El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-26
SPURTLETS.
by Tim.)

That home run of Downey's last Sat
urday made one certain fielder into a
hurdle racer. They ought to add a
couple of fences, just for luck.
New football rules go into effect by
the majority of big schools. Opening
games will be played this week by
Yale, Harvard, Princeton. Cornell.
Dartmouth. Brown. West Point. An
napolis.
At Manchester Saturday, r E. Hunt
er, of Yale, won the individual inter
collegiate golf championship by de-
feating F. c. Davidson Of Harvard in
the final round on the Essex Country
club links l up in % holes. This gives
Yale individual and team golf cham
pionship for this year.
At Belmont track. Philadelphia, Sat
urday, Ralph De Palma in his flat
racer, made a new worlds record for
10 miles on q circular track. going the
distance in S:31 1-5. This beats his
own record of S:4s.
Cobb made three hits out of four
times up at in the Boston at Detroit
double header Saturday Karger of the
visitors was pounded hard in the sec
ond game.
BY a single in the ninth Sunday
Doyle paved the way for three Chicago
runs and brought in the whining tally.
defeating New York 6-5. Hitting was
heavy each way.
Football opened at Minneapolis Sat
urday with a victory for Minnesota
over Lawrence. "a to 0. The winners
outweighed their opponents. and the
lire and ends were easy. Rosenwald's
nose was broken in the second half.
Denver made II runs in one inning
in Saturdays game with Topeka Cas-
sidy led with a home run.
George T. Stallings. New York Amer
lean manager. says he never did, yet
he expects to be deposed. Manager
Stallings denies that in 1902 he tried
to sell out the Detroit American
league club to the National league. It
would have been a physical imposSi-
bility to swing such a deal. he says. as
president Johnson of the American
league. had the lease of the Detroit
grounds and 81 percent of the stock Of
the club was deposited with him.
Gibson was the feature batter in Sat-
urday's Pittsburg at Philadelphia
game. In four times up he made home
run and two doubles.
Entries for the sixth Vanderbilt cup
race, to be held Saturday over the
Long Island speedway. are closed Thus
far the applicable passed upon total
"A to 4S acceptances in all. Four new
entries announced are Oldsmobile. Har-
ry Stillman. driver; OldsmobiIe. Joe
Wilson; Stoddard- Dayton, Hugh Hard
ing; Hupt- Rockwell, Carl Limberg. The
practice this year has been faster than
ever before. Burman in a Marquette,
reeled off a round 1854 miles in 1918
16 seconds faster than the best practice
last year. Louis Chevrolet did 11:01,
also in a Marquette-B Buick.
Fight fans of New York city are
looking forward with much interest to
the 10 round bout between Packey
Mcfarland. the Chicago lightweight.
and Fighting Dick Hyland. who will
meet Tuesday night at the Fairmont
A. c. Since Mcfarland boxed east two
years ago he has grown much heavier,
and it has required much road work
and boxing to bring him down to 135
pounds at which weight he and Hyland
have agreed to weigh in Hyland has
been training on Staten Island and is
said to be faster than ever before
Sioux City lacks only two games of
cinching the 1910 pennant with a total
of los games The leaders took both
ends of a double header from Lincoln
Sunday