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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-06
However, Local Y. NJ. q. A.
Furnishes Big Stars
Of Event.

team, is thanking his stars that he is
alive and well. Thomas was doing a
little practice with the discus in the
morning and he let fly a wild heave
The discus started straight for PUN
phrles, who, all unconscious OF MS uan
ger. was rubbing down one Of the
sprinUerS on q nearby bench The wind
carried II a bit to one side and IL
smashed a bottle within two inches of
the trainer into q thousand bits
Everyone was sorry that Jimmy
Brann again strained his leg. The 100
between him and Sheldon should have
been one OF the prertlest events of the
day
Coach H l. Mitchell and assistant
physical instructor Brown. Of the Y
accompanied the team on its trip
Mitchell had full charge Of the field op-
eratiOns locally.
In every event the a. and NJ athletes
showed careful training and they car
ried themselves eXcellently.
Romero had trained faithfully for the
meeting and his victories and record
smashing was hailed with delight BY
his team mates
In the relay event Hughes. Of the 10
cal Y. cut down 40 yard disparity in
start and gave his man an advantage Of
20 yards, such running as that would
have plated him one-two in tie quarter
The high school. with only small
squad present, strived valiantly TO
bring all the points possible to Ell Paso.
Manager SchWartZ's men knew they did
not have a chance, but they did their
best nevertheless.
In Stanley Shea. I6 years old. the
high school has a man who should de-
velop into a shot putting wonder sat
urday he all but touched the 80 feet,
and he has fine form IN the event Two
years Of training with the strength OF
growth should allow him to set the
scholastic record of the southwest.
BOusman. H Smith and NabOrs com
posed the three leading satellites OF the
winners. II. Smith grab bed the largest
number of points and thereby wins the
gold medal His score was figured al
Is. while Joe Sheldon. OF the local Y,
fell one-fOurth Of a point behind this
a. Il BadenOCh, president Of A. and
n, OBLIGATED eXcelenly as clerk OF
course. In fact all Of the Officials
Outdid themselves There was not one
protest Of their rulings
The prepOnderance Of seconds and
thirds was what won for the A and d.
There was hardly an event out of which
they did not make something.
Ma bors had the toughest sort OF luck
in both Of the hurdle races. or he would
have won the individual hOnOrs OF the
meeting.
Wait until next year" was the alb
duration OF the local athletes TO the A
and N. men when they left for home.
Upon further study Of the track meet
Of last Saturday and the former records
won the individual prize for the larg-
est number Of points won, also made a
new federation record for the quarter
mile when he romped home in So 3-5
seconds The former record was 81 sec
Onds fiat
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-06
Southwestern Federation Field Day
Is Easily Won By A. and M, College
ARNIS)
(BY' LEWIS ARMS)

A and N. won first hOnors, with Arms
and Hem OF the Y. second and third,
respectively. j. O. Majors had the speed
in this event, but put himself out of the
running by tipping the first hurdle
The 100 yard dash was sheldon all
the way. He ran away from his field
easily and gracefully, with II. Smith
and F. Wharton of A and NJ finish
ing second and third, while Brann, OF
the ", % who severely sprained his leg
when he won his heat in the prelimin
aries of the morning, practically
walked in fourth
The $50 yard dash was next on the
program. and in this Ben Romero
flashed his beautiful bit of sprinting.
T. Taylor ". Geiser of the A. and NJ,
and a. Hedrick, OF the local high
school. finished in the order named
Tho time was 2-t-3.
The 220 yard hurdles was won easily
by L. Lane. A and NJ with F. Elliott
and r. Buvins coming second and third.
Majors fell in this event and did not
finish. The time was -29L
The 40 yard dash went to II. Smith,
though he was hard pressed at the fin
ISL by E. Wharton. Hughes. of the 10
cal Y should have had third place, but
he unintentionaly committed a foul
and L. Lane drew his place, with A.
Fisher fourth, giving every point in
this event TO A. and NJ The time was
-544, which was fast, considering the
wind.
IN Lllt ~ L-ll ucis44s ctS Dt--OAE SlaLEU,
Joe Sheldon made the event look like
a burlesque by his great speed H.
Smith was second, T. Wharton. third,
and r. Buvins fourth The time was
-23.3.
Ben Romero had just as easy time
in the mile as he did in the half, if this
time was not as sensational. He came
home first In 5-l@, with T. Taylor i.
Morris and W. Geiser finishing in the
order named.
The Dole vault went TO 7 Nabors AZ
nine feet and three inches. r. Price. of
the local high school, was second, and
Johnnie LOretZ and r Elliott tied at
third. Loretz won the flip.
Majors cOppered the high jump, too
getting five feet three and One-hah
inches as his mark. Z. May, II. Smith
and W KnOrr finished in the order
named.
In the weight events :. Bausman had
things very much his own way. He took
the discus with a heave of 81 feet and
IL inches, which is a new record for the
federation r. Pickens. Of the local Y
was second, hurting the plate over 90
feet, while J. Anderson finished third
and L. Weddeu fourth
In the shot put BauSman won again
with a heave of SO feet and Il inches
Arms, of the y was second. with Shea
Of the high school third and l. Weddeu
fourth
The running broad jump fell 10 John
ny LOretz, when he fitted through 1.
feet. nine and three-fourth inches of
space Vern Lyman, of the high
school, came in second. and Shelton
was third r. Brainard took fourth
in this.
The relay was the last event on the
program and was won by the A and
NJ after some Of the niftiest team
sprinting seen in many a day about this
section. The time was 1854 The high
school was third
Notes of the Meeting
John Pumpries. the trainer Of the Y.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-06
ANNUAL FIELD DAY
NEW MEXICO NORMAL
Big Crowds Sees Match Be
tween Lierati and Ly-
ceum Track Teams.

Silver City y. NJ. May 6.-Friday
was field day at New Mexico Normal
and a large crowd witnessed the ath-
Ietic contests between the Lyceum and
the Literati societies The results with
names of contestants follow:
Basket ball throw, Eirls-Card
Twaits, Wachusen- Distance 65 feet.
Shot put. bOys-Pennewell Crawford
StOckland. Distance % feet
Running high jump. bOys-Penneweu
OTTAWA PrevOrt- Height feet g.
Egg race, girls-White, Jones
Beolls. Time II seconds
100 yard dash, boys-Barttlett. Black
well, Crawford Time, II seconds
70 ward dash, girls-Twaits White,
DemmicI5. Time, 10 seconds.
100 yard hurdle, bOys-Outavia, Ward,
Bartlett Time. Il seconds.
so yard dash, girls-Twaits, Demmick,
White. Time seconds.
Running broad jump-Blackwell,
Pennewell. OTTAWA Distance IS feet.
go yard relay. girls-Won by the
Literati team
40 yard relay. boys-Won by Liter
att
Final score Of points: Literad 81;
Lyceum IS.
In the tennis games played the score
stood L.vceum p Ldterati 6. Monday
night at the armory the basketball con-
test viii take place and big crowd
VIII witness the game The parlla-
meutary contests take place at Normal
hall next Friday night and the literary
contest Friday, May H.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-06
COCK Of WALK IS
NOW THE MILLER5
Top Of Heap Following The
City League Play Of
Two DAYS

Three games served TO bust the tie
existing in the City league and there
energies to the top the lrrepressible
Globe Mnlers. leading the league with
. record of three games won and but
/ one lost.
The millers turned the trick by bust
ing the soldiers once more IN a pure
and simple slug fest Saturday by the
rOtund score OF II to Is. The soldiers
had beer waiting for this game with
the announced intentions Of evening up
d score suffered on the opening day OF
the season The millers stuck to their
knitting like an organization of old
women and worked so industriOusly
sluggers guarding the Rio Grande.
Big Crowd Ont Yesterday.
Sundays games were played before
a crowd which amply filled the seating
capacity at Washington Park. The
soldiers hove back into form in the first
game and reefed the White SOx, who are
suffering greatly from a paucity Of
pitchers. by a score Of 7 to I. while in
the second game the millers beat the
InternatiOnals to 5 when the Next
cans went up on a kite in the opening
inning and allowed the millers TO push
seven runs over the rubber.
Thereafter the foreigners settled
down and allowed not single score,
playing really brilliant ball in spots
But the damage had been done. The
MeEicaaS Strived irdustriouslv to pick
up the long lead and played a better
uphill game than was expected Of them.
The soldiers have that beautiful
faculty OF clustering their drives
They did this Yesterday in the second
and the seventh innings and when the
hit carnage had passed seven runs was
their total
First Inning an AtrOcity.
The second game outside of the first
inning vas snappy and interesting In
the opening period the millers batted
around and while the Mexicans PLAYED
hide and seek and drop the handker-
chief with the pill seven miIers
marched across the plate
The Internationals picked up two in
the third and one in each of the sixth
and seventh innings which added TO
the one in the first made five runs and
lad IL not been for the misera BILE open
ing they might have had a chance to
win The scores:
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-06
FIVE RECORDS 60
8YBTM0T080R1hE
Speed Monsters Of Santa
Monica Romp On Big
Mile Pie Pan

Los Angeles Nay 6.-Five new
worlds speedway records were estab-
Iished at the mOtordrome one mile pie
pan yesterday by drivers who partici-
pated in Saturdays Santa Monica road
race. Caleb Bragg in the ninety horse
power Fiat which he drove into second
place in Saturdays classic, broke the
worlds five-mile record for all classes
held by Ralph de Palma, lowering the
latter's mark by about four seconds
His time was three minutes, IL "a
seconds.
broke Ofdfield's record for the same
distance for 500 cubic inch cars and Joe
Nikrent In a Case broke Ray Har-
roun's record for cars of 300 cubic inch
class DisbrOW'S time was minutes,
25 lilo seconds almost Is seconds fast
er than the former record and Nikrents
time. 3 minutes, A $40 seconds was
more than II seconds faster than the
previous record
Dfsbrow in a Case also established
new ten-mne record for cars Of the
500 cubic inch class his time being
minutes 46 2-5 seconds. The fifth
record broken was that in the 800
cubic inch class held by HarrOun for
25 miles Nikrent covered that dis
lance in IS minutes. So As seconds.
almost minute faster than the old
record.
This record was made in an ex-
citing race between Nikrent and Ralph
de Palma who was driving the Mercer
with which he won the medium car
race at Santa Monica Saturday and In
which Nikrent was second. De palma
won from Nikrent in two five mile
events.
The fastest mile Of the day was
driven by DisbrOW in the Jey Eye See
in IS seconds flat F. 7 Wagner Off
ciated as starter and the races were
electrically timed.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-06
Totals


The play Of Saturday and Sunday
was enlightening It showed beyond
doubt that the race bids 10 be even
more interesting that was at first an
ticipated. This is due to the Mexicans
The feeling has existed that their
rather slip shod methods in playing a
different lineup on each Sunday would
have a deIeterious effect upon the
league.
Yesterday the Mexicans got together
the snapDiest lineup that they have vet
presented and when Manqueria reioins
the Intcruatlonals. they promise that
they viii have out the same lineup on
each Sunday
That being the case the race is going
to be compact and snappy the season
through. The MeXicanS can play ball,
I'm their own way, fast enough to prove
interesting competition at all timees.
The question now arises as to what
sort of a jinx those millers have on the
soldiers. Twice now the blue suits
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-06

experience Of last year. for he took
the lead in the second lap OF the
race Saturday and never was
headed. In the final lap he crashed
into fence at death turn throw
ing a tire and jamming his gas tank
but ne repaired the damage and
was on his way before rivals could
catch Up with him.
Barney Oldfield drove q car
which was a duplicate OF the one
driven by Tetzlaff but as usual the
king Of dirt track drivers was IN
able to show" in a road race. An
axle spring went bad. ne tossed 3
tire and the great Oldfield was
cut OF the running.
In the medium car event Ralph
de Palma in a Mercer set a new
record FOR the 231 TO 500 inches pis-
ton displacement motors BY aver
aging 69-54 for 151 miles In tbs
baby car class JOrmann OF Los An
geles with Maxwell. averarer
6l,s6 which is another record.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-06
WORLDS ROAD RACING
RECORD Is SMASHED
Teddy Fetzaff In Fiat 80 Averages 1880 Miles Per
Hour For 303 Miles Over Famous Santa
Monica Racing Course
IBY AUTOGRAPH
0nica Racing Course

- FIFTEEN years ago a motor pro-
PEELED vehicle which could av-
erage Is miles per hour
and stick to the road for any con-
siderable length Of time was con-
sidered marvellous and approaching
the penultimate.
Saturday on the Santa Monica
race course in California Teddy
80 averaged 1850 miles an hour
for sos miles. breaking the former
worlds road racing record by close
to four miles the hour.
such speed as this hardly may be
cOmDrehended- 1t is faster than
the fastest train de luxe time oper-
ated any place in the United States.
That a motor. shot by gas, could
hang together over such a long
stretch at such a speed is q Won
derful commentary on the science
of motor dynamics as mastered to-
day.
Not His First Victory.
Ietzlaff, two years ago. over the
same course. drove a LOZier TO vic
tory and created a new American
road racing record, almost eQualing
the time made by Felix NaZarrO on
the Italian FlOriO course with
Fat which time was 1876 Last
year Harvey Herrick of Los An
geles in a National so won in 1853,
creating G new worlds record.
The fact that Tetzlaff topped
Herrick's mark by almost four
miles the hour shows something OF
the tornado speed at which his
big red devil must have been 60
ing.
Caleb Bragg in another Fiat. Of
the same power. and David Bruce
Brown in a Benz. both or whom
were favOrites for the race. fin
tsned second and third respectively.
Is Foreign Car, American Built.
While the Fiat is. strictly speak
ing, a foreign creation. it is Ameri-
can built for the T. I. A. r. Co. of
Italy. found that its car was so
popular in the United States that &c
would pay TO enter the selling COM
petition on this side Of the water.
thus eliminating the import duty.
Therefore the company located I'm
New York and the Flats owned in
America. are American built.
Tetzlaff is a yOuugster. in his
early tWenties. In last OctOber's
race he drove a Fiat but had such
consummate hard luck in the mat
ter OF tossing tires that he was
virtually out Of the race before it
was half run
Evidently he profited by the tire
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-06
NEW MARK is MADE
WITH PROFESSIONALS

New York. May 6.-In an interna-
UOnaI race al Celtic Park yesterday,
A. T. Wood. the English teu-mile
champion won from a field of twelve
professionals and made a new worlds
record OF IS minutes, Is seconds. Will
liam QCeal of Alexandra Bay n Y.
finished second about 700 yards be-
hind Al Shrubb of England was
third. Henry Styves Of France quit
at ten miles.
The former record, so minutes and
4-5 seconds was made by Charles APP
pleJon al Glasgow. Scotland several
years ago.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-06
Records Go By In One OF
The Prettiest Meetings
Of Season


The 1912 field day OF the Southwest
ern Amateur Athletic federation passed
into history Saturday, but the memory
of some Of the dazzling feats which
were turned in TINS sectional track
classic viii linger long with the spec
tatOrs who crowded the grand stand
and Overran the field Al Mesilla Park
A and n. college won, and won lOp-
sidedly. scoring 90 II points to 40 IL
by the FL PasO Y NJ C. A and II points
for the local high school
But while collectively the A and NJ.
star was in the ascendency. individually
the local Y NJ c. A. captured huge
gObs OF glCry through the spectacular
work of two of its men, Ben Romero
and Joe Sheldon.
They were the heavyWeights of the
field day and Romero ported one new
record in the half mile, while Joe Shell
don went him one better ana hung up
new and fancy marks In the 100 and
the go yard dashes-
Romero Ran SensatianaIly.
ROmerOs record was a feature bit
of running which came as a Theatric
climax to a period Of hard luck which
has been following this young man in
field meets of other DAYS Two years
ago he won the half mile. only TO be
disqualified for unintentional fouling-
Last year he won again, when his
brother metaphOricaIlv, spilled the
beans, by running along beside him
down the stretch, urging him 10 win.
This was construed by the judges as
uuOrthOdOX and Romero was ruled out
again
But this year victory came clean cut
and glowing The dark skinned youth
got away to beautiful start in q field
OF eight entrants and taking the lead
loo yards from the start, he simply
killed Off his field by his demon
speed and pulled up across the tape
with mark of two minutes. seven and
three fifths seconds. This smashed the
former record. held by Chenoweth, Of
the local high school by nearly seven
seconds, showing conclusively that PO-
nero is the best helf miller that has
been turned out of local Institutions
yet
sheldon is Easy Victor.
The graceful and fleet Sheldon sim
ply ran away from the field in the 100
and 22O yard dashes. His running
was as precise as though machine built
He won both of his preliminary heats
and duplicated this performance in the
finals OF the afternoon. taking OcCas-
ion TO hang up new marks for the fed
Grafton spTinuers to shoot at In COM
ing years. He turned the century in
10 SIS seconds and he made the other
runners in the 220 yard dash appear as
though they were standing still when
lie come over the line in % SIS seconds.
On top of this Sheldon ran the last
lap OF the relay and almost nOsed out
the tape man who started with
so yard handicap on a quarter mile.
The events were competed in precise
and WOrkmanlike order. It was a sue
cessfuI field day in every particular.
In the 120 yard hurdles, Issacs Of the
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-06
Free Concert.

On Monday, May 6th. we viii receive
a $4,000 Wurlltzer Automatic Orches-
ira representing nineteen men We cor
daily invite the public to our store to
hear this very wonderful instrument.
which we will have on exhibition only
for four days. commencing Monday
store open till 10 p. m
"a PasO Piano Co..
Cor. Myrtle and Campbell Streets, Op-
pOsite EIks' Home.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-06

Some handsome Uncalled-for spring
suits-a size for most every man.
Nearly all the new fabrics are repre-
scented in this collection You can save
SO to SIS by buying one Of these r.
V. Pearson, 10 Texas
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-06
GOOD CROWD TURNS OUT FOR
" EEKLX SHOOT OF RIFLE CT

There was 8 good crowd present at
the regular weekly shoot OF the IN
Paso Itifle club at their grounds on
sunday morning Next sunday will be
the last shoot on the prize socks Of
Tered oy a local haberdashery and every
shooter should be present. as from pres
ent indications there viii be some ties
in this event that viii be shot off i'm
mediately following the next Sundays
shoot
The following were the scores made
in the different events:
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-06

Boston at Chicago.
Brooklyn at PittsbUrg,
Philadelphia at Cincinnati
New York at st. Louis.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-06
Gamea Tuesday.

Chicago at Washington.
st. Louis at New York.
Cleveland at Philadelphia.
Detroit at Boston.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-06
HIGHLAND PARK BEATS LAMAR:
DURANGO WINS FROM Rustic.

The Highland Park baseball team
defeated the Lamar nine by the score
of % to Is. The score by innings:
r. H. E
Lamar .....2 o o O . ia Is 5
Highrd PIX s o 3 o 1-23 so
Batteries. Highland Park. Alared
and l. Marty: Lamar-Walker Gun
bingham and Gimble.
The second Rusties were defeated by
the second Durango by a score OF u
to 10.
Score: r. II. F.
Second RUstieS --..--.--.--...1O l.
Second DuranEOs .---------.-12
Battehies: Rusties-SinO and Wilson,
ngO-TOcallOs and GuillermC.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-06

One hundred porch columns and caps
What viii you give for them? No rea-
sonabIe offer rejected. Lander Lumber
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-06
TncaIIed-for snring suIts.

all colors and sizes. on which I can save
you $40 to SIS. r. V. Pearson, 10
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-06

We still have some big bargains in
than half price. Lander Lumber c.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-06

Tailor Made Suits ut Cost.
Some handsome uncalled-for sprinr
suits-a size for most every man
Nearly all the new fabrics are reDre-
seuted in this collection You can save
$40 to SIS by buying one of these. r.
V Pearson. 10 Texas
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-06
Games sunday.
Canes TuesdRv.

Chicago. s; PittsbUrg, =.
Cincinnati. H. st. Louis, 9.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-06

$50 6S9 $50 1888
Margin. 161. High game. BIumen-
thai. 224 High total. Blumenthal
5g7. Umpire, Wynkoop. Scorer. Herky.
vverstt cars. valley Implement Co.
Fresh buttermnk FL Paso Dairy.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-06
KICKIN' THEIR DAwG AROUN.

Herald and Times printers tangled
up in a bowling match at the Cactus
club and the Heraldites violated all
precept and precedent by getting
trimmed. The scores.
The box score follows
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-06
TEXAS LEAGUE.
CTTT LEAGUE.

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CLUB STANDING. =
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AMERICAN LEAGUE.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.

Glme6 sunday.
Chicago. .; Cleveland. l.
Detroit, 8; St Louis, ..
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-09-05
BENNINGTON ELECTS MARTIN
Three O'Clock in Morning When Fight
over Town Representative Is De-
cided-ChOice n Democrat.

Bennington. Sept At was three
o'clock this morning before the count
on the second ballot for town repre-
sentative was announced and Fred c.
Martin. democrat, was found to be the
successful candidate. The polls for
the second ballot were kept open until
midnight and the next three hours
were consumed in making the count
Martin had 902 votes to 657 for the
republican candidate, Robert f. Healy.
Martin led on the first ballot with 724
TO 6S3 for his nearest opponent. On
the second ballot large portion OF
the voters who had previously cast
their ballots for the citizens, the So
cialist and the workmen's candidates
must have swung to Martin. The new
representative was a candidate for the
office two years ago. being defeated by
the present speaker, Frank f. Howe
He is a young man who has ALWAYS
been prominent In democratic politics
has served two terms as village presi-
dent and was one OF the delegates sat
large to the Baltimore convention.