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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-13
Native Sons Glory In the
Fighting of McAuister
Calfornians Think the Bear State Has Given the World
Another of Those Britts and COrbetts Since
McAllister Showed His Mettle in the Ring
Against Battling Levinsky.
BY DAMON RUNYON.

otherwise there was no intense interest
in this event. Tad saved stakes and bet
the chunk On Jack Britton in the sec
Ond event
Jack is a curly-haired and very
promising welterweight. That is. he
promises to be a middleweight some
day, if he keeps on growing. his
pOundage was announced as 1873, while
his opponent, Phil Bloom. weighed but
1874 with his shoes on, as Mr.. HUMPHREYS
carefully. specified Completely stripped
Phil would weigh only 12S.
From MOrEan's Stable.
Jack Britton is from the garage Ct
Daniel Morgan, the well known self
starting manager of Battling Levinsky.
Jack wore a pair of green trunks and
then wore the undivided support Of the
politicians present.
Britton is one of those clever stand
hit-'em- int he-eye fellows, while young
P Bloom fights from ambush
He cOnceaIs himself behind a crouch,
emerging only at stated intervals with
his arms flying loosely about like the
shot from the Mexican artillery. =.
BrittOn had to reach in very cautiously
with long left jabs in order to. give
p Bloom what you might call nasal
hemOrrhage, if you wanted to veil the
gOrv details.
Britton won by a considerable mar
0in, but was unable to knock 'hilip
sc Gus at the close, but he was stin do
ing his very best Angels can 20 no
more.
1IcAlIister came on unattended by the
encourage of squawking Of seconds
common TO fighters in these parts. That
proves he is unfamiliar with local Gus
toms. but he will get over that
He had seconds, all right enough,
but they were singularly silent men.
They were each strangers in our city
of deaf and dumb. Between rounds
they spoke to Robert in whispers and
paid serious attention to his nose. 1t
appears Robert has trouble with his
breathing
The Californian wore a maroon scanty
trunk with the insignia of the Olympic
club tastcfully woven on the right hip.
B. LeVinsky was arrayed in his neatly
fitting white girdle with the Greek
letter fraternity emblem on the side.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-13
Giants Are Not Likely
To Sign Cuban Shorfshop
Romanach Who Has Sky High Ideas Of Salaries to Be
Paid by Big Leagues, Has Sent His Terms to New
York Club; Has Received No Answer as Yet
BY SAN CRANE.

practice with the Giants has surprised
thousands of New York fans, as well
as those of other cities he has visited
will have to look out for his laurels
as the phenomenal kid"
The Alamendares club has youth
full mascot named Luis Valdes, who,
while no older or bigger than Dick, Is
fully as good a player and arOuses just
as much enthusiasm among Havana
fans as does his rival in the states Lit
tie Luis is a southpaw, and wants to
be a pitcher. He can curve the ball
and field in great style
The Cuban mascot is more fortunate
than Dick, too, inasmuch as he is paid
a salary. He receives $40 a month, and
walks I'D to the captains office" the
first and 18th of each month with the
regular players and gets his coin. He
is the first paid mascot I ever heard Of
Dick Less Fortunate.
Dick Hennessey's lot is not so pleas
ant, for he does not draw any pay, and
he was even shut out last fall of any
share of the worlds series money the
Giants received. That was the saddest
blow of all for Dick, and Immediately
after the series he "chucked up" his
precariOus job and secured a position in
a brokers' office on Wall street.
And we don't blame him. When he
hears of the Cuban rival being a real
paid mascot, possibly Dick will file
claim with the pstional commission fox
back pay. He deserves a recOmpense
fully as much as many players I have
in mind.
Ideal Training Place.
As an added inducement to the Giants
to train here in Havana, the Country
club here has the most magnificent
grounds. club house and golf links it
has ever been my privilege to see.
Those golfers Of the Giants-Mathew-
son, Merkle and Others-Would find
the Havana Country club a perfect
elysium, as I have A more beautiful
spot, or one with such delightful sur
roundings never existed. At the nearby
seaside resort Of Havana saw a score
of bathers enjoying a plunge in the
waters of the Gulf of Mexico on New
Years morning, and lOlling on the
beach in abbreviated bathing suits, as
if it was COney Island in mid August
And such is beautiful Havana in the
midwinter.
Any one who can come here and
does not I have my opinion of.
A few hundred WINDOWS and odd sash
1t a big saving to you. Lander Lumber
CO.-Advertisemen
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-13
Billy Evans Baseball Problems
Written Especially for This Paper by the Famous
American League Umpire

RATHER unusual simple play a important
last
- - that o NINTH out
and the tie, is o. trouble
Both teams scored
the pitchers run threat
ned the plate until the last
IN order in the first home team
had strikes the
70 prepare themselves for
though either team would pitching
men.
The third man to face the visiting
known to be hard fellow dimnutve
After getting the couple good
and finally worked course the play
was Tor the pitched
be made the break safety surely win
the game as the a very fastm man.
The making it evident
the catcher that he did The
throw was considerably doubtful it would
nave gotten the But
would have it. the ball the
sqarey on the right field
Inc runner dashed right fielder
recovered the ball and get
the The game won on the field Then
trouble started Had done?
Copyright 1914 Syndicate, Inc)
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-13

players: c. L. Smith. S. ". French,
Stuppi. Cuthbert. Drake, Forth, Rice,
Robinson, Scott, ". L. Smith, 7. NJ
Smith. D. Hooper, Speed, Sexton, Eos
ter, MCGEE, Ellis .sadger, Butler, Rae,
StrOdthoff Tanner, Gibson, futile,
Wimberly, Windsor, Mcneil, Lawhon,
Bishop, Doweu and Greene.
All Of these players have been re
quested to turn in their cards that
the committee may secure an accurate
line on form, which viii have large
bearing on final selection of the team.
The Douglas high school girls de-
feated the Tucson high girls in bas-
ketball game here by the score of 10
to 9, everyone of the local girls play
ing a star game.
As Tucson defeated Bisbee last week,
by the score Of % to IA, the local girls
are looking forward to a victory when
next they meet the Hill City girls.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-13

fans have plenty Of baseball and
n not far from 10000 turn out at
AIamendares park once in awhile.
The tt and AIamendares, by the
strange rule they have adopted, have
played off a previous tie game of seven
runs each for nine innings and then
completed a full nine inning scheduled
championship contest
The Alamendares won the first en-
counter by making a run in the sec
Ond inning-beg pardOn-the 18th, but
were defeated in the second game 2 to
l. Both were interesting games, OW-
ing to the very light batting, although
there were many brilliant fielding
plays, in which Mafsans and Romanach
eNcelled- Marsans made a really mar
velous left hand catch while running
at full speed after a low line drive, and
Romanach played his usual splendid
game
It looks now as if the Giants would
be unable to secure ROmanach, as he
sent his terms on to the Brooklyn
club several weeks ago. He has re-
ceived no reply from president Ebbets
or manager Robinson, but until he does
and until the tangle he got into with
the Cincinnati club last year IS
Strengthened out it appears as If the
New York club was barred from ne
gOtiating with him.
Contract Never Received.
Tt seems that ROmanach, at the in
stigatiOn of Marsans, signed a Gin
cinnati contract but it has not been
promulgated, owing to the fact that
the Cincinnati club has never received
the document. RomanaCh did not get
further north than Mobile, Ala, and
then. becoming homesick, took the first
boat to Havana. The question arises
whether the Cincinnati club has a right
to the player or not That, of course,
viii have to be thrashed out before any
other club can negotiate for him. He
wants to play in New York in prefer
ence TO any other city, but like all 9TH
er Cuban players, he has a neXagger-
ated idea Of the salaries paid to young
players by big league clubs in the
United States, and has put his price up
to those Ideas. He is a splendid player,
though, and would be a prize for the
club fortunate enough to secure him.
/ wish the Giants had him.
Beware Kid HennesEey.
Little Dick Hennessey, who has been
the Giants mascot for several years,
and whose remarkable playing in
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-13
Answer to Yesterdays Problem.

THE time the play American league umpres
regarded such happening purely accidental suspended play
allowing In
play at St. Louis the simply
every thing over again.
strict Interpretation Of the play makes the accidental happening b
has always been pointed that
home from third Hence the of
play purely accidental feature the
decided that the play ball should regarded
play and base permitted advance their peril
In the National league the regarded bak
the first granted ond
Both rulings o much nt-B F.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-13

EW YORK. Jan. 13.-CaIifornia
has given fistiana another one OF
\ those James J. Corbett-James E.
Britt boys. and if you don't believe it
ask an ymember of the New York par
Tor, native sons of the Golden West.
They are all sitting Up late at nischt
telling each other that it is a grand
course. and not New York-and that
Robert McAllister is worthy Of the good
old Olympic club.
Robert McAllister is a young brother
in good standing of the n. S. G. W, and
he made his debut on big time at the
Madison Square Garden after one try
out performance in the suburbs. He
whipped battling Levinsky. alias Bar
ney Williams, the apple # Daniel Nor
ganS eve, and young man no has
been kicking big, strong 'wnire hopes"
around very loosely of late.
William Gibson. the Garden promo
ter, was quite prOfuse in his enterment
He gave his customers 80 rounds of
fighting of one kind and another, but
even so the card produced only fair
house.
1t is too soon after the holidays and
money is too tight for peCpte to be
investing in fight and frivolous Dur-
suits. At least that's the way some
folks explain it. but Joe Humphreys
says that if money is any tighter now
than common he hasn't noticed it.
Quite Stir Started.
Something of a stir was created when
a party of gents entered the house in
cabby hats and tango clothes and it was
given out that one of them was zone Of
the Vanderbilts" Nobody seemed to
know just which one but the columns
of this paper are open to the family if
they desire to offer an explanation
After giving the accused person the
once over. the audience inclined to the
belief that a Vanderbilt by any other
name would be most unimDrsssive.
The first tussle brought together
two men who bore a striking general
resemblance to each other. They were,
in this corner, Dick Peters; in that cor
ner. Mike Macy. both members of this
club
They boxed 10 rounds to draw.
Tad Dorgan bet 25 cents on Macy. but
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-13
Federa1s To Have Harder Shedding
-:II:- -:II:- -:II:- -:I:- -:II:-
Many Players Decide To Be Loyal
BY E. w. COCHRANE.

II ANSAS CITY. No, Jan. 13.-Just
X as soon as the players learned
"A that the demands. of the frater-
nifty had been granted by the national
commission. several who had been Of
fered three year contracts by the Fed
eral league declared themselves loyaI
to organized baseball.
Possibly this means that the Federals
VIII not have such a merry time sign
ing players as they had anticipated. It
is very evident that the major leagues
are going to make a determined fight
to retain their men.
The Federals have made considerable
progress when governor Tener. new
head of the National league. attacks the
new organization a. he did at the Gin
clnnati meeting. It is very evident that
the new league has the powers that
be IN the fold somewhat worried, but
they are prepared to fight, and have
millions to back them.
There is some discussion in baseball
circles at present regarding where Ed
honetchy, the big Cardinal first sacker
recently traded to the Pittsburg Pirates
IN one Of the bigget baseball deals of
the past few years. will play this sea-
son.
If the FederaIs are not mistaken he
VIII be with the new organization. The
seer eIary OF the Pittsburg club of the
ssoeadIed outlaws" has offered to wager
$1OOO that Honey" will play with the
REDS and it is reported that organ
Yea baseball men are not willing to
take the wager If such an amount is
offered in good faith the Federals must
have an ace in the hole.
Joe Tinker is going to open the sea-
son with regular club representing
Chlcago. The Windy City club recent
~ incorporated for $500 which in
dlcates that it has money Tinker is
signing all the major leaguers he can
get and he may start with nine regu-
IaTS from the big show" His club
VIII go south to train. etc, just like a
Dig league aggregation.
II the OIher clubs can show as much
money as chicago, and we believe they
cannot all do this the league ought t.
go through the first season, at least.
with flying colors.
The Federals are not signing lust ma
Tor Iea"ue talent They are invading
Ihe minors Several club owners in the
InlernaJional and Pacific Coast leagues
ana the association complain that their
players nave been tempered with.
By way of an advance tip, it NAV he
considered that the Federals will omen
Ine season IN the west, which viii give
Kansas City about Is games in April
VINE tne blues are playing their first
With Toronto and BuffaIo in Tho
eastern half Of the circuit. it is hardly
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-13

The above photographs shows Kid
Mccoy, the once famous light heavy
weight. and Maurice Maeterlinck, the
Belgian poet, engaged in one OF their
daily boxing bouts in the garden Of
the Maeterlinck chateau, just outside
Of Paris. The composer is a rspid
enthusiast over the sport OF fisticuffs
and the kid" has been engaged for
the purpose Of teaching him the fine
points Of the game As MaeterIinck
knows very little English and Mccoy
is not so strong on French they have
contrived a sort Of sign language to
overcome the difficulty.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-13

The Federals are not signing inst mo
Tor LEAGUE talent Thew are invadiDg
the minors Several club owners in the
international and Pacific Coast leagues
ana the association complain that their
players nave been tempered with.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-13

likely that they will attempt to open
the schedule in the east Too. they are
going to attempt to avoid conflicting
dates in this city. Chicago is the only
town in the western half in which they
are likely to experience bad weather in
April and it is much better than To-
rOntO.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-13

TEW YORK. Jan 13.-Caufornia
N has given fistiana another one OF
\ those James 7 COrbett-James E
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-13
PICK OUT GOLFERS
TO MEET Ell PASOANS
Greens Committee of Douglas Club
Lining Up Crack Players for
Semi-AnnuaI Match.

Douglas, Ariz., Jan. 13.-In prepare
ton for the coming of the FL Paso
Country club team on Saturday and
Sunday, January "A and 25. to play the
semi-annual championship match, the
greens committee of the Douglas
Country club is busy selecting the
strongest possible team While the
exact personnel of the Douglas team
has not been announced the committee
has let it be known that it will be
chosen from among the following
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-13

How about some red renesg We have
just unlOaded a car. Lander Lumber
CO.-Advertisement
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-03-13

today" he confided to the dog, as he
tramped through the lush grass. "If
you see me ladle the muck out of
that fountain with my own fair hands,
don't have a fit. I'm liable to do any
thing"
His eye swept up and down the
slope. There probably isn't a finer
site for a house in the whole South"
he told himself. THE living-rooms
front south and west. Well get
scrumptious sunsets from that back
porch. And on the other side there's
the view clear to the Blue Ridge"
He skirted the lake. only to grub
out some of the lilies-there's too
many Of them-and straighten the
rim-and weed the pebble margin to
give those green rocks a show. I'll
build a little wharf below them to dive
from, and-yes, I'll stock it with
spotted trout"
He vas but a few hundred yards
from the house, yet the silence was SO
deep that there might have been no
habitation within fifty miles. All at
once he stopped short; there was a
sudden movement in the thicket be-
yond-the sound Of light fast footballs,
rs of some one running away.
He made a lunge for the dog, but
with a growl Chum tore himself from
the restraining grasp and dashed into
the bushes. "A child, no doubt" he
thought as he plunged In pursuit. land
that lubberly brute will scare it half
to death!"
He pulled up with an exclamation.
In a narrow wood-path a little way
from him, partly hidden by a wind
fall, stood a girl, her skirt transfixed
with a wickedly Jagged sapling. He
saw instantly how it had happened;
the windfall had blocked the way, and
she had sprung clear " it, not
noting the screened spear, which now
held her as effectually as any railroad
spike.
In another moment Valiant had
reached her and met her face, flushed,
half defiant, her eyes a blue CLEAN Of
s~moldering anger as she desperately,
almost savagely, thrust wild tendrils
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-03-13
79Ho
WLIANTSdVRGINA
@ HALLH TR1INH RIVLS posi- Sso aasnrR)
ILLUSTRATED 81 LAUREN STOUT

AS ne puSne DdcK MS Cnalr he SInUJe
his hands together and laughed aloud.
Back to the soili" he said. John
Valiant, farmeri The miracle of it is
that it sounds good to me. l want to
raise my own grub and till my
soil. I want to be my own man! And
I'm beginning to see my way. Crops
will have to wait for another season,
but there's water and pasture for cat
tie now. There's timber-lots of it
on that hillside, too. l must look into
that,
He filled his pipe and climbed the
staircase to the upper floor. There
were many bedrooms with great four
posted, canopied beds and old-fash-
Toned carved furniture of mahogany
and curly-maple, and in mi he found
a great cedar-lined chest filled with
bed-linen and napery. In these rooms
were more evidences of decay. The
bedroom he mentally chose for his
own was the plainest of all, and was
above the library, fronting the vaga-
bond garden. 1t had a great black
desk with many glass-knobbed draw
ers and a book-rack.
He fingered longest in a room
whose door was painted The Hilarium.
1t had evidently been a nursery and
schoolroom. Here on the walls were
many shelves wound over with net
works of cobwebs, and piled with the
oldest assemblage of toys. There
were school-books, too, thumbed and
d~og-eared, from First Reader to
Caesars Gallo Wars, with names Of
small Variants scrawled on their fly
leaves. He carefully relocked the door
of this room; he wanted to dust those
toys and books with his own hands.
In the upper hall again he leaned
from the window, shifting the far
flung scent of orchards and peach
blown fence-rows. The soft whirring
sound of a birds wing went past, al
most brushing his startled face, and
the old oaks seemed to stretch their
bent limbs with a faithful brute-like
yawn of pleasure. In the room below
he could hear the vigorous sound of
Aunt Daphne's hard-dr1ven broom and
the sound flooded the echoing space
with a comfortable commotion.
He went to his trunk and fished out
a soft shirt on which he knotted a
loose tie, exchanged his Panama for
a SLOUGH hat, and whistling the bar
carole from Tales of Hoffman,, went
gaily out. 81 feel tremendously alive
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-03-13

of f1ame-colored naIr beneath ms
broad curved brim Of her straw hat
At her feet lay a great armful Of cape
jessamines.
A little thrill, light and warm and
joyous, RAJ through him. Until that
instant he had not recognized her.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-03-13

CHAPTER I-Johb Valiant. a rich So
ciety favorite, suddenly discovers hat the
Valiant corporation, which his father
founded and which was the principal
source OF his wealth. has failed.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-03-13

CHAPTER TI-He voluntarily turns
over his private fortune to the receiver
kor the corporation.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-03-13

CHAPTER Hills entire remaining
possessions consist of an old motor car.
a white bull dog and Damory court. a
neglected estate in Virginia
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-03-13

CHAPTER Iv-He learns that this es-
tate came into the family by royal grant
and has been in the possession of the
Valiants ever since.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-03-13

CHAPTER Won the way to Damory
court he meets Shirley cambridge. an au-
~burn-haired beauty, and decides that he
Is going to like Virginia immensely.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1914-01-13
OF CITY INTEREST

-Chas. Johanhuch is confined to
his home by illness.
Fred Knapp will leave Friday for
a short stay at Minneapolis.
Charley Huntington of Minnea-
poIis is here visiting his mother.
"A. j. Praxel and John Haas of
Lamberton were visitors here We'd
nesday.
Postmaster F. S. Pollard of Nor
gan was a visitor at Redwood Falls
last Friday.
Jack Miller went to Winthrop
Saturday night for days visit with
relatives. He returned Sunday night.
Mems $3.50 winter overshoes, now
SO cents at F. w. Philbrick and Com
pany. 25-1t
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Simondet and
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Simondet of
North Redwood were guests Of Mr.
and Mrs. August Seebeck at dinner
Sunday.
The famous Stewart Orchestra
of Redfeld, S. D., will furnish music
for a ball at the Armory Tuesday
January Goth, under the auspices of
the K. of P. lodge. 25-1t
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1914-01-13

-Rud. Stensvad will GO to Minnea-
polls tomorrow to attend the meet
ing of the State Fair Association to
which he was appointed delegate.
During the next week there will
be on exhibition at the Public Lib
rary portfolio of pictures, prints OF
Edwin Abbey's famous frieze decora-
ton in the Boston Public Library.
These pictures depict the story of
the search for the Holy Grail, from
the vision of the Child Galahad to-
the Achievement of the Grail as shown
in the marvellous Golden Tree pic
ture. With the PORTFOLIO is little
pamphlet telling the story of the
paintings and giving the beautiful
legend of Sir Galahad and The Grail.
The series is a fascinating one and
to those who have no opportunity to
see the originals it is well worth g.
visit to the library and an hours
quiet study.
The Board of the Methodist Church
took long step in the direction of
the Church. Centre move
ment at its last meeting when it
decided to have the church parlot
and basement kept open for social
purposes for the next four weeks
at least and for longer time if So
ciety demands it. The invitation is
extended to all the residents of the
city, whether members of the con-
gregation or not to meet here as
often as they choose. Magazines,
books, games and easy chairs will be
found in profusion here, and six or
eight people present each evening to
bid the visitors welcome. This is a
golden opportunity for Redwood Falls
to broaden out socially, and the peo-
pie should respond to the hospita-
lily of the board.