THE CUBA REVIEW 



29 



Sports of Cuba 



Colliers of New York, hearing that Cuba 

 since her independence will relapse into 

 the manners and customs of their Spanish 

 forbears, looked into the sports of the 

 Cuban people and is encouraged to believe 

 that this will not be the case. It says : 



"Proverbially a people may be judged 

 by their sports. Havana has its baseball 

 professionals. In Pinar del Rio there is 

 a ball field. In the little village of Vihales 

 groups of children play in the streets and 

 mingle with their chatter of Spanish the 

 lingo of the game. "Ball," "strike," "pitch- 

 er," "catcher" — such English terms prevail. 

 Along a hard, sun-baked country road in 

 Cuba an urchin was seen propelling him- 

 self on one roller skate. So far there is 

 nothing un-American about the sports. 



Dr. J. A. Estopinal, formerly secretary 

 of the Louisiana State Board of Health, 

 but last summer stationed in Cuba as spe- 

 cial medical inspector of the board, has re- 

 signed. He was scheduled to return to the 

 island in April, but decided not to do so, 

 and will return to the practice of medi- 

 cine. 



Dredging of a strip facing the San Jose 

 warehouses, Havana harbor, has been com- 

 pleted by the department of public works, 

 bureau of harbors and rivers, the dredging 

 having taken up four days during which 

 time 2,500 cubic meters of mud were re- 

 moved, giving a depth of water at middle 

 low tide of seven meters. 



The second trial of the U. S. Gov- 

 ernment's suit against Charles F. W. Neely 

 to recover $45,375 of the $140,000 of stamp 

 sales he was accused of embezzling when 

 in charge of the Bureau of Finance in the 

 Postal Department in Havana during the 

 American occupation of Cuba, was begun 

 before Judge Hand in the United States 

 Circuit Court, New York Cit}', on May 3d. 



Cubans Can Play Ball 



I have been told that the Cubans do not 

 miport American bats, but make them at 

 home out of a special kind of Cuban tim- 

 ber, very light and elastic. They often 

 bore holes in the middle of these bats to 

 make them still lighter, and use them very 

 long, so that they will not only be able to 

 reach out after wide ones, but on account 

 of the lightness, they can get them around 

 in time to head off the greatest speed. 

 Their batting records do not indicate that 

 tney are exceptional strong on club-swing- 

 ing, but perhaps they would do much worse 

 were they to employ our bats. If those of 

 their own make enable them to bat just 

 well enough to nose out victories over the 

 Americans they do well to use the "made- 

 in-Cuba" brand. — Atlanta (Ga.) Georgian. 



Senor Francisco Carrera Justiz, the new 

 Cuban Minister to the United States, is a 

 great admirer of Mayor Gaynor's admin- 

 istration of New York's municipal affairs 

 and says that his methods are closely 

 watched in Havana and approved by Cuban 

 officials who are vitally interested" in the 

 question of law enforcement as vested in 

 the police. The distinguished Cuban who 

 is a doctor of laws at the Havana Univers- 

 ity has himself made a study of municipal 

 government and established a chain of mu- 

 nicipal science in the Havana Universitv. 



The first automobile fire engine to be 

 imported in Cuba has been purchased by 

 the city of Cabarien for its fire depart- 

 ment. The engine cost $10,000 and was 

 purchased in England. The fire depart- 

 ment in Cabarien will soon be completely 

 organized and uniformed. 



The first electric plant to be installed at 

 San Luis, Oriente Province, was inaugu- 

 rated April 10th. 



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