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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-09
CHINESE AMONG
STAR ATHLETES
Kun Kwong, a Native of
China, Is = Star in
Athletic Meet.

Minneapolis, MINI. June 9.-Among
the athletes at the University Of
Minnesota who have qualified for
membership in Sigma Delta Psi, the
national athletic fraternity. is Yih
Kun Kwong, a native OF China. who
is a senior in the College Of Mines
Kwong is one OF a group OF Chinese
students who received their prelimi-
nary training in the University OF St
Johns. Shanghai. and later entered
the University of Minnesota All Of
the fasteners are good athletes. hav-
ing taken an active part in sports
while at St Johns
Kwong played soccer while attend
ing college in Shanghai and was a
broad jumper on the track team, leap
ing close to % feet in his favorite
event kwong. with Pan, Wong and
Bau, formed quartet Of oriental
soccer stars on coach W. X Fosters
university soccer team last fall.
kwong plays forward position on
the team.
In addition to playing soccer
kwong plays a fast game of tennis.
runs the 100 yard dash. the hurdles,
the two mile and high jumps In the
qualification trials for Sigma Delta
Psi May O. kwong fulfilled the re-
quirements for membership in the
baseball throw. the 220 yard low hur-
dies. the 100 yard dash and the two
mile.
In order to qualify in these events
the applicant must be able TO throw
the baseball 200 to $50 feet. must run
the go hurdles in 81 to IS seconds.
the 100 yard dash in II 3-5 to u sec
onds, and the two mile in Il minutes
to II minutes. Is seconds. Previously
kwong had qualified for membership
In the swimming test and the gym
nasttc requirements.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-09

money, and Johnny-s trimming ex-
penses must be considered, but
ne hEs at the very least $4,000
clear profit.
John j. McGraw's salary. accord .
ing 70 the best authorities, is s5O.Uv5
a year IN real money. John is base
pairs highest priced student.
Tom Jones. manager Of lass vii
lard. claims that Jess has made more
than 100000 since he won the title
from Jack Johnson at Havana. on
april 10, 1915. That is going rather
strong even for Jones.
Willard has made a largo sun, ont
Of the title. but there are several
stockholders to the Willard corDora-
ton. men who come in for a spiit on
his earnings. so that IL would be safe
10 say jess does not earn much over
i,eVO year. circus engagements,
vaudeville, fights and various side
issues included.
Tyrus CObh's salary f. $4,000 n
year TyruS has other dividend
paying Investments besides this.
Drlneihg his yearly income
nearer the $4,000 than the SEQ
900 mark.
Ban Johnson's salary Is s25. 900 a
year. Ban also has verv liberal
expense account. which heips him
struggle along through the u months.
ball president.
TITS Speaker gets the second larg-
est salary or any player in the game
He agrees 10 play for Cleveland for
more than 5000 for each week Of
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-09
Develop Olympic System
IIIlII. Ill II
Coack To Make New Plans

FEW YORK. June 9.-A broad
M development in the present
= Olympic training system now
In vogue in Sweden is planned for
the coming summer. During the past
few years coach Ernie Hiertberg has
carried most OF the work upon his
own shoulders. but as the popularity
Of track and field athletics increased
il was seen that the task was rap
idly outstripping the capacity Of the
original coaching staff.
Until recently Hjertberg has had
but two assistants and it was impos-
sible for them to cover Sweden thor
oughly and give the swedes the bene-
fit of steady coaching all summer
Hjertberg was compelled TO
travel from place to place with
TO content themselves with one
or two weeks instruction during
the whole season. and several
promising towns, for lack Of time
were neglected altogether. In an
effort to remove this handicap
the Swedish A. A. L. made plans
20 install 10 coaches, with Hjert-
berg as Instructor and supervisor
of their work.
These coaches. who were selected
by the s. A A L. are all men who
have had experience in athletics.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-09

FEW YORK. June o. Connie
nj Nack's economic baseball sys-
l TEN may be all right. but az
ter receiving several years treat
ment under it the Athletics appear
to be aiIing almost as badly as ever.
Maybe Comics prescription would
be efficacious in a case Of sever year
itch. but it is beginning to appear
that as a remedy for a chronic loser
in the major leagues Mack's economy
has flivvered-
When the season Of 1917 began
there were those who predicted the
prise despite the fact that most OF
the scribing fellows picked them for
as good as seventh place. The Ath-
letics have been a surprisingly
have surprised the critics who
thought they were due to come to
life and crowd out clubs like the
Browns, Indians and Yankees
During the first few laps OF
the American league rnce the
Mackmen crowded everybody else
out of the cellar and threatened
TO dive into ninth place The
only thing that kept them from
q was the scarcity OF ninth place
in the American league.
There is still hope for the Mack
men TO finish better than last, for
the season has some ways to run and
many strange things happen in a sea
son. But in face OF the prediction
made by Mack when he broke up his
famous machine, and all joking aside,
II seems doubtful that the Athletics
will manage TO become terrors
around the Ban Johnsonian circuit
while the economic policy is applied
to them
Three years ago Mack predicted
that he would build up another great
ball club IL given sufficient time, and
at practically as little cost as the
championship team he had torn 10
pieces Mack then pulled the econ
omy brake and went out after some
good. cheap youngsters to wear the
boots Of Barry, Collins. Baker and
few others.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-09
By JACK vEIoCK.

SO far these boots have proves
away too large for their new
owners. Mack has some good
youngsters. and a club that be-
comes niurderoEs with the blud-
fseOn Mt times. He also has some
mighty capable pitchers, a very
bright star in Joe Bush. but still
he ian't plotting a winner.
Thrasher Macks new outfielder.
Grover. Witt. Lawry, Bates and some
OF his young pitchers show champion
ship flashes now and then On the
field and at bat they often make some
OF the stars OF the American league
look like uOvices. for a day. But they
are not consistent with il and they
do not play bangup ball against
clubs like the White Sox, Red Sex
Yankees
In Amos Strunk Mack has one CT
the greatest outfielders in the bust
ness. In Jack MeInnis. he has a first
baseman who need not doff his kelly
to any initial bagman in either big
league. IN Wallie Sehang he has 4
wonderful backstopper- Old Ping
BOdie is playing better ball for Mack
than he did for the White Sox. and at
that Mack had TO pay some real
dough for BOdie. which is not in line
with the enconcmy he breaches.
CHANGING at the Athletics from
some nnEles, one finds IL hard 10
club, yet they have not been
proving IL, and the sureSt sign OF
n good club shows In the left
hand side of the percentage col
lumn every time.
Baseball men have bewailed the
fact that good college players are al
most a thing OF the past, and that the
oncoming crop Of phenOins from the
bushes has been badly widowed in
spots Perhaps the alleged scarcity
of crack young ball players within
the past two or three years is the
answer in the case OF the Mackmen-
Perhaps the youngsters were more
plentiful when Mack built his ersr-
while champions than they are now
and better ball players along with IT,
and perhaps Mack viii have to 60
out and peel off some Of the big
money for players before he turns
out another club like the old Athlet-
les II is our guess that he will have
to do this very thing
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-09

s0The umpire Is not n rObber and
he's not crook. He is judge OF
the play, and his word Il law. II
he wasn't out there taking the
Eaff and running the game a. II
should be run, baseball would
soon become demOraliEed, and
here is the reason.
with all due respect to the play
ers and manag gers, ] know that there
isn't one player in a hundred who
wouldn't cut a base II he had the
chance. There isn't a player who
wouldn't take the best Of il. regard
less of whether he was playing fair
or not, either at bat or in the field.
Players would claim clean eatenes
of balls they trapped on the first
hop; basemen would take throws
without covering the bags, and base
runners would cut every base they
could possibly cut II the umpire was
not out there to see that they played
strictly on the up and up.
1T isn't that the players are not
clean cut. manly boys; II is merely
human nature: and even with the UNI
pire out there the player thinks moth
ing of cutting a base II he sees q
chance to get away with 1t SO you
see what would happen without the
jumps. Baseball would develop into
4 cheaters' game
sMebbe you don't know, or have
never thought about the way an
umpire looks at his prOfeSslon-
wi tell you. The regular UNI
pfre-and III say that 80 per
cent of the umpIres who make
good are square and eOnscien-
fI0us-taISes n pride in doing his
best in every game.
He tries hard never TO miss
play. he follows the ball and he
watches the players at the same time.
He wants to be fair. and when be
sees a play his decision is made in
an instant
TO the good umpire there is no
neutral ground for the basing OF a
decision. There is no such thing as
a close one, because he sees every
play one way or the other and he
knows il is up TO him to render his
decisions as he sees them. He isn't
out there to rob anybody. He is there
to keep the game on the level. and II
he wasn't needed there would be no
such thing as an umpire
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-09

TEw YORK, June What
M would baseball be without the
L y umpires?
Would It continue to be recognized
as a clean. wholesome. on the level
sport? There Is but one answer
Baseball without the umpire would
be like q ship without q rudder- It
would soon drift onto the shoals. for
without the man in blue to see that
the rules are obeyed II would be-
come degererated- It would develop
into a rowdy game and would lose
the spirit Of fairness and the repu-
tation for clean competition that it
now enjoys
We put the question 10 a veteran
major league umpire a few days ago
and we got the answer straight from
the shoulder.
HIS name doesn't matter, and
he asked that IL be left ont Of
this story. But what he said
went straight home IA the crow
flies. and TO the notion of the
writer 1t is the best definition Of
the tue worth of the umpire
that we have ever heard Let
him fe N II in his own Tayf
First Of all" said the veteran ar
bitter, I feel qualified 10 answer the
question because have spent the
best part Of my life as a major league
umpire Fve grown gray in the har-
ness and I'm almost through, but
feel that I have done my share 10
make the game what Il ie. as has
every umpire who has made a sue
cess.
7 have bs.en the center Of hundreds
OF wraneles I've been cussed and
berzted BY the players and the fans
and I would Mt give tinker's rap
for the urnp re who hasn't been
through the IRE Show me an UNI
pire whose life has been smooth and
] can show yozI one who isn't real
Success
TAKE II from me, the umpire is
the fefioE who keeps baseball on the
dead level He is the one who sees
that the players obey the rules. and
he gives his decisions fairly and i'm
particularly.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-09
Ford Will Pay Big Taxes
! II ! III /
Boxers Also Taxed Largely

TENRY FORD expects to pay
n $13.OOO,O0O TO the government in
war taxes. but several well
known men in the kingdom Of sport
will be hit just as hard proportion
stely.
There Is Tommy Murphy. king Of
reinsmen and the biggest money get
ter the harness game has known
placing his annual income at $780,
600 is going very mild with Tommy,
for, besides his huge winnings on the
grand circuit, he makes a lot Of
money on commissions for buying
and selling horses.
Johnny KiIbans grabs off from
$1,000 to $1,000 for a fight four
or five times n year, and then he
has any number of bouts that
bring not a cent less than $1,000.
HIS manager, Jimmy Dunn, comes
In for at least rs per cent OF this
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-09
HAS TAKEN
UP NATIONAL PASTIME

g A baseball grandstand, the (
. first in Venezuela for the pur- (
. pose Of charging admission (
. fees to see ball games, is to be (
Q erected at Caracas. This is (
. hailed by the admirers of the Z
. game there as the first step I
O toward putting baseball on a 4
. self supporting basis The (
. company behind the enterprise (
Q IS the Compania Anonima Stand (
. Base Ball. There are about rs (
Q amateur teams in Caracas and {
. most of the smaller cities and (
. towns have two or more clubs (
9 Large crowds attend the more (
. important games, but it has not (
. been customary heretofore 10 I
. charge an admission fee. With :
. the erection Of the grandstand 4
. it is proposed that a league OF (
. the four best teams of Caracas I
. and two Of LaGuayra be (
9 formed (
@ The spread OF baseball in (
. Venezuela means the spread of Z
@ English words. for the language 4
. Of the game there is all in Eng Z
9 lish, although base hit,
O 'three-bsgger" and double
. play" rolled off by tongues I
. accustomed to the sonorouS Z
@ Spanish, might not be readily Z
. identified by an American lover Z
9 Of the sport
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-09
James Leads Base Stealers
IIIIIllI IL
Leslie Tu11os Is Fourth

MESS Walter Norris official
figures are incorrect Leslie
~ TuiIos has put on speed with
age. something that rarely happens
in this bizarre baseball world. With
the Houston club last season Tullos
stole but II bases, yet he is credited
with Is thefts in the same league this
year md the campaign has yet to
reaci he halfway mark II anything
the catching department is stronger
this season than last
TuIIos, With credit OF ID
steals, r. tied With Jack Johnston.
of Beaumont and Shreveport, Tor
leaderEhip in the thteFery de-
partmenf. hut that many steals
for TuIIos means more than 10
for Johnston, rs the former Is a
lighter hitter
leslie. Of Waco, and WoteIl. Of the
same club, are tied for second bon
each. Base running activities OF the
Waco club have gone long ways
toward keeping the champions well
IN in the race. When Hardy drew
Woteli from San Antonio during the
winter he pulled a master stroke.
Souehovr or other Woteil did not fit
in any too well with Benson's squad,
but under Hardy he IS q different
sort OF a performer.
a study of the official averages
issued BY president Norris brings
forth 4 strange story in the case OF
infieIder Nye. Of Shreveport. This
young man. who IS hitting at pal
try 1855 clip. has stolen II bases or
a larger number than any MEMBER
Of the Houston club. Somewhat OF
a parallel was furnished by Bobby
STOW, OF Fort Worth, two seasons ago
when Stow led the circuit in thefts.
He managed TO bat better than .1e6,
but finished far down among the
swatsmiths.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-09
BoWlers
viii Make Annual
Pilgrimage Very Soon

BOwlers from southern California
will make = canning trip OF their pill
grimage 10 the Second Annual Round
up Bowling tournament in San Jose,
July Ia. according TO Alfred z. Mac
kenzie o. Los Angeles, who is arrang-
ing to bring a southern California
delegation north for the event.
Mackenzie wants TO keep the spirit
of the roundup all the way through
the trip by camping out during the
camp site will be procured for them.
Jerry Girard, Pacific coast cham
pion. and Fred Bush and E. W. Irwin.
San Francisco's two best known bowl
ers, have entered the tournament The
Olympic club OF San Francisco has
entered two five-man teams.
owing 10 the Unexpectedly large
number Of entries II has been found
necessary to start bowling Saturday
night. June 80.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-09

However, practical experience in ath-
letics was naturally not deemed SUI
ficient in order TO qualify as a coach
and il was therefore decided that they
should receive a special course OF in
struction-
This course covers all branches
necessary for the making OF sue
cessful coach. and includes Practi-
cal and theoretical coaching, training.
first aid TO the injured and hygienie,
benefits Of light gymnastic exercises.
massage. how TO lay out athletic
fields and tracks and the case OF
same, and the organizing OF clubs
This teaching OF the men in the
organizing of clubs and the general
methods used for this purpose is done
with the thought that these coaches.
who are TO serve as members OF the
district organization in which they
belong. will be in 4 position TO ad-
wise and help IN the formation OF
new clubs in thei- respective dis
tricts.
when those men have cOmpIet-
ed this course and are deemed
competent to handle the work in
tended for them. they viii be
sent to thu different d-sfriets
and each coach viii have charge
of the athletes, Instruction in his
district, under the supervision OF
HJertberg-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-09
EDDIE CICOTTE SHOWING
A GREAT IMPROVEMENT

- EDDIE CICOTTE SHOWING
. A GREAT IMPROVEMENT
. Detroit, Mich, June ed
- die Cicotte. who is having a re-
= markedly good year. owes his
9 success TO another new trick
. in pitching. according TO play Z
= ers Of teams that have opposed :
Q him
= According to the athletes, CT Z
= cote is pulling the old Matty "
= McHale trick Of going on the :
. slab with one leg OF his knick-
= ers thoroughly saturated with :
. water. He rubs the seam of I
. the ball with this. then grinds (
= the dampened seam into soil
= that he has picked up in his :
= glove, and thus developes a I
. mud ball
= The theory is that the small (
y amount Of mud that the pitch :
> er can drive into the seam 4
> makes the ball heavier on one :
= side than on the other, and (
= thus causes il to indulge in I
, mysterious moves on the way I
, TO the plate, just as the spit I
, ter, because the ball does not 4
= rotate as does one that has had $
= English put on IL, falls away In 4
, peculiar manner. 1
= Some Of the eastern clubs I
> that have opposed Cicotte have (
, entered vigorous protests. and I
> have tried TO prove that his I
, methods violate the rules, but (
, without any success. (
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-09

Included among the foregoing
eight leaders in these two big de-
partments Of the game are three
Waco athletes and not one OF Hous-
ton. The Bluffs have been doing
nicely in the matter OF getting away
with successful sacrifice hits, but
base stealing at West End has been
limited by physical defects OF the
diamond The ground is too soft to
permit the runners to get up the hec-
essary speed
Before leaving with the club
for Shreveport Sunday night sec
Rotary Roberts Instructed the
grOundkeepers TO try q new mas
sage treatment upon the path
leading from first to second base.
In days of old Houston boosted
of base runners who could steal
at West End. From Houston
Chronicle.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-09
TILLMAN AND MIrCHELL.

At last reports, Johnny Tillman. Of
Minneapolis, and Billy Mitchell, Of
Milwaukee, were to mix IL up for ten
rounds tonight at the American as
sociation baseball park in Milwaukee.
Weight. 1873.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-09

Successful base stealers are usually
successful sacrifice hitters; profit
cheney in one department seems sy-
nonomous with efficiency in the
other. II you don't believe il, scan
the following dope that is culled
from the official averages:
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-09
K1LpANE wins EAsILY.

One Of Johnny Kilbane's latest
feats was to easily outpoint frankie
Fleming, the Canadian champion, in
a 10 round bout at Montreal XII
bane weighed in at Us and Fleming
at 122.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-09
ECONONIC SYSTEM Bic FAILURE
WITH THE PHILADELPHIA MACKS

Athletics Crowded AL of American League Teams Out
of the Cellar, and Would Have Gone Lower Had 1t
Been Possible; Economic Conditions Are Re-
sponsble for the Failure Of Comics Team.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-09

Wanted to buy secondhand bicycles.
Allen Arms and Cycle Co--Adv-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-09

Have your Arch Supports expertly
fitted. Chas. Rokahr, SO Texas St
Adv.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-09
BASEBALL MUCH At SEA WITHOUT
IJNPIRES WHO ARE BOSS Of CAME
Veteran Ariter Declares That the Umpire Is the Rud
der of the Ship, and That Baseball Would Not Enjoy
the Same High Glass Patronage If the Office
Was Removed Umpires Honest, Not Crooks.
By JACK VEIoCK.

FEW YORK, June s.-what
~ would baseball be without the
- umpfres2
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-09

FEW YORK. June . Connie
nj AIack's economic baseball sys-
i +s-, NAV - all rf~hf buf af-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-09

ATEw YORK. June 9.-A broad
M development in the present
L Olympic training system now
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-04-05
herself, through The Day Book
7. 1. V.
CONCERNING ENLISTMENT.

1uC4C d4C many IulIl5S " NC odLu
against enlistment, the main factor
being the brutal domineeTing that
the under man is compelled to en-
dUTe, which is not in accord with the
principles of the stars and stripes.
Discipline is a necessity; law and or
der is necessity. When those things
exist in the planetary world they
likewise apply to us on this plane Of
manifestation, but that does not
necessarily mean that one man
should, by reason Of his having one
or more stripes, lord it over the other
or abuse his rank.
The war and previous wars have
shown, just as in business, trades
and professions, that out of the
ranks comes the man with the
brains, intelligence and reasoning
capacity who is far superior to those
in authority, whether it be man or
woman. The great person is gener-
ally the most modest and humble,
which is the very reason of their
strength and mental capacity, or
mental and physical combined.
So much against enlistment. On
the other hand, it would be sheer
madness not to be able to protect
and defend ourselves against inva-
sion. AS coming events cast their
shadows before, it is not hard to wit
ness the affairs of nations that were
and are; nor to realize that within
the next few years we will be forced
to defend ourselves, not alone
against invaders, but against inter
nal enemies as well.
Westward is the trend of civiliza-
ton. Civilization follows the course
of the sun. Here it will eventually
become a realization. Eventually,
but ere that time comes, wars also
follow the course of the sun, and
what is now happening across the
waters we should prepare against. If
all nations disarmed, then we, as a
e