El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-03-30
''Beck's" Amen Corner

I EAGUE baseball is getting close
at hand and the baseball guides
are making their appearance. The
new Spalding guide is an interesting
publication this year and one of the
excellent new features is a list of
'lznotty problems" that occasionally
come up in the games, together with
the solutions. As usual, the Spald-
ing guide is the official National
league publication while the Reach
guide is the official "Organ" of the
American league.
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Eastern critics are still busy
l. figuring out what chance Frank
Moran would have against Jess Will
lard over a 2O-rOund route or in a
finish battle. Some of the old time
fighters believe that Moran's chances
in a finish fight would be far better
than for IS or 20 rounds but the
great majority lean toward Willard.
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WHILE we are having great base
W baseball weather in this part of
the country, New York, Cleveland,
Detroit and Canadian cities are en-
Unused over the finals in the hockey
leagues. The game is stronger than
ever in New York and the Kinks
there are getting Canadian teams
from as far west as Winnipeg to play
exhibition games.
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MANAGERS Of international
A'A league teams are hanging around
the big leaguers these days to grab
the castoffs and, judging from the
caliber of men they are obtaining,
the international is going to be
much faster this year than for the
past two seasons. Tommy Leach is
getting the Giants surplus for his
Rochester team while Jack Dunn is
down for the men the Yankees won't
need. Buffalo is reported to have a
deal with Cincinnati.
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7 OS ANGELES, of the Coast league,
is anxious to make some deal
with a minor league club to act as
Hfarm" for the surplus youngsters
now with the Angels. If the Rio
Grande managers win do a bit of
hustling in the next week or ten days
it will be possible for them to grab
a few star players at reasonable
salaries. This league won't stand,
financially, for the big stars but such
men as Oscar Horstman, Of the
Angels, can be used in the Rio
Grande to advantage.
I'D WALSH, the veteran White
Il Sox pitcher, gave lot Of atten-
ton to the recruit pitchers during
the spring training and now he
thinks that he has a real @find" in
Eller, who has shown great pro
ficiency with the splitter"
John ]. M'CL0SKEY brought back
} good news from the northern end
of the Rio Grande circuit The addi-
tion Of Denver would add prestige to
the league but the fans are advised
not TO count zoo strongly on getting
in the Colorado metropolis as the
Western league directors will have
to consent before such action can be
taken.
TEX RICHARD didn't make an IN
qualified success of the promo
ton of the Willard-Moran fight,
according to New York papers. II
appears that the delay in opening
the doors caused a lot Of trouble,
while the scribes had a particular
howl because they were refused per
mission to take their cameras to
the ringside for pictures. They had
been promised that they would be
allowed to do this but when they
showed up with their picture ma
chimes, the latter were confiscated.
However, a couple of scribes with
pocket kodaks got some excellent
snaps.
NYIALTER ST. DENIS, a wen
" known New York fight critic,
saws that it was nature and not
willard that beat Moran. "The
whole world loves a fighter and
Moran is, today, a greater man,
pugilisticalIy, than the man so
favored by nature" writes st. Denis.
''Were it not for Moran's work, the
fight would have been the worst
thing ever handed the public. In
what fight there was, Moran made