El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-10

rORE interest is being manifested
MI in basketball this season than
4 L ever before in the history Of FL
Paso. A. L. Holm has organized three
leagues among the big fellows, with
soldier league in prospect ana -FOUR
leagues amongst the boys Ine Metal
league. which has already played a
number of games, is composed Of the
Copper Heads, Gold Bricks, Tin Horns
and Lead Pipes. This league is com
posed Of beginners and plays once a
week, on Monday night.
The Commercial league, which start
ed Wednesday night and viii continue
TO play the same night each week, IS
composed Of the Bryan Bros, Feldman,
Wall and Shelton-Payne teams and
contains some splendid players.
City League Delays start.
The City league, which Will contain
the cream of local basketballers, will be
composed of the High School School Of
Mines, y. NJ c. A. and Cactus club
teams. This league viii start imme-
diately after the holidays and will play
its games on saturday night Amongst
the boys there are the Bible Class
league, which will be made up of two
teams from the older boys and two
from the employed boys, and the Jun
Tor, Older Boys and Employed Boys
The teams in this league bear the
names Of Finance, Education, Health
and Service, there being a team rep
resentina each branch in each of the
three leagues.
Inter Class League Formed.
The High school has formed an Inter
Glass league. composed Of teams repre-
senting the freshmen, sOphOmores, jun
Tors and seniors. The schedule VIII
start during the latter part of the
month Hi" has also organized a
second team. And then the two girls
teams must certainly not be overlooked
ArranEes Outside Games.
The High school has the first team
entered in the City league, and in ad-
dition has arranged for many out OF
town games by becoming amalga-
mated with the newly organized South
western intercollegiate Athletic fedora
tion. This organization will be com
posed of the larger schools Of west
Texas, Arizona and New Mexico. Al
though only in its infancy, the fedora
tion has three members already, these
being FL PasO High school, New Mex
leo Agricultural college and the New
Mexico State Normal school at Silver
City. It is believed that the universe
ties of Arizona and New Mexico, the
Roswell Military institute and the hlgh
schools of Deming, Douglas, Alamogor-
do and Phoenix, ana possibly one or
two more, viii come in
The weekly event for the regular
class at the Y. NJ. c. A, Monday night
was pullupS- IhlS event was won Dy
j. ScOfield with II. Billy Race was a
close second with Is; p. Guynn third
with II. and B. Vaughn fourth with 10.
High School Nearly Won.
DESPITE the fact that the High school
bows were defeated by the Silver City
Normal school team last Saturday at
Silver City, the local boys played
splendid game and had their defence
been equal to their offence the result
would have been entirely different.
This is clearly shown by the score Of
"A which they made to the Normars %.
The feature Of the game was the re-
markable free throwing of Capt. Dun
lap. of the Normal He threw no less
than nine goals in ten chances. For
the High school, Jimmie Kilburn and
Palmer Schumacher played a fine
game, while Capt Bob Bryant was
easily the individual point winner with
five field goals and four free throws.
The Hi girls, in their game with