El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-04-25
Ell PASOANS PLAY
BALL AT MARIA
Business Men show Real Ginger and
Win the Game - Excee dinghy
Pleasant stay Mt Maria.


Maria. Tex, April 25.-El Paso busi-
ness men took an afternoon off yes
terday and became baseball players.
That they are real ball players there
is no doubt, for Maria pitted some OF
its best baseball material against the
FL PasO boosters and got beaten in a
six inning game.
"Bilr' ToOley was the sensation OF
the day. As the pitcher for the FL PaSO-
ans he showed form that has led the
punch TO Tear that Muggsy McCIraW
may try to deprive FL PasO banking
circles Of one Of the leading lights
Of the counting house.
=. p. kepley. Mike" Neff-knOWn
in business as Eugene F. Neff-RObert
krakauer, s c. MCCurdy, E Hewitt
Rogers, F. c. Searle. Leo Ferlet, S r.
Brazelton and others whose baseball
ability was no better known than that
of the First Nationals vice president,
aStOnished their friends by playing a
might have, remember-to a National
league club They hired a Mexican
catcher 10 receive the curves and near
curves that TOOley and kepley in turn
a tlnd that Maria also used him. in
the latter part OF the game. Maria
Was aIoWed 70 choose the umpire, too,
and yet the score was u for FL PasO
to II for Maria The FL PasOans saw
that II was no use playing further and
quit.
W. P Murphy was the first umpire
that Maria put into the box and when
he got tired Fred Nagel took the plate
"RObber' was the tenderest name that
any III PaS0an called either OF the UNI
pires- Talk about umpire batting. No
body ever saw IL done as 1t was done
yesterday vet the umpires did not
shoot anybody and continued to treat
the FL PasOans with the silent con-
tempt Of real umpire towards real
players.
FL PasO Plays Real Ball.
The first time at bat-Capt 5 c. Nc
Curdy won first time at bat for the FL
PasOans-the FL PasOans made six
ferent times-nObOdy kept accurate
account of when or hOW-untu at the
end OF the sixth it was u to IL s r.
Brazelton, who sells oil for the Texas
company Of FL Paso. and travels out of
Maria, knocked a three Dagger for Ell
PasO in one of the nnings-nObOdy
remembers which inning it Was-and
Eugene Neff, out of three times at bat
was hit four times by a pitched ball
and had to be carried to first base on
one occasion by E. p. Kepley. Neff
made a fine catch at third base-Once
wild Bill' TOOley pitched the first
three innings. while Kepley played
right ueIo- Ihen Iooley took rest
and chew Of tobacco, while Kepley
pitched two innings. KEEP" held them
down at first. but when they found
him, some OF those Maria batters
Davis Doctor Turner brought one of
them back in the late afternoon.
IOOley mad 10 be recalled with his
sore arm to save the day and. to show
his real metal, he famed the first man
in one, two, three Order-just like that
TOOley also knocked twO-bagger dur
ing the game.
Sensational Play by SearIe.
F. c. Searle made the most sensa-
uOnal play of the day when he slid
on the bosom of a brand new shirt
from home to first base and made Ii
safe.
+. Feuille. claim agent for the c. H.
"a nj. Lee
for the Ell Pasoans. made a sensational
catch during the concentrations
because ii was the only catch made
by the fielders-and put out Marfa's