his skill as fighter has come
back.
johnson is also in the pink of condi-
ton. The big negro never showed bet
ter form. Physically the two men seem
pretty evenly matched and the fight
seems to hinge on the matter OF cour-
age That Jeff has grit. and to spare
no man has ever questioned In all
his life there has never been any sug-
gestion that his feet ever got cold on
any proposition
evidence that johnson has a yellow
streak. He will enter the ring whoch
fear and trembling. and with this in
his heart it is hard to figure out how
he is going to win from Jeffries. 1t
would seem to be about his only chance
to get in a chance blow in the early
rounds.
If the fight goes as many as seven
rounds there needs to be no doubt as
+o-tbe outcome. Jack will be so badly
scared and worried by that time that he
coii1d not knock Jeffries out even If
an opening was left
BIT don't understand that every one
agrees with this opinion The betting
which was for a time largely ODDS IN
favor of Jeffries. is now even money
That shows that the sports VINO riSk
their wads on such affairs are con-
WINGED that Jeffries is not in as good
shape as he is supposed to be and that
the Texas negro has a chance TO win.
When a man will bet even money on
Johnson to whip Jeffries it means that
II white was fighting white that the
odds would be two TO one agalhs'
Jeffries These men are nearly all on
/ the inside 1t is their business TO De
and the man who is placing money
might do well TO take bunch from
J this. Gamblers are sometimes bet
/ ter Judge of the outcome of fight than
all the physicians and trainers.
| Next to the two principals the mex
most important figure in the fight l:
the referee He must be honest ant
| capable or there Is possibility OF al
sorts of fakes" and any outcome Il
| liable to result. The general opinion
| is that TEX" Rickard is o. k.
Tex" is on the square. He was
cowboy in Texas when shooting iron
counted and in those days when ever!
mans true character counted. He wa
first employed as an ordinary COW
boy on a ranch at $50 month. H
was later elected city marshal OF Hen
rietta. Texas, and made good. He go
So a month in this job.
While holding down the wild an
woody boys in that city he got lette
from a cowboy friend who had gon
TO Dawson City on the Yukon r1Vel
urging him to come up to Alaska q
once as the country reeked in god'
TEX" went and accumulated a cor
siderable bank roll as the result OF sue
cessful mining. He then went 10 Nom
which was developing rapidly an
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-18
By Horace
II. Shelton
Big League Ball Not Nearly AS
Exciting As Usual This Year

eventually break into the first division.
The veteran players-Conroy, Eberfield.
Schaefer, Browne, Unglaub and Cess
der-are dead sure that the team viii
run as good as fourth The team -
shy on good pitchers, but the scouts
are in the woods with bags of money
and there is every possibility that some
one will be found who will fill this
want. McAleer, on account of being let
out by St. Louis, has his dander up
now and is banking his all on making
a reputation for himself And by the
way it does not look like ST. Louis
gained much when she let him go and
connected up with OConnor.
The latest batting averages of the
National league show that Sherw God
MCGEE of the Phillies, is still setting
the pace for sluggers with 1852 to his
credit. This compares with LajOie, who
is leading the American league with a
percentage of Az
In the National league Bob Beacher,
OF Griffin's Cincinnati squad. is Ma
Gees nearest rival, his average being
1929 for 80 games. The speedy Cincin-
rati outfielder tops the National league
list for stolen bases, he having pilfer-
ed 20 sacks.
New York leads the league in team
batting a4u DIoCklyn -. 1te.41ng, I,ule
of the Chicago club hea2s all pitchers
with percentage of +d0O, having pitch
ed six games and won them all.
The greatest disappointment in the
league is HonuS. Wagner. He is way
down the list of batters with only the
puny average of .234. This is very sad,
especially in view of the fact that he
has been touted as the greatest of them
all.
This year so far he has not showed
that he was in anything like the class of
the great TyruS Cobb of the American
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It's the big fight that's coming off
tonight-GOv- GilIett vs. Louis Blot To
tell the truth We hope Blot will punch
his nibs, the gov, in the buffers pantry.
hook TO the beak and understood TO the
watch pocket.
The calling of troops 10 stop a prize
fight, when prize fighters seldom have
fought without assurance from off
Gals, is too foolish Gov Gillett should
have known mis- business month ago
1t looks strange
oh. what, Oh what. has our baseball
team done?
It's really quite more than we can stand
ats such a great shame the O'Donovans
won
That it gives US a pain in the grand
stand.
Sharp's fielding and daredevil base
running cut down New YOrk's score at
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-18
AFTER SOUTH POLE.
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Capt. Robert Falcon Scott, r. n, C. V. o..
who has left on the ship Terra Nova,
from England. for his second quest Of
the south pole. Capt Scott was the
commander of the Discovery expedition
of 1901 and 1904, when he reached a
point situated in latitude 50 degrees, 16
minutes, 33 seconds south; longitude
about I63 degrees east This point was
attained December 80, 1902, when the
failure of the dog team compelled the
captain and his brave comrades to re-
trace their steps,
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-18

league. But when it comes to consist
ent, aHround work, year in and year
out, the fans had just as well hand
the palm to LaiOie for his record has
never yet been equaned. y star with
show up which may shine brighter for
a year that he does but his brilliance
is of the fixed kind and always shines
true.
Matthewson, of New York. is another
pitcher with great record. He has
pitched nine games and won eight of
them With the New York Giants play
ing ragged ball behind him In num-
Der of the games.
Drucke. the Texan, with New York,
has pitched four full games, winning
two and losing two. He is weak with
the stick, showing up with only OIL
Out of II times ut the hit he las got
only one hit and has not made sin
gle run.
~
Archer, the Chicago catcher, who has
forced his way TO the front as regular
man behind the bat for that team, is
batting .32S and playing the game
strong in all departments.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-18

where money was easy. He opened
saloon and gambling house, and in a
shore time amasSed fortune 1t is
conceded that his gambling house was
on the square.
Rickard tired of the cold of the north
and came to Seattle and opened up
saloon and gambling house there Faro
was the principal game and it got off
loser. In a short time Richard was
broke, all of his money being taken
away by the sports of that city
From there he went to GOldfield,
Neb and, after getting enough money
at mining again opened up gamb-
ling house and saloon. Another one was
opened at Great Northern, Neb., and the
two are said to have made him a mil
lionaire In 1906 he built the only first
class hotel in Ely, New, which is still
operated at a profit.
The panic of 1907. as a result of the
slump in mining stocks, almost cleaned
Rickard, but he scraped through and is
now said to be on a firm footing and
to own property where the income IS
much surer than that which comes from
gambling.
Richards experience in mining has
also extended to mining in South At
RIGA, but he was not very successful in
that section. He has sin e ~old ii II
lis cI4in.s and IS now cVnfinlng MS
efforts to the United States
Under his direction ii is believed that
the fight at San Francisco will be on
the level in every way.
In figuring that the July 4 fight will
he no fake" and on the square" I'M
derstand II is based entirely on the rep
utation OF Tex" Rickard and Jeffries
and not on that of Johnson. The lat
ter has been participant in more than
one fake and a frame-up could be
arranged with him easy enough.
Johnson's first engagement of the
! frene-up order was when he agreed
J 10 let Joe Kennedy, rank fifth rater,
win The tip was passed about that
| Kennedy was to win and Johnson bet
| all he had on himself and knocked Ken
nedy out. He needed the money and
got the most in that way, and the fight
| turned out TO be on the level, but a
| whole lot of men who depended on
! Johnson standing by his word were
/ heavy losers.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-18

Downey. Davis and Casey, Of the Ok
lahoma Indians, are known as the
auburn triplets. Their hair is so red
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-18

The fact that Dallas reached out
and took Thebo from the Waco team,
is again raising the charge of syndi-
cate baseball and that Dallas owns the
Navigators. 1t looks like the charge
was true.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-18

up he will soon head the second sack
ers in fielding average He hits the
bail on the nose every once and a
while also.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-18
AUTOMOBILE NOTES.


The most important national auto
mobile news of the week is that George
Little has attached the beloved ma
chine of one Jack Johnson 1t was
''the unkindliest cut Of all"
a. z. Rosenberg, travelling agent for
the Sturges company, has returned
from Mexico and viii be or for ART
IONA next week He states an auto
mobile palace is being built in Mexico
City. It IS 70 be used as display
room by a Mexican company and, is the
SWEETEST thing this side Of New York
City.
kenneth Walker, Mexican agent for
the Packard. has sold 20 machines for
1911 delivery in the republic
President Diaz has been presented
With ProtoS. the newly famous Ger
nan car OF course the company gave
i 10 him just for the glory OF IT,
The Sturges company has sold
Cadillac demi- tOnneau 70 tbs FL Paso
Tin Mining and Smelling company
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-18
At The Ball Grounds By WALT MASON

Tom coughed the gate and took
opposite the pa had the home boys doped
70 looking and all the had creased their Threats in
readiness to veil umpire palid jaundice his ne
had sideways looked sized him Just
baseball Tom,
He robbed the
lett the
him. pushed against the fence
anda
evidence: picked the scraped him from the
surely
that bastzTs the same Tom twenty years
C0aaAz7l~~oo
eAaathewA
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-18

Margin, 400 pins.
High game-Chase, 231-
High tOtal-Chase, SEQ.
Strike out-One, Houck-
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-12
Bring Back the Birds

The agricultural department. at
washington estimates that the bugs
and worms on the farms of the coun-
try cost the farmers at least 100000
600 a year, and that most Of this could
be saved il the native, birds were en-
couraged instead of being killed off
to furnish adornments for ladies' hats.
1t only takes five persons to organize
an Audubon club. Then, under the
law Of almost every state, they can
prosecute any one killing native bird,
or even meddling with a nest. There
should be such a club in every county.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-12
SECTION
Grant Wins From Piedmont
BY ARTHUR TAvEIRA


May 26 was another glorious day for
Grant. The second team of the school
defeated the Piedmont school by score
of 13 to o.
Mckim pitched good ball during the
game and struck out 13 men.
With three men on base McKim drove
the ball into right field, bringing them
home. The game was a snap all the
way through and belonged to us from
the beginning. r. Ellison, one of our
good players, sent two stinging ones
into left field, but did not come home
on them. Our pitcher had good support,
and only four errors were made during
the game.
The Grant school has played four
games this term and has lost one. The
lineup follows:
Judson, first base; N Shindler second
base; II. Oberg, shortstop; B. Mcdonald,
third base; r. Ellison, right field; A.
Maganui, center field; II. Baumgartner,
left field; w. McKim pitcher; X. Hunt,
catcher (captain); score keeper Taveira.
time of game, l hour so minutes.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-12
An Electric Clock

An interesting electric clock. run by
a single dry cell, and quite Independent
of external connections. has just been
put on the market in England. A
heavy balance wheel is kept in motion
by an electro magnet mounted diamet-
rically across it. AS the balance wheel
swings against the action Of the coiled
spring. stud on the axle makes con-
tact with light spring, thus complet-
ing the electric circuit. and energizing
the magnet which acts for a moment
upon the balance wheel This impulse
is given once every four seconds. 1t
is said that dry cell will run hours.
The movement is noiseless, and the
clock may be placed in any position
without interfering with its running
The Youths Companion.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-12
ATHLETIC
Court School Meet
by LELAND sANDERCOCI<

There was a track meet held at San
Luis Obispo May 28 by the Court school
and the Mission school of San Luis
Obispo, by the Arroyo school of Arroyo
Grande and by the Templeton school Of
Templeton.
IT was the most exciting contest ever
held in this city by boys.
Although the two last schools men,
toned had big fellows, they were not n
match for the San Luis team. The final
score was;
Court grammar school, 46; Mission
grammar, As; Arroyo grammar, 4; Tenn
'pleton grammar, 6.
Pete Soto for the Mission won the
most points, which was 22 Although
not classical runner, he is fast one,
and carried off the greatest number Of
points.
The Court school won the silver cup.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-12
Whelks' Eggs

Natural soap is mot heard of very
often, but it not only exists, but is
highly priced by Jack Tar in the trop
les when the purser reports that the
ships supply of soap has given out.
Then all hands are sent ashore to
gather a supply sof natural SOAP"
which is found on the shore in the
shape of whelks' eggs. The whelk is
a little shellfish, or marine mollusk.
which in Europe is eaten like mussels,
cookies, oysters and CLAIMS, but iI the
tropics it is more highly esteemed for
the soap it provides in the shape Of its
eggs. The eggs are found in light
yellowish mass which is composed of
some 500 or 600 capsules One fish alone
produces millions of these eggs in the
course of the year. They are found on
the shores of the Atlantic, but are very
rrofnso m the intertropical coral
reefs, where sailors take large quanti-
tres aboard for use as soap
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-12
A Drilling Contest
BY EVELYN GORE, Noe valley school

BY EVELYN GORE, Noe valley School
May 81 for the first time we salut-
ed our beautiful new silk flag. We had
exercises and drilling. The children Of
the different classes had a contest to
win the banner. We all did so well
that the principal and teachers have
not decided which class will get it. The
teachers all sat upon the stairs and
watched us with pride. The people
passing by stopped to watch us as we
marched around the yards Our flag is
of red, white and blue silk. with gold
colored fringes around it and spear
of gold on top. 1t is really beautiful
thing.
We saluted our flag. saying. II pledge
allegiance to my flag and to the re-
public for which it stands; one nation.
indivsible, with liberty and justice for
ALL"
We all wish you could come to see
our beautiful new flag We feel almost
acquainted with you. as we have read
the stories of The Junior Call and send
our stories in each week.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-12
How Far Can You See

What is the farthest limit to which
the human vision can reach? Peruyians
are said to be the longest sighted race
on earth. Humboldt records case
where these Indians perceived human
figure 1S miles away being able to
recognize that ii was human and clad
i'm white. This is probably the record
for far sight-Strand.