I _"" ■■ ' ' ■ — ■ - ■■ — I The BROWNSVILLE HERALD SPORTS SECTION =3| | \ Athens Beats Denton 22-11, Taking Title 2nd Time CAGE CHAMPS HOLD TO LEAD COLLEGE STATION, Tex., Mar. "•—(#*)—A quintet of six-footers from Athens high school in east Texas swept through to the 1929 Texas Interscholastic league bas ketball championship here tonight at A. & M. Memorial stadium, beat ing Denton high school 22 to 11. It marked the second time In -three years that Coach Jimmy Kitts’ cagers have won supreme - honors in the state. In 1927 they - likewise downed Denton for the title, although not by as decisive margin as tonight. Towering above their opponents, passing fast and shooting accu rately, the Hornets took the lead - early in the game and steadily forged ahead. At the half thev .--were leading 7 to 4. The Tonip ~ kins brothers. Athens forwards, : could not be held down by the Denton guards, and J. Tompkins, a cousin, guarded the Denton goal shooters so closely they were held to three goals from the floor. Trophies were given to Athens, Denton and Cisco, which defeated Estelline for the consolation title, 25 to 21, in a preliminary to the championship game. Athens placed two men on the All-State team selected by college coaches and officials attending the tournament, while Estelline. Denton and Cisco won the other three pla ces. First and second team selec tions were as follows: First team: J. Thompkins, (Ath ens). and Baccus (Estelline) for wards; Sumner (Athens) center; Haren (Denton) and G. Van Horn, (Cisco) guards. Second team: Price (Corsicana) and Dodd (Denison), forwards; Borchardt (Denton) center; Ray (Cisco) and Johns (Athens) guards. Following is the box score for the f championship game: : Denton (11) Fg. Ft. Pts. ^ Zerefke, F.1 i i Borchardt, F. ...4.1 l 3 Haren, C.1 3 5 Meredith, G.0 0 0 W. Finley. G.1 0 2 Hutson, G.0 0 0 Totals ..3 5 11 Athens (22) Fg. Ft. Pts. T. Tbomnkins. F .3 0 a B. Thompkins, F .4 1 9 Sumner. C.1 1 3 Johns, G.0 0 0 1 - J. Thompkins, G.1 2 4 Totals . 9 4 22 Off heals: Eoggess and Scars. 1 1 . -- ; CISCO CAGERS CAPTURE THIRD COLLEGE STATION, Tex.. Mar. I—(A*)—Rallying in the second half, tile Cisco Loboes came from be hind to defeat Estelline. 25 to 21, tonight in the final game of the consolation round of the state In terscholastic league basketball tour nament. Estelline held an 11 to 5 lead at the half. The victory gives Cisco third place in the tourna ment. In the semi-finals this morning Athens easily defeated Cisco. 31 to 17. while Denton barely nosed out Estelline, 29 to 27, the same score by which the latter quintet won from Bryan yesterday. Inability to make free throws cost Estelline to day’s game. U. OF PENNSYLVANIA WINS PHILADELPHIA, March 9.—<.P)— The University of Pennsylvania to night won the Eastern Intercollegi ate basketball league championship for the second consecutive season by defeating Princeton 23 to 16. j Wood & Dodd Insurance ! Bonds and Loans j I PHONE 100 Spivey-Kowalski Bldg. ' Brownsville, Texas CUB BLUDGEONEERS GIRD FOR FLAG FIGHT I ) ■ t | I ’ I T.T - ""- ^=4i Mgr MCCARTHY With Rogers Hornsby setting the pace, the Cubs expect to blast their way to the 1019 National league flag. Hornsby is chatting with his new chief, Manager Joe McCarthy, in the inset. —--—■— -u. _ _ I Martin Runs Distance In 4:22 9-10 To Establish Big Ten Record IOWA FIELD HOUSE, Iowa City, la.. Mar. 9.—f/P)—Orval Mar tin, Purdue crack distance runner, opened the Western conference in door track and field championships tonight by smashing the Eig Ten record in the one mile run. Martin galloped to victory in 4:22 9-10, clipping a half second off the previous record established by H. b. Kennedy, of the Ohio State in 1926. George Simpson, Ohio State speedster, won the 60-yard dash in :0G 2-10, beating Eddie Tolan, ne gro youth wearing the colors of Michigan, to the tape by two yards. Simpson's time equalled the Big Ten record. Illinois, favorite to repeat as champions, broke into the scoring in the mile event when F. B. Stine finished third. One of the favorites, David Abbott, of Illinois, found the pace too hot and failed to place. The summaries: One mile run—won by Martin of Purdue, Letts, Chicago, second: Stine, Illinois, third; Clapham of Indiana, fourth. Time 4:22 9-10. (New Western conference record. Former record of 4:23 4-10 made by H. W. Kennedy of Ohio State in 1926.) 60-yard dash—won by Simpson, Ohio State: Tolan, Michigan, sec ond: Root, Chicago, third; Timme, Illinois, fourth. The :06 2-10 ties conference record made last night by Timme ;also teis the American indoor record. UPSET LAD WINS MIAMI, Fla., March 9.— Upset Lad, owned by the Belle Isle stable, today wTon the first $10,000 added Florida derby at Hialeah Park. Boris, owned by Harned Brothers, was second and Stand By, belonging to Frank Bray, finished third. AVALON, Catalina Island, Mar. 9.—(/P)—Out hers in this semi-trop ical country, Joe McCarthy is pol ishing up his big punch for what promises to be the Chicago Cubs’ year in the National league. With Rogers Hornsby’ one of the game's biggest batting threats, as key man. McCarthy is building with the confident hope that he will ‘ have a batting attack strong enough to break through any and j all kinds of fancy pitching. 1 He has good reason for his hopes, ' for Hornsby, Wilson, Stephenson | and Cuyler wound up the 1328 sea j son with a combined batting av ; erage of .324. j This quartet poundde out 243 ex tra base hits, including 77 home I runs, 123 two baggers and 34 three 1 baggers. j These four men probably will be ; the Cubs’ biggest threat, but on the I basis of 1928 averages that Eruin ; batting lineup will be packed full • of punch. English, Hartnett and Grimm, all regulars, batted around the .300 mark last year and should do bet ter this year if for no other reason than that they will benefit by the weakening effect the four headline sluggers will have on opposing sluggers. Having a sure .375 hitter like Hornsby on a club is plenty bad for the enemy but w'hen there also are clubbers like Riggs Stephenson, who hit .324 in 1928 and Hack Wil son, who batted .313 and pounded out 31 home runs, something is bound to give. ROSTER OF SPUDDERS ALMOST COMPLETED WICHITA FALLS. March 9.— JP) —Arrival in the Spudder training camp today of Pitchers Milt Steen grafe and Chick Galeria leaves only one absentee, Stanley “Rabbit” Ben ton, shortstop, and he is expected to report any day. The first nine-inning game of the spring season is scheduled tomor row. when Wichita Falls will take on the Abilene club of the West Texas league, which has been work ing out here with its parent team. EAST TEXAS SCHOOLS FORM BASEBALL LOOP LONGVIEW. Tex.. Mar. 9.—dP)— East Texas high schools today or ganized a high school baseball lea gue with J. E. Willis, Marshall, president, and S, Pollard, Hender son. secretary and statistician. Longview. Marshall, Jefferson, Kallsville, Henderson, Gilmer, Mt. Pleasant and Tyler are the partici pating schools. The season will open March 19 and close May 7. - ...____. DENTON TEACHERS ADD NEW COACHES DENTON, Tex.. March 9.—(IP)— | Jack Sisco and Terence Myrace are ! to be the new members of the Den | ton Teachers coacihng staff, suc | ceeding John B. Reid, who resigned j to become head basketball coach I "t Texas A. & M., it was announced ; here today. Sisco, freshman football and bas ketball coach at Baylor University since 1926, will be head football and freshman basketball coach here. Myrace will be head basketball and freshman football mentor. GIANTS DEFEAT S. A. 8-2; TWO HOME RUNS LAREDO, March 9.—(IP)—Larry Benton, Curly Ogden and Dutch Henry collaborated today in pitch ing the Giants to an 8 to 2 victory over the San Antonio team of the Texas league. The Texans collect ed only eight hits, one Otis Wet zel's home run. Andy Cohen and ! Jim Welsh hit homers for the Gi | ants. Score by innings R H E New York —Ma i jor league basebail training today swung into the exhibition series stage with most clubs training in the south either engaged or on the ! march for games tomorrow. , The Redlegs of Cincinnati and i Connie Macks Athletics clashed at Miami. The Reds won, 7 to 5. getting nine hits and making only one bobble while the As got eight hits ; and made two errors. The White Sox were playing the ; Dallas club out in Texas and Mc ! Graw's Giants were taking a fling at San Antonio at Laredo. Some of the camps held to rou tine, however. Dan Howley sent his Browns through a practice affair between members of the squad at West Palm Beach. The Phillies went through morn ing and afternoon workouts at Winter Haven. Barney Friberg, infielder, work ed out for the first time in the early practice. Cincinnati Defeats Connie Mack’s Crew 7-5; Three Homers MIAMI. Fla., March 9.—(Jp)— The Cincinnati Nationals today de feated the Philadelphia Americans, 7 to 5, and ran the Athletics losing streak to three games. The Athlet ics opened the exhibition season by losing to the St. Louis Nationals and dropped a second game to them yesterday. Crabtree, in right field for Cin cinnati, hit two home runs, one in the fourth and one in the fifth in ning. Simmons clouted a homer in the fifth for the Athletics, and Hassler a triple in the fourth. TIGERS WILL PLAY SUNDAY Padron and Mates to Engage Matamoros Nine Here At 10 A. M. The Tigers have come to life aft er hibernating all season. They are to play the Matamoros city team this morning at Victoria Heights, startin gat 10 o’clock in the first baseball game the Tigers will have played this season. Manager Padron states the local club is m fairly good shape, having had a couple of weeks of practice. Salinas and Chapa wil do the hurl ing for the Tigers, with Padron catching. Matamoros has one of the best teams it has had in many years, Tigers players state, and a hard battle is expected. Salinas is one of the best all around players in this part of the Valley, he pitched some good games last season, as well as putting up an excellent brand of playing at other positions. BIG COLLEGE BOXER IS DECLARED ‘FIND’ GAINESVILLE, Fla., March 9.— (A*)—If height and reach mean much in boxing, J. W. Chapman of Winter Haven, Fla., member of the University of Florida boxing team, should go high in the game. Ke stands six feet eight inches and has an enormous reach and a natural shiftiness which does not often accompany'a man so huge, Coach John Piombo says. The fighter weighs 200 pounds and can take many more pounds of flesh without becoming corpulent. — ... FOOTBALL DOES NOT PAY WAY AT COLBY — WATERVILLE, Me., March 9.— I tPj—There is at least one institu tion of higher learning in the coun try in v/hich football does not pay the freight for other sports. In fact, a report of the treasurer of the Colby college athletic coun cil showed that the gridiron sport lost $4,085.44 last season. Games with teams from outside Maine all cost the college money. Only con tests with other Maine colleges drew paying crowds to the gate. MINNEAPOLIS BEATEN BY SHREVEPORT 6-5 SHREVEPORT, March 9.—5Pi—A wild pitch by Joe Pate, Minneapolis hurler, in the tenth inning with a man on third gave the Shreveport Sports a 6 to 5 victory over the Minneapolis Millers in the first spring exhibition game here today. Score by innings: Minneapolis __ ICO 100 021 0—5 Shreveport . 010 004 000 1—6 Batteries: J. Brillheart. Middle ton. Dickerman, Pate and Griffin. Campbell: Brown, Owens, Wilkins and Stack, Starr. VIRGINIA VAN WIE BEATS MISS HICKS I ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., March 9. —UPi—Miss Virginia Van Wie, trim little "Wooden Indian” of the links, used her superior experience today to defeat Miss Helen Hicks, 18, Hempstead, L. I., school girl. 3 and 2 for the Florida east coast golf title. It was the third time in as many weeks the two had met in the finals of a Florida tournament. Previous ly Miss Hicks had defeated Miss Van Wie for the Florida ehamnion ship at Palm Beach but the Chicago girl came back at Ormond Beach to win the South Atlantic. COLGATE COACH RESIGNS HAMILTON. N. Y„ March 9.—UP) —Earl C. Abell, head football coach at Colgate university, resigned to accept the position of head coach at the University of Virginia where he served on the football staff in 1921. 1318—“LONG COUNT” SAVES FULTON Dave Barry's famous “long count” tolled over Gene Tunney in Chica go's battle of the century stirred fans all over the country and led to one of the bitterest fistic contro versies of the age. A similar “long count” created a tremendous row in middle west cir cles many years before on the oc casion of the Fred Fulton-Tom Cowler engagement that was staged in St. Louis in March. 1918. Brookyln Tommy Sullivan, a for mer featherweight champion of the world, was the referee. The bout was fought in the St. Louis coliseum at the time when Fulton was rapidly becoming recognized as a “logical” heavyweight contender. Cowler, the English trial horse, wras not expected to last more than a round or so against the ponder ous Fighting Fred. To the astonishment of the as sembly, Cowler, after taking a beat ing for two rounds, slapped a long left-hander that landed squarely on the glass jaw of the big Minne sota plasterer. Down went Fulton as though he had been hit with a switch bar. Sullivan counted until he had reached “seven” without a flutter out of Fulton. “Eight”—and still no action from the prostrate giant. “Nine” and Fulton showed signs of life. Finally with the assist ance of a cup of water siung from his corner, Fulton clumsily gained his feet. Then the bell rang. In the fifth Fulton finished Cowr ler. but the “long county” remained the biggest controversy of the de cade for St. Louis fans. VERMAJO WILL CARRY 122 LBS. Louisiana Derby Renewal to Be Held At New Orleans March 22 NEW ORLEANS, March 9.—UP;— Vermajo, ace of the Three D”s sta ble 3 year olds and recent winner of the $25,000 New Orleans han dicap has been assigned top weight of 122 pounds for the eighth re newal of the Louisiana Derby car rying $15,000 added on March 22 at the Jefferson Park track here. In the weights, announced today, the Jedell stable’s Laurie, Upset Lad, of the Belle Isle stable, F. M. Bray's Stand By, and the Three D’s Calf Roper were assigned 117 pounds for the race over the mile and a furlong route. The rest of the field nominated were assigned 114 pounds, except two or three given 112 pounds loads, if they start. While Vermajo, if entered will be favorite, the 3 year old is at Tia juana and the time between the two events is so short that some doubted he could be returned here in time. There was a well founded report, however, that C. E. Darnell, trainer for the Three D’s, Arling ton, Texas, was considering return ing the thoroughbred by airplane. CAMPS HIT STRIDE ON PACIFIC COAST SAN FRANCISCO. March 9.—UP) The Detroit Tigers, several days be hind the other -two major league clubs training in the west, got down to business today at Phoenix, Ariz.. with a practice game the first of the season. Rain broke up the routine cf the Pittsburgh Pirates, encamped at Faso Robles, Cal. The Chicago Cubs lost their 6-in ning exhibition game with Los An geles, 11 to 8. Pharr-San Juan Is Winner of Valley Basketball Title (Special to The Herald) PHARR. March 9.—Whining the girls’ basketball championship of the Valley for the fourth time, the Pharr-San Juan-Alamo sextet is now backing in the sun of popu larity naturally following their vic tory over Raymondville. The championship was decided Wednesday at Harlingen with three county championships, Raymond ville of Willacy, Wilson Tract of Cameron and Pharr-San Juan-Al amo of Hidalgo, in competition. Pharr-San Juan drew a bye as Raymondville eliminated Wilson Tract in the morning game. The' championship game was played in the afternoon. PROMISING PLAYERS ARRIVE AT BEAUMONT BEAUMONT, March 9.—(JP)— Paul Easterling, hard-hitting out fielder from Detroit, and Bill Ak ers, young shortstop, expected to fill Eddie Marshall’s shoes, were the new arrivals in Exporter camp today. Easterling did not arrive in time to take a workout. Pitchers and catchers had two hours of exercise and will go at it again Sunday afternoon. Regular i training season starts Tuesday. PHEASANTS RELEASED FOR MAINE HUNTERS BATH ME., March 9.—UP)—A mecca for pheasant hunters is be ing planned here. Pheasants released last fall and I additional birds to be released this 1 spring are expected to revert en tirely to wild life so that Sagadahoc I county will become a hunters’ paradise. As yet, the pheasants re main domesticated to the extent that they return occasionally to the farm yard from which they were released and consort with the hens i at feeding time. In about three years it is believed that they will have reverted en tirely and that they will have great ly multiplied. J CHISOX DOWN STEERS 12-5 Texas Leaguers Drive Young ’ Ed Walsh to Showers But Are Stopped 5 DALLAS. March 9.—(A3)—Outsi^R* of a brief onslaught in the fifth\^gj ning, in which they scored five rufi> and drove Young Ed Walsh to the showers, Dallas Betters had little luck with the offerings of Chicago White Sox hurlers today and dropped their second straight exhibition game to Manager Blackburne’s Ath letes, 12 to 5. The Steer; paraded a quartet of young flingers to the mound but none of them were effective against Kamm. Jeffries. Walsh and other sluggers of the Sox. Five errors afield didn’t serve to steady the Steer pitchers. Pete Jones, former Baylor Uni versity star, who looks more and more like a fine prospect for the Dallas outfield, led the Steers at tack with a brace of singles. Flynn, Ploger and Morse clipped doubles. Hensick was the losing Dallas pitch er. He gave up eight hits and six runs, only two of which were earned, in five innings. Greatest Need Of Buffs Is Hurlers, Early Camp Shows HOUSTON. March 9.—(/P)—The acute need of the Houston Buffs for more proved pitchers is the out standing weakness developed in the first week of spring training. With other departments of the team shaping up nicely the sad state of the pitching corps assumes impor tance. The Buffs have an outstanding infieldcr in Joel Hunt, former Tex as Aggie football luminary. Joel is a much improved baseball player, fielding nicely and has his eye on the ball. His bid for the utility in field job is strengthened by the fact that he is a rookie. ANGELS HOP ON CUBS TO WIN 11-8 CONTEST LOS ANGELES, March 9.—(JP)— The Los Angeles Angels defeated the Chicago Cubs, 11 to 8, in a six inning exhibition game here today. The Cubs attempted to have the game stopped at the end of the fifth on account of rain when were leading. 8 to 7. Umpires ^ j mitted another Inning, however and the Angels made four runs to sew up the game. Los Angeles .11 12 1 Chicago . 8 8 3 Walsh. Plitt and Warren. San berg; Bush, Nehf and Angley. MAHAFFEY SOLD PASO ROBLES, Cal., March 9 — (A3)—The Pittsburgh Pirates today sold Leroy Mahaffey, right handed pitcher, to Portland of the Coast league. I / Most Men Need Holeproof Protection / In fact all men do. Even those with the best j [ of taste sometimes slip up and choose an “off” sock. And that’s just where Holeproof pro \ tection comes in. Holeproof socks come only in colors and patterns of good taste and fash J ion. They are the safest habit Holeproof Hosiery ! i Hart Schafner & Marx Suits Florsheim Shoes—Dobbs Hats i mmm \ y. j The Casa Grande Club Is Making Reservations i For I Saturday and Sunday Night j New Entertainers j MISS JEWEL MILLER —The San Antonio Singer | MISS EULA JARVIS —The Dancer DeLuxe Of Course You’ll Be There Minimum Person Charge, $1.25 No Cover Charge Good Music Good Times | j^^^^^^^Th^ShowpIaceofMatamoros^^^^^^ T\_«& M ^ A box of fine chocolates from Har ry’s Cigar Stores is the ideal Easter Gift to the One and Only. 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