El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-10-02
MANY FOOTBALL
GAMES PLAYED
Big Universities Send Their
Elevens Against Smaller
Teams For Practice.
Jew YORK, oct. 2-Footban play

noon in all sections Of the coun-
| try. Several hundred college and uni
versity teams are scheduled to meet on
gridirons in games which range from
practice tits to contests in which form
| upsets and defeats are not unlikely for
/ even the eIevens Of the largest insti-
| tutions.
Among the eastern games Of more
than unusual interest are those bring
/ ing together Yale and Virginia; Prince
ton and Rutgers; Brown and Trinity;
Harvard and Massachusetts Aggies;
West Virginia and Washington and JEFF
fersOn; Army and Holy Cross; Navy
and Georgetown. In the middle west
Minnesota meets North Dakota; ulio-
nois and the Haskell indian team viii
grapple; Wisconsin lines up against
Lawrence; Purdue and Wabash clash;
and Indians and De PAW viii battle
On the Pacific coast and far west
fields Southern California will play the
Los Angeles A. c; Oregon Aggies meet
Willamette; Colorado faces Wyoming;
Idaho tackles Montana: while in the
south principal games include Louisiana
State VS.. Jefferson; Kentucky VS..
Butler: Alabama VS.. Howard, Missis-
Poly VS.. Randolph-Macon; and Wash
inSton and Lee VS. West Virginia
Wesleyan
Freak Baseball Play.
An unusual freak baseball play oc-
Cured in a recent game between the
Athletics and the Cleveland club at
Philadelphia In the second inning
with two out, LajOie on third AMI
Healy at bat with two strikes and two
balls called. pitcher Garrett made
wild hurl which struck in front Of the
Healy struck at the bounding ball
which hit catcher O'Neilrs mask and
rolled back Eon to the diamond. while
Healy ran for first Garrett ran in from
the box and picking up the ball touched
out LaJOie who was trying to score
from third. retiring the side. The net
result Of the play was that Garrett
saved his record from a wild pitch and
secured a put out; Healy was safe at
first on a missed third strike and the
side was retired. all on one play.
Board Track Is Fast.
The new two-mile speedway at
Sheepshead Bay New York city. will be
opened this afternoon with $50 mile
auto race in which teh leading drivers
and the most powerful cars Of the
country will compete. Preliminary
practice spins have resulted in new
records and the predictions that the
race TODAY will demonstrate that the
board track is the fastest in the world.
The drivers express the belief that.
given the proper weather and track
conditions, they can show an average
OF better than 100 miles per hour Cor |
the full distance. A new sporting event |
attendance record is also considered I
possible for arrangements have been
made to accommodate more than 49, |
900 spectators
Mack Answers Critics
Connie Mack. manager % the Phila- |
delphia Athletics, six time winners OF /
the American league pennants and 4
three times worlds champions. stung i
by criticisms relative to his deliberate I
breaking Up Of the famous baseball 4
machine. has made sweeping declara-
tion regarding his plans for 1915 Mack 1
said recently
we are losing ball games every day
and probably viii finish the poorest Of ]
any team in either major league in /
years, but I have made considerable /
progress along the lines Of reconstruc-
ton If the fans will look back TO the I
1908 season they viii realize that my
progress was slow than until the com 4
bination was complete, and then the 4
team came like lightning. Ny progress /
must be slow because the only part that i
have now that / am banking on for
my new machine are pitchers, and they
don't know anything yet and cannot be
TO show until next season.
7 repear that we will have another
club before the close Of next
season. Everything depends on how l
soon my pitchers develop. They will /
surely be right by the middle Of next
season. They are slow finding them
selves, but they will come around The !
rest Of my combination has been com
pleted and viii be signed up between
now and the spring training season"
Rabbit Is Pacemnker.
The middle west has added another I
Interesting item 10 the baseball chron- .
-cles Of the year with a story Of a rab- .
bit which acted as pacemaker for a
batter who had driven out a home run.
The incident occurred at St Cloud. !
Mimi, when Thielman of the home team I
lifted a long hit TO center field which
started a rabbit hidden in the long |
grass. This four legged spectator Of
The game, frightened by the ball. ran
toward the infield, reaching second !
base just ahead Of Thielman.
Touching the bag, the rabbit headed
Tor third and in order TO avoid the
Dleachers turned at that bag and cross
ng the home plate disappeared under
he grand stand Thielman was right at
he rabbits heels in the race for the
llate and was credited with = circuit
lit but the scorer refused to give the
'abbit home run, claiming that it had
rot touched first base.