El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-05-01
Nv a.RECk.s

Space for parking automobiles has
been left at the rear and at the south
/ OF the grandstand- The parking space
/ will take care Of about 100 machines.
I The new park is reached by any
J Of the Boulevard car lines which pass
! il a block away. The Montana street
jitnes run 10 within two blocks Of the
entrance and it is stated that many or
the jitne cars are arranging to run
Z direct to the ball park before the games
and meet the fans at the gate on their
way home
The new park represents an outlay
OF approximately $1,000 for material
and labor alone. Ground rentals also
run up the total. which AcCloskey will
have TO meet this season.
The Herald's pink sporting editions
viii carry full reports of all home
games during the -eason, each game
being reported play by play. Special
telephone lines from the park run
direct to the editorial rooms of The
Herald and the extras viii be on the
street few minutes after the game is
finished.
Herb Hester evidently plans to do
some pruning to his salary roll so that
he will be able TO work in Bowling for
second base with the Solons. Bowling
is a crack second sacker and with Hes
ter himself at first Bowling az sec
ond, McArdle at short and Young at
third he viii have one Of the best in
fields in the league. Hester frankly
admits that the chief expense Of his
club is the infield, for he declares that
he secured his outfielders and battery
men very reasonably. He stated here
that he expected to have to do a little
pruning TO keep within TIE salary
limit when il goes into effect on May
10, but that he looked for little trouble
in this respect
The Albuquerque and Douglas teams
did not get going on Saturday after
noon The Albuquerque business men
declared that il would not be salts
factory TO have an opening on q Sat
urday for all want to take in the game
and at their request the opening was
deferred until Tuesday. The Douglas
and Albuquerque teams viii likely play
a double header next Sunday TO make (
up for one OF the two games missed
=
The Albuquerque schedule calls for
games every day Of the week except ]
It is likely that a couple ,
Of the towns will grange to lay off J
On Fridays and play double bills on 1
tion calls for a guarantee Of $50 per !
game" instead Of the usual per day (
50 pOstponements for Sunday double I
bills will be possible without the visit
ing team being out Of pocket
The new ball park in the Cotton ad-
ditiOn was a big surprise to many OF
the fans, who did not believe il would
be possible to fix up so nice a park in
such a short time. Besides overseeing
the construction Of the park, AIcClos- I
key also handled the organization Of F
the league so one can wei realize the
huge task he set himself That he has T.
succeeded so weu proves thai Honest (.
John is some hustler
Leftfield is the bad "sunfield" at the
local park, but McClOskey has great
faith in Jake Bauer's ability 10 take
care Of anything and everything that .
comes his way
John 8IcCloskey, Jr, son of the man
sEer, is thinking seriously of taking
Spanish lessons. Johnny holds down
the dual position of groundkeeper and
concession manager and in fixing up
the grounds he came in contact with
many Mexican labOrers. Johnny doesn't
know a word of Spanish except that
when a fellow says. "Gracias" he isn't
cussing- Therefore. he had TO work in .
a most elaborate system Of signals and
signs to make the MeXicans know what
he wanted done. And when Johnny
gets both arms and one leg waving he
has it on any railway semaphOre that .
was ever built