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Cubs Hailed on All
Sides as Winner of
Chase in National
By VICTOR G. SIDLER
Associatd Press Sports Writer
AVALON, Santa Catalina Island, Calif., March 13.—OP)—'The clashing
of cymbals and brass attend the preparations of the Chicago Cubs for
the National League pennant race—they have been widely proclaimed as
favorites to carry off the bunting. Pre-season clamor already has vested
. the Chicagoans in the carb of the champions, and now all that Manager
r* Joe McCarthy has to do Is win the>t
tlag.
is' One of the most colorful aggre
T^Mfons in the club’s history—and
jfym. of the snappiest outfits seen in
rna ny seasons—has been in spring
training on tills pleasure isle. The
inclusion in the lineup of Rogers
Hornsby and his mighty bludgeon
appears to have much to do with
the Cubs’ envied position as favor
ites.
The punch lacking in the final
days of last year’s campaign the
Cubs hope will be contributed by
Hornsby. Then, such swattsmiths
as Hazen Kiki” Cuyler, “Hack"
Wilson and Jackson Stephenson will
be there to aid in boosting the Cubs
over the top with their long range
shelling.
While McCarthy is depending con
siderably upon the star second
sacker. he also lays great stress on
his reserve material which he de
scribes in enthusiastic terms. Be
lieving that strong reserves from a
necessary adjunct to a squad, the
Cubs’ pilot has lined up an able sub
stitute for each department.
Two newcomers will make the
mound corps if their performances
to date count for anything. Ed
Lautenbacher, 21-year-old acquisi
tion from the Reading. Pa., club,
comes to the Cubs with a record
of 10 victories and five defeats and
it is more than likely that the
youthful hurler will drape his six
foot three-inch stature over the
mound in the coming campaign.
Berlyn Horne, somewhat older,
having had some 10 years experi
ence, and possessor of a consistent
record, has been puzzling batters
with his deliveries this season, and
McCarthy has indicated the former
Jersey City pitcher also might be a
member of the stafr.
As for the veterans, the Cubs will
have such noteworthy throwers as
Charley Root, Guy Bush. John
’Sheriff” Blake, Harold Carlson,
and Art Nehf. the latter a south
paw deliverer. Mike Cvengros. who
went to the Wichita Falls club of
the Texas league from the majors,
and turned in 21 wins as against
?ight reversals last year,' is another
.eft-hander upon whim McCarthy
will depend.
PLANES ROUT BEDOUINS
Cairo.—Two aeroplanes w i t h
iombs routed a marauding band of
Bedouins near El Wasta.
y BLOOD GIFT TO WIFE VAIN
.Jl^dcago.—H. C. Evans gave a pint |
JMfjlood for an operation on Ills
V^e> but she died within 24 hours.
BIBLE TO SEEK
SPEED RECORD
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42-Year-Old Mechanic Will
Attempt to Better Sea
grave’s Mark
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., March
113.—(/P)—Lee Bible, carefree jack of
all trades today has stepped out
of the grimy overalls of a garage
owner-mechanic into the ranks of
the world's fastest racing car driv
: ers
The 42-year-old mechanic was to
I be given the "golden opportunity
of a life time” to use his own words,
as the driver of the Triplex, pow
erful racing car of J. M. White of
Philadelphia, and he expected to
day to attempt to wrest from Ma
jor H. O. D. Seagrave of England,
the title of speed king of the auto
mobile world.
But not without a struggle from
Major Segrave. He, too, was ex
pected to try to better his own
mark, or that which Bible believed
he could set. If Ideal beach and
weather conditions permitted. Se
grave hoped to step his Golden Ar
row up to 240 miles an hour. He
drove the machine Monday to an
official record of more than 231
miles an hour.
Overnight, however, Bible had
climbed Into the limelight of pub
licity, an obscure father of two chil
dren. who will “shoot the bolt” in
an effort to acquire fame and bring
back to America the racing title.
FROGS GET IN SHAPE
FORT WORTH. March 13.—Long
practice sessions each afternoon, a
hard routine outlined by Coach
Meyer, and exceptionally warm
u it her the past week has enabled
the Homed Frog baseballers to
whip themselves Into good enough
shape to be ready for the few prac
tice tilts that will precede the
opening of the conference season at
Austin on March 27.
OUTWITS SON TO DIE
Evanston. 111.—While her son
slept at her door to prevent her
suicide, Mrs. Ellen Farren climbed
out the window, waited a mile and
threw herself under a train.
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PORAT BEATS
& TOM HEENEY
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Norwegian Badly Batters Up
‘Contender* Setup For
Champ Gene Tunney
CHICAGO, March 13.—(£*)—Otto
Von Porat's galloping gloves pound
ed a requiem to Tom Heeney’s
heavyweight title aspirations last
night and sent the New Zealander
hard rock to the hospital for re
pairs.
Eighteen stitches were required
to close the inch-long gash in
Heeney's lip which Von Porat’s
right hand opened in the final
round. The wound sent blood
cascading down over Heeney’s
body, and the New Zealander, real
izing how desperate his plight must
have appeared, told Referee Ed
Purdy not to stop the fight, that
he was all right.
After the cut had closed, Heeney
left the hospital.
Heeney, upon whose body Gene
Tunney wrote his farewell to pugi
lism last year, was a badly whip
ped man when the Norwegian
puncher got through his ten
rounds of work. Von Porat took
seven rounds, lost two and held
Heeney even in the other. To the
surprise of most of the 9,000 spec
tators he not only outslugged the
New Zealander but outboxed him
most of the time.
Kid Juarez Accepts
Fight With Pancho
At Fort March 25
Kid Juarez, tough Monterrey
featherweight, would be delighted to
meet Kid Pancho at the Fort Brown
skating rink on the evening of
March 25.
He said so in a telegram to Pro
moter Tex Becerril Tuesday.
Therefore the scrap seems almost
a certainty now. for Pancho has
evinced a willingness to meet al
most any feather Becerril was able !
to obtain as his opponent. Nego
tiations will probably be closed
within the next two or three days.
Kid Juarez, while not so well
known here, has turned in credit
able work against such battlers as
Chico Cisneros. Carlos Garcia and
others. Both of these boys are now
headliners in San Antonio at the |
present time.
Pancho is anxious to perform be- i
fore a Brownsville audience again, i
This will be his first appearance
since thrashing Johnny Hughes
here.
Pancho declared to San Antonio
sport writers that he was victim
ized by an unfair decision at Mer
cedes recently when he was award
ed only a draw with Battling Shaw.
He says he will sail in in his next
fight here and there will be no
draws If he can help it.
FfSHTS tfiST
(By the Associated Press)
CHICAGO. — Otto Von Porat,
Norvvav, outnointed Tom Heeney,
New Zealander. (10). M. Sullivan.
St. Paul, won on a foul from Clyde
Chastain, Dallas, Tex., (2"). Phil
Mercurio, New York, outpointed
Red Fitzsimmons. Wichita. Kans.,
(8). Brownie Turman. Wichita,
Kans., outpointed Alberto Palumbo,
Italy, (6). Paul Pantaleo. Chicago,
outpointed Pat Keemcr, Oklahoma
City. (6).
TORONTO.—Izzy Schwartz. New
York, outpointed Albert Frenchy
Belanger, Toronto, (12>.
MINNEAPOLIS. — Dick Daniels,
Minneapolis, outpointed Lrn Darcy.
Grand Rapids, Mich., (10). Johnny
Ryan, Milwaukee, outpointed
Jackie Sharkey. Minneapolis, (6).
Honeyboy Conroy. St. Paul, out
pointed Jack Mulvaney. Montreal.
(4). Tim Derry. Seattle,' knocked
out Packey Ferrier, Minneapolis,
PARIS.—Marcel Thil, France,
knocked out Ivan Laffineur. France
(2).
DES MOINrS.—Tony Legouri.
Des Moines. outpointed Roscoe
Hall. Des Moines, (io>. Steve Ket
c-hell. Kansas City, outpointed Hy
mie Wiseman. Des Moines, GO)
Ray Krause. Oelwein. la., out
pointed Frankie Larrabee, Lincoln
Neb.
^ ANGELES.—Earl Mastro
Chicago, outpointed Young Na
tionalista. Filipino. GO).
INDIANAPOLIS. — Eddie Shea
Chicago, knocked out Carl Tre
maine. Cleveland. (1). Joe Dragon
Cincinnati, defeated Bobbv Allen
Chicago, <8).
Spuds Getting Set
For Game; Bears To
Tangle With Giants*
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DALLAS. Tex., March 13.—(J>)—
The Wichita Falls Spudders will be
put through a strenuous training
period for the next few days in
preparation for their exhibition sea
son scheduled to get under wav
three days hrence. Manager Jim
Galloway is devoting most of his
time in getting veteran players in
condition. Every veteran pitcher
took a turn on the mound this
morning.
^’ln Antonio Bears and New
York Giants play in San Antonio
today, barring a weather change
They play Thursday. Saturday and
Sunday, also. Neal Baker, former
Texas University star, w'as the hill
choice for the Bruins, while Carl
Hubbell was the probable Giant
pitching selection.
Manager Frank Snyder will take
his Houston Buffaloes indoors again
today for the third consecutive time
due to weather. Rain has been fall
ing in Houston for three days now
and there is little prospect of the
weather clearing up in time for the
Bisons to get in a workout outdoors.
With 13 pitchers In camp at Min
eral Wells and another. Leo Fitterer.
due to be dropped there bv Detroit
within a few weeks, it lias become a
matter of specultaion who will be
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TWO ANDYS FIGHTING FOR PLACE
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AN DV COHEN
The two Andys, Cohen and Re ese, are staging a hot battle for
the second base job at the New York Giants’ camp at San Antonio,
Tex. Cohen seemed to have the position cinched until the latter
part of the season. Now Reese is conceded in a fair way to get it.
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■ By Bishop Clements ■
nBMniifipiiiraicif’uxnQVHansnnneis
Bobby Cannon, one of the many
high class athletes turned out by
the University of Texas, wants to
manage a ball club in the Valley
this season. He writes us that if
a league is organized, and with the
$1509 per month salary limit, it
would naturally be a developing
circuit for young players. There is
still a lot of good baseball left in
Cannon; he should make a good
manager, has had pelnty of experi
ence, both as player and manager.
He pastimed with the local club of
1926.
• • •
The writer is in receipt of the
Sporting News Record book, is
sued yearly by C. C. Spink & Son
of St. Louis. When this bock
makes its appearance, it is a sure
sign spring is here, and that
basebail has taken command of
the sport fraternity. Pretty han
dy book, contains all the records,
etc., of big leagues of last year,
and a guide to other doings in
the minor leagues.
• • •
In a front page article, separate
from the book, is this notation:
"This little vest-pocket baseball
guide, known as the Dope Book,
contains in compact and ready ref
erence formt salient statistical fea
tures of the 1928 season in the ma
jors and minors, and is as well a
handy reckoner of facts on the 1929
season. The Dope Book is publish
ed by C. C. Spink & Son of St.
Louis, publishers of the Sporting
News, national baseball newspaper."
* * *
The book is a mighty nice thing
for every baseball fan to have; it
will settle many arguments, and
can be had for a nominal price at
the above address.
* * *
Bill Mersky, popular little huri
of Henry Skelton’s American Le
gion nine of this city last sum
mer, has been sent by the Chi
cago White Sox to Palestine o[
the Lone Star league. Mcrskv
was signed by the Sox, and has
been i?i training with that crew
in Dallas for the past two weeks.
The Sox have a working agree
ment with the Palestine Pals, and
Mersky, being a rookie, stands a
good chance to make good.
* • *
Dillard Payne, one of the best
outfielders in minor league base
ball. but a weak hitter, is manager
of the Palestine Pals. The boy
from Brownsville will bo working
for one of the most popular fellows
in the Lone Star league. We re
member Payne as being a member
of leagues in which the writer
played in. If Payne could hit .250
he would go high in the national
pastime.
♦ * *
They tell us that John King,
one of the greatest characters in
baseball, will pastime with Tyler
of the Lone Star league this sea
son. King has played in manv
leagues. He is about 40 years
old. left-handed hitter, and an
outfielder. And how he can hit,
ask those right handers who have
tried to fool him. And how he
dislikes left-handers, ask the
umpires. King is a rough and
tumble plaver; a hustler, withal,
ana if hr thinks some member of
the club he is with isn’t hustling,
•Io,in will let him know it, and
what s more will back up every
word he says. He is a fellow
something like Don Flynn, well
known in Valley baseball circles,
but different in that he is alwavs
welcome wherever he goes.
♦ * *
BUT NOT THE HITTER DON IS
—WHO WE BELIEVE WAS ONE
OF THE GREATEST EVER TO
TOE THE PLATE.
the six or seven retained by Man
ager Jake Atz as members of the
Fort Worth pitching staff. Arrival
of Don Songer yesterday increased
the left handers to four; the other
nine and Fitterer are right handers.
No further additions are in pros
pect.
Lew Williams, of San Benito, was
in town the other day, or was pas
sing through at least. William, a
great fielder in his playing days,
but never much with the willow.
Guy Trent, also of San Benito, is
authority for the story, that a cou
ple of years ago, Lew was playing
with a San Benito team, and their
opponents were strangers, that is
the personnel of the opposing club
was. The score was tied. Second
and third occupied, and it was Lew's
turn to bat. The San Benito stands
rose up in unison and yelled for
Williams to knock a home run.
Believing they were about to face
a Babe Ruth at bat, the opposing
pitcher walked Williams. And that’s
the story.
• • •
Arthur C'owden, Cameron coun
ty’s tax collector, knows a thing:
or two about this baseball busi
ness, and can make out a sched
ule. Cowden says he would be
glad to make out the Valley lea
gue schedule if Bert Cocke of
La Feria could be induced to at
tend to overseeing that the ball
fields were laid out right, and
put in shape for the coming sea
son.
* * *
And they named it the Red River
Valley league, Quanah and Child
ress, Texas, and Oklahoma towns,
have formed the Class D circuit.
Fine. The only way to have base
ball is in the organized way—that
is join with organized ball. In that
way both players and those at the
head of each club are protected in
every way possible by ihe laws of
baseball. If a player Is developed
io the proportion whereby he Is
ready to step higher, the club gets
'the benefit; on the other hand, a
player need not feel he won’t get
the well known pay check on the
first and fifteenth of each month.
* * *
Kid Fancho is going to battle
at Fori Brown skating rink on
the fight card March 25. That
ought to draw a crowd, in itself.
I His opponent hasn't been signed
up as yet. Whoever he may be. he
is going to face a mighty clever
boy in the Kid. The feather
weight championship of the world
was in the San Antonio boy’s
grasp a few years ago, hut Fancho
began dissipating, and chunked
the opportunity away. He states
he is coming back, and being
young in years, he ought to be a
good boxer for many more years.
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We hope Promoter Tex Eecerril
bars the kidney and rabbit blows
from the ring that night, and A1
Robinson, the Mercedes promoter.!
does likewise. As we have pointed
out before, when fighters go into
a clinch and begin beating each
other’s kidneys, it is disgusting and
not sportsmanship; and further
more is dangerous. Come on Tex,
you and Al. bar those punches from
your rings.
• * •
What's the matter with Okla
homa City and Tulsa? They haven't
withdrawn, verbally, from the
Western league this season, and
joined up wit hthe Texas league
For several years, until 1929, these
two cities have been wanting to
withdraw from the Western circuit
Well, one of the reasons thev are
staying put this year, is that Tulsa
is controlled by the St. Louis
Browns.
CANDY TOISONER CAUGHT
AFTER SEVEN-YEAR CHASE
Munich.—The arrest here of Karl
Friedrichs terminated a chase that
had lasted for seven years and had
progressed through almost every
country in Europe. Friedrichs is
accused of the murder of two boys,
both of whom died after eating
poisoned candy sent to Fraulein
Hedwig Lerische, their sister. Fried
richs. according to the Berlin de
tectives who captured him, sent the
candy to the girl because she re
fused his attentions and the boys
ate all of it before their sister knew
of its receipt.
J G GIANTS
SAC' BETTERED
Wright Steals Robins Show;
Yankees Seem to Need
t
Batting Practice
SAN ANTONIO. March 13.—(>P)—
Most of the cripples in the New
York Giants’ camp have recovered.
Carl Mays, Fred Fitzsimmons and
Andy Reese are ready to return to
duty. Mays, who broke a thumb
when he knocked down a line drive
some days ago, got back into ac
tion yesterday and Reese's ‘‘Char
ley Horse” has disappeared.
Glenn Wright seems to have stol
en the show at the Brooklyn Rob
ins’ training camp at Clearwater,
Fla, The shortstop was the sub
ject of almost all the talking yes
terday. He is undergoing treatment
for a shoulder injury, alleged to
have been incurred before he was
traded to Brooklyn by Pittsburgh.
Wilbert Robinson has threatened to
carry the case to John A. Heydler,
president of the league, if Wright's
shoulder doesn't respond to treat
ment.
Yank Guns Silent
More batting practice seems to be
the chief need of the New York
Yankees at Tampa. The world’s
champions opened their exhibition
schedule yesterday by nosing out
Tampa of the Southeastern league,
a class B organization, one to
nothing.
The Chicago White Sox and Dal
las Steers are scheduled to resume
their baseball argument today—
providing the weather at Dallas per
mits. The Sox were rained out of
a practice session for the second
consecutive day yesterday and Man
ager Lena Blackburne is anxious to
get his hopefuls back on the job.
Manager Joe McCarthy’s Cubs
have their downs as well as their
ups. Yesterday his ‘‘murderers’
row” failed to function and his
pitching accs, announced as ready
for the season's opener, were as
wild as a March wind. The Cata- i
linas defeated the Avalons 14 to 3
in an inter-club game.
Rookie Limit Set
Billy Southworth’s regulars will
get the call in the remaining ex
hibition games of the St. Louis
Cardinals, he said yesterday, at
Avon Park. Fla., the experimenting
with recruits being over. Rain
caused an abbreviated workout yes
terday in preparation for the in
vasion of Bradentown to play the
Boston Red Sox.
At West Palm Beach. Fla., the
rookies already know how many
places are open for them on Man
ager Dan Howley’s St. Louis Browns.
Howley set a numerical clasifica
tion yesterday of 10 pitchers, seven
infielders, five outfielders and three
catchers for his June 15 limit of
25. The roster shows three pitch
ers, two catchers, two infielders and
one outfielder are to get the hooks.
BLAZING the
SPORTS TRAIL
By ALAN J. GOULD
(Associated Press Sports Editor.)
Whether or not Jack Dempsey
returns to the ring this year, the
famous Mauler of Manassa can
hardly hope to add any greater
thrills to the fistic pages than he
did in his memorable battles with
Luis Angel Firpo at the Polo
Grounds in 1923 and with James
Joseph Tunney at Soldier Field in
1927.
In all the history of heavyweight
boxing, there has- never been a
more savagely waged contest than
Dempsey’s slugfest with Firpo nor
a bout followed by greater contro
versy than that surrounding the
“long count” in Tunney’s favor at
Chicago.
They will still be talking about
these battles around the fistic fire
sides fifty years from now. And it’s
fairly safe to say that the glamour
around Dempsey and his perform
ances over the period of years from
Toledo to Chicago will be as great
as that which has been preserved
in connection with John L. Sulli
van up to this time.
For Dempsey not only brought
new competitive thrills to the prize
ring, but marked a new era in the
boxing business—from the. view
point of “gates” as well as the size
of his purses.
• • •
When they talk about his epic
bout with Firpo, it is chiefly in rec
ollection of the white-clad Dempsey
hurtling backward through the
ropes and clear out of the ring
from the force of a half-shove and
a right swing, delivered in blind
rage by the Wild Bull after he had
been knocked down seven times in
the first round.
A world’s championship was in
Firpo's hands then and there, as
the shaggy Argentine stood alone
in the ring for a fleeting few sec
onds, but an upward shove from
the newspapermen acting in self
defense helped the champion re
gain the canvas and wreather the
storm.
No two fighters ever went to
their corners groggier than did
Dempsey and Firpo after that hec
1 tic opener. The seconds and hand
lers of the two men were too excit
ed themselves to be of any use.
Jack Kearns could not find his
smelling salts for Dempsey and in
the confusion took a punch at one
of h?s helpers. But Dempsey's re
cuperative powers helped him and
he was able to deliver the coup de
grace in the second round, knocking
Firpo down for the ninth time and
out.
• * •
Three years later, with the mem
ory of that fight as vivid to him as
it was a few days afterward, Demp
sey talked to this writer about it
and told a version somewhat dif
ferent from the popular conception.
“The first punch Firpo landed
did more damage to me than any
other he landed,” Jack declared.
“You remember how he came out
with a rush at the start? He
smashed me with a right to the
side of the head before I could get
set. My knees wobbled and all I
could do was reach for him and
clinch. I saw at least three Firpos
in front of me all the rest of the
round. That punch hurt worse
than the one that sent me out of
the ring. We were up against the
ropes then and I lost my balance,
but I was lucky to get back in and
last the round.”
It is a strange coincidence that
Dempsey's fight with Firpo was re
sponsible for the rule—about retir
ing to a neutral corner—that cost
him a probable victory over Tun
ney at Chicago in 1927. If the
Mauler got the "breaks” in his bat
tle with Firpo he failed to get them
at Soldier Field, where the four
teen-count that Tunney received
while being chased from one corner
to another enabjed the champion
to recover faster* from the effects
of his knockdown in the seventh
round.
♦ • *
That seventh round possibly was
Dempsey’s last great charge, the
final fling of one of the greatest
two-fisted punchers of all time. For
six lounds Tunney had piled up
points, outboxing and outstepping
his foe. Came the seventh, as the
dramatists say and quite properly.
The tiger within Dempsey sprang
at an opening. A right-hand smash
flush to the chin started Tunney
down. A half dozen more shots to
the jaw and the champion was a
dazed, blinking spectacle on the
floor. The old savage spirit in
Dempsey kept him near his prey.
He stood over him menacingly, then
moved unwillingly to his own corner
nearby. The referee, Dave Barry,
had started to count and reached
"five” before he himself apparent
ly awoke to the demands of rules,
then motioned Dempsey to a neu
tral corner. The count w'as picked
up at "one.” Tunney scrambled up
at "nine” and flitted from Demp
sey’s reach.
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Valley League Will
Seek 2 More Towns
Before Organizing
By BISHOP CLEMENTS
f Sports Editor
At a meeting last night in this city at the Miller hotel of baseball rep
resentatives of Corpus Chdisti, McAllen. San Benito and Brownsville,
which towns declared themselves ready to enter the proposd Class *‘D ’
Vally league, it was decided that it would not be feasible to go ahead with
permanent organization of the league with the four towns, and a com
EAGLE SQUADS '
CLASH TODAY
Regulation Football Game
At Tucker Field Begin
ning at 4 P. M.
Internal strife has broken out in
the ranks of the spring training
camp of the Brownsville Eagles grid
squad and as a result, a full four
quarter regulation game will be
played on Tucker field at 4 p. m.
Wednesday.
Dan Barnhart, captain-elect of
the 1929 team, will lead the ‘ Blues”
and Clarence Bennett will captain
the “Greys.”
In addition to seeing the old stars
who captuerd the Valley title and
went undefeated last year, fans will
have the opportunity of seeing new
comers perform. In this list, in
cluding ineligibles, are Summers,
Longoria, Samano and Washington.
The boys have been in training
under Coach Doug Fessenden for
several weeks.
Valley Potatoes
Will Be Shipped
Under U. S. Grades
All potatoes to be shipped this
season by the Rio Grande Valley
Potato Growers asociation will go
under the U. S. Grades.
Screens for grades were received
this week. The U. S. No. 1 requires
a mesh of one and seven-eighths
inches, and the U. S. No. 2's a mesh
of one and onc-half inches.
A large number of new graders
also have been ordered and will be
installed in various packing sheds
this week.
This will assure better grading of
potatoes, officials of the association
state. The old grades carried a
1 3-4 inch mesh for the best grade
and 1 1-2-inch for second grade.
Heavy movement of potatoes is
expected to start the first of the
| week, and will continue until the
middle of May.
imittee was appointed to confer with
Harlingen and other Valley towns
to find out if those towns wanted
to enter the organization, as a six
club circuit was the number agreed
upon.
President O. N. Boston called the
meeting to order and Cam Hiil an
swered for McAllen, W. B. Pyeatt
for Corpus Christ!, L. B. Wihans for
San Benito and Robin Pate for
Brownsville, all of whom declared
their towns ready to enter the
league.
Mercedes and Harlingen failed to
send representatives as they had
declared they would do. It was the
sentiment of the meeting that Har
lingen was ready to enter the or
ganization. but doubtful If Mercedes
would. Six clubs will have to be
formed before the league is per
manently organized, it was declared.
William T. Bunnett of Browns
ville, and L. B. Winans of San Ben
ito were appointed a committee to
find out if these or other towns
would enter the league, in a last
effort toward organization.
Mr. Pyett, the Corpus Christi rep
resentative, stated that Robstown
and Kingsville, at meeting held in
those cities Tuesday afternoon, |
would not enter the league, and ask
ed Mr. Pyeatt to so state to the
meeting.
A goodly number of fans gathered
for the confab, and the situation
was gone into from every angle. The
league has been in formation for
the past six weeks, and delegates
have called on every towrn in the
Valley, and it was believed that if
some one person in each of the
towns to complete the league would
take the lead, it could be organ
ized.
Burnett and Winans are to report
their results to Boston the latter
part of the week, and if the two
towns are found to complete the cir
cuit then the organization will be
formed, if not, baseball efforts of
those trying to form the league,
will be called off.
THERE’S ONE
THING ABOUT
YOU THE WHOLE
TOWN KNOWS
You can fool part
of the people part
of the time, but not
one person for one
minute on how you
look.
I This Spring you
have a wonderful
opportunity to look
the best you have
ever looked.
Costly—?
Not the slightest
Beneficial—?
Mightily!
Easter — March 31st