El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-04-24
CRUCES TEAM
BEATS COLLEGE
Professionals Defeat One Of
Best Amateur Teams In
State By Is to 0.

Las Cruces. y. NJ, April 24.-The Las
Cruces fans have seen their professional
team in action and have no complaints
I te register. The players were all fresh
from low attitudes and several were
stiff from long trip rides, but they de-
feated one Of the best. II not the very
best, amateur team in New Mexico, the
A. & VI. college, at the local park on
Friday afternoon by a score Of 13 to O.
Hurley's ability has not been over
rated His work on Friday showed that
not only a topnOtcher as first base
man. he is an able manager Ray Kali
lilo and sam Beer divided the pitching
for the locals and did fine work. Kalho
gave three hits and famed nine in five
innings, while Beer allowed one hit and
famed four in four innings
Toots Bliss won a place in the hearts
OF the fans by his good work behind
the bat Occasionally tn cOllegians
would make an attempt to steal base,
but after Toots had pegged out Ses-
SONS in the second inning. they were
exceptionally leary Of his throwing
arm.
II is difficult to comment on all the
players. but, without exception, all
made good buddy and Pendleton. Of
the FL Paso team. helped out. and both
played brilliant bail The former is
certain to be one OF the stars Of the
league il his work here can be taken
as any criterion
COIIcgians Play Well.
Though defeated the colleglans were
by no means disgraced- They were go
ing up against a FAST professional or
ganization and they contested every
inning Lleavelyn pitched nice pail ana
allowed only eight hits. In the first
inning he was rather unsteady. and
door support by his teammates allowed
the professionals TO get seven runs
after that the cOllegians settled down
Dr. Wiggin made a most efficient
umpire
The score by innings X ID, +,
A & No o o 0 0 o. .
Las Cruces : 2 8 o o o 0sN-lS i
The teams were Las Cruces-Seaton,
II: McAvoy, Oh; buddy. 81; Bauer CT,
Pendleton. SIS. Hurley, lb; Bliss, c.
Brainard. II. KalliO and Beer. p
A. & N. CoIlege-Blackwel C; Lane,
OBJ Maynard. IF, Ladd- CT Mlller, =,
Seasons. 1b. BabcOck and Evans H.
LIewelyn. p, Cox, 3D.
The Las Cruces team VIII play an
an star team from Fort Bliss at Las
Cruces on sunday afternoon and big
crowd OF fans is expected TO turn Out
New bank to Open soon
The new Union bank at Las cruces
will open its doors for business IN me
near f1ture. DR.. Nathan Boyd promoted
the bank proposition The inc9rpo
ators are- " 3. Vaudeville. 100 shares
Dr. Nathan Boyd. 100 shares; =. X
Scott. 50 shares and 50 shares VIII pc
taken up by local people. It is capital
lied at S30. GOO The bank owns the lease
and fixtures Of the defunct First state
banks n B. Vaudeville who Is presl-
dent Of this new bank comes here from
Rocky Ford. Colo. where he has been
i'm the banking business for number
Of years. Mr. Scott the cashier, Is an
experienced banker from Wan. Okla Dr.
Boyd is well known here having lived
in the Organ mountains east Of Las
Cruces, for many years
Welfare Mass Meeting
The Las Cruces Welfare association
viii hold a mass meeting on the night
Of Tuesday. May 4 in the school house
Dr. r E Mcbride will be the speaker.
Solos and Rotations viii be given and
the Las Cruces band and Stoes' orches-
ira will furnish the instrumental mu-
sic.
To Observe Chiidren's Day.
On Sunday morning Children's day
viii be observed in the Methodist
church. after which Rev. Clyde X
Campbell will preach a short sermon. In
the evening he Will preach on What
Think Ye Of Christ