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ILLE HERALD SPORTS SECTION J_
Pages Take County Title, Seating Comets 26-18
PE VICTORY
Fin 2ND HALF
[ OF HOT GAME
Hiylvettcr High Point
■ Man With 12; Le*
B *er Loops Seven;
I1 Local Girls Win
I By BISHOP CLEMENTS
B Sports Editor.
■ Browmville high school won Hit
Basketball championship of ( amc-on
Bounty yesterday, defeating El Jar
Bin, Id to 18, on the local court.
B The game was nip and tuck during
Bis first half, which ended with the
Hagles leading Id to 15. Soon there
Hfter, however, the locals forged
^nead, and were never stopped.
H^Sylvester was high scorer for the
Bugles, looping the hoop for 11
Bpints, while Sam Lesser got 7 point*
Her the Comets, for high scorer on
BN club.
BfH°Hy contested throughout, th'
Ho teams put on an excellent exhi
B'tion of the court game, probably
|| P beat game the teams have put
B{> this season. Samuel Lesser, lal
Hj«n Martin, Triplett, Kcslcr, Dudley
Hartin, the Comets starting lineup.
B 8yd a whale o( a game. Their
HPBB*e was good, and they passed
H^JbII about the court in approved
iyiBt],> but their guarding was off
and the slippery Eagles, as the
B»ma went on, slipped through their
Buarda, and aided particularly by
Bjan Barnhart, the tallest player on
Hither club, the Eagles were able to
Biaport themselves like veterans
B ben under the basket.
B Olin Weller, Eagle guard. *nd on»
Br the best basketball players in
Bha county, continued his good per
B’rmance against the Conu.-ts. as he
Bus in all games of the past. Weller.
B ar football player, dribbled the ball
HP**”** down the court yesterday in
B ich a manner and with such sp**ed
B’®t he proved a thorn in the side
B* the fighting Comets.
B Sam Lesser and Callan Martin.
Burnet forwards, were dangerous at
B * times, and missed the basket by
H* inch <>r two on many occasions.
^■» they took shots at the hoop from
middle of the field many
■ mti in the last half- and to
He spectators it seemed as uncalled
H r shots—but such was necessary
H-cause the Eagles, using a man to
l^n defense, worked pretty smooth
Bf*l°nK this line.
■hllin Martin. Coach Richey's star
Maward, was ordered from the court.
H ter making the limit number of
Hula, four.
B FI Jardin was cheered on by a
Humber of fans, while a few local
B«ns were on hand for the game.
H Esel! Darby, a coach of the Donna
H*fb school, was referee, and his
Hork was outstanding. It*, fact Dar
H>' put up about the best exhibition
Hf officiating displayed on the local
H*urt this season. Rules are rules -
B'lt Darby took into consideration
He fact that the players were per
^Brming on a dirt court, and slipping
§,{ sliding was unavoidable at times,
^■e wras strict in regard to personal
IHuls. a^d gave complete • at isfac t :on.
^■The box:
B Jardin (18) Eg. FI. Pta.
Kiier, F."
Mr Martin. F.I 1 “
^Bsler, C. 0 4 4.
Hriplrtt. G. I
H- Martin, G. t
Higgs, F.n 0 p
Hiwrenre, G. .0 p p
|H Total* .8 8 (8
Hhywr.avilie (?8) Fg. Ft. Tla
Hew man. F. ’ J
fflflvaatar, F. ....s
Brihaft. C.
Krllcr, G.0
H'Bryan. G.1 ’ *
Bm«, F.) 0
H Totals . 11
Referee: Darby; Timekee >*n
oa Geyanes.
IiIRLS TROUNCE
UO HONDO 26-3
, Ruby Bennett and Elitaheth Cher
l ran a race yesterday afternoon.
I. >f4 »hn could score the most
Lnta the local high chotl girls
■me with the Rio Hondo sextet.
Innett nosed out her pal h> 2 points,
poping the hoop for It points, while
hefry gathered in 12.
B-ownsville won the game. „n to
| Heath and Burleson making the
pints for Rio Hondo.
kThe game added spice to the pre
lam of the afternoon, the main
lent of which was the champion^
Rip game between the boys team of
II Jardm and Brownsville high
fame. . .
The first quarter of the game »i
laied in between halve? of the hoys
'.me. and finished after the the
ugles and Comets had completed
feir setto.
The local girls team was defeat- I
; by Wilson Tract earlier in the
'celt, but they arc not downhearted.
I d their play ye-terday afternoon, i
^monstrated they are much inter,
i ted in their favorite game. They
bt up a enarpy and spirited con
[st. and Coach Valenta is making
L effort to match her club with
[her teams of the ^ alley.
Rio Hondo was outplayed-hut
!e visiting team never gave up. and
hen the final whistle blew, were
Lying just as hard at when the
ntest started.
iThe lineups:
Rio Hondo
Heath. Burleson and Gann, -for
ked*: Katehik and Edwards, ren
e; Grantham. Jones and Kemp.
Browns* ille
tnnett. E. Cherry. forwards; Pa
ieco and Hughston. centers; Cab
i K. Cherry. Manry and Summers.
■’•chero. Brown*vilie center, made
-ee fouls, the limit, and hod to
,rg JJ>* court, after putting up an
crlleW- exhibition at running cen
Referee: Rosita Ceyanes.
' micros to music
CHICAGO.-Sitting before his
Hie •« it broarht in concert music.
Inea Warren fired • boliat into hia
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STRIBLING, YOUNG VET OF THE RING
j• ^ -A .•
Young in year* but old in experience, ia William "Young’ Stribling. the
idol of the couth, who fights Jack Sharkey at Miami Reach. Fla., Feb. 27.
Heia a veteran of hundreds of battles that included such opponents as Mike
McTigue, Tommy Loughran, Taul Berlrnbach. Johnny Risko and other veil
known battlers. But none of his previous bouts carried such importance
as his coming mixup vrith Sharkey. It will be the biggest day of hie
career.
Until a y*ar ago Stribling had met with only fair success. He had
worked his way to a shot at the light-heavyweight title twice, but fell
down on both occasions.
With the retirement of Gene Tunney from the heavy weight ranks, Willie
stepped out for the bigger game. He concntraied on a punch writh enough •
potency to bowl over the big boys, and as a result something like 36 of
bis last 43 fights were won by knockouts. Most of them, probably, were i
setups, hut they prove that Stribling packs a wallop, something that Shar
key will have to respect when the pair climb into the Miami Reach ring.
^ Stribling is only 24 years old. Hr was born at Brainbridge, Ga., Dec.
26, 1904, and made his professional boxing debut in 1921.
I
PORKERS BEAT|
RICE 51 TO 18
Practically Sew Up
Southwest Confer
ence Title
FAYETTEVILLE. Ark.. Feb. 16.
—Coach Francis A. Schmidt's
elongated Arkansas University drib
blers were one game nearer to their
fourth straight Southwest conference!
cage title today as a result of their
M to 18 cortque t of the Rio* Owls
in the opening tilt of their series j
hare last night.
There was slight doubt that the
Razorbarks would repeat the dose to
night. If they do. they will need to
win only one of their last two re
maining contests with the Texas Ag
gies next week to assure themselves
a tie for the conference flag. Or. if
ihe Aggies should knock off the
Texas University quintet in their |
clash tonght at College Station the
Razcrbacks would be as good as in. 1
Clubs Hosts To
Weslaco Scouts
•
" LSIACO. Feb. 16.--The Rotary. |
Lions and Kiwanis clubs were joint |
host* to three troops of Boy Scouts !
at the Cortez hotel in Weslaco
Thursday tvening. Tom Murray, j
Valley Scout executive, was master
of ceremonies and various other local I
scout officials were also prexent. V
banquet w-*s served to about sixty (
service club members and eighty Boy j
Scouts.
Boy Scout songs were sung and
Toastmaster Murray called on a num- t
ber of the men present for im- !
prnmrtu talks on such subjects as
"What I remember of school.” ‘‘What !
Book most influenced my life i« a
boy.” **W het I would do if I b«d a
Boy” and other kiidred subjects. :
Somes of the responses were humor. ‘
©ux and others were tenon*. hut all
mot w ith a heartv response from the (
bojs. Scout B.H»e Tsrplev gave an
account of some of the activities of j
th- local scout* in observance of the
l!Hh birthday of scouting.
Under the directions of Scout
master McConnell a number of the
hoy a gave peart'-at demon at-atiwre
of scout work. F'-rlirr in the day
had set ur * firrt aid ram* or the
community hall grounds, where they
administered first aid to victims of
an imaginary tornado which has
struct: the town, and prepared tus
terence foy th* refugees.
PICK ON THE PARSON
DARBY. Ere.—Burglars robbed the
Raw. Henry W. Cowoer’s home and
thou drove away in hit automobile. 1
■ '■ 4 rlaatteSfeldl ;«;.w
AGGIES SLATE
EIGHT MEETS
Stiff Competition Is
Scheduled By Far
mer Track Men
^Special to The Herald)
COLLEGE STATION. Tev.. Feb. 1«. I
—Three national relay carnivals and j
track meets, four dual meets with j
Southwest conference teams and the j
Southwest conference meet to deride !
the lonferenhe title are included in |
the Texas Aggies schedule announced j
by James Sullivan, business manager
of athletics, and promise a busy pc- !
nod for Frank Anderson, and h.» j
Texas Aggie track men during the |
coming season.
Dual meets with three Southwest 1
conference teams. Southern Method
ist University, Rica Institute and '
l diversity of Texas are included in I
the schedule. The Aggies will meet !
Rice and S. M. U. only once but two I
meets have been arranged with the I
Longhorns, one at Austin, and the j
other at College Station carrying out
a custom of meeting Texas twice.
Coach Anderson will tend his
relay teams to the S. M. U-. Texas 1
and Kansas relay carnivals and it is
likely that the Aggies will also be
represented by several individual
competitors in these meets. Last
year Aggie re la yt earns won laurels
in the Rice. Texas. Kansas and Drake
relay*. This year with the discon
tinuance of the Rice carnival, the S.
M. U. meet was added. It is likely
that entries will be made in other
national meets during the season.
Unless entries are made in post
season meets, the conference meet
at Dallas will close the schedule of
Coach Anderson's charges. Follow
ing is the schedule announced:
March -9—Texas Relay Carnival, at
Austin
March SO—S. M U. relay carni
val at Dallas.
April 6—Texas University at Aus
tin.
April 13—Rive Institute at Hous
ton.
April 20— Kansas relays at Law
rence. Km.
April 2? -5. M. U. at College Sta
tion.
May 4—Texas University at Col
lege Station.
May 10-11— Southwest conference
meet at Dallas.
KILLED SY BLAST
DAWDSON. Okla. Feb. Id. — T —
M McK nrey, ft*1 years eld. ef Grand
field. Okla.. was killed while blast
ing a roncrete culvert near here yes
terday.
Mckinne*. fellow workmen ta d.
had lighted the fuse o.i a charge of
dynamite. He thought the fuse had
gone out. and went up to re-light it
■ hen the ufkhss occurred.
SCHEDULE MAY
El PORKERS
IN SOUTHWEST
Told to Sign 4 Games
To Get In Race For
Title But They Take
On Only Four
DALLAS, Feb. 16.—(A')--A decree
handed down by officials of the
Southwest conference at their recent
winter meeting here, setting out
that the Arkansas University foot
ballers should book themselves four
games with other conference outfits ;
next fall if they wanted to get their.
figures in the championship pie, ap
parently did not make a lasting im
pression on Razorback officials.
Advices from Fayetteville last I
night said Arkansas had completed
its 11*23 gridiron schedule by sign
ing up the Last Central Teachers
College of Ada, Okla.. for a game
on November 9. That gives the
Porkers nine games in all, hut it
gives them only three conference
jousts.
By contenting themselves with sign
ing Baylor University. Texas Univer
sity and Texas A. & M. college, Raz
orback officials left the matter
squarely up to the governing board.
If the board sticks to its decision.
Arkansas will not be considered for
the 1&.3 gridiron crown. And word
from Fayetteville is that this year’s j
edition of the Porkers will be the j
strongest in several years.
Arkansas officials expressed the
opinion that their game with Lou
isiana State, which previously has
been counted as a conference con
test. would be counted that way i
again next fall. At the meeting
here, however, it was decided the 1
game with the Tigers no longer
wou'd be set down to the Porkers’
credit in the conference standing. j
When advised of the Razorbacks
stand last night at Austin, Dr. D. A.
Penick, chairman of the Southwest
ronfc-ence gave the opinion that the j
Louisiana State question had been
settled and could not be counted.
“We are very anxious to have
Arkansas in the conference cham
pionship and hope they will stav in,”
he said.
4 W. Texas Girls
Teams Are Left
SNYDER, Tex., Feb. 16. hTY— Of
21 West Texas high school girls' '
basketball teams that entered the
annual A. A. U. tournament here
three days ago. only four remained
to fight it out for the championship ]
! today.
Brcckenridge was paired against
Post in one semi-final battle, with
I < isco and Colorado tangling in the
other, tieco and Breckenridg were
fa\or«d by most observers to meet
1 in the finals tonight.
Breckenridge remained in the run
, rung by defeating Lamesa, 35 to 16,
last night. Cisco eliminated Roby,
39 to 29, and Post advanced over
Eusby, 29 to 13.
Teams remaining in the consola
tion flight were Roxcoe, Miles, Ira
and Hobbs. Three thousand spec
tators were expected for the champ
ionship tilt tonight.
F/GHTS tflST
J»-NIGHT
• By The Associat'd Pres*)
DETROIT—Leo Lomski, Aberdeen.
Wash., outpointed Tuffy Griffith,,
Sioux City. Iowa (10L E'ddie Shea.
f hicago. stooped Billy Shaw. De
troit (5). Henry Goldberg, Brook
lyn. knocked out Jimmy Smith, De
troit f 21.
NEW YORK—Jackie Fields, Los
Angeles, outpointed Baby Joe Cans,
New York <101.
MILWAUKEE — Armando Santia
go. Cuba, outpointed Herman Per
lick. Kalamazoo. Mich. (?',
BOSTON—Con OKellv. Ireland,
won on foul over Ernie Fehaaf. Ger
many M). Jack Gross. Philad*lphia.
outpointed Jake Warren, Chicago
(10 »
HOT SPRINGS. Ark.— Kid Adam*.
Fan Antonio. outpointed Irish
Miekev Gill, Chicago HO),
i OMAHA, Neb.—Tommy Grogan, j
j Omaha, knocked out Nat Kawler.
New York fT1. Harold Mathews. I
| Lineoln. outpointed Genaro Pin*,
Cuba rim.
KF.WANF.F III.— L*sf Denny. Chi
cago. stopped Eddie Chander. Ke
waney (9».
ST. PAUL. M.nn. My Sullivan.
St. Paul, outpointed Billy Light. St.
Paul (10'. Spud Murphy, Moor
head. Minn., outpointed Morrie
Gransberg. Chicago <«). Joe Gor
don. Minneapolis, outpointed Joe
Tb*"-as. Moines <B).
ST. LOUIS—Johnny “Petwee”
Kaiser, St. Louis, knocked out Lou
Spencer. Cleveland fl). R*d Roland.
St. Louis, knocked out Eddie Ma
honey. Terre Haute f!>.
ST. JOSEPH. Mo.—Mickey Duran*.
Omaha, outpointed Hall McWilliamz.
Joplin. Mo. mt.
HILLY WOOD. Calif.—Chet Shan
! dell, San Francisco. *'opn*d Tony
Stabenau. Buffalo. N. Y. f5).
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Contract Let For
Mission Mortuary
m
MISSION, Feb IS.— A contract for
1 'he emptier of a 113.000 huiiu'ig
here w*» let tedav by the Kieidler
Und»»ttk:ng esUbl’ahment. Merri
veathet * S- uer of Harlingen mere
fh* ‘ i# ressfol bidders.
The buildin*. i» p**d'cted to
ftf th? most ^ *tfuc
'uret Ht c er be erected in Mission.
Deckci|:< Tanner, of Mission, are the
•f'-hitAa.
_ The *T s«ion heme of the Kriejler
j i rdc^p.1;in** *st*b!**h!Ufnt will he of
sue b*y t 1* *id t -cro a-*'* wifi
| <e i«»*.*d on North I omita avenue
oprosp* th* Ma.-onic hall.
CeiftnirtiM wil b* started at once
i Mr. hlo.Jlei »«,a loua,.
TO FIGHT
PauunoUzcodo/a
Paulino U-cudun is next in line !
to test his chin against the right
hand wallop* of K. 0. Christner,
the 34-year-old comer from Akron,
O. The pair are scheduled to mix
at Madison Square Garden Friday,
February 22.
If the Basque comes out on top
in this fray, he will be in line for
a shot at the winner of one of the
WORKjNG OUT
Squad Is Composed of
Vets Except In
Outfield
—
(Special to The Herald)
FORT WORTH. Feb. 15.-Twenty- |
one uniforms were issued this week
to members of the varsity baseball i
team at Texas Christian University.
Coach Leo “Dutch” Meyer has been
giving his boys some indoor limber
ing up with his pitchers and catchers
working several hours a day.
Outside work is scheduled to begin
as soon as the weather permits. The
candidate list is expected to swell
over thirty when the basketball sea
son is finished early in March.
With the loss of only a few men
from last year, Dutch is expecting to
put a team of veterans on the dia
mond this year. His infield is al
most intact and his pitching staff has
suffered the loss of only one regular.
J. C. "Jake” Williams has dropped
out of school, but his loss is light
ened with the report that several
promising freshman pitchers will be
eligible for competition this year.
It is in the outfield tbat the Frogs
will be hard hit for with the gradu
ation of Jimmy Grant. Orin Steadman
and Lowell Parrish, Dutch loses his
entire list of gardeners. However,
with several promising freshman and
some good material recruited from
the ranks of the reserves of last
year, the Purple fly-chasing depart
ment is expected to give a good ac
count of itself.
The lose of Moore leaves Dutch
with no veteran receivers a* “Rags”
Matthews, the relief catcher last
year, was also among the graduates.
However, with J. K. Sain, freshman
■-tar last year, eligible. Dutch should
have little worry' behind the plate.
Robert Moore and J. C. Williams are
also catchers of some experience. On
first base. Wallin will again perform.
At second. Lee Dorsey and at third.
Grubhs or W. L. Carrell.
Gene Turner, one of the most prom
ising shortitops ever to report to
Meyer, will get the call at that po
sition.
The outfield will have to be com
pletely remodeled.
In the hurling department. Dutch
will have Walker and Buckley, vet
erans Fury. Roxelle. Cox last year
squadmen .and Atkins. Sanders, last
year intramural hurlers. and Chap
pell. freshman graduate.
Thomsen Seen As
Arkansas Coach
FAYETTEVILLE. Ark.. Feb. 1« —
ijPi—Fred C. Thomsen, assistant
varsity coach at the University of
Arkansas, will succeed Francis A.
Schmidt as head coach if student
influence has any effect upon thosa
in charge of the selection.
Porker athletes themselves admit
Thomsen is the most logical person
to fill the place vacated by Schmidt
when he resigned to go to Texas
Christian university as h<ad football
and basketball coach.
Thomsen, like Schmidt, is a for
mer Nebraska Comhusker football
star. He served his second year as
Schmidts assistant this past sea
son, and developed one of *.hc
strongest forward walls ever seen
in action In the Southwest Confer
ence.
Not only did he develop some good
grid players, hut his five-man track
team swept it* way into third placr
at the annual conference meet at
Austin last season.
HONOR STUDENTS AT
RAYMONDVILLE SCHOOL
RAYMONDULLE. Feb. 1«— The
following students of the Raymond
vilie high school were on the honor
roll for th* semester just closing:
Freshman class, Oma Owen: sopho
more class. Clarence Mullen: junior
class. Llewellyn Crans; senior elass,
Ma-y Lee Stephen?.
To he entitled to this distinction,
it is necesiary for a student to he
neither absent nor tardy during the
semester, and to make at least 90
per cent in each of his subjects
HI SPA NO OF lif WIVES
MOSCOW.—Forty-six women ap
peared to accuse Hugo Schwarti of
illegally divorcing them. The polico
I Sth-srti married 110 women.
RA LNDVILLE
WINS WILLACY!
COUNTYTITLEj
Nose Out Lyford 20-16
In Hard But Clean
ly Fought Contest;
Friday Afternoon
(Special Tbo Herald)
RAYMONDVILLE, Feb. 16.—Coach
W'oods* Raymondville high school
eager*, won the Wiliacy county cham
pionship hero Friday afternoon by
nosing out the plucky Lyford aggre
gation unler Coach Duffy. 20 to 16.
A large number of spectators were
on hand to watch the hard but dean- j
Iv fought content between the two '
Willacy county rivals. Both teams !
were fast and an excellent brand of
basketball was on tap throughout
the game. No roughness marred
the contest ever though the quints
were guarding closely.
Lyford trailed Raymondville most
of the game but only a few points
separated the aggregations at any
time. It was anybody's county title
until the final whistle called off
hostilities.
Referee **Rcd" Irvine of Browns
ville. said the game was one of the
fastest and most evenly run off he
has witnessed this season.
The district championship will be
decided at McAllen Friday and Sat
urday of next week when title hold
er* of Cameron, Willacy. Hidalgo
and Starr counties meet in tourna
ment play.
Brownsville and Raymondville are
champions of their counties. The
Hidalgo title is still in the air and it
is thought probable that Rio Grande
City will represent Starr county.
The teams are to draw for pair
ing in the district eliminations
sometime next week.
LAST NIGHT’S
BASKETBALL
_ .. .-.
(By The Associated Pre*s.)
At Seward. Neb.—Concordia Col
lege i Seward l 48, Luther College,
iWahoo, Neb. i 21.
Corvallis, Ore.—Oregon State 35.
Washington State 26.
Emporia. Kas.— Pittsburg 26, Em
poria Teachers 24.
Maryville. Mo.—Maryville 35.
Kirksville 27.
F’ort Collins—Colorado U. 31, Col
orado Aggies 21.
Stanford—Stanford 31, Southern
California 21.
Salt Lake City—Montana State
College 40, U. of Utah 28.
Newark, Del.—Susquehanna 16.
Delaware 15.
Syracuse, N. v.—Creighton U. 31,
Sy racuse U. 25.
F'ulton, Mo.—Westminster 36, Rol
ls Mines 33.
Fairmount. W. Va.—F'airmount
Normal 35, Centre 33.
Brownwood. Tex.—Daniel Baker 2d,
McMurray College 13.
Indianola, la.—Simpson 19, Cor
nell 17.
Huiou. S. D.—Sioux Falls College
32, Huron College 20.
Fargo, N. D.—North Dakota Ag
g es 27, N. D. U. 26.
East Lansing. Mich.—Michigan
State 40, U. of Detroit 15.
Pittsburgh, Pa.—U. of Pittsburgh
49. Penn State 38.
Fayetteville. Ark—Arkansas U. 51,
Rice institute 18.
St. Louis—Washington U. 34, Grin
nell 31.
Abilene. Tex.—Abilene Christian
j College 33. Sul Ross 2$.
Springfield. Mo.—Drury 29. Mis
j souri Valley 21.
, Columbia, Mo—Missouri 49. Iowa
I ^ t 9 I Cr
New Haven—Yale 37. Columbia 23.
Ottawa. Kas.—Bethany 26, Ottawa
25,
Walla Walla. Wash.—Whitman
College 38, College of Puget Sound
33.
Indianapolis—Notre 24. Butler 21
Salem. Ore.—W illiame*te U. 47.
1 Lin field College 26.
Willacy Engineer
Resigns Position
RAYMONDVILLE. Tex.. Feb. 16.—
Pat Caldwell, who for the past five
years, has been associated w.th John
E. Johnson in engineering work in
Willacy county, and who last No
vember w»s elected county engineer
of Willacy county has tendered his
resignation to the county commis
sioners. effective this week.
Mr. Caldwell has accepted the po
sition of state engineer in Pecos and
Crane counties, and expects to leave
here Monday to take charge of his
new duties.
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Eat a Real Game Dinner at
The Matamoros
Cafe
Mrs. Emma Leonard
i A. TAMM
Blue Printing and
Supplies
Harlingen, Texas
Fields Obtains
Decision Over
Townsman, Gans
NEW YORK. Feb. 16—(jP—Jackie
Fields a fiaticuffee's idea of perpet- ,
ual motion, has begun an eastern in- I
vasion with another victory over j
Baby Joe Gans. negro battler from
Fields' own town of 1-os Angeles,
Boring in w;th both fists flying
at all times. Fields battered out s
decisive triumph on points over Gans j
in a 10-round match in Madison
Square Garden last night.
The official verdict gave Fields
the 147-pound championship of Los j
Angeles but it did nothing much in
the way of strengthening his posi
tion as the leading eontender for Joe
Dundee’s welterweight crown and to
pa.
NEW PLAN TO
PICK REEFREE
Massachusetts Com
mission To Name
Miami Official
MIAMI BEACH. FU. Feb. 16.—bP
—The Massachusetts basing com
mission today was considern.y a list
of several referees from which the
members will choose the third nuu
in the ring for the Sharkev-Strib
ling heavyweight boxing match in
Flamingo park here February 27.
The selection, however, must re
ceive the final approval of mana
gers of the principals. This pUi
wag suggested by Stribling at yest
terday's conference on a referee.
The selection must be made by /eb
ruary 20. Otherwise. Dempsey said
he will do the picking himself.
It also was decided at yesterday's
meeting that the fighters should do
a little more training for the forth
coming bout.
Dempsey had a busy day yester
day. checking up on ticket sales in
ordering all soft drinks be sold »n
paper containers at the fight to
eliminate the possibility of bottle
tossing.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
WILL LAUNCH PROGRAM
(Special to The Herald)
MERCEDES. Feb. 16.-With a sec
retery named to succeed J. W. Monk,
resigned, preparations are being
marie to launch active work of the
chamber of commerce here in a short
time.
John Phelan, the new secretary, is
employed at present by the American
Rio Grande Land 4 Irrigation com
pany.
LOMSKI WINS
OVERTUFFY’
Fans Hoot at Decision
And Cheer For
Griffith
DETROIT. Feb. 1«.—<£»>— Jerry
"Taffy*’ Griffith, the walloper from
Sioux City, la., today holds a popu
lar if not an official decision over
Leo Lomski. acknowledged as the
leading challenger for the world s
tight heavyweight championship, as
a result of their close 10-round bat
tle last night.
The verdict of Elmer "Slim** Mc
Clelland. the referee, went to Loms
ki, but the cheers of 1 li'OO specta
tors went to Griffith. The decision,
proclaiming Lomski the winner, was
ioudly and persistently booed.
Unbiased ring observers agreed
today that the battle was so close
that it could have been awarded to
either man. McClelland figured that
1 omski. the "assassin” f**om Aber
deen. Wash., won the last three
rounds by a conclusive margin and
therefore was entitled to the verdict.
Both Lomski and Griffith weighed
in under the light heavyweight limit
of 175 pounds.
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