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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-17

gether each time and hurI it at the
rival phalanx-
Can He Throw and Hit.
So much for those phases Of Mr..
must have to be ball player. Can he
throw Can he catch? Can he hit?
Can he run buses?
He who has seen Jim Thorpe hurl
football 80 yards on a forward pass
with merely an abrupt snap of the
celver, will have no doubt as to his
ability to control the ball Those who
nave seen him hurl a discus and put a
shot viii stake plenty on his amount
catch a twisting spiral punt on the
dead run seems to give a criterion on
now ne VIII take care of baSeballs in
ms territory Imagine a man daShing
from Ilrsr base at j rate Of 10 seconds
20 the lUG yards, and then broad jump
ing 3 feet into second base. How would
second baseman feel with such a base
runner bound his Way2 As to his bat
ting: leave It to Johnny McGraw to
teach those powerful arms and Shout
ders how to WELD a blUdgeOn.
VIII Surely Make Good.
ADDED 70 all this is the paramount
Iact that Thorpe is one Of those ath-
letlc wonders who prove great at any
thing physical they attempt, whether it
be football. running, jumping. base
pail SOI1s tennis, rowing or swimming
SOckaleXis was the first indian big
Lacquer, and he was great while he
lasted Chief Albert Bender was the
Lrst OF the present generation. He is
great Chief John FOrtes Meyers was
the second He is great. If Meyers
mate, Chief James E. Thorpe does not
JOIN ms kin on the top rung OF the
baseball ladder, rounding out a Won
derIul redman trio-welI-but he will.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-17
SHORT, SNAPPY SPORTLETS

II Ode CAMP. the coast bantam.
r, who was recently defeated by
Kid Williams. of Baltimore. is
clamoring for another fight with the
Kid" Campi says that he is not used
to the 20 round route and he will bet
$500 that he can defeat Williams in
second match
Johnny CoUlOn has announced that
he will soon begin training for match
with Kid Williams, provided that Sam
Harris. manager of Williams, makes
good his promise to hand him $500 if
he signs.
Tommy Gavigan. the Cleveland mid
dleWeight won decision over Howard
Morrow, of Benton Harbor, after eight
fierce rounds at Windsor, Canada. Nor
row is the middleweight who out
pointed Jack Herrick in 20 rounds at
Juarez.
Frank Chance has announced his in
tentiOn Of departing on March /, for
Bermuda, where the Yankees will train
this spring. Arthur Erwin, business
manager of the Highlanders, will ac-
company Chance.
Harry Gilmore, a scientific boxer Of
Chicago, will soon take hold of Luther
McCarty, the heavyweight champion,
and teach him fOOtwOrk, blocking and
put a polish on the big fellows hitting
Gilmore runs training school in Chi
cagO.
Tommy Burns is training at his
home in Calgary. Alberta for any
heavyweight bouts which may show on
the horizon. Burns says that he might
soon take on Bombardier Wells or meet
ATcCaT = in a 10 round bout at New
York.
Benny Chavez, bantamweight cham
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-17

TEW YORK, " Y, Feb. lit
nj looks to me, from an Alpian
- slant, that Tommy Jones has
blown his Job. Rawther he hasn't
blown the polish, but it has been
bIowed, b'gad-
You see. Tommy was the manager
of Adolphus WOlgast, who, not many
ages ago, was acclaimed lightweight
champion of the world To the pes
of our recollection AdOlphus made the
fatal mistake of meeting Willie RlJcnle
and when the deal was over the light
weight bauble rested on Whites mean
That alone caused AdOlphus many acres
of main and every time he saw Tommy
i'm fhe offing the pain increased Ado--
phus had to blame somebody so WY
NOT Tommy What could manager q
an ex-chmapiOn do in such case
We dent know, so why should you
wOrry2
get that AdOlphCs was member OF
the Down and out association and. Kept
using the stuff that went Wneh -tuOLpu
was q headliner. Every time Tommy
pulled the old wheezes ne VS. me- ~, -
a chorus Of Roman cheers Tommy kept
on plugging. however. but never maze
anv head7vav. Promoters who were
humble in the old days were naughty
now, and whenever tommy pOpPSu
into their offices they told him. We
are out"
In the meantime. AdOlphus saw many
stacks of gold slipping from MIN anu
the slips hurt horribly. Then when
Tommy hee-hawed at Jimmy Coffroth-
when the latter offered Adolphus
chance to meet Tommy Murphy On
WashingtOn's birthday the straw Icu
that cut the camel in half The news
reached little Adolphus- He imrne-
dfatelv cIinched the match vii one
hand and with the other gave Tommy
the gate
TO think he would leave 5000 DUCKS
mass me bv.r shrieked AdOlphus IS
enough to sink me into my grave Does
he know what you can buy with SOVo
iron mCn2'
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-17

piOn of the Rocky mountains, has az
rived in Albuquerque and will start
training Immediately for his 10 round
bout with Battling Chico, scheduled for
tory over Chico, in event of which he
viii go to the Pacific coast to fight
Eddie Campi-
The American league has voted a
sum Of money for the relief of Bull"
Perine, the former umpire. who is seri-
ously i'll at his home in Berkeley, Cal
Perine is in very bad shape. 1t is
feared he will lose the power Of speech
Joe Birmingham, the Maps leader,
says he intends to play unless he can
get a 800 hitter to sub for him.
Umpire Connolly speaks highly of two
of Callahan's youngsters Ray Schalk,
said the arbiter. looks to be the best
backstOp to break into the big league
in years. He is a natural ball player,
and it is a pleasure to watch him work.
Borton, the young first baseman, also
looks good to me
Beals Becker may get a regular
berth in the Reds Outfield and for
that reason will welcome his release by
the Giants. Becker never did favor a
utility role. There was little chance
for him to work steadily with New
York.
X
Connie Mack enters the prOgnOsticat-
ing ranks relative to the finish the
coming season in the American league
His choice is Athletics first, Detroit
second, Washington third, Boston
fourth and White Sox cOntenders all
the way
=
Two good pinch hitters will be with
the Giants and Yankees next season
Chance and Row HartZell for the New
York and Mccormick and Doc Crandall
for the Giants
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-17
Players Their Way Training Camp Marlin Springs

Kieze, guards. r c. Golden refereed
the first half of the match. and Miss
Ruth Bright, of Albuquerque Officiated
ii: the last half
Accompanied to the union station by
a large body of FL PasO high school
students, the Albuquerque basketball
teams, both boys and girls, left Sunday
night for their home. Sunday after
noon the New Mexico students were
chaperOned to Juarez and were shown
a general good time by the local play
ers. Efforts will be made to play off
the tie which the teams established here
when they won one and lost one game
to the high school players. They will
not enter the federation.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-17
FIVE OUTSIDE TEAMS
ENTER FEDERATION

Communications have been received
from four outside basketball teams in
New Mexico and Texas. signifying their
intention Of sending squads to compete
in the basketball federation which
meets in this city. Five outside teams
are now entered. They are. Alamo
gOrdO high school, New Mexico Normal
school. Las Vegas. Silver City Normal
school. Silver City: Agricultural col
lege at Mesilla, and Y. VI. c. A. at Big
Springs, Texas These teams with the
four local Quintets now entered make
IL necessary for only two more teams
to enter to make it a 10 team circuit
for the series The four local teams
are: Electric stars. Cactus club. High
school. Y. NJ c. a. and Company H
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-17
BICYCLE RIDERS COVER $50
-rrrE-E n - EFnF-RG r

St Louis. 40. Feb 1.-THE Krebs-
| Coburn team won the week long bicycle
race which ended here last night The
LOTUS Cameron combination was sec
ond. and De1tara and Diefenbacher
third They made CSC miles in IS hours
of racing. The three leaders were with
in a few inches OF each other at the
finish.
Fourth and fifth places went to the
Mitten-Hehir and Mackey-BlatZ teams.
respectively, with 985 miles and II
laps. The Ryan avanauEh team fin
ished sixth. making 9S4 miles laps
The sevneth team. Morton and Beck.
dropped out in the 47th hour. after hay-
ing covered 962 miles. two laps.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-17
VANGUARD OF GIANTS
ON WAY TO MARLIN

New York, n Y. Feb. 1.-THE van
guard of the New York National league
team, headed by manager John J. Nc
GraW, has left for the teams training
camp at Marlin. Texas \ good sized
crowd was at the Pennsylvania termi-
nal to see the departing Giants off and
wish them luck Christy Mathewson,
the star box man, Thomson, Hartley
and EVers comprised the playing con-
tingent with the manager.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-17
WESTERN LEAGUE OWNERS
DISAGREE OVER SCHEDILl

Lincoln, Neb-, Feb. 17.-After an all
day session in which disagreemnt was
general, the official gathering Of the
Western league of baseball clubs ad-
jOurned at midnight, in hope of get
ting up in a better mood to agree on
schedule. Adjournment was taken after
Hugh Jones, Frank Isbeu and Frank
McAIullen, composing the special sched-
ule committee had notified the gather
ing Of their intention to turn the Job
over to some one else.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-17
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81 II-aIp RRE Aks RECORn-

Ironwood Mich. Feb. 17.-Ragnar
Omtvet Of Chicago, the Norwegian stu
dent who cam to this country a year
ago to compete for the amateur cham
pionship in ski jumping, broke the
worlds record jumping as profession
al. Omtvet cleared 169 feet. beating by
I3 feet the former worlds record OF 156
feet made in Norway.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-17
snenker So. Na-ith Roston.

Boston. Mass. Feb. 1T.-President Nc
AIeer. of the champion Boston Ameri-
cans. has sent word from Chicago that
Iris" Speaker. the center fielder, has
signed his contract for 1913 Speaker
is the first OF the Boston regular out
fielders to sign for the coming season.
and it is understood his new contract
provides a substantial salar increase
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-17
BALDHEADS LOSE
BOWLING MATCH

Wearing wigs to cover their shiny
pates the baldhead five was defeated
by the Cactus Cids at the Cactus alleys
saturday night by a margin of PA pins.
One of the best games OF the season
was rolled by the Cid quintet, and Neary
of this club broke the season tOurna-
ment record for high game in a three
game match with a run of pa in his last
period. Schultz also rolled an excellent
game and was credited with high total.
GrandOver was credited with a strike
out.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-17
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Storage, $500
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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-17

Jones, catcher, Talbot. Livingston and
Cohen, pitchers; DarneI, ID; Talbot. 2b;
POmar, 3b; MOrty, II; CulpepDer. If; J.
Darnel, IF; COnen, CT Rusties, Hagel-
sieb and Pine, pithers; Robin, C; yell
ton, 1b; A Jones. Zb; Shea. 3b; Pine
S. Feathers. II; ROdin, IF; Weiss, CT
Mount Sinai Team Wins.
The Mount Sinai boys club baseball
team won their first game of the season
Saturday afternoon, when they wal
Hoped the Star Giants on the Mesa ave
nue. grounds by the score of Is to s.
ErrOld LapOwski, pitcher Of the Mount
Sinai club. flung a splendid game Fol-
lowing is the lineup of the Mount Sinai
boys club: Paul krupp. catcher; En-
rOld LapOwski. pitcher; Herman Silber-
berg, 1b; IsidOre Hoffman. Oh; sam
Lisso. So; Leonard Goodman, SIS; Leo
ROsenstein, Lester Krupp and Jake
Baron, fielders-
GrccInns Defeat POpuIars-
The Grecians Clashed with the Pop
ulars at the T. p grounds Sunday in a
nine inning tussle, and the Grecians
were returned yictOrs by a score Of
16 to u. The score.
Populars. .-.....5 1 1 , O-12
Grecians. ..-..Z 3 x-I6
Batteries; Grecians. Make and Glib
SON. Populars, Walker. Max and COOi-,
Shea
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-17

Just received a carload of roofing
paper, guaranteed with surety bond
Lander Lumber Go.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-17
BUTLEDGE Is HIGH MAN
AT RIFLE CLUB SHOOT

Hay atmosphere prevented the
scores from being up to the average,
Sunday afternoon at the regular weekly
shoot Of the FL Paso Rifle club. A
small crowd attended the match. The
weather was fair with but little wind
prevailing. George Rutledge besides be-
ing high man in the Orr trophy event
was high man in two other events with
EnTiQues and Blanco tied for second
The following scores were made in the
Orr trophy event
RutIedge. so; Martin, As: Anderson,
IS; Johnston As; Enriques. So; Blaneo,
IS; Baca, 50.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-17

SPECTAi. SPANISH DISHES
EVERY DAY At SHELDON CAFE.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-17

can grab a nice-looklnS car laHNs 80 ~
wiring direct TO Tommy Jones ines
sage prepaid.) Jones says he IS through
with WOlgast, but Ad denies IL
Fred McCay wants TO know WneIe
and when George ROdel the BOer waT-
riOr and ring performer. IougnL QuIl
the scraps in the Transyaal i Ious-1t
all through that war, declares I'54-
erick and blame me II ever Sd"
ROdel in the scraps
RodeI rises up to remark that ne De
Iieves McCay vas in the var 1OI pc
distinctly remembers tall 1elloW punt
on the lines Of 1IcCay and with an
identical shape, running every time
George charged the enemy
Il couldn't see his race, ch-Eps
RodeI. for his back was always FACING
me and he ran so fast that | could n9r
set within five feet Of him
Secretary Charles Harvey, Of the
state athletic commission, lined up the
referees at his office and demOnstrateq
what blows were to be considered 1OuL-
This kidney waIlOp,' he chOrtled as
he hit Bill Roche on the ear, must pe
abolished" That's all we wish 10 learn
today the referees chOrused as they
'westoned" to the elevator
Battling Keefe reported at the Ottee
and disclosed a devilish plot to rum
his brilliant career
"A traitor. who was always supposed
to be my friend handed me peanut
at dinner and a second after 1 ate the
fruit I felt palms." said the Battler. i
after a long consultation they told me
the peanut was dOctOred- This VIII
necessitate a long lay-Off, but when 1
recover I viii defend all my titles
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-17

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Der shop. PasO del NOrte hotel
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-17

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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-17
WOIgast Could Not Pass Up "the Iron Men"
By ED. CURLEY.

liked "WoIverne Wildcat into Fortune Declares ne
niger Manages the Former Champion
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-17
RUSTIES WIN IN
THE 18TH INNING
Reds of Amateur League
Lose Hard Fought Contest
by Score of s to Z.

A three Dagger by HagelsieD in the
18th inning brought in the winning run
in q game between the Reds and RUsties
and ended one of the hardest fought
contests which has been ever played by
the amateur teams in this city The
RusTies won the game, to Z, from the
Reds, but only after a hot scrap, in
which three pitchers were used by the
Reds and two Fingers held the mound
for the Rusties.
In the beginning Of the eighth inning
the score stood 4atO I in favor of the
RUsties, when timely hits enabled the
Reds to put arOss three runs, tying the
score. Then for 10 straight innings the
two clubs battled in world series s,yle,
both teams making a solitary run in
the 18th, 10th and 18th, and then the
heavy clout fer three bags by Hagel-
sieb scored the winning tally. This is
me second game Of the season for the
RUsties, and although they have been
handicapped by their opponents, both
games were carried of by the crack
southside team. Score:
r. II. +.
ltuStl .----..------- 10
EseoS- ----t i ~
Following are the lineups. Reds, ".
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-17
Thorpe Sure of Success In Baseball
by MONTG.

Fans Figure That Great Indian Athlete VIII Give Exhibitions
IN Running the Bases.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-17

Battling Keefe reported at the office
and disclosed a devilish plot to ruin
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-17

Il couldn't see his face" ch-rps
RodeI. for his back was always FACING
me and he ran so fast that | could not
get within five feet of him
The Chitina leader., 1913-03-18

WASHINGTON March 19-Severa conferences have beea
he'd during the past week concerning the time for commencing
te special session of Congress- Democratic floor leader I'm
derwood has urged postponement of week from April first
With the dea that the and committee woud then be
i'm better position to submit report Yesterday President
issued call for the extra session. commencing Monday
April He stated that he would later public speech
letter. point out specifically what he wishes to be considered
THE special session There is strong effort upon the part Of
many of the Representatives and Senator's to have legislation
conned to the tariff and the passage of the two big appp
ton bills that vetoed by President Taft However there
who favor taking the Alaska transportation ques
ton And is believed that before the President expresses
himself the matter he wishes to further hear the repre-
sentaves from Alaska Congressman favor early
action conference to be held with the President Thurs
day of this week by the friends of Alaska and after that it
The Chitina leader., 1913-03-18
'CH|T|NA LINE PROBABLE

WASHINGTON March lS-1ne suggestion that joint
be appointed from both houses of Congress make
INVESTIGATION into conditions Alaska this summer viewed
apprehension northerners are here working
for the development of the territory They fear that might
result delay in Congressional action looking the building
of railroads in Alaska Administration leaders and Senatorial
friends of Alaska declare that such is intention but
that the idea to information general conditions
1t is realized that the Legislature Juneau will memorial
lie Congress for considerable legislation and deem wise
that joint cmmttee visit Alaska that Congress may have
rshand information when the committees of the Houses
submit reports needed legislation
1t regarded that the Alaska Railroad Com
mission of the complete exhaustive and Intelligent
reports submitted Congress subject such vast
importance 1t known that the members unpeudiced
their conclusions and the high character of the personnel of
the Commission gives added weight to the facts as forth
question will likely arise to the ACCESSIBILITY of starting
both the Seward and Cordova lines at They will
doubed both be built IN time but only line authorized
at the special session regular there be
question but that it will start from Ctna connection the
Copper River Northwestern railway with of course branch
to the Boring river coal fields.
To bear out this contention is only necessary two
concluding paragraphs in the report of the Commission
follows
after its study of all available harbors the Commission is
of the opinion that the Cordova is without question the
1t has no disadvantage not by all and great
advantage possessed by other namely ample of good
anchorage Seward is evidently the seaport for the Matan
uska coal and Cordova the logical outlet for the Boring River
coal The comparisons of transportation given
foregoing table show that for output of 100000
nuay 1t Will cost S96 ton to haul Matanuska coal to
Seward than it will to haul the Berng River coal Cordova
and the analysis further shows that double this output
the additional cost will be Sill This places the Matanuska
coal at such disadvantage that could probably be
keted at tdewaer in competition with the Boring River coal
at is evident that the Cor1ova route the first invest
men will be less than the Seward route the resulting freight
rates will be lower the terminal port offers better harbor than
the Seward; and the tributary coal field promises the
earlier development because product marketed cheap
Each of these features points clearly to the ad
visibility of reaching the Tanana Valley via the valley of the
Copper River and the Commission therefore recommends the
construction of railway from Chitina to Fairbanks
The Chitina leader., 1913-03-18
WASHINGTON. March IS R. Cheney. of Junea

WASHINGTON, March 19-Z. R. Cheney, of Juneau, who
recently elected member of the Democratic National
Committee from Alaska to succeed the late A j. DAILY is taking
prominent part in the discussions the availability of
A Strong the latter accompanied by Mr. Cheney the
of Secretary of the Interior Lane whom he recommended
the Major for the appointment of Governor of Alaska Com
mtteeman Cheney has further endorsed L. T. Erwin of Fair
banks for the T. Marshalshp of the Fourth division
succeed Henry K Love He also favorable to the appoint
ment of Charles F. Davidson of Fairbanks succeed William
1.-THE Territory The resignation of Governor Clark
received and expected that his will be the first APP
ointment made for Alaska. His does expire until
next FALL but he has indicated Willingness be relieved
the duties of the Office the of the President
lit expected that practically all the other officials will prefer
their although several Judges Marshas and
terms expire.
The Chitina leader., 1913-03-18
ACTIVITY IN COPPER MINING


W. Holden who has just returned to Cordova from the
INTERIOR that everything looks very encouraging In
their camp which formerly the Berg property the Kuska
lima Copper Co., has two shifts working the No. tunnel
which they pushing fast possible They making
working tunnel there sx6 in the clear They busy get
ting their provisions in for the and preparing
work twenty this coming The No. Tunnel
bids to be equal better than that in Nos and which
was very satisfactory
Work the Rarus Group going forward
agement of Mr. Hes This part of the Alaska Consolidated
Co.'S property Angus Mac Dougal of Fairbanks who
the property next the Rarus reported in the Fairbanks
paper having refused cash offer of million dollars for his
property saying that he is holding it for two million.
The Great Northern Development Company through Man
Gray who outside, is arranging work
on large scale their Copper Mountain property. New
machinery will be installed and the necessary buildings erected
next fall Another of Mr.. Grays companies Regal
poets to put in tram and ship from their property Ken
necott, this Fall.
The Alaska United Copper Exploration Company pre-
pairing work on their property located near the
Kuskuna glacier and the Porcupne near the Great
Northern property Thomas Lynch will be in charge of the
work there this This company had
of working continuously for three years past
Westover copper property near Dan Creek.
The Kennecott Mines Company is busily engaged in
erecting the building the mouth of the NINE burned
couple of months also in repairing the tramway 1t is
expected that by they will be working from six to
eight hundred men and will ship much greater quantities
than before
The holdings of the Mother Lode Copper Mines Company
on the mountain side the ridge from the Bonanza will
be extensively worked this summer under of
George E. Baldwin and William Ryan, the fiscal agent The
machinery for tram has arrived Cordova while heavy
mber for receiving and schargng bins will reach here
next week. By Fall shipments will be made
Mr. Weker has in for the Houghton Michigan,
people, the property beside the Mother Lode claims
preparing to develop that this summer
The HubbardEott people have shipped in large outfit
including compressor which is all the the mine
present time. They will work large force of under Mr.
Carl Hauser
Certainly there is promising outlook for mining develop
ent during the coming season In both the Kuskuna and
Nazna sections of the interior The trains running
larry and smoothly clear through Kennecott while Mr.
shorter time than ever before his previous trips