El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-03-05
Checker Game Starts Baseball Training
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New York Giants Help Fight Flames
RY nAN1ION RTNYON.

Q Fletcher, Piez, Chalmers, Bescher, Wen
! dell, Beatty, MatheWsOn, Williams,
/ Shcupp, Reed. Merkle, Press, Scull,
I Scauer, Thorpe. SnOdgrass, Tesreau,
/ Grant. Foster, Kinsella, Ritter, Hoelke'
I Johnson. Huenke, Cook, Marshall,
! Kores, Smith, Gipe. Stroud. Holloway,
Kirmayer, Flanagan and Burns.
Infieider Dyer Reported III
Besides McGraw himself. and Mclean
and PalmerO, another absentee is
young Dyer who is i'll at his home In
Illinois. He is an infielder who was
with the Giants last season
Counting Richard T. Kinsella, late
host Of the Richard F. kinsella Sight
Seeing and Marveling Association, As
sistant Secretary Eddie Brannick and
Hennery Fabian, the celebrated ground
grabbler, there viii be total of sixty
two people.
Practice commenced at Emer2on
Field, the regular training ground of
the Giants and at another small ball
park used by the local high school It is
not far from the hotel and was used by
the Toronto club of the International
league, for a short time last spring,
when Kelly brought his men here to
train with the Giants.
All the arrivals were greatly down
cast on hearing that they had missed
the great cOnflagratiOn when the Ar
lington hotel was threatened with de-
struction by a blaze that consumed
big frame boarding house hard by the
hosiery. They listened with bated
breath to the narrowing details of the
fire, and heard the tales of heroism on
the part of the noble FASTENERS.
Recruit Drives Hose Cart.
One Of the most thrilling scenes
ever witnessed was when a hose cart
came dashing down the street with a
mad changing of gongs and with young
Holloway, an infield recruit, handling
the lines over the steeds. It seems
that Holloway just naturally elected
himself driver Of the pyro-bus and he
did yeoman service.
Ralph Stroud, the pitcher, rushed in
to the heart of the blaze to save some
thing, and rescued A pair OF dressed
chickensA BE was vending his way,
poultry in fist, to his own abode, re-
1lecting upon the glOries of fried
chicken for Sunday dinner when some
one in authority accOsted him and made
him unhand the fowl
'Leatherneck" Marshall late of the
marines. was discovered leaping down
the stairs at the. Arlington, dragging
his trunk with one claw and carrying
three baseball bats under his arm.
Later 1t developed that he thought
these were the bats with which he
hit over 400 in the Three-Eye league,
but It seems they were in reality the
sticks belonging to Alexander Schauer,
who doesn't hit quite 400 in any league.
The blaze finally exhausted itself
on the boarding house and the adjoin-
ing dwelling, but had it not stopped
there the New York Giants might be
out OF a pleasant little home.
One account Of herOism which must
not be allowed to pass Unnoticed was
executed by Mr.. Haywood Broun, the
well known baseball writer, who dashed
into his room and rescued his Frank
Bowerman, or valise, at great personal
risk All large valises are called
Frank BoWermans by the Giants, after
the mammoth satchel which used to be
logged around by the old catcher: but
hereafter they will probably be known
as Brouns, as Mr.. BroUn affects the !
largest portmanteau in the history of !
the game OF baseball.
The act of heroism consisted in res
cuinE that grip, the risk being in the |
possibility that the grip might have !
become frightened, or obstreperous. /
and refused to be carried from the ,
room. and it is large enough to have /
easily overcome the baseball writer.