El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-09-27
no CRANDE parks battle for the
h 1890 pennaut OF The Army and
. City league is fairly launched

n 1920 peuuaur OF The Army and
City league is fairly launched
IN other words the era Of scrappl-
ness has dawned The initial encoun-
ter for premier honors Of the little
circuit occurred Sunday afternoon.
Wh5n those consistent knights OF Co
lum5us whaled the ban out for a
lQrA O. eight runs FOUR OF which
proved 6 suffcienL margin 10 bring
home the bacon ahead Of the Lester
Aolors- eight 20 four Incidentally.
this victory leaves the Knights but
one-hal1 game behind the Lester team
for top position OF the league and
one more loss for the Lester agEreEa-
lion balanced by e victory for the
Knights VIII install the sturdy Conlin
team into the TOP berth. The First
Two to one.
EeTva Became Uzstsudg.
Pete LeyVa took the count FOR The
1lrst time, when be was succeeded by
the steady Modesto Gomez, after
eight runs had been garnered of his
delivery ln two rounds.
Pete avus ungfeadied IN the first,
when lrtle Dick Carberry V7hlled
the bali Into deep center for three
basel- Cunningham flew cut. but
~alccET" EEller cane along with
timely HIT which scored CARRIER
~ and put the husky riTcter on
tae second sack Fete and
sBioeET7 had some words and
Pete laid down BIS BAN and glove
ana started toward the keystone
sack Fuller came ont to meet
him and the boys spared, while
the jumps" ran 60 Interfere. They
handled the situation successful
y even chuElng eHedn CarberrV
back to the bench when this en-
erEetie midget left the dugout.
timed single.
some Runs Come In.
Gomez ana Lagunas both singled In
me second inning for the Lester boys
They were advanced one base by i.
Corners sacrifice and came home later
Wnen t#o errors. coupled with hits
By MusEopf and Caiamia Melted three
TALES Little John Marty made q
valiant effort 20 score from third base
While Fuller held the bah Ga center
field, but was thrown out by a per-
1ecl peg on the part OF the riVeter.
He repeated this performances upon
Chavez in the fourth The latter tried
me same trick as Marty, but he was
caught ha1ds down by a perfect throw
from the center pasture.
In the fifth the LesLeu7. scored
again The Knights were unable TO
get around on the pitching OF Gomez
and they settled down perfectly con-
which l1ey compiled in the second
inning.
Only two hit1 were made I'm this
session but there were two err
Wild throwing IN the inficld which
resulted In ueoriuE- In the third
the Two graudslands. which eE-
hlbited coualderable enthusiasm,
began throwing cushions on the
nel1 AID urged the Lester team 70
leave the field because OF n couple
o. unpopular decisions. one oe-
curred on Marty AZ second base
% the second inning and one on
Hlmmcud1 at third. The fans
settled back in . short time. how
ever and eQutenred themselves
VIA 1cealiorni vents OF cnfhuEi-
esm-
They Witnessed some excellent nan
zgement Ia the second game. When A. I
= Erelskys ANDY Anderson and 4
lucET GoWau got their heads to-
gether ana sent the newly Joined First I
Aatluuzl team into q victory over the /
Fort Bliss cracks with Coornbs pitch
Team Wen Handled
ne first National team. Earmoni-
ously 1a1dled and without tha con-
i-1lE pickering ana poor l-lcllng I
which featured its career when play
lns under the name Of Zone supply,
l-a3ll e coQperallTes spirited battle
throughout the six innings. when um-
plra kane called the battle because
q darkness- The score would have
1aen around lo1r % one, instead OF
Two less had The contest Continued.
as the Bankers had men on third and
second ana there was none out when
tine was called They chased in two
runs ahead Of the announcement Of ]
umpire kane On the seventh. but as
ne game reFer-s 20 the sixth stanza
these Do not count
The Fort Bliss team was splendIdly
handled by SerEt Bobby Cummings
and il undoubtedly would have tied
u the sixth Inning which umpire
E.1WlS did not see. Rice was douh led