El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-09-04

confident that he would pull down the
Dig end of the purse and secure an
other fight with WOlgast on the
strenSth of it. Instead he is back to
the minors for1 him, and he will have
20 take long rest before he will be
III TO fight another 20 round match.
Mandot laced little Jose to pieces in
alInost every round. He got to his
PuzzIlng defensive style earlier in the
going than did WOlgast and he ripped
rights and lefts into the Mexican lads
Nltals almost at will. 1t was only at
long range that Rivers had a show and
even then Mandot made it uncomfort-
dole 1or him with his wicked waIlops
70 the Dody and head Rivers failed to
make MAKE the good showing against the
against Wolgast on July l. His show
ing was decided disappointment to
MS friends, for he had been touted to
WIN by every coast writer and many
IN Chlcago, and the other big cities
Inc sidenghts on the fight, always in
terestlng to a fight follower, will, be
ueVoured with unusual interest for the
IeaI CONDITION of Rivers after the fight
Was not put on the wire. If lie got
anything like what the telegraphic re-
port 1ntimates he did, Rivers will have
a hard time coming back to Wolgasts
Fielder Jones, the great PLAYING
manager of the Chicago White SoX,
when that club put over a pennant win
game for keeps. This may sound like
news that was stale six years ago
put 1t is right up to the minute, for
ISst now now Fielder is presiding over
league up around Portland, Ore. When
ne quit the SoX he sWOre that he was
shfousn with the big stick League, was
experience to the lumber business and
could not think of reentering baseball
bul the lure of the bleachers was too
much 1or the man with the baseball
lFst name, and he is now closing his
Daseoau career from another angie as
the head of the Northwestern league
BUT Its again the never again story
with Jones, for he says that he has big
business interests which demand his
time and his resignation is in the hands
OF the directors at the close of the
present season.
The elimination of Joe Jeanette. the
negro tighter, by a second rate fighter
named Clark, in Pittsburg. Labor day
removed another of the individuals who
been fighting fifth and sixth class men
around New York, beating their heads
OFF for a part of the gate receipts, and
getting away with it, until the fight
commission cancelled the permit for
the Johnson-Jeanette fight and took
away what interest the negro Jeanette
might have. While no decision was
given, Clark hadNthe best of the going
Johnson's class any more than Flynn
was when they met at Las Vegas
Los Angeles and Phoenix are getting
together on this fall road race The
500 miles race across the desert is a
thriller that is staged each year, start
ing at Los Angeles and ending in Phoe-
nix. The race is. a high speed, endur-
ance race and has furnished some
great finishes in the past. Phoenix auto
enthusiasts are backing the race TO
IL tx i =
Imperial valley through which the
race Will pass, are putting up hard
earned money to have it go through
their communities, thereby giving them
Los Angeles papers. In California. per-
mission is being given for the racing
cars to speed through the streets on
the high, with proper police patroling
A race of this kind to Ell Paso would
be splendid thing for the automobile
business here and would focus the
spotlight on this promising southwest
ern auto field as it has done in Phoe-
nix.
Walter Johnson, pitching marvel of
the age. has been put into the $4,000
class by Wee Willie McAleer. president
of the Boston Red SoX- The offer was
made to Clark Griffith. manager Of the
Americans, while he and
McAleer were having lunch together.
Clark thought Willie was kidding him,
but he offered to put up $1,000 cash
as forfeit, whereupon Griffith turned
the offer face down and said that if
Johnson was worth that much real
money to Boston, he was worth twice
the amount to Washington.
That is a great race the Millers ana
Soldiers are Offering at the park in the
City league series. First the Soldiers
won. then the A1illers pick one up. and
they whipsaw back and forth until the
Soldiers have their next months pay
bet on the 22d infantry, and the back
ers of the flour makers are saving car
fare to bet on the Millers.
This motorcycle racing game is an |
other fool killer, for the men speed it |
up on a track that is tipped like a !
saucer with the cat trying to get the |
asst drop of milk If any one of 1000 /
things there is slow music in honor of /
hat particular racing motorcyclist-
The public school league opened in /
81 Paso with a record attendance Tues |
lay.