El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-06-12
BALL CANE ENDS
IN 4 NEAR RIOT
Mexicans and Americans
Fight at Rio Grande Ball
Yard; Heads Cut.
BY 4BEcK.-

/ Disgraceful scenes followed sun
! day mornings Commercial league
I match at Rio Grande park be-
/ tween the WaIz and Everybodys
teams The walz team is composed Of
I Mexican players. though all were born
/ in the United States and are American
citizens Starting in the opening in
ming. feeling was strong throughout
the game. which was one Of the most
important in the Commercial league
series.
Claimed Soldier Drew Pistol.
The Wall team took the field in the
tirst inning As the game started. a
! panel-bOdy light delivery wagon.
drawn by mules and bearing the let
ters U. s" below the drivers seat
drew up TO position along the right
, field foul line Verne Lyman first
man at bat. pOled a long fly to right
1 field and IL went for three bases At
the end Of the half inning, z. Mesa,
the Walk right fielder, complained 10
umpire Lortz that one Of the three sol
diers in the army wagon had drawn a
pistol on him and told him 10 miss
Lyman's fly- The umpire Investigated
and stated that the soldiers denied
having any pistol
Boy Cursed Player.
After the first half OF the seventh
minors-and he kept on Smoothing the
chutes.
Decoration day Of this year found
Heinie pitching for a semi profess
sional club in Cleveland. He worked
in behalf OF the Telling Brothers team
which. in 1914. won the national city
Championship. having beaten all the
crack semi-pro teams in the country.
Both Teams High Glass.
Pitted against Heinie on DecOra-
ton day was the Bailey company
team, an outfit which this season
M
That it was practically as strong as
the champion Telling team of 1914 is
shown in the score. which was to o
in favor OF the feelings, at the end Of
the 18th inning.
And now come to the point:
The Bailey crowd, ranking around
the top among the Semi-pro teams in !
the United States, was powerless be-
fore the pitching Of the aged Berger.
This Heinie person famed p OF the I
Bailey men in those Il inaings-an I
average Of close to two strikeouts per I
inning He allowed only eight hits !
in those II periods-an average Of I
about four hits per nine innings.
The strength Of the semi-pro clubs 4
is shown there. The great Bailey out 1
fit was almost powerless before a 1
pitcher who was let out by the majors /
some years ago and who since has 4
slipped down through the minor league 1
chute until he has reached the bottom 4
If the crack Bailey team was able 1
innings. and II half Of the batsmen i
who faced him famed, what do you I
think would happen to the Baileys II
Walter Johnson, Grover Alexander. ]
George Foster. Dutch Leonard. Jeff I
Pfeffer or one or another Of the ma
lor league pitching stars faced them2
Leibhardt Another Example.
II Heinie Berger's cast isn't suffi-
ton that the semi-prOs are so inferior
to the major leaguers that there is
NOT compassion. we will introduce
Glen Lsibhardt as exhibit 3.
Just about the same time that
Heinie wore a Cleveland uniform. 1
Leibhardt did likewise. Glenn began I
10 fade a short time after Heinie He
too, went along to the minors and. Z
because Of inferior work, was handed /
down from one grade TO another until.
IN the end. he wasn't considered good
enough for the punkiest minors
me pitcher who worked for the Bal
eys against the feelings in that Dec
,ration day game was the same Leib- ]
lardt-the minor league castOff Pitch
championship Of the United
states less than two seasons ago.
-eibhardt held them scOreless for 16
innings. In the Telling lineup were
cleveland produces. The team is clut-
-ered up with men famed as sIuggers- I
With players who have batted out OF
he box many Of the best semi-pro
pitchers in the country.
But against this veteran I4eibhardr. |
he FEELINGS We're helpless for Is IN
lings- In the 18th, after two were out,
me Of the Telling players singled. The
next batter tripled and then scored on
IN error. That's the only time during
hose IL stanzas that the semi-prO I
champions Of 1914 could do anything
With the delivery OF this Leibhart-
he same delivery that even the dub
nest leaguers find easily solvable.
CIose 10 90 men faced the veteran
4iebhardt-and only nine hit safely. !
Don't you agree with US that the
asses OF Berger and Liebhardt answer
he question as to how much superior |
/ major league club is to a crack semi
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