El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-09-12

= Chief Bender. of the Philadelphia Ath-
! letics, who have lately been taking
some hard falls off the water wagon,
! have been Indefinitely suspended by
manager Connie Mack. Both players
have been sent home to get back into
condition.
Kid Mccoy in vain ragged and begged
and prayed Qegally) to be released
] from a British jail during his stay in
| England It was not until he wrote a
poem that they let him go. Perhaps
] they feared he might become an habit
ual offender.
Both British candidates for National
golf honors were overcome and their
play interfered with, they said, by the
American heat. The question arises:
Was it the sun or the pace that was too
Miss CIorence LaDue. of Calgary.
won the woman's worlds championship
pede. defeating Miss Lucille Mulhall. Of
Oklahoma, former worlds champion.
Perhaps that Frank Chance doesn't
know what he's doing. He gets two
good ones in trade and, in return.
gives Artie Holman, who may, some
time or other, come back, and pitcher
Cole who is all burnt out
As the promoter of the Players IN
ion remarks (originally): In union
there's strength" The same is also
true Of cheese and butter
Because Iris Speaker has made such
a fine showing at the plate this year,
he need not necessarily be classed as
dining room athlete.
At Lenox, Mass, nine girls from the
summer colony have organized a base
ball team and college mems team, cap
tanned by Kimball Salisbury, of Pitts
of
viii be played today. 1t is probable
that the mems team will be suitably
handicapped by being forced to play
without its outfielders.
For ten innings Mellon Wolfgang, Of
Lowell, held Lynn to no hits and no
runs without a man reaching first base
in New England baseball league
a new record for organized baseball
under the National commission. The
record shows four no-hit no-run
games for ten innings, but Wolfgang's
feat of allowing no man to reach first
in ten innings is said to be unique.
In the eleventh, the first Lynn man
up singled over second, but Wolfgang
again ughtened up. and not another
hit was made by Lynn until a lucky
single was made in the twelfth. Low
ell won, to 0.
Opposition to the use of Evans Park
al fNiNeESlQ6 IOT framing purposes by
the Chicago American baseball team
has developed among school officials.
Samuel c. Evans Progressive nomi-
nee for congress in the Eleventh Cal
nornia district who donated the park
to this city with the provision that
it be used only for games between
school teams said he was willing to
concede the use of the park to the
Chicago team He said that an effort
would be made to call a conference
of civic bodies to ascertain if they
would prepare special grounds for the
Chicago ball players.
Thomas Sharkey's periodical decIar-
alton of war has interested Robert
Fitzsimmons. OF course, those old
men will never meet again in the roped
arena, but Mr. Fitzsimmons will never
forget the deal he received when he
fought Mr. Sharkey in Frisco 16 years
ago Fitz landed a solar plexus blow
and the tattoOed sailor tumbled to the
floor. One Wyatt carp, expert with
six-shOOter, was the referee and
with startling promptness he declared
Sharkey the winner on a foul. Fitz
declared that he was the Wctim of
highway robbery Four years later he
proved it when he fIattened the mus
cular tar in two rounds at Coney Island
The Cornishman displayed the bitter
est feeling when he refused to shake
hands before or after the quick mill