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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-07-20
LEAGUE LEADERS
INCREASE MARGIN
Race Is Not frightened Dur
ing Week; Fewer Changes
of Position Recorded.

New York. July 20.-Neither Of the major
2 lea que baseball races frightened appreciably
beginning Of the new playing period found
the situation in each circuit less tense and
with fewer probable chances OF notable
changes in the immediate future than seemed
the case week ago
II New York. in the National. and Phila-
delphia in the American league are not TO
repeat their pennant winning performances
the clubs behind them will have to show
more consistent winning power than any OF
them displayed in the last seven days
In the Ban johnson circuit the Athletics
gained full game on Detroit. the club next
in rank. the Tigers now being three and a
half games behind the leaders ashlngt0n
took far worse tumble. dropping back TO d
point five games from the front
White Sex Drop Back
L remained. however. for Chicago to come
only two Of seven games played and are
more than six games behind the pacemazers.
Thus II will be seen that the first six clubs
are not nearly so closely punched as they
were week ago The Athletics seem to
have awakened at last and TO be playing
idleness the greater part OF the week be
cause Of wet weather in Philadelphia they
bounced into the White Sox when the latter
moved to Quaker town and won all three
games played by decisive scores
The drop Of the White SoX came with the
greater shock to their supporters because
Of the added winning power expected 20
prove theirs through the come back OF Ed
Walsh The accidents which have wealHned
their line up temporarily will account for
much Of their poorer work and Callahan and
his men have by no means given up hope
Accidents Hit Washington Hard.
Accidents also have hit Washington hard.
although it appears Milan's disablement viii
not be for so long a period as was feared
Then. too, the Nationals are no longer able
to count a game virtually won the moment
Walter johnson steps into the box. as was
shown again last week. Thus their effort
TO work upward is proving difficult
The National league feature Of the week
was the p inning game between New York
and Pittsburg- This notable duel between
Vanguard and Adams. won by the former in
pitching 20 innings Of scoreless ball. will be
handed down as one OF the historic contests
Of the game.
Cubs Fare Better.
The Cubs Jared slightly better than the
Giants on the weeks work. losing one game
less, which marks the extent Of their gain
on the leaders.
Going down the National league line, little
developed to cause excitement. St Louis
kept pace with New York in games won and
lost but Is not close enough to threaten in
the near future The Cincinnatis crippled by
assertions. are having a struggle TO keep
within hailing distance Of the 800 point
and find the Philadelphias now challenging
them for first division place.
Brooklyn's squirt and its resultant advance
10 the first division was the feature Of the
race In the Federal league.
Chicago maintained its leadership. sub
stantial differences in percentage existing
~hen the Tinker team wound Up its series
with Indianapolis.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-07-20

LIGHTNING fast little Johnny Dundee
was subjected to the double sun
- day afternoon at Juarez by a crowd
Of Fl Pasn nd L. ei-hr f--- -
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-07-20
HURLEY AND SILVER
CITY WIN SUNDAY

Hurley. n. ". July 2O.-Hurley defeated
santa Rita Sunday. 4 TO 8. in fast ban
game, third Of the cup series Silver CITY
defeated Fort Bayard 3 TO .. The game
was fast and close throughout Saturday
games at Santa Rita and Fort Bayard Wer5
postponed on account Of rain
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-07-20

that both principals for the main event
VIII come in under the required weight
The Preliminaries
KID Ross. the Clifton negro middle
weight. and Louis Houde. have been signed
Tor 10 round contest as the senui-Windup
70 the Hayes-Dundee battle The French
man, VINO Is being handled by Al DreaEer
mas nad lot Of experience in the boxing
game and IS credited with being a hard
hitter and clever boxer He claims TO have
1ougnt 20 round draw with Georges Car
pentier. heavyweight champion OF Europe
and mas row Of knockouts 10 his credit
scored IN Mexico. having been driven out OF
that turbulent country when Madero was
overthrown- Ross is a southwestern pro-
duct and has boxed a number OF times at
the Juarez arena Principals for a four
round curtain raiser are being considered
A match between Young Wolgast" the
Californian. and Young Gene" OF e Paso.
Is probable.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-23
JOE JACKSON FIRST, COBB FOURTH, IN
 BATTING AVERAGE
Marsans Leads National Play CTS in Number of
 Stolen Eases.

Chicago. May 2seJoe Jackson. of Cleveland, with .s56 leads the batters according to averages published today. Crawford of Detroit, is second with .3s6 and Barry, of Philadelphia- third, with .32e Ty Cobb, of Detroit. was fourth with a. percentage of .sz4. hay ing climbed nine points during the week. Three weeks ago, Cobb rank ed ssth with a percentage of 240.
 There are only eight 300 hftters in the league, the others being Dauss. Detroit, SIS; Milan, Washington, -Sl2; sLeHvelt, Cleveland, .310s F. Foster Washington. .305. Milan leads in stol- 5en bases with 13. Club batting honors are held by Detroit with .254 and Phil- adelphia is next with .251.
 Hyatt, Pittsburghs pinch hitter, this week batfed himself into a tie for hrst place with Byrne, each having records of 400 The eight following are Ca'tl1- CTS, St. Louis. .380; Devore. Phi1adel- plaia, 1884; Phelan, Chicago, 1884: Lo- bert, Philadelphia, .352. Dalton, Brook lyra, 1851: Gibson, Pittsburgh. .346; Dau- bert, Brooklyn, .345; Bresnaf1an. Chi cago, .340. Marsans, Cincinnatfs s Cuban player leads in stolen bases with 10
 Club batting honors belong to Brook 1yn. with 263 and New ork is second, .26z.
 o'Hara of Toronto, tops the Interna- ticna1 league batters with .S70. Gelz leads the base stea1ers with 10. ProYi- dence with 272 leads in club batting and Baltimore, with .264 is next
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-23

We don't blame the English rowing men for this. Since the time of the Ark the Henley regatta has been the blue ribbon gathering of the English rew- ing world. The regetta. is the greatest of it's kind in. the world. But it has al- ways been regarded as strictly a fam fly anfadr, and every effort has been made in the past to keep out foreign entries especially those from the Un- ited States.
 The reason for this is that the Ana erfcan entry means hard work for the natives and the giving up of straw berries and cream and tea and toast side Of what is one of the most attrac- tive out-of-door functions of the Lon don Season. The Englishnen alate to work over their games. They take their rowing no more seriously than than they do any other form Of ath- Ietics at the most, they undergo i've or six weeks Of what to the American crew would be regarded as a very happy go-lucAy course of training for Henley and so long as they are not bothered by any energetic foreigners they have a pretty good time.
 But the fact that Harvard and the Union Boat Club of Boston intend to enter eights for the Grand Challenge Cup this year and the Barge Club of Pffladelphia a. four for the Stewards Challenge Cup has cast a gloom over the English oarsmen. The E1ngIishmen have no reason to be Particularly afraid of the Americans, but they know that to protect their trophies they will have to do some real train ing
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-23
MARQUARD IS
 TOO GOOD FOR
 ST. LOUIS TEAM

St. Louis, May z8-Tonsilitis attacks Eo not seem to bother Johnny Mc- Graw's pitchers Since recovering from his ax4ack Of this ma1adys Jen Tesreaal has pitched two shuhosst games Rube MarQuard, who had 1een fll since the team left Gothazns dns1neo hss spangles for tha first tsEzss He0- tertaay and pitched Nhe Giants to an easy victory over the Cardinals. The Eccre was to l.
 MrGrnw.s men took their turn Bt vrisaaing the big cudgel and battereq a trio of Card pitchers Ferr1ts, Bill Steel and Casey Hagermsn-77-f thirteen solid hits. The Giant outfeld- CTS ware particularly strong with fhelr bats Burns and Snodgrass each slannuisasr out three hits Burns col lection included q brace of doubles Chief Meyers smote a triple andA a xinxle. and little Stock hit 8 double and a single
 Mnzuuard was master of the situa.- xion@ Tn spite Of his long lay-o1. he <iid not give base on balls, and all lowed only eight hits.
 Perritt was yanked by H1ggins after he winged Burns in the third. Be- dors Hugg1ns applied the derrick the Gianfs bumped the parrot for three' runs
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-23
IS YEARS SINCE LAST TITLE BOUT BETWEEN z WHIE WEITERS

It will be thirteen years tomorrow since the last battle for the worlds welterweight championship fin which both principals were white men was had held the welter title a little more than year when he faced Rube Ferns in the Ontario metropolis and, after taking 9 terrible beating, was. knock ed out in the tenth round. The battle was the big sporting feature of the Victoria Day celebration in Toronto and attracted big crowd. Ferns lost his title in the following Decem Der, when Joe Walcott, the ssbIack demon of Barbados 2 knocked him out in the fifth round, This bout was also tagged in Canada, at Fort Erie.
 Walcott held the title until 1903, when he accidentally shot himself title to Dixie Kid, another colored gent. Dixie managed to hang on to the honor until 190S.f Since then he. has been fighting principally in Eng land. and has frequently been defeat ed Since Dixie entered the middle weight rank in 1908, the weIterweight division has had no recognized leader. This is a strange state of affairs, for sin the early '90s, when the welter- weight class was created, the woods were full of good men of this weight.
 There were four great Australian Weit0rS III the ring, SnaQOW N4aD6T, Tom Williams, Tom Tracy and George Dawson, and Doc O'Connen, Tommy West, Danny Needham. and others.
 helped to make things interesting for the champions. Tommy Ryan. My sterfous Billy Smith and Danny Need ham all claimed the championship in 1891 In that year Ryan defeated
 Needham, and Smith turned the same
 trick in 1892. In 1894 Ryan gained
 a clear title by whipping Smith, and the following year Ryan and Smith
 fought draw.
 In 1896 Kid Mccoy whipped both
 Ryan and Smith. but the Hoosier i'm
 mediately went into the middleweight division, as did Ryan at about this
 time. and "Mysterious Billy became
 the king of the welters. In 1897 Smith was defeated by the Califc--.ta boxer, George Green, the original ..Young Corbett," but within as year
 Green lost his title in return match with Smith Mysterious Billy hung
 on to the welterweight belt until 1900. when Matty Matthews took it away from him. The Ferns Matthews bout in Toronto on May 24, 1901, marked the beginning of the end of the gold en age" of the welterweight division.
 Tn the decade between 1892 and 1902 the weIterweight division included many of the best boxers the game has ever known. But where are the great welters of today
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-23

the class of the white divison at the present writing and the former. in particular, looks good enough right now for 9. try at the highest honors of the ring.
 Billy Gibson who, in addition to promotfng boxing matches at the new Stadium A C.. finances the campaign of heavy-weigf Jim Coffey, is highly elated at the steady improvement the big fellow is showing in each suc- ceedfng bout For youngster who has been boxing professionally less than two years all told Coffey has ac- complished wonders when everything Is considered. When Gibson first took charge of him Cofey was cTum- fellow had the material in him and at once engaged experienced men to look after the training end of the campaign while he directed the busi- ness of the firm. Since then Cofey has not met with decisive defeat and has scored over Battling Levinsky, Tom Kennedy. Soldier Kearns and others not so well known Only last week Cofey knocked the tough Kearns out in less than round. get ting revenge for the defeat the SoI- dfer handed him when he was startI ing in the fighting game
 Gibson has matched Coney to box Dan Daly six rounds in PhiIade1phia next Monday night This is the se- veEest test Jim has been put to, or at Least 1t is figured that way. Daily first attracted attention by stopping Al Palzer in Jig time He was so well thought of that his manager, Jimmy Dime. matched him with Jess Willard. The latter won after seven or eight rounds of hard fighting. If Cofey defeats Daly and Is successful in one or two more matches Gibson has axT@rxrsd ft,Ts lafy., n yvs1Y y.1 ,,,-f,,s ed for bouts with Gunboat Smith and willard.
 | am pleased to note Coney.s pro- gross It bears out the opinion T formed of the young n1shman when saw him box Lev1nsky. Gibson ap- pears to have the right idea of cam pakgn1ng the big fellow. He aims to give him plenty of experience be- fore claas1ng him after the scaIps Of the top notoherzl
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-23
ANNEX TO PLAY REM Y0STS SUNDAY

What promises to be one of the best contests in the city tomorrow afternoon. is the game between the Remtn gton- Test. and Annex club of New Haven. The New Haven outfit is one of the fastest clubs in the state and will have in the Hne-up three of the Tale second team. The game will start at s:so. Speed Finn will do the. twirling for the local team and Mo Corrnack will catch
 The fans will no doubt remember that this same bunch slipped 1t over on the locals in football. and 1t is. now up to the home team to turn the tables on them in baseball. They will be accompanied by the usual crowd of supporters. such as New Haven sends down, and a warm contest is expected on account of the rivalry existing between the clubs
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-23
FRANK SMITH JUMPS AGAIN
 TO FEDERALS

Manager Bfll Bradley of tho Brook 1yn Federals returned from his scout ing trip yesterday and brought Frank Smith, the former Pirate, White SoE and Red Sox boxman and one of tha few pitchers who ever twiried two no hit games, with him. Prank jumped Toronto and went with Gl1e Baltimore Feds last ssprfng. He recently do- serted the Feds and tried to get his old job back with Montreal.
 President Ed Barrow however TA- fused to withdraw from his stand against taking back jumpers, and when Bradley saw Smith i'm Montreal on Thursday Frank quickly put his John Hancock to Brook-fed contract The Baltimore Feds were induced to agree to allow Smith to come to Brook lyn.f
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-23
ST. JOES TO PLAY
 HUBBELS TOMORROW

The St. Joseph's will meet the liar. vey HubbeH team of the Industrial league at St Joseph's oval tomorrow. Manager SHiclzfus of the Joes ex- poets a large crowd and hopes to pull a win over the Hubbea1 team The Saints have defeated the BrookIawns American Chain Go. and the Newf1elds and will try to add the Hubbeu team to the list. Strickfus and Mohyde are members of both teams but will be seen in the lineup of the St.. Joes. WheIan or Carlson will twirl for the Hubben team while Tommy CougIlin will try to duplicate his performances of last Sunday for the Joes-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-23
BOLTS DEFEAT NEW HAVEN BY
 GOOD BATTING
(By Walgner.)


 It's wonder Jake Boultes' hired men didn't steal Jerry Councils watch and chain yesterday. The Bolts stole ten bases on Catcher Angenedr, who used to labor for 1tfle Chicago Cubs. With the addition of eight hits which Pitcher Durning handed out the locals managed sto beat New Haven at New field park by tos4. Bridgeport played snappy ball in all departments.@
 Burning, the visiting sla,bster, Is a youngster taken south by Connie Mack this season. He was Harmed to the South Atlantic league, but was recently canned by that organization. Burning didn't care, to get familiar with the home plate. He gave eight passes Martin Walsh pushed the ball over the platter for Bridgeport. The big fellow allowed New Haven only seven scattered hits and until the seventh they didn't do much with. his slants. He passed four and famed the same number. Pep Sennos and Manager Boultes were the heads of the clubbing department, each collect ing two singles. Stow and Aubrey did excellent fielding.
 The locals sewed up the game in Stow was passed and went to second on Hallman's out. He took third when Durn1ng funbled Eenno' s grounder. Tho delayed steal was worked, Stow going over. Tierney beat out a, bunt, Senno going to third On Boultes, single, Senno scored Au- brey walked, filling the paths Ems bounded 9 hit off the pitchers shins, scoring Tierney. and Walsh drew a pass after Kerns famed The free transportation forced Bou1tes home. Stow ended the fun with a il to sher- wood.
 The score; }ElfKE'g
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-23
LIBERALS PLAY SUNDAY BALL IN
 WASHINGTON DC.

Washington. D. C., May 2s--With: Che granting of an injunction yester- lxiax by Justice Gould of the District Supreme Court forbid ding the city salaf fhor7tdes frurn interfering with Sun E day basenaIl, 1t is generally believed here that the Federal League will place team fin Washfngton- s
 The case involved referred to a game whach is scheduled to be played fpmorrow by the Baltimore Federal LeaEuers and a local semi rofessd on- al nine
 The fact thai the moving picture theatres were allowed to operate on sunday was responsible for the .rraxating of the injunction. D. w. t4ssker. who sought it. contended that there are no xprovdsions in the Ccnstir zutdon which give the local coln1nlisz. --i1r<rs the right to forbid baseball on Sunday and to allow theatres to topera4e- Judge Could agreed with this contenHun-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-23
BOBBY REYNOLDS, WHO WILL
 BOX HERE NEXT MONDAY

Thorough ventilation will make the State street Casino g most cool and refreshing spot on Monday night. when the Liberty A. c. stages it's all star card of four ten around bouts, bringing together Bobby Reynolds and Y oung Kansas of Buffalo, two contenders for the featherwetght title. in the star bout
 Kayo PaIftz and Chick West, of New London and Holyoke respectively, win be pitted against each other in the semi final.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-23

All eyes are turned on the added feature bout, which will bring togeth- CT Al Ketchell, the popular local lightweight, and Bunny Ford, the fast travelling New Haven veteran, on a winner-take-all basis. There is also $100. side bet and g. large pool of money hanging on the result of this bout.
 The fans are expecting great doings of Teddy F'ebryck of Fairfield and Kid Palmer of this city in their ten- round engagement, which will open the evening" entertainment.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-23
TANKS SIGN IS YEAR OLD
 STAR PITCHER

Cleveland, Ohio. May zs-11ilton Warner, star southpaw pitcher for tho Raven High School team at Xoungs- town, will join Frank Chances Tan- kees at the close of the school year. June 12. Warner has been offered e. New York contract. and he has prom ised to sign as soon as the school year Is over. Warner has a great strike out record, andsis noted for his con tro1 and cool conduct under eire- He is IS years old, stands feet q inchea high and weighs HE pounds.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-23
Ry Wla.gner.)

(By Wlagnef.J
 Springfield has sent Infielder Jack OsFIara to New Britain under an op- tional agreement. The veteran Pony inf1e1der. has not been able to show much speed this season. The Spring field club deserves credit for coming to New Britainss assistance. and other teams should follow the example of the Ponies.
 George Browne recently deposed as manager Of New Britain, has signed with Hartford He played center yes terday against waterbury and secured one hit.
 The fast springffsld club will ap- pear at Newdeld park tomorrow The Ponies put Bridgeport in the hole at the beginning of the season by taking
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-23
SPRINGFIELD SENDS JACK
 0'HARA TO NEW BRITAIN
Hartford Strengthened By Addition ! Of George Browne, Former New
 Britain Manager

the locals have an entirely different club now, sGervais or Gherman will get the pitching assignment for the locals.
 Pitcher Temple, who was traded by Pittsfeld to Lowell, Mass. during the winter, has been released by Lowell. He then signed with the Lewaston, Me-, club,
 Harvey Russell, the former Bridge port backstop, made three hits for the Baltimore Federals yesterday. He was batting against Lange of the Chi- cago Feds.
 Manager BouItes ds finding his bat ting eye The old boy has made q bunch of hits during the past two weeks and is gradually recovering from the effects of his poor start
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-23
DARTMOUTH EXPECTS
 TO WIN TRACK MEET

Cambridge, Mass. May 23-IdeaI weather prevailed for. the finals in the New England Intercollegiate cham pionship track and field meet at the. Harvard stadium today. With a. fast track, some record breaking perform ances in the sprints were looked for. Tn the distance runs the hurdles and the Jumping contests the present. marks were regarded as too good to. be threatened by this years field. Dart mouth, which qualified 20 men in the elimination events yesterday. appar- ently was In little danger of being de- posed from the championship won last year.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-23
TO-DAY IN PUGHIsTIO ANNAIs.

1913-Jim Flynn defeated JlE1Cof- fey in I Q rounds. and George 1ndsl defeated Soldier Kearns in 10 rounds, at New Y ork. [ This was a great night for those initiates of tho w 2lRge who were interested in tho tanag rites and curious customs 0R the white hopev cult. MT. CeHe3 whose aspirations were somewhat GrnHEed by the fists of MT Flynn. of Pueblos represented Ireland in the fstivitiss Rodels who was a hghte' in tne Boer army before he becamea. hehtsr in the ring, didn't find 1t very dlGi- cult to outpoint Soldier EearDe. a veteran of the United Stahs aFrnys who had entered the ring. sohis press agent explained, to earn morey to buy a home for his mamma.
 1so7-Marvin s5F4art lnosksd out Dan Creedon in 9th round 1t Lallls- vile
 1eO7-Stanley Kstc11eI kno9l out George Brown in srd round at s9cra- mento.
 s-sammy Trott defeated tr5ver Hayes in l 2 rounds at Winnipez t trNI
 Mary A. st. Francis, a setiIsnsnt worker. died in AAedford. 9Eass a.ged
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-23
ENGLAND FEARS COMING AMERICAN
 ROWING INVASION

The American periI-threatens Hen ley this year. And from what we hear from the other side the proposed friendly invasion sis as usual far from welcome
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-23

v5ucent Cannphea7 Is showing all of his o1d-tdrnz speed in the field and on Al the bat Caihpbell is the double of B6b Bescher in his position aIid ac@ tions. He also resembles Besc11er in, picking up speed between the bases
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-23

Jalbez Adams, a young pitcher from the st. Joseph club of the WsStern League signed with the Kansas City Fe.defals after wznndnE eight straight games for the St Joseph team,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-23

According to reDRfts from BufEalc He&nfe Gk0h has been offered & con~. tract for three years at &Gs0D0 q yea by the BufGaIoy Fedara1a. The report says a representative of the EuGHad1 has talked with Groh and 17Aento t- wawer1Dg. 17e formerly played W1th the Buffalo In ternahonais.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-23

The annual presentation of Bibles to the graduating class of the Naval Academy at Annapolis will take place tomorrow.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-23

Manager JYxnnny 0ad1ahan oE 1hr White Sox has been on a ecou Inc CT players who could be Of help to th. sox at the present tiEne-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-23

son. Last year Bdn was tllrned lsous' by Cleveland but he has made tht Maps play dead this year