El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-04-20
CACTUS LEAGUE DOPE

Wanted: a name for the FL Paso
team. Not that lei Paso'' is not good
enough for any baseball team that ever
donned a flannel suit But it is a pet
name that is wanted-one by which the
team may be affectionately called by
the loving fans much as lovers call each
other after the fowls of the field and
the birds of the barnyard- Every team
has such a name and it is now up to Ell
Paso TO get busy and find suitable
name for the boys in white. White Sox
was the term applied to the white leg
horns last year but that name. adopted
from the favorites of the Chicago Amer
ican league team. ceased to have any
application when the color of the no.
Siery was changed in the new fall fair
uniforms
Hughie Fullerton, impressed by the
songs and calls of the Wild Cat club at
the Sox smoker, dubbed the local team
the Wild Cats" and called them that in
his telegraph report of the second
White Sox game here. The name Gao
tus Club" has been suggested but this
is not distinctive enough as the league
is known by that name. Douglas calls
its pets the Demons" Cananea, for the
want of better name, uses the words
Copper Diggers' for its team. Bisbee
Is known as the '.Mucker' team, aid
albuquerque calls its team the "Grays."
IL 10 up " "a f2SO ldIlS TO get pussy
and dig up a name for their club. Young
as it it, the club needs to be christened,
and since the team belongs to the fans,
1t is up TO them in the role of fond and
doting parents to suggest pet name
for the club-why not 'Harbuck's
Husk - Send in a suggestion to The
Herald and have II printed; see how it
sounds.
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team of four years ago. who has been
with the desert league in California dur
ing the past winter season, was here
Tuesday on his way to join the Clinton,
Iowa, team at Davenport This team Is
owned by Ted Sullivan, the veteran
baseball authority, who was here ahead
of the White Sox. Corr will play third
with the Clinton team and also as
change catcher. He was signed by Sui
Ivan because of his ability to hit, as
he led the desert league in California
with his hitting.
The Ell Paso boys who have gone high
er up, continue TO appear in the box
scores of the different teams with which
they are playing. Mills and Galloway
played with the Shreveport team against
San Antonio again Monday, Lamar be-
ing replaced by Cowan on third.
Galloway failed to connect with Bill
liard's curves for a safety an Gal. has
error to his credit in the last column
of the tabulated score. Mills is also
credited with dropping high fly in the
story of the game, but the official scorer
gave the batter hit instead of mark
ing an error against the center fielder
Mills is leading off the batting order,
and is hitting the pill out to the
gardeners and is expected to put it
where they amt as soon as he gets
going good Monday, in the fifth Mills
hit a home run to deep left scoring
three runs. He also got a single. Gin
cinnati did not play Tuesday and there
is no report from Bad Hop" Wingo
Anderson.
Pitts, who went in to relieve Mathew
son Sunday and who slaShed out the
three Dagger for Douglas, was released
by Bisbee and the Douglas fans are
having considerable good natured fun
at the expense OF their near neighbor as
q result of Pitts's work here.
Duck, Gowan, center fielder and flow
er girl to his friend. John Fisher. Duck
came in from the park Tuesday after
noon after practice with a boquet OF
sweet scented peas for his friend with
the big voice.
No longer is Bisbee to be known as
the Bisbeeites have changed the name
of their club to the ''Maroons.'' The
uniforms are to be of the color of the