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. rprrrrrrrrrrrrrfrrrrrfrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrc fffffrfffrfrvrrf-frrffr-'1- -- J | The BROWNSVILLE HERALD SPORTS SECTION =3 *****^*<l*#*****>**********»*#**»»**<*****^***f**/**r*******,>******>***»*****<*^>**« -----.....— — ---- i Eagles Will Play Regular Football Contest Wednesday By BISHOP CLEMENTS Sports Editor. Look who we have with us! Old Mr. Gridiron—the boy who made the old and young stand up and holler themselves hoarse last year. He is coming back in person. The Golden Eagles—championship , ' high school squad of the Valley and ,other parts—the pride of Erowns . .-^ille. Hike! Hike! Thud, thud! fg^$Coach Fessenden has had about ^rorty men practicing aaily in loot bail sessions tnis spring on Tuck er Field. Tne squad has been divided into two teams, the Blues and Grays. They will play a regulation game Wednesday afternoon beginning at 4 oclock. There will be an admis sion charge, and a hot battle is in store. Captain Daniel Earnhart—the big boy who dealt misery to opposing line and ends this past season, and who is the official captain of the 1929 Eagles, will lead the Grays. Clarence Bennett, great lineman of the championship squad, is cap tain of the Blues. Dan Barnhart will do the signal calling for his team, and Malcolm Newman, the “boy wonder” will be seen at that position on Bennett's outfit. The players are in excellent spring training shape, and Coach Fessen den plans on giving every man a chance to participate during some part of the game. For instance, Barnhart has Bill Summers, Robert Longoria, F. Par ra, F. Cortez, Enns, Sylvester, Gon zales, Crowe, McMinn, Guzman, Worley, Washington, Scanlan and Stegman on his team. Bennett has Thomas, Ceballos, Davenport, Cabler, Newman, Todd, Perez, Baker, Schultz, Dixon, Joe Biggs, Villareal and Eagan to pick his squad from. Already there is a lot of partisan feeling going the rounds among the school pupils, and it is expected rooting sections will be formed on each side of the gridiron to cheer their favorites on. A regular game. In the practice sessions that have been held, Robert Longoria, whom Coach Fessenden hopes to convert into a center, has been showing up well. The Eagles will be without the services of Captain Robert O’Bryan, pronounced the “greatest center” the local high school has ever had. O'Bryan graduates in June. Longoria, an ineligible last year, was a star end in 1927. A natural athlete, Robert may make the grade at center. Crowe, who was used at end and in the backfield last season, has been showing up well in practice at a halfback position. Bill Summers and Walter Wash ington, two graduates from the junior high team, have been look m /->ipE mighty sweet these past two L^J^ks. They are regarded as real Ye'jnior squad timber next season. ** Thomas, a scrapping junior, who also comes to the senior squad, is regarded as a player of ability, and it will be hard to keep him off the senior squad. In fact, Thomas is just the type of player Coach Fes senden is looking for. Hustling and willing, Thomas has looked mighty good. Samano. an ineligible last year, with as much potential ability as any player in the Valley, is taking his W’ork seriously this year, and in spring training has shown up wrell. Samano ought to be one of the best players on the Eagle squad. Harbert Davenport, who was in capacitated last season, through an arm injury, is also another one of the bright spots on Fessenden's spring training squad. In fact, there is a lot of good material out at the high school, but at this stage, believing New man will be lost by graduation, a quarterback to replace Malcolm will be Fessenden’s task—and a hard one. Newman may be back and he may not—we hope he is back—if he does, the Eagles are going to be hard to beat next season. Wednesday afternoon. 4 o’clock the Blues and Grays—high school players are to battle in a regulation football game—and the weather won’t stop it. SCHMIDT HAS Man Who Made Champion Quints For Razorbacks Never Played Game FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., March 9. —Coach Francis A. Schmidt who has assumed the head coaching job at T. C. U., Fort Worth, leaves the Razorback institution with an un usual record. And the record is all the more unusual because Schmidt, whose Razorback quintets of the last four years have won the South west conf erence championship, never played college basketball. In that respect, Schmidt is in the same boat with C. M. (Nibs) Price, California's football coach, who never participated in the grid iron sport, and Henry F. (Indian) Schulte, Nebraska's track mentor, who never performed on the cinder path. Schmidt was a stellar halfback on Cornhusker elevens and exhibited considerable skill on the baseball field during his undergraduate days at the University of Nebraska. But his participation in basketball has been limited to a brief period of playing on an independent team at Arkansas City, Kan., some years ago. On Dirt Court Schmidt became head coach at the University of Arkansas seven years ago, having come here from Henry Kendall college, now Tulsa university. Basketball at that time was played on a dirt court at Ar kansas. Schmidt managed to have a gymnasium built and a varsity squad of baskeieers competed in conference games for the first time in 1924. The next year, Arkansas was third in the title race and in 1926, 1927. 1928 and 1929, won the championship with big margins. The team aid not lose a game last year in the conference and this year lost only one. When Schmiat took up his coach ing duties at Kendall, he became a close student of basketball. Al though he is not a player, he has attended coaching schools in vari ous sections of the country and knows the ins and outs of the cage sport as it is played in the east, mid-west and the south. Schmidt is partial to big men. He believes that basketball as played today demands both height and speed, as evidenced by his crew of Razorback cagemen of the past sea sons practically all of whom are more than six feet tall. DAWSON COPS TITLE JACKSONVILLE, Fla., March 9. —(TP)—John Dawson, Chicago, de feated Roland McKenzie, Washing ton, 1 up in 18 holes today to win the Southeastern Amateur Golf championship for the second suc ; cessive year. KELSAY WINS TITLE FT. WORTH, Mar. 9.—(TP)—Kel I say Lumber company won the Northwest Basketball championship ! of Texas Amateur Athletic Asso | ciation by defeating Texas Electric Service company of Wichita Falls, | 39 to 25, here tonight. Keisay de feated Wichita Fall sFriday night. SUICIDE FOR INCOME TAX LONDON—Albert Collins, aged 1 47, committed suicide because he i had been ordered to pay $90 income tax. Chris Craft All-Mahogany Runabouts 14 Models 22 to 38 feet and 82 to 200 horse power. 30 to 45 miles per hour. $2235.00 to $15,000.00. Runabout* Sedans Commuters Cruisers John N. Merrill 234 Levee Street Brownsville, Texas Phone 567 Lower Rio Grande Valley Representative. Also Oldtown speed boats, wooden boats, yacht tenders, and canoes. Evinrude and Elto outboard motors. Evinrude inboard motors and pumping units. Stromberg-Carlson Radios. MOST VALUABLE i. \ T- y# 4 tBSP'" (to] ! L y ' • Irwii Hill of Trinity Univer sity, V^fixahachie, Tex., has been chosen the most valuable basket ball placer of the Texas confer ence by six coaches and nine sport waters. Hill played for ward on the Trinity team and led the conference in scoring un til the fiial game. . . ... — -__— ... Hans Vfagner Says Pitching Declines fn Major Leagues --. PITTSBURCp, March 9.—UP)— The one and bnly Hans Wagner, declared by mAiy to be the great est shortstop o. all time, is strong for the old-timrs of the diamond sport. Speaking of tie lively ball, Wag ner says it isn't he only advantage accorded present-day batters. He says the pitching isn't so good as it was when he wa\ in Ins hey-day “Hit .200 againstUhe pitchers of those days and you could hit .400 against the pitching, of today,’’ he avers. “Mathewson knew more in five minutes about hlting than the modern pitcher knovfc in a whole season. He would netr give you a ball in the spot wherahe knew vou could hit.” PANTHERS FALL 3-0 TO OKLAHOMA CITY FORT WORTH. Marc! 9.—(jpy_ The Fort Worth Panthej opened their baseball exhibition s^sonhere today with a defeat, fallii* before Oklahoma City of the Wes^rn lea gue. Score by innings: R H E Oklahoma City—000 340 000d7 7 0 Fort Worth — 311 100 000-iRll 3 Robinson, Brodie, Larson and Groft; Caldwell, Kearney, Dianev and Rensa, Baker. y S. A. ELKS WIV SAN ANTONIO, March 9._p)__ B. P. O. Elks of San Aitonk>44 Nick Linz Bros. (Austin) 10. Gate bi-district. YOUTHS HALT VETS PALM BEACH. Fla., Ma-ch 9 (JP)—John Van Ryn, East Orange N. J., and Willmer Allisot, Fort Worth, Texas, today halted tie vet erans, Francis T. Hunter, N,w Ro chelle, and John Hennesscj In dianapolis, and won the oubles championship in the Florida ennis tournament here. The scores -ere ■ 7-5, 1-6, 7-5, 6-4. AREN’T WOMEN FINNY CHICAGO—Reporting to th« po lice that her husband had dent ed her, Mrs. Agnes Byren saic he had left her “nothing to eat ex°nt the bedclothes.” :" JC1 PORTS forum" ■ m F--'-:E-v; •'—• • 1 —..ggg m ® ■ By Bishop Clements ■ Brownsville Tigers and Mata moros city teams are to clash in the first baseball game of the sea son between these clubs this morn ing at 10 o’clock, at Victoria Heights. The unpleasantness now existing in certain parts of Mexico, may hinder several things, but the boys must have their baseball, and the more they play the national pastime the more satisfied the sou thern republic citizens will become. * * * Regers Hornsby is “perfectly sat isfied'’ in his new surroundings with the Chicago Cubs. He says so him self. As you know the boys of Wrigley, Jr., are training in Cali fornia. “Never saw such a place in all my life, and I am playing ball this 3 ear with nothing on my mind and plenty in my pocket,” the Ra jah said recently. • • • Hornsby is the are in the hole of the Cubs, if you believe players of that team, who regard him as Ruth Is looked upon by the Yan kees. We are told that Hornsby has been a sweet-singing Card inal whose voice was raised to such a high pitch that the Card inals pitched him right over to ’ the Giants. lie refused to be killed by the Giant killer, so the Braves got him. Ke wore a tomahawk without an edge and carried a scalping knife but found nothing to scalp. * * • Roberto Hinojosa, popular local boy, weighing around 180 pounds, who has boxed a couple of times on Tex Becerril’s cards at Fort Brown skating rink, is the object of several challenges to box. The latest come3 in a communication from Weslaco, as follows: “A 130-pound painter’s appren tice around Weslaco, should be ready for Hinojosa about April 15. Like Hinojosa just an ordinary pre liminary boy. Will take on Hino josa any time after April 15, any place any distance: wanner take all or any way to suit Hinojosa.” * * * Kis name Is Klein, and in the words of Ben Freudenstein, what difference does a name make! This Klein man is reported ready to put up an appearance bond. Other day Ralph Leach chal lenged Hino.Jo®-’! to another fight. Roberto Hinojosa may not be the best fighter his weight in the Valley, and may not be a pol ished boxer, but Roberto will give his best when he steps into the ring, and that’s a lot more than some of these so-called big-time fighters have done when they put on exhibitions in the Valley. ♦ * * What mokes a good ball club? Eernie Neis, once Brooklyn out fielder, now’ with the Columbus club of the American association, has ideas all his own on this score. Neis stopped in Clearwater, F!a., where the Dodgers are training, for a couple of daj’s visit, and v.’orkout with his former mates, before re porting to Columbus. He was ask ed what he thought of the Flatbush club. “I don't think the Dodgers will be much of a team. The other day while working out I ran short of chewing tobacco and tried to bum a chew. There were forty players in the park and not one of 'em had a chew. Howr can 3*ou make a good baseball team out of a lot of gu3rs who don’t carry a pack o’ tobacco?” Neis declared. * • * You may ask. believing that Neis is a great ball player, why he isn’t in the big show. His legs bather him a great deal, and just that much difference keeps him out of the majors. He has all the other requisites. In speak ing of ball players’ legs, which are a very important part of his make-up, you fans who watch the Dallas Steers of the Texas league in action this summer, will also see the finest pair of legs in baseball, being possessed by the Steer sk'pper, Milton Stock. Look ’em over, when in Dallas. * * * Capablanca had best look to his laurels, because there are a couple of “youngsters” of Olmito, who are climbing steadily to the forefront in chess performance. Hartwell Stilwell is the champion of Olmito. but his fellow townsman. Jack Mic kle, has ambitions to hold that honor. Jack admits Stilwell is a little better than he, but doesn’t be lieve that superiority will last long. * t * Encyclopedia Brittanica has been consulted, and is being gone, over in that section whereby the different chess moves are ex i plained—that’s what Mickle is ! doing these days. Not only that but to show his honest intentions of wringing the title away from Stilwell, the hustling school board member of Olmito, has confer red with Judge Robin Pate of Brownsville, who admits he is or was a good chess player in his younger days. Thanks for the invitation to attend the big game Stilwell versus Mickle, if we get a bid. • * • Bib Falk, who in 1919 played base ball in the Valley, being a mem ber of Tom Hester's club of Donna, and since then in the big show', will pastime with Cleveland this year. Bib has been wanting to get away from the Chicago White Sox for many years. They traded him to the Indians, and in the notice sent him of the trade said they did so at his request, to which Falk com mented: “They were not on the level with that. If they were thev would have traded me a couple of years ago.” • • • William F. Carey and Jack Dempsey, the two who put over the Stribling-Sharkey fight in Florida last week, have disbanded their army of co-workers. Carey, a successful business man in his own right, declared Dempsey one of the finest and squarest fel lows he had ever worked with, lie says of Dempsey: “I have worked with many men of many temperaments in the course of my life, but never have I met a finer colleague and co-workcr than Dempsey.” * * Rcbstown. Corpus Christi, Alice and Kingsville, formed one of the best four-town circuits in 1921, of; any that ever existed in baseball! in that part of the state. Robstown and Corpus Christi, we are told, are desirous of entering the Valley lea gue. President O. N. Boston says that if things so shape themselves that these two towns could be tak en into the league, that traveling expense would be cut down consid erably with two towns in that part of the country, instead of one, as was thought several days ago. it would add a lot of prestige and im petus to the league if these towns were admitted, and the pate re ceipts wre believe, would be en hanced enough to take care of the added expense. COACH WINS 16 TITLES AUSTIN, Tex., March 9.—<>P)— They're looking to “Uncle Billy” Disch for another Southwest con ference basketball championship at the University of Texas this year. In 18 years of coaching Longhorn nines Disch has produced 16 pen nant winners. From 1912 to 1922 his string of 12 championshios set a new collegiate record. Almost 80 of Disch's players have made good in professional baseball, and it waa Ted Lyons, Baylor University pitch er now with the White Sox of Chi cago, who broke “Uncle Billy's” rec ord of victories in 1923. CARDS CONTROL FT. WAYNE FORT WAYNE, Ind., March 9.— The St. Louis Cardinals have pur chaesd the controlling stock in the local Central leagu club. Tha Ft. Wayne squad W’ill do its training at Danville, 111., along with other teams controlled by the Cardinals. KITCHENS ON JOB TAMPA, Fla., March 9.—Frank (Pop) Kitchens, new manager of the Tampa team, drove in from Texas last week filled with optimism over the local club’s entry in the Southeastern league. Kitchens has the contract of 27 ball players. Inspector Seizes 83 Quarts Mescal Near Santa Maria James H. Collins, mounted cus toms inspector at Harlingen, in three raids Saturday morning, on the river near Santa Maria, seized 83 quarts of mescal, 12 quarts of tequila, 24 quarts of cognac, a fid 21 quarts of habanero. Matias Huerta, Carlos Villareal and Isidro Leal were arrested and brought to Brownsville and held in jail. They were scheduled be fore U. S. Commissioner E. K. Goodrich. Two touring cars and a road ster belonging to the three men also was being held. — ■■■■■ —— ---- ^ SPORTRAITS Mans Lgss&t Kans Lobert, at one time one of the National league’s leading third basemen, and later one of John McGraw’s lieutenr will man age the Bridgeport club of the Eastern league, one of the New York Giants’ farms. In his prime Lobert was one of the fastest men that ever ran the bases. He first played big league ball with the Pirates, and later saw service with the Cubs, Reds, Phillies and the Giants. SHIRES NAMED FIELD CHIEF OF WHITE SOX DALLAS, March 9.—(J5)—Ar thur Shires, 22-year-old first baseman of the Chicago White Sox, has been appointed field captain by Manager Lena Black burne to succeed Williem Kamm, third baseman, who resigned that position several days ago. Shires is a former Waxahachic high school star and Valley player. CARDS POLISHING UP AFTER PAIR OF WINS AVON PARK, Fla., March 9.—W) —With an open date today, Mana ger Billy Southworth expected to put his St, Louis Cardinals thru their paces to eliminate weak spots reaveled during the series with the Philadelphia A’s, which resulted in two Red Bird victories. Yesterday's battle at Fort Myers was one of bludgeons with a final count of 11 to 6, while the day before three rookies let the Mackmen down with three hits. Tomorrow the Red Birds will clash with the Indianapolis Amer ican association squad at Saartosa. Enthusiasts Expect To Cement Valley League on Tuesday McAllen, San Benito, Brownsville, Mercedes and Harlingen, are all hopeful of joining the Valley league. Mission dropped out of possible entrants, when Bob Wells, appoint ed by Cameron conuty fans along with O. N Boston to find out what towns in Hidalgo county were de sirous of entering the league, re ported to President Boston that Mission would not enter the lea gue. Mr. Wells, at the request of Mission citizens, he says, went to that city Friday to meet writh the baseball enthusiasts there, at which time, Mr. Wells states, they were to know whether Mission would or could enter the league. They will not, according to Weils. A meeting was held in Mercedes Wednesday night of last week, at which time a temporary league waa declared organized, with represen tatives from Brownsvillq, San Be nito, Mercedes and McAllen present. O. N. Boston waa elected presi dent, and the league was officially named the Valley League; a set of league by-laws w as adopted also. President Boston stated Saturday that Corpus Christi, Kingsville and Robstown were desirous of entering the league, and that Corpus and Robstown were very anxious. A meeting is to be held Tuesday of this week, it w*as tentatively an nounced by Boston, at which tima he proposes to form a permanent organization. Boston states he has or will issue invitations to Corpus j Christi, Robstown, Kingsville, Mc Allen, Mercedes, Harlingen, San 3enito and Brownsville to have ac credited representatives, ready and officially to announce if their cities | want to enter the league. “I pro pose to close up the preliminary affairs of the league at this meet ing, and get things started. Time is passing; players have to be got ten, ball parks have to be built in several proposed towns; there is a lot of preliminary work to be done when entering organized ball,” Mr. Boston states. “I want the help of every citizen; we need it; we have worked for a month or more; if the Valley wants baseball, and I believe it does, come and help us organize it,” Mr. Boston and Wells, who were appointed by Cameron county fans at a meeting in Brownsville three weeks ago, to find out what towns are desirous of entering the league, reported to Chairman Guy Trent, of San Benito, at the meeting in Mer cedes Wednesday of last week, of their work. Mr. Trent, who had been chairman, turned the chair over to Boston, who was elected president. KENTUCKY DERBY FANS WATCH ROUGISH EYE LOUISVILLE, Ky., March 9.—OF) —Roguish Eye, standard bearer of Alderman John J. Coughlin of Chi cago, is much in the splotlight these days, as the date of the $50, 000, Kentucky Derby, to be run at Churchill Downs here May 18, draws nearer. The Coughlin horse, big as a two-year-old, has grown markedly j during the winter and appears in perfect condition. WORLD RECORD BROKEN STANFORD U., Calif., March 9. —OP)—Eric Krenz, blonde giant of the Stanford track and field team, ' | broke the world’s record in th« dis cus throw today with a heave of 163 feet 8 3-4 inches. The throw j was witnessed and checked by am [ateur Athletic Union and Pacific I Athletic association officials. : PAAVO NORM! REINSTATED Finns Run In N. Y.; Reason For Lifting of Ban Is Not Given NEW YORK, March 9.—<JFh Paavo Nurmi, the “Phantom Finn” under A. A. U. suspension for sev eral wekes, was reinstated tonight. Nurmi’s reinstatement became known at the Seventh regiment track and field games here tonight. Nurmi, with his countryman, Ove Anderson, appeared at the games and asked permission to run in the tv;o-mile team race, which the two Finns subsequently won. Track officials said Nurmi’s sus pension had been lifted but the ex act reason for the reinstatement was not ascertainable in the absence of A. A. U. authorities. -7 RANDOLH COLLEGE WINS DALLAS, March 9.—(,-P)—Ran dolph College of Cisco won the championship of the A. A. U. Wo man’s Open Basketball tournament tonight by defeating the Employ ers’ Casualty Golden Cyclones of Dallas, 37 to 33, in the deciding game. The Randolph “Kittens” sprang Into the limelight last night by eliminating Schepp’s Aces, last year's National Woman's cham pions, to enter the finals. SIX DAT EIXE RACE ENDS NEW YORK. March 9.—f.P;—1Ti ny Franco Georgetti, new king of the six day bike riders, and his frolicsome Belgian partner, Gerard Debaets, tonight wfon the 46th in ternational grind in Madison Square j Garden by the overwhelming mar . gin of five laps. Greyhound Racing Tonight . No Matinee Today-Sunday I The new paved road from Mercedes to the rVer is open l_ico Kenne Clufo I Across the River from Mercedes | s k i ^ "• •y • jF j »• * L /\~a I THE. RECORD-BREAKING NEW NASH *4 0 0" f * tin just months! ,j IN DOLLARS USD (TESTS SDLCME, ATCORDISG TO OFFICIAL FIGURES . (Ford Excluded) . I I NJuly 1, 1928,Nash stood ninth in dollars and cents volume of sales, exclusive of Ford, according to the official figures for the year ending , at that date. ; On January 1, 1929, just six months later, according to the same official | figures, Nash stood fourth. \ In this very brief period the new Nash "400” has completely changed the automobile picture of America. With unmistakable enthusiasm, mo torists everywhere have placed their stamp of approval upon this new Nash —making it, by a tremendous margin, the outstanding motor success of mod* ere automobile history. Why? Because Nash gives them the Twin-Ignition motor . . . gives them cars equipped with the Bijur central ized chassis lubrication system . . : with hydraulic shock absorbers . . s with bumpers front and rear ... spare tire lock . . . cars completely, luxuri ously equipped ... at no extra cost. 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