El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-05-05
FOURTEEN To ONE
THE SCORE At
TIE PARK
Not Much Ball Game, But a
Good Concert-SOldierS
Have Good ANA
teur Team.

There was a beautiful band concert
at Washington park Wednesday after
noon. There was also a baseball game
attachment to the concert. but this is
| q music review and not q baseball
/ wheeze. If it were-were being much
| more classic than uz'-this plain
tale of the hills would have ended be-
| fore it began.
Soldiers nine, dressed in khaki and
preceded by a crackerjack band and a
bunch of loyal soldiers and officers,
came over the Fort Bliss hill Wednesday
! on the o'clock car to see the crack
team OF the 23rd play the Mavericks in
a friendly practice game at the park.
The game proper lasted through the
third inning but the band concert last
ed until the sixth when even the bands
men refused to jam wind any longer to
cheer their cherries favoriteS to vic
tory and they all packed up and went
home followed by the ball players of
the two clubs.
Good Band.
AS a ball game, the one sided contest
was very one sided But it was a good
band and played mighty dandy music.
Barron, the much touted pitcher from
the post, lasted three innings. His curve
ball was not over and his slow one was
clouted out of the lot. He retired in
favor Of Salisbury, who later gave way
TO a lad with red sox and an outshOot
who finished the game as far as the
game went-and the band continued to
play stirring strains.
The soldiers have not got off their
sea legs yet from the long trip across
the pond from the Philippines and in
spite of the fact that they were COM
pletely outcla ssed in the game, the SOL
dier team promises to make things in
rT-7r- - - hi
mer.
The real interest OF the game was
the workout of the three new FL Paso
pitchers and in this department the
game was we'll worth the two bit price
the mercenary management has put on
the price Of admission to the sand lot.
Things Start.
RumSey started things going and
got away without single man reach
ing first. Then Red Bodies the man
who is expected to punch holes in the
batting averages of the Cactus clubs,
went in for his first tryout of the sea-
son. Moving like a six cylinder Packa ard
and with none of the lost motion Of
"busher," Bodies got away with his
part of the farce comedy to the entire
satisfaction of all persons present He
made no effort to establish a no hit
no strikeout record All he was hung
ering for was work and he got In
abundance under the almost summer
sun. His windup is as smooth as ring
politician and his delivery of the quick
lunch kind. AS good natured as he is
hefty, Bodies looks fit to finish at the
top Of the pitching column of the
league this year.
Gray Some PITCHER.
Gray, who played left field in the
first session of the game. went in 70
pitch after things had rea ched the fire
when-rea stage and his six feet plus
of physique was working even better
than the Bodies boys. This trio of
pitchers looks good from the scorers
bench and should make a cleaning, not
to say a killing in the running this
season.
Four outs were allowed by the regu-
lars ITO permit the soldiers 10 chase
around the sacks and in the sixth an
entire shift of lineup was made. the
outfield going to the infield, and vice
versa, Bodies going to short and max
ing a perfect fielding record with ore
chance and one putout.
Oh, yeS-there was a score-14 to l.
with the troopers on the low end of
the teeter.