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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-10-20

z T is probably unfortunate for Jock
Hutchinson that there was no ma
4 tional open title az stake this year.
When Brae Burn called Off the na-
tional open and Whitemarsh decided
20 run a substitute in the form OF a
patriotic event, the majority Of the
leading pros were on hand. There
was no money az stake for the win
ners. though they all played the best
they knew how. and Hutchison led the
field by a wide margin. He was also
third In the western span
In a way, Walter Hagen, the Roch-
polltan and western open titles in
1915, has shown a slight falling of
this year. Hagen. however, made
great Try 70 retain MS western lau-elS.
finishing only two strokes behind
Barnes AT Shawnee. Hagen got fifth
ming side Of q number OF exhibition
matches.
BY the way Gil Nichols started
In the spring II looked as il the
Great Neck pro- might eclipse
all others throughout the 1917
season, for he won five rourna-
memts in the south. Thereafter.
however. Nichols showed less
steudineSS. He got seventh money
Mt shawnee and tied for siyth. sew
euth and eighth places. with T..
O'Hnra and James Donaldson In
the western open
tt has been suggested that a caddIe
championship. o-en to boys through
out the United states. would be an
ideal way 90 find those Youngsters
Who have the qualifica lions Of fist
class players.
When IL is remembered that practI-
cally quarters OF the leading
professionals began their golfing ca
reers as bag toters. a little encourage
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-10-20

The army club Il drawn from
practically every regiment OF tee
border patrol, and T. said 20 con-
sist OF only the best players OF
the representative teams Of these
regime MS. In view Of this each
player has considerable standing
in his own baIllWick. and al Of
his friends come out TO witness
the game and render him any aid
that mny be possible.
Big Brown. formerly first sacker u
the Weston city league club. VIII
handle the destinies Of the iai-ial
position for the civilian star team
sunday IN the place Of Fisher. who
goes TO the mound Cliff Hill. Balti-
more hUrler who worked last sunday
q freruOon. viii doubtless be placed n
the field In view Of his hitting. Min
iarez VIII be permitted 10 cover Sec
1nd base 90 is said
Medina Out Of Game.
one bet that the MANAGEMENT OF
the civilian team is overlooking is It's
failure 20 obtain the services OF Bill
Nedina- This PLAYER is one OF the
fastest and most reliable in the entire
lee que. and can be expected 20 turn
out q hit az any time. Bill as a field
ar is snappv and wen balanced and
covers q great deal OF ground
Chief Gutierrez il nlsO n good
heudy tWirler that the civilian
management could use very we'll
Gufic-rcz can both hit. pitch aEd
play third base nnd in n valuable
mrn Indifferent 70 the position
Ee Is given.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-10-20

work, and team work are factors that
win There is practically no DANGER
10 any player and there are Just rs
many thrills as in Rugby. While
especially the game OF the British
Isles, and now the chief form OF sport
IN every camp OF the allies. soccer IS
steadily gaining in the United states
Practically every college now has
team, and every city OF any size
las its school league.
In eastern Texas the game is well
organized and the Spalding year book
gives the Texas association a writeun.
II PasO is not mentioned. although dur
ing the stay OF the national guard
here the soldiers had several teams.
and the United Empire club. a team
captalned by Harry Day. were a
strong aggregation.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-10-20
Jew YORK Oct 2O.-From pres

Jew YORK, Oct 20.-FrOm pres
M ent indications spring training
= operations Of the 16 major
league ball clubs will be conducted or
a very modest scale in 1913.
The heavy expense OF taking a big
squad Of ball players to the sunny
southland has caused talk OF curtsil-
ments along this line for several
years. but because OF the hard knocks
baseball has taken in a financial may
and the uncertainties OF what the fu-
ture holds for the game owing TO the
world war, there is little chance that
the club owners will be ready to
spend money lavishly next spring.
All Clubs in Line
A fOrerunner OF the retrenchment
policies OF mspOr league owners was
found I'm the draft last Septem Der.
fewer players than for the past ten
years
The Chicago White sox, for In
stance. did not draft a single play
er. Neither did the PittsburE Pr
rates. Several other clubs drafted
only one or two men, and before
spring training time arrives next
March there is a chance that some
Of the drafted players Will be
turned back
me annual report or the uaLOudl
commission, showing the players pur-
chased from the minor leagues by
major league clubs between the dates
OF the 1916 and 1917 drafts. showed a
total OF I27 players who were taken
by the big leagues under approved
agreements, other than optional con-
tracts.
In this list the Boston Red SoI did
not obtain a single player by the
purchase route, while the Boston
Braves got but one The drafted play
ers totaled 80. u OF whom were draft
ed by American league clubs and p
by clubs in the National league.
1Inuy Players Secured
IN all the major leagues secured I
total OF $50 players, including both /
those purchased for trial and those [
drafted last month OF this number /
81 is said not more than so percent I
iii he teL-an anmth next EnrLng.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-10-20

18th the baseball season over
M the paraphernalia slowed
W away for the winter the
knights OF the diamond show interest
in other pastimes. The great ma
jority OF major league ball players
devote that off season 70 recreation
as they see It-for TO them baseball
is work
A great many OF the star ball toss
ers Of the American and National
leagues are excellent shots with the
trap gun and devote considerable time
10 shooting IN the field and at the
traps during the five months that the
pay check doesn't filter in with their
mail
@ChIef Bender. whose remark
able pitching with the PhIIIies the
past season, Is still the sensation
wherever baseball n discussed, Is
one Of the hest frapshOts in this
dear old land Of ours and the
Chippewa may be located at the
Beideman club traps in Camden,
y. J.s several afternoons each
Bender. with Harry Davis. captain
Of the Athletics; Christy NathewsOn.
manager Of the Cincinnati Reds and
Otis Crandall, now hurting IN the Pa
cific Coast league, toured the country
several years ago as trapshootlng
squad and their performances awak-
ened interest OF other bail players 10
the sport.
Grover Cleveland Alexander. who
has turned i'm 80 victories in each OF
the past three years for the Phillies,
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-10-20
GUNNERS DEFEAT
AMBULANCE TEAM

The football eleven from the 10th
ambulance corps went down to de-
feat Friday afternoon at Rio Grande
park before the fast 18th field artil-
lery regimental club. by the score Of
80 TO O. The artillerymen had an ad-
vantage in weight over their oupo-
nents and ground down the line at
short intervals.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-10-20

sity baseball. however. which was
dropped after all the preliminary ex-
penses Of the season had been under
gone, resulted in loss OF S1536.30.
Rowing. although there were nc
varsity or freshmen crews. neces-
states the disbursement Of s72I4.S5.
Of which S493-2O was offset by receipts
from interest bearing funds.
The amounts expended for the other
teams were as follows. swimming
and water polo, S30O6.61: wrestling.
S9-a-t5; track, S1617-S7. lawn tennis.
so SIS; freshman basketball. S2sS5s.
rifle club. S5oI1: haudbaM S3O.59-
freshman fencing. Sf6.75. freshman
football, S4SS-05. The deficits incurred
oF these teams were Swimming and
water polo. $503.f9: wrestling. S7SO.4S.
track. S1i62.31. lawn tennis. s2Iq.2s.
freshman basketball. S191S4; rifle
CLUB. S20-6l; handbaIl. S3O59: fresh
man fencing, profit OF So cents. and
freshman football, S3443O
The reserve fund amounts to
5000 and there II "A cash bal
ance in the hands OF the graduate
manager of S5IO-SG- The IInbfIt-
ties are lean OF $1,000 held by
the university authorities.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-10-20
Vic Moran, Lightweight
Boxer, Volunteers to Be
New Military Instructor

Vic Moran. the young italian battler
from New Orleans, who has a match
with Benny Leonard coming up, is
listed among the men who have vol
unteered TO teach boxing to the
soldiers in training at Fort Sheridan.
Solly Friedman and several other Chi
cago scrappers also have volunteered
70 heip teach the soldiers the fine art
Of welding the padded gloves.
Soldiers at Fort Sheridan are ~
ting a pretty thorough course in Box
ing under the supervision of Martin
A. Delaney. a Chicago physical direc-
tor. classes are held every day, and
every one Of the 1000 men in csun
puts in a session with the uittens
This means that about 1000 bouts are
pulled on at Fort Sheridan every dav.
camp officials assert boxing teaches
ness needed for success In bavonet
fighting.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-10-20
Bowlers Aid the Red Cross
National Tourney to Help

The officials believe that by rigid
economy they can hold down their ex-
penses 10 the is percent that viii
be left after the two percent is given
to the Red Cross The prize fund for
the 1oWlers VIII be 66 % percent OF
the total entrance money, and 30 per
cent VIII 20 10 the Cincinnati Bowling
ASSOCIATION tournament fund.
The Cincinnati association viii ask
for subscriptions from the chamber OF
commerce and other associations and
individuals President August Herr
mann, Of the Cincinnati commission.
has stated he VIII contribute an
amount equal 10 any sum raised BY
subscriptions.
The entrance fees At Grand
RnpidS amounted 10 $4,000. and
the prospects are enc entrance fees
for the Cincinnati tournament will
exceed that amount by several
thousands Of dollars.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-10-20
LEAGUE MAGNATES
HAVE HARD LUCK

No wonder the Three-T league dis
banded in July The wonder IS thai
Al Tearnev. its president. stood the
-aff as long as he did Only three
cities RENTED the assessment levied
AT the start OF the season to start
things. Three cities. Moline. Alton
and Quincy. paid in practically none
OF the ten percent on game receipts
for leagu expenses and even Bloom
ington did not remit for its last Is
games. II appears also that not a
club put up the guarantee supposed
20 be required under National assO-
citation regulations
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-10-20

w TASHINGTON, D. c.. Oct. 20
NJ The American Red Cross viii
share in the success Of the
American bowling congress tourna-
ment. to be held in Cincinnati com
mencing February 16. This informa-
tion was received from Abe Langtry.
Of the American Bowling congress.
The congress has decided 10 donate
two percent Of the entrance fee, which
viii be taken from the 1-3 percent
set aside for the bowling officials to
the Red Cross.
II the amount does not total
$1,000 the officials will make up
the remainder. Should the tour
nnment prove successful financial
y. part Of the receipts will he
given to some local patriotic
cause
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-10-20
PLAYERS DECLINE OFFER.

a request was made 20 the Indians
and Reds 10 make a trip 10 the camp
Of soldiers at Montgomery. Ala. to
play an exhibition game for the BOYS
In khaki. but the ball players. though
guaranteed all expenses, concluded
they had enough baseball for the year
and declined 10 make the trip.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-10-20

The cost Of taking n major
club to its training camp and
maintaining Il until the opening
of the big league season is heavy.
The average cost of n training
trip Is about $500, and the clubs
which take long trips spend in the
neighbOrhOOd OF $4,000.
Through the playing of exhibition
games in minor league towns the big
league clubs manage TO pick up a few
hundred dollars on their way back
from the training camps. but they sell
dom take in more than a sixth Of the
total cost
Take Small Squads.
or the Is major league clubs
IL Is probable that at least ten will
take much smaller squads south next
March than they have taken in the
past six or seven years. Only the
best looking recruits will make the
trips.
According to the unofficial aver
ages Of major league players Raw
Chapman OF the Cleveland Indians
was the best base runner in the 1917
campaign. He was in the lead among
American leaguers for a great part
OF the season. and when threatened
by Cobb in the closing weeks OF the
race Chapman also cut loose with n
burst Of speed which kept him ahead
Of Ty. Only five players in the major
league stole so or more bases during
the season.
Chapman led with IS. while
Cobb had - steals, and Max Carey
finished up with - thefts. Carey
won the honOrs In the National
league with plenty to spare, but
in the American league four play
ers were IN the race to the finish.
Bobby Roth finished with 81 fhefts
and Eddie Collins With n ThRMR
are unofficial figures, and IL f.
possible that the official figures
may differ slightly and change
the relative ratings OF the leaders.
COMTSKET CROWDED OUT.
Another thing the Chicago fans
blame Charley Comfskey for: Why
-. -. !.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-10-20
LINCOLN MAKES RECORD-

The best fielding record for the sea
son so far as known was that made by
the Lincoln team Of the Western
league which went 81 innings in
August without an error being made.
Included I'm this was a q inning game
played and won by Lincoln.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-10-20

H9S-Ie8 IT0 T-e9 % Be 07aTod on n
following scheduled games remain
October %, BealI VS.. Lamar.
october %, Alta Vista VS.. san ia
cintO-
October "a. Bailey VS.. Villas.
october %. Morehead VS.. Aoy.
November .. Winners VS.. Winners
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-10-20
FISHER WILL START CAME
FOR CIVILIANS AGAINST THE ARMY

Former Feldman Twrer and Best of City League Pitch
ers VIII Contest Military Club in Second Game of the
Championship series Sunday Afternoon; Cliff Hill
viii Be Held on Bench as Adviser or Play in Field.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-10-20
MAJOR LEAGUE CLUBS WILL CUT
DOWN 1878 TRAINING EXPENSES

Many Magnates Assert That They Will Take But a
Small Squad to Training Camps and viii Do Every
thing in Their Power to Cut Out Useless Expense;
Many Teams Lost Heavily in Recent Season.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-10-20
American League Owners
Take Steps to Retrench
Before Next Season

Along the same lines-ths lines Of
retrenchment-it IS timely to men
tion here that the opening Of the
major league seasons next year may
be set for a later date than ever be-
fore.
a number Of American league play
ers and maEnstes have predicted that
this step viii be taken at the annual
meeting Of Ban Johnson's magnates
this winter, and Il is sure TO come
up at the meeting OF the National
league.
Charley Ebbets. who has fought for
several years TO secure a later open
ing date, viii be on hand at the COM
ing National league coufab with facts
and figures 10 show the fOolhardiness
OF defying early spring weather. and
the club owners viii have 10 listen
The fact that there were more than
8 postpOnements in the two big
leagues during the first six weeks
Of play is expected TO have a heavy
influence with the club owners who
have baked the plan in the past
CO8HsKEY CELEBRATES.
Chicago, I'LL, Oct. 20--Charles A
Comiskey, owner OF the Chicago
Americans, winners Of the worlds
Championship, and a party OF so
friends departed Friday for Camp Je-
rome, near Mercer. Wis, TO celebrate
the White SOX' victory. Clarence Row
party.
They viii spend two weeks at the
hunting reservation, which is owned
10y the Woodland Bards. an orcaniza-
ton composed OF C0miskey's personal
friends.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-10-20

Use Kelly Springfield Tires
and save money.
Boss Rubber co.
322 Texas. A,
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-10-20
COlIIsKEY CROWDED OF

COMIShET CROWDED OFT.
Another thing the Chicago fans
blame Charley Comiskey for: Why
did not he build his stand OF rubber
instead OF concrete. so they would
stretch and hold more people2
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-10-20

AJL Fisher. the strikeout hurier I
- Of the Feldman Pass City league
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-10-20

" 18th the baseball season over
M the paraphernalia slowed
w away for the winter the
The Tupelo journal., 1917-07-20
ODDS AND ENDS.

Bananas are immune from in
sects. attacks and most fruit dis
eases.
An Italian university professor
claims to have found radium in or
binary dew.
For several years India has stead
lily increased it's production of coal,
iron and copper.
Medical statistics have shown that
eight men die suddenly from dis
ease to one woman.
An electrically operated plane has
been invented for smoothing butch
ers' chopping blocks.
New York city's net revenue from
saloon license amounts to more than
ST., ZOO 900 a year.
Elimination by the war of Bel
gian competition has brought unpre-
cedented prosperity to Sweden's
matchmaking industry.
King George has instituted two
new orders of chivalry open to wo-
men in recognition of their manifold
services during the a
The electric hobo" cooks his
meals by electricity, stealing the
current by tapping any convenient
wire that he many encounter for the
purpose.
Because of the war chicory is sell
ing high in England-at from S125
to $40 a ton-Whereas in normal
times it can be bought for S35 to
$40 a ton.
In Argentina the bakeries, gro
ceries and cigar stores may remain
open Sundays until noon, provided
they are attended exclusively by their
proprietors.
In some of the agricultural dis
tricts Of Alaska stone breakwaters
are built upon the land for the pur-
pose Of averaging the spring tor
rents from the glaciers.
The secretary of war and the sec
rotary of the navy have agreed to
prefer women employees henceforth
in appointments to the clerical forces
of the war and navy departments.
During the past 80 years nearly
10000 patents have been granted to
women in the United States, their
inventions including almost every
thing from a baby jumper to a deep
sea telescope.
The Tupelo journal., 1917-07-20
PRENTICE BARBER HAS HOPE
Lad From the Country, Whom Shops
Patrons Fear to
Trust

Perhaps he is 25 years old-he looks
to be about 16. From seven in
the morning until nine in the evening,
barring time off for meals, he stands
at the extreme end of a line of white
coated men, usually honing a razor
or gazing off vacantly into space. The
~oretically, he is a barber. Practi-
cally, says a writer in the Indianapo-
lis News, he has not yet achieved that
position in life. Daily patrons have
never seen him welding a razor on
anything but his strop or hone. Every
day hundreds of customers visit the
shop. Business men, clerks, street
a conductors, wagon drivers and
others enter the barber shop doors
during the days course, but their &C
lions are substantially alike. After
taking off coats and hats they gaze
up and down the line of waiting bar
berS, select the one nearest or pick
out an old favorite without so much
as a glance at the youth ON the end.
But if, unfortunately, all the other bar
bers are busy, the youthful wielder Of
the razor is more closely inspected.
Usually the prospective patron eyes
him s~teadfastly for a moment and then
sadly, slowly and solemnly, but finally,
shakes his head and sits down in a
far chair to wait until another barber
is unoccupied. 1t may be cowardice,
it may be only wise caution. But all
seem to be affected alike with a dis
trust of the mild and rather wistful-
faced boy with a razor poised in his
hand and a hopeful expression on his
countenance. His fingers may be
deft, his touch light and sure and
his professional skill above criticism
in every respect, but nobody seems
willing to test his experiences. The
potentialities of a razor, those great,
red hands and that mild, absent-mind.
ed face and look Of youthful trustful.
ness are too great. Meanwhile the
light SENS to die out of the young
BARRIERS eyes and they become sad
der with each appraisal in which he
is judged and found wanting. Nobody
knows with what fond dreams he
left a little country town not long
ago, after a lesson or two, perhaps,
in the village barber shop, and came
to the city to earn an honest living
and become some day-oh, doubtful
hope-a head barber! In him there
may be the making of a great bar
Der; perhaps already he has attained
a rare degree of excellence. If so his
praises remain unknown and unsung.
In sight of that tranquil face and those
awkward hands in such close proxim-
ity to a dangerous-looking razor mep
lose their hardihood.
The Tupelo journal., 1917-07-20

chairman whether, in my opinion,
the Legislature could fix the amount
necessary to be raised by taxation,
leaving to the commission or some
other officer the power Of determin-
ing what the rate of taxation should
be. can see no possible objection
to this course. 1t is purely a math-
ematical duty which would be i'm
posed. In taxation there are two
controlling factors: First, the amount
of revenue required; and second, the
assessed valuation of the property
from which that revenue. is to be de-
rived. The method heretofore pur-
sued has been reached by simple null
~tiplication, that is by multiplying the
assessed valuation by the rate of tax
alton fixed, and the assumption is
that the result will be the required
e This multiplication is made
by the various tax collectors of the
state. If you divide the evenu re-
quired by the assessed valuation Of
all property in the state the percent
age of taxation will be readily reach
ed. The only difference between the
plan heretofore prevailing and that
suggested is that in one instance the
process is by multiplication, while in
the plan suggested it would be by
division. They r both simple math-
ematical propositions and no discre-
ton in either is vested by the Legis-
lature in the fiscal officers. The
legislative purpose would be disclos-
ed fully by statute and the legisla-
tive power. fully exercised.
Very truly yours,
TIM E. COOPER.
The Tupelo journal., 1917-07-20

In the angle between the Kings and
Kern canyons lies a woodland empire
beside which the HarZ and Black for
est Of Germany would appear almost
diminutive. Within the borders of the
Sequoia National park and the General
Grant National park near by there are
no fewer than 100000 sequoia trees.
and of these 1900 are more than ten
feet in diameter. In the Sequoia Ma
tional park stands the largest tree In
the ~world-not the tallest, but the larg-
est-the General Sherman tree, with a
diameter of 36.5 feet and a height Of
270.9 feet. Its massive trunk and
branches contain about 100000 feet
Of lumber, board measure. This is
equal to the amount of lumber that is
cut from forty acres of average Mime
sofa MISUNDERSTANDING
The Tupelo journal., 1917-07-20
Future Supply of Gasoline.

When the quantity of petroleum
that can be obtained from the oil wells
Of the country begins to show signs Of
diminution there will still be a virtu-
ally ineXhaustible source of supply. 1t
is the shale beds of Colorado, Utah
and Wyoming. The United States geo.
logical survey estimates that in Colo
RADIO alone there is sufficient shale, in
beds three or more feet thick, to yield
20,00O,O00,O00 barrels of crude Oil,
from which at least 1000, 100000 bar
rels of gasoline "a be extracted.
Bituminous shale is a clayey, fiaky
rock that contains hydrocarbons or
bituminous materials. Heat changes
them into crude oil, gas and ammonia.
The refined oil yields about ten per
cent of gasoline, 80 per cent of kero-
Sene and a considerable quantity of
tracted oil from shale for more than
fifty years, but the average quantity
of oil recovered from a ton of shale
is much less than the amount our own
shales would yield. The retail price
of gasoline is now higher than it has
ever been before. According to gov.
eminent figures, the total yearly out.
put is about 63,00o,000 barrels, and, as
it is estimated that only about 934,-
100000 barrels can be produced from
the present sources, there is little
prospect that the price will come
Cown.-Youth's Companion.