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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-03-03
DOYLE AND MEYERS MAY RETURN
T00LD HIT TING FORM THIS YEAR
when Doyle and Meyers Aren't Hitting, We Don't
VIM, Is Slogan Of Giants; Both Players Are Liable
to Poke Wildly at Bad Ones When Their Hitting
Powers Desert Them as Last Year.
BY DAMON RUNYoN.

dent. and never fully recovered. II
showed in his cramped swing at the
plate last season, and he wound up me
year with the inglOrioUs mark of .26O.
Since the season closed Doyle has
been down in Florida, and those VINO
have seen him declare that his should
er is now as strong as ever. IL IhaL Is
true. the second baseman may recover
his old full, free slam, and get back
to Meyers's company.
Both Had 10 Fight.
Both Doyle and Meyers had to fiSht
for their places on the Glants-leyeT
perhaps more than Doyle. Meyers has
always believed that when he first
broke in there was some prejudice
among the ball players on other teams
against an indian, and certain 1t IS
that they never gave MIN any the best
of it.
from the plate by riding high as they
hurled themselves homeward. but the
chief stood to the steel until they
finally ceased those tactics. They were
never very complimentary in their ref
euces to him, and for a, long time
the chief was rather backward about
answering them. He got over that too.
The fans turned against him one
year when he was going very badly, and
he was PANIED from the stands and
i'm the papers until he was so wrought
up that he did not know whether he
n
t. the job. McGraw was one man who
always believed in the chief, and the
indian justified his confidence.
Underestimated Player.
Next to Fred Merkle the indian has
probably been the most underestimate
ballplayer on the Giant club. Doyle. a
flashy fellow with a. lot of personality
and color and a big fav0rite with the
other players and fans, always got his
just due, but there was seldom any
general boost out for Meyers. There
were times, too, when he was standing
out head and shoulders over any catch
er in the league. Others might have
been more SNOWY, but for real value
the big Mission indian was the star.
His case is somewhat similar to that
Of Charley Schmidt, of the Boston
Braves. Few fans and fewer baseball
people regard Schmidt as a good first
basemau. but StallinEs believes in him.
as McGraw believed in Meyers. and
certainly Schmidt has given the Boston
manager reason to congratulate him
self on his judgment.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-03-03
COLE AND TENNIS
GAIN POPULARITY

New York, March 3.-Statisticians
tell us there are approximately 100000
golfers in the country today, and that
about 10000 of these developed last
wear alone. There are near $4,000 who
DIav the game in and about 81 LOUIS
alone. more than 900 who dlsport on
the links in and around Chicagoi prac-
ticaHy 100, 600 golfers in Greater new
York and vicinity. The links nave
drawn nightly from the grandstand
and bIeachers. from the latter espe-
ciaIIy since municipal park depart
ments have been putting the game OF
golf within the reach Of the man OF
average means
If not more, tennis has fully as many
devotees as golf. 1t, too, has made big
strides in the past few years. 1t is ct
tracing it's thousands to the courts
as away from ball parks, for the same
reason that the golfer leaves the ma
tfonaI pastime for the links.
Not so apparent. but none the less
certain is the effect on baseball at
tendance of the lOw-priced motor car,
notorboat and motorcycle. Observe the
drives and bOulevards and the country
roads about any great metropolis on a
sumner afternoon; watch the lakes
and rivers-and here in the east the
bavs-abOut your city, and you will
see hundreds transplanted from the
ball parks
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-03-03

NJ some years it has been say
IL ing among the Giants: when
Doyle and Meyers aren't hitting, we
don't VIM 1t was the excuse Tor eN-
cry losing streak even when the cIuD
was running in front. Moreover, it was
never any idle fancy-it was the truth.
When Doyle and Meyers slumped III
smuggling the Giants WObbled all over
the track. When the laughing Larry
and the tactiturn Tories were both
hitting, the big town boys used to
gather ground in long leaps.
Always, in those halcyon days when
they were winning pennants, II the
club was getting clouted pretty freely,
the men would say "Oh, well Doyle and
Meyers aren't going very well, but
wen catch up when they get started.
And always that was sO-alWays until
last year. That was the year that
Doyle and Meyers never did get under
Vay-and the Polo GrOunders blew the
bunting, as you might say. On the
question of whether Doyle and Meyers
viii ever return to normal depends
the chances Of the Giants this season:
Both DOYLE and Meyers are natural
hitters-free swinging, hit-any-old-
pitching sluggers, or, at least they
We're sluggers of that type. If the OLD
rule of batting eye being about the
last thing that leaves a ball-player
holds good, then these fellows must
still be quite a long way from the end
of their usefulness so far as hitting
is concerned
Are Very TemperamentaI.
Both are very temperamental. When
they are going well they go extremely
well, but when they go bad they are
like the little bOy-horrid. very Ions
streak Of inefficiency at bat seems TO
work upon their nerves, and they begin
hitting at balls they would never think
Of trying for when in form.
tt used to be very, very rarely that
Meyers went after bad one lie was
much less flighty than Doyle in that
respect, but last season he was chasing
the poor one as enthusiastically as any
one in the land At that however,
ting average Of .284. which is a pretty
good average for this vicinity
Meyers VIII Come Back.
II is the belief of the writer that
Meyers will show a return to form
this season. He is too much of a nat
Ural hitter to lose his ability in
single year. He. is comparatively
young man, his habits have been eX-
cellent, and there is no reason why he
should not be as good as ever The
three-time pennant grind undoubtedly
told on the entire Giant club last seas
on. and that, combined with a consider
able measure of overcOnfidence, spilled
the Boston national dish.
Doyle n Problem.
Doyle is more of a problem than
Meyers, for the reason that Doyle's
falling off last season was probably due
TO an old injury sustained in an auto
mobile accident the year before. The
fans will remember that Larry drove
bis Chalmers trophy into a large,
strong tree out FOrdham way. Just
before a worlds series, and that for
some days it was feared that he would
not be able to get into the champion
ship games.
His shoulder was hurt in that acct
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-03-03

~ OSTON, Mass, March Thomas
k W. Cahiu, secretary of the United
- States Football associatiOn-the
guardian body of soccer-in d recent
interview here while attending the
launching of a new soccer league at
Brockton said a number of uncompli-
mentary things regarding the American
game Of football as played in this coun-
Mr.. CahiH declared that hardly a
game is played in American football
without some of the participants being
severely injured and stated that the
American game. since its origin from
the English game Of Rugby. has been
altered and revised almost beyond
recognition. MI Cahin predicted sue
cess and prosperity for the English
soccer game in this country.
Should Create Coco VIII.
Football should be such as to ere
ate good feeling between opponents
and the games should be such as can
be looked upon with pleasure and en-
joyment. In soccer football mere
strength and brutality are eliminated
and are substituted by skill and science.
I cannot say this of American football
not that I deny there are sllillful
moves in American football believe
there are-0ut these are far Outweighed
by the demands Of strength. Scarcely
is an American game played but severe
accidents take place, and hence the
game is robbed of the real pleasure. In
soccer football a small fellow has just
the same chance of gaining his place on
the college or school team as a big fell
low-and why should he not2 He is
just as interested and just as enthusi-
astic in the welfare Of his school and
city.
Soccer Is GentIemRnIy Game.
There certainly is reason for the
many complaints against American
football, and I venture to say that the
way it is played and has been played
: is below the standards of gentleman
illness. Soccer football is truly a gen
tlemanly game, and it is more cTedita-
bic to any player to know he has beat
en- his opponent by pure cleverness
with the ball than by brutality and
strength.
Neat. clever footwork Is easier for
the player and better for the specta-
tors. Spectators can see the ball and
every players movement during the
whole time the soccer game is in prog
ress. with the result that all the sci
entific points can be easily appreciated.
10000 See Came.
"And surely, to the reasonable mind,
there must be something fine and
worth seeing in a game that can COM
uand an attendance OF 10000 people,
and a game that has five times more
clubs than any other sport Compare
the size of England with America, and
with these facts think of the great fu-
tire soccer football will have in this
country and of the enthusiastic and
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-03-03
Thinks Soccer Will Take We'll In US.
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Cahill Compares It With American Game

rapidly growing popularity it is hay-
ing at the present time in this coun-
try.
''Why should so many students and
young men be famed and rendered una
BILE to study and unfit for business sim
pIv because they play college football?
The men are fit and in proper cOndi-
ton Then the only reasonable and
honest reply must be that the game is
not fit. and that it ought not to rank
as a prominent American sport.
'I cannot believe American sDOrtsmen
conscientiously want a game which en-
tails so much loss of life and accidents.
I do not for one moment wish to suS-
gest that the American game will i'm
mediately drop right out, but I do as
suredly say that soccer football has
come to stay and prosper here.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-03-03
NINTH CAVALRY DEFEATS
ARTILLERY AT BASEBALL

Douglas. Ariz.. March 3.-The Ninth
Sixth Field artillery by a score of u
70 5 in the first regimental baseball
game of the season. The artillerymen
made a good start but could not hold
the fast pace set by the cavalry, and
by the fifth inning the men with the
red cords on their hats were leaving
the crandstand and starting home.
The batteries: Ninth cavalry, Scott,
Mcdowell; Sixth Field artillery, Pope,
and OCOnnOr, Schultz.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-03-03
ROBINSON WINS DOUGLAS
CEI MINI lid II 4.

Douglas. Ariz.. March 3-In the
finals in the golf tournament for the
Douglas Country club CUP, f. c. Rob
inson defeated DR.. Randolph, who won
the cup for the runnerup. Mac Smith
won the consolation cup, playing
against VIII Foster
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-03-03

fered several years ago, as well as a
severe illness that kept him out OF
the game for an entire season. OF the
Boston players who took part. Bill Car
rigan, who caught part Of the game,
is the only player still with the team.
Copyright, 1915, by the Wheeler Syn
dictate, Inc)
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-03-03
Stallings Settles the Double Crosser''
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He Also Guards Against Any Intrusion
BY FRANK G. MENKE.

Jew YORK, March 1.-The score
N was to , against the Braves.
= This was in a game played in
Boston in the summer of 1913. It
was the ninth inning. Two men were
out and the Braves had a man on first
and another on second
-HaD' Myers. the HUSKY Boston first
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-03-03

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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-03-03
THEIR ONE BEST GAME

MODERN PITCHING STARS
written Especially Paper American League
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-03-03

AELIN, TEN, March 3.-For
some years it has been a say
ing among the Giants: when
New-York tribune., 1915-03-28
Bowling, with a Fen Stray
Shots at the Head Pin

the event Of failing in the quest for
the national honors.
These medals will 20 10 the highest
team registered in New York. provided
that none cf the other awards is won.
The entire ROSeville A. A. combination.
Of the Athletic League. although al
ready in the National Bowling Associa-
tiOn. through the Newark association.
has also joined the New York body.
Joseph +. Cahill. secretary of the AL
eonquin Club, told q friend of the re-
cent incident at Wyman's when Jamie
watt. with 23i, saved a game for the
club. What was the natter" asked
the friend. Watt was the matter. -
came the. reply from man on the
beaten side
Elmer f Wood, the Roseville lead
er sounded an interesting note the
other day as he entered his club for
the national tournament THE club
has been IN every y. B. A. tournament
ever rolled, and we would 90 in if the
tournament sprang into existence over
night" he said.
Even so, the Roseville members pre-
fer going to some other city to roll
In the national tournament. T ere arc
many who feel that way, but It does
not affect their loyalty.
DR.. John W. Breen, of the New York
Athletic Club, who usually rolls with
the Metropolitan team, is expected
back from Florida in time to com
pete with his combination. Partnered
with Frank VI. Clute. former y. B A.
president, the pair made fine show
ing IN Rochester in 1903.
The trend Of the times in bowling
may be learned from the fact that
the employes of one of the Brooklyn
banks rent eight alleys at the Grand
Central Academy one afternoon each
week Sometimes fifty or sixty per
sons will ,ake part IN the games.
Here's a tip for the man who tries
control and fails Let the arm swing
well out when the ball IS delivered.
II Is like the follow through In golf
In other words, do not let 60 of the
ball too quickly. Better direction and
slight natural curve will result.
New-York tribune., 1915-03-28
MORAN-WELLS BOUT
STIRS LONDON FANS
American in Fine Condition for
Battle in Ring Tomorrow
NIGHT.

Frank Moan. the Pittsburgh h avy-
weight, viii tackle Bombardier Wells at
the Opera ouse, London. tomorrow
night. The latest reports from over
the water say that the advance book
ings have been very heavy and that the
fight is creating greater interest than
any bout since Gunboat Smith lost TO
Georges Carpenter at the Olympia last
July.
The American has made many
friends, and at his training quarters,
the Black Bull Hotel, Milestone, about
eighteen miles from London, he has
put himself IN fine condition.
A large party Of London newspaper
men recently went over TO his head
quarters to get some first hand in
formation of the progress he is max
ing, and witnessed a three-rOund bout
with Herbert Hall, the well known Eng
Hsh heavyweight. The showing of the
American made zig impression upon
them. ard all expressed the opinion
that Billy Wells was in for big sur
prise.
New-York tribune., 1915-03-28
WON NINETEEN OUT
OF TWENTY GAMES
Crescent A. c. Basketball
Five Ends Season with
a Fine Record.

With a record of winning nineteen
Of the twenty games played during the
season and thirty-six of the last thir-
ty.seven in which they took part, the
Basketball players of the Crescsnt Ato
letic Club have closed one OF the most
successful campaigns in the history OF
tho sport.
Princeton University. by the close
score of 80 TO "a, earned the distinc-
ton of being the team to break the
Crescent string of victories. This was
due in part to the fact that the home
team was weakened by the absence OF
Gil Halstead, All-America centre last
year.
Previous to this defeat the Crescent
five had not lost a game since Decem-
Der 90, 1918.
A great deal of the success was due
to the strong reserve force. In no two
games did the Crescent A. c. present
the same lineup. DOC" Dayton, the
manager. deserves great credit for the
showing of his charges. He always
put strong com u aation on the hoor,
no matter how many obstacles ancl dlf-
ficulties he had to overcome.
The record for the season follows:
New-York tribune., 1915-03-28
JUDGES NOT AT FAULT
G. H. Jones Denies Coin Toss
in Weight Throw.

-
Sir: hope that you will find it pos
sible to correct the statement made by
Mr.. Kiviat in last Sundays Tribune: !:
That the contestants in the 56-pound
weight competition at the indoor cham
pionships tossed a coin for first place
alter tieing at Is feet inches"
do not know where Kiviat got his
Information, but it is absolutely incor-
rect, and the score cards now in the Of
fee of the A. A. U. will show that the
rules were complied with.
II ia a bad thing TO cast reflection on
the ability of the officials at a cham
pionship meeting, as an event is some
times decided by very marrow margin,
and the decision Is apt to be questioned
If there is any doubt as TO the fitness
Of the officials.
do not believe incompetent officials
should be shielded, but officials should
not be criticised unjustly, as such criti-
cism makes for doubt and dispute.
Let me say that | enjoy reading Tho
Tribune, not only the sporting page,
but the entire paper.
CYRIL II. JONES.
New York, March "a, 1915.
New-York tribune., 1915-03-28
GREAT BOWLING
TOURNEY BEGINS
NEXT SATURDAY
Lovers of Game Likely to
Make Contests a Big
Success.
LITTLE. HELP FROM
THE ALLEY OWNERS
N. B. A. Competitions Have Been
Responsible for Several
Tcnpin Records.

All eyes in the world OF tenpIns will
be turned toward the Grand Central
Palace for two weeks or more. be
ginning next Saturday night, when the
ninth annual championship tournament
of the National Bowling Association
will get under way. Not an hour of
time will be wasted, and the games viii
be continued from early morning 10
midnight without stop. Even Sundays
Will be used.
Although the local alley owners. for
the most part, have refused to get out
and hustle 'or the sake OF the game
from which they obtain living. 1t
looks at this time as If the bowlers
themselves will do a great deal. In
other words, if the tournament Is sue
cessful, and it has every promise, II
will be only through the fondness OF
the bowler for his game.
\. Il. 4. tournaments always nave
been remarkable for the number OF
records established. Ia all the nine
years these meetings have been held II
is difficult to remember a time when a
worlds mark was not sent sailing. Az
the first one in Atlantic City IN 1907
the all around total of 1886 made by
John J. VOORHEES, was the best up 10
that time.
IL was in Rochester in 1908 that John
NcGuirk and John J. Grady. OF Pater-
son, set the bowling world ahre with
their 1878 for two-men mark. In
New York in 1909 Edward Thompson.
of Brooklyn, with 699 in the singles
equalled the best previous record. An
thony Prio eclipsed it by 8 pins in Bal
timore in 1910
George Kelsey and Charles Johnson,
Of New Haven. hung up 1856 for the
doubles in Buffalo in 1911, mark
which remains at the top of the list.
The next year in Paterson 1897 was
established IN the hve-men by the
Grand Central team, Of Rochester
while Mortimer Lindsey, with 2,O3l IN
the all around, set mark which was
beaten in the Canadian tournament
only a short time afterward.
When the scene shifted to Rochester
in 1918, George Kumpf, of Buffalo.
made 7l2 in tie singles, the present
mark, while last spring at Atlantic
City the Genesee combination, OF
Rochester, established 3O35 for the
five-men mark. Four out of the pres
ent seven worlds records have been
made in the national tournament.
Altogether ten marks Of this kind have
been made in the national NEE ungs,
and two others have been edualled.
The list Of champions of all classes
Is as follows:
New-York tribune., 1915-03-28
HOPPE DEFEATS MAYER
Professional Champion Scores
1000 in Five Blocks.

Philadelphia, March q. - willie
Hoppe, the professional champion,
won the handicap 1872 billiard match
here tonight from Joseph Mayer, the
amateur champion, the former scoring
1000 points in the FIVE blocks played
to Mayors 1894
The stipulation of the match was
that Hoppe was 10 score 1000 before
Mayer put together l 800 in order TO
win
New-York tribune., 1915-03-28
Epen Chance at Titles for
Yale and Penn Swimmers

The local elementary school swim
ming championships will be decided on
April II, in the City College nata-
torium, under the direction of the Pub
lie School Athletic league. As usual,
the boys will be grouped according 20
weight, the class limits being So, 100,
115 pounds and unlimited weight. The
programme includes 20, 40, 90 and so
yard swims and relay race. A record
entry list is confidently anticipated.
Teddy Cam, the speedy sprinter of
the High School of Commerce, who re-
Gently covered 100 yards in 81 AS sec
onds, has applied for membership in
the New York Athletic Club, and it is
likely that he will soon be wearing
the Mercury Foot in competition. The
lad has shown unusual natural ability
and there is no doubt that, properly
handled, he can be developed into
star performer. During the past ten
months he has cut his century time
By almost as many seconds, but he
still has faults, the elimination of
which should bring him well under
even figures.
The announcement by the committee
on water sports at the Panama Pacific
Exposition. that the national outdoor
championships of next July would be
held in the Sutro Baths, has caused
comment in aquatic circles. The baths
are fully enclosed and it appears that
the rules Of the Amateur Athletic
Union prescribe open air courses for
the summer events. No action has so
far been taken by the authorities.
It begins to look as if Olga Dorfner,
Of Philadelphia, might soon aspire to
worlds swimming honors among wom-
en-. The Official S0-yard record of
So 4-5 seconds, which she created re-
Gently, denotes ability TO travel the
classic century around l minute 10
sec lnds. The information. mark stands
at l minute 6 seconds.
Miss Dorfuer has always competed
promlscuously at all distances, and
never undergone any special prepara-
tlon for her races, so that there Is
reason TO believe she would not find it
difficult to bIiage the four second mar
gin if she specialized for a while at
sprinting, and went IN for a serious
course of training. The game would
seem worth the candle, too.
"The Amherst Student deyotes sew
eral articles 70 the controversy be-
tween the Amherst swimmers and the
intercollegiate Swimming Association
over the barring Of the former from
the individual league CHAMPIONSHIPS.
and it becomes quite evident to the
reader that all the trouble was due to
a misunderstanding Of the letter writ
ten last December by President Marcy.
in answer to Amherst's inquiry re-
garding the possibility OF outside ts
making entries 10: rhe title contests.
Marcy has now admitted tnat his COM
munlcatlon was ambiguous, and offered
apologies, SO peace is restored.