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BY BISHOP CLEMENTS
Why not organize a city baseball
league? There are enough players
in Brownsville to form a four-club
circuit. Many of the city’s business
men who, in their younger days,
were diamond performers, undoubt
edly would be glad to join one or
the other teams. It should be run
just like leagues in other cities. A
set of rules, with president and
other officers to look after the af
fairs.
* * •
Red “Sheik” Davis, who is
scheduled to take over the coach
ing duties of the La Feria high
school next season, was in the hos
pital at Temple last fall recover
ing from an injury the same time
Harbert Davenport, member of
the local school board was a pa
tient there. Judge Davenport be
came well acquainted with Davis,
and believes he will make La
Feria an excellent mentor. “He’s a
fine fellow, lots of pep, and seems
to be above the average in foot
ball technique turned out by col
leges,” Davenport told the writer
Wednesday.
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From Janesville, Iowa high school,
comes a letter to the local high,
wanting information on athletics
here. The writer states that he has ,
read all about the Brownsville
football team, and of its victory
over DePaul Academy of Chicago.
Yep, the Eagles certainly spread the
Valley over the sporting globe by
Its championship playing this past
year.
• • •
Fred Walker, Texas University
basketball coach, whose quint was
the only one in the Southwest
conference to win a game from
the champion Porkers of Arkan
sas, will again head the team in
1930. The announcement, which
came from Dr. A. R. Law, chair
man of the athletic council, is re
freshing news, in several respects.
Mainly because there was a num
ber of Texas alumni with sharp
ened knives after Walker's scalp.
• * *
They charged. among other
things, that Walker was too “hard
boiled.” It is to laugh at such
things—and things they are. Walk
er is one of the best basketball
mentors in the country. His players
respect him and obey his orders.
No pets. All look alike to Fred.
Knows his business. Takes no dic
tation. Feared by other coaches
and teams. The coaching frater
nity would be a lot better off if they
had more such fellows as Walker on
their roll.
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Byrne Janies, known in the
Valley as a member of the San
Antonio team of 1925 which play
ed a series of games in San Be
nito, may make the grade as
shortstop of the Boston Braves.
James is a San Antonio boy. lie
played in the Western league last
year. Hit around .350, and lead
the circuit in several departments.
Braves are said to have paid a
nice sum for the Alamo City
boy’s release. Reports from their
camp at St. Petersburg, Fla., state
that James looks like a million
dollars, and the bosses are pleased
with his work.
• • •
We understand Kid Ruiz and Bat
! utling Shaw are to meet in the main
.event of a 10-round scrap at Mer
cedes Monday night of next week.
Here’s hoping Ruiz doesn't run out
on A1 Robinson as he did on Tex
Beccrril. Ruiz knows Guerra is
tough. The San Benito “rooster”
would like a crack at this Ruiz fel
low. The writer believes Guerra
would give either Shaw or Ruiz one
of the hardest fights of their career.
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It Is understood • that Shaw
won’t fight anyone who is a few
pounds heavier than he. But we
know he has fought boys lighter
than he. A Guerra-Shaw battle
would be a big drawing card. AI
or Tex would be wise in matching
these boys, if Shaw is willing to
give way a few pounds the same
as he has taken a number.
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The Palestine Missouri Pacific
baseball club has started training
for the season. Kingsville Mopac
nine is in the same league, and one
of the finest organizations of its
kind is the one of the Missouri Pa
cific baseball league, whose mem
bers are employes of that railroad.
* • •
Remember Everett Scott, for
mer Yankee infieldcr? Retired
from the big time several years
ago. Now with the Reading club
of the International league. Scott
holds the world record for number
of consecutive games played. 1,397
and 832 of these were played
with the Boston Red Sox, 475
with the Yanks. Scott found it
too hard to give up baseball, as
he intended, and is back in har
m ness.
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I Just to refresh your memory,
here is a list of the managers in
the American league: Miller Hug
gins, New York Yankees: Connie
Mack. Philadelphia Athletics: Dan
Howley, St. Louis Browns: Walter
Johnson. Washington Senators: Le
na Blackburne, Chicago White Sox;
Stanley Harris. Detroit Tigers: Rog
er Peckinpaugh. Cleveland Indians:
BUI Carrigan, Boston Red Sox. And
the National league. Billy South
worth. St. Louis Cardinals: John
McGraw, New York Giants; Joe
McCarthy. Chicago Cubs; Donie
Bush. Pittsburgh Pirates: Jack
Hendricks, Cincinnati Reds; Wil
bert Robinson. Brooklyn Dodgers:
Emil Fuchs. Boston Braves; Burt
Shotton, Philadelphia Phillies.
• * *
Texas league managers are: Art
Phelan, Shreveport Sports: Frank
Snyder, Houston Buffs; Bill AI- j
exander, San Antonio Bears: Jake
Atz. Ft. Worth Cats; Jim Gallo
way, 'Wichita Falls Spudders;
Milton Stock. Dallas Steers; C.
Robertson. Beaumont Exporters:
Del Pratt. Wraco Cubs.
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Valley coaches, if there are any
expecting to attend the athletic
school at S. M. U. Aug. 19 to 31
will be interested in the following
information from the Dallas school:
“The Warner-Rockne coaching
school to be held at Southern Meth
odist University. Aug. 19-31, 1929, is
tag
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MAY FORM AA DIVISION INTERSCHOLASTIC LEAGUE
Football Would be Only
\ Sport Affected; Meet in
Austin Today for Confab
DALLAS, March 28.—UP)—Eyes of the State Interscholastic league
were focused today on Austin, where representatives of schools in the
state's four largest cities, Fort Worth, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio,
were to meet in an effort to form a “Double A” division of the league.
First word of the proposed AA division appeared in today’s issue of
DALLASSTEERS
WIND UP CAMP
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Spudders Work Hard De
spite Muddy Field; Most
Players In Form
DALLAS, Tex., March 28.—UP)—
The Dallas Steers’ training camp
at Corsicana closed today when
the remaining players left for Dal
las to join the main squad which
went to their home town Wednes
day for exhibition games during
the remainder of the week. It orig
inally was planned for the Steers
to return to their training base
Monday for another week, but j
after it was learned the Chicago
White Sox had vacated Steer Sta
dium as a training camp the re
mainder of the herd was ordered
home. The last to leave the camp
were Gene Moore, Eli Ward, Paul
Hensick and Elmer Bray, pitchers,
and Fred Koster, outfielder, and
Ray Pierce, pitcher-outfielder.
An all-night downpour left Ath
letic Park, the home of the Wich
ita Falls Spudders, in no condition
for a ball game this afternoon, and
prospects were the team would be
denied the opportunity of meeting
the New' York Giant Yannigans in
the second game of a two-game
series. Yesterday’s game also was
cancelled, due to the rain and cold
weather. The weather today did
not keep the squad idle, however,
Manager Jim Galloway and Buddy
Tanner, his assistant, leading the
players through a long mid-day
drill.
The San Antonio Bears broke
camp at Laredo a day ahead of
schedule and motored up from the
border city today. The windup in
camp was a 7-4 practice game
taken from the Laredo All-Stars.
The Bruins left Laredo in good
condition. They w'ill work lightly
for games with Pittsburgh Satur
day and Sunday and next week will
swing around a chain of small
towns giving exhibitions.
The Cubs prepared today for an
encounter w’ith the New’ York
Giants tomorow. Memories of the
recent games with the Chicago
White Sox w’ere carried to give
them hope. McGraw'men will spend
three days at the Cub camp.
Elmer Hanson, Exporter veteran,
was to face the Kansas City, Amer
ican Association, Blues, at Beau
mont today in the first of seven
consecutive exhibition games. Three
hours was devoted to batting prac
tice yesterday. Manager Claud
Robertson said the boys needed this
work much more than the proposed
regulars-yannigans practice game
which it replaced. Afield the Ship
pers look great.
Tigers To Play Red
Caps of McAllen on
Local Field Sunday
Capt. Joe Salinas of the Browns
ville Tigers, and his crew will take
on the McAllen Red Caps at 3 p.
m. Sunday on the old American
Legion grounds.
McAllen has a number of high
school football stars in its lineup,
such men as Cox. Garza and Walsh.
The Tigers will have Salinas and
Ramos on the firing line, and the
Red Caps will have Walsh and
Hamilton.
the greatest coaching school ever
offered, according to the leading
coaches in the United States.
* * •
“Letters of recommendation have
been received from Dan E. McGu
gin of Vandervilt, Morley Jennings
of Baylor. D. V. Graves of the Uni
versity of Washington, and ‘Biff’
Jones of West. The faculty for the
Warner-Rockne school consists of
Glen S. Warner. Knute Rockne and
Ray Morrison, football: J. W. St.
Clair, basketball; Clyde Littlefield,
track; Dr. R. N. Blackwell, athletic
injuries."
•The Dallas News, which disclosed
that Dr. Norman Crozier, superin
tendent of Dallas schools, left last
night for Austin to attend the con
ference. Officials in the other three
cities subsequently admitted they
knew of the plan, but did not say
they were sending representatives
to today's meeting.
The plan, as outlined, would per
tain to football only. High schools
in each of the four cities would de
cide the city champion, after which
they would meet in semi-final and
final games for the double A title.
They would play Interscholastic
league rules, but not be concerned
in the regular class A race.
Today's Exhibition
Baseball Schedule
At St. Petersburg, Fla.—N e w
York (A) Vs. St. Louis (N>.
At Fort Myers. Fla.—Philadelphia
(A) Vs. Boston (N>.
At San Antonio, Texas—N e w
York (N) Vs. Pittsburgh (N).
At El Paso, Texas—Chicago (N)
Vs. Detroit. (A)
At Orlando. Fla.—Cincinnati (N)
Vs. Montreal (I).
At Palmetto. Fla.—Boston (AL>
Vs. Buffalo <I).
Yesterday’s Results
At Tampa, Fla—Washington (A)
5; Brooklyn (N) 4.
At St. Petersburg, Fla. —Boston
(N> 8; Philadelphia (A) 4.
At West Palm Beach, Fla.—Phil
adelphia (N) 3: St. Louis (N) 3
lie 14 innings.)
/.t New Orleans, La.—Cleveland
'A> 5; New Orleans iS. A.) 0
At Dallas, Texas—Chicago (A) 5;
Dallas *T. L.) 4.
At Phoenix, Ariz.—Detroit (A‘ 1J;
Chicago (N) 10.
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By CHARLEY BARRETT
Occasionally a situation turns up
in a game where an umpire is called
upon to make a common sense rul
ing. There are a number of odd
situations that arise that are not
covered in the rule book.
I remember several years ago I
went to Cape Girardeau, Mo., to
look over a big country pitcher by
the name of Elam Vangilder, who
was knocking the rural boys cold
with a fast ball.
Vangilder was on the hill in this
Sunday game against a team from
Perryville, a nearby town. The
usual pickup collection of semi
oros, bushers and ringers were col
lected on each side. The intertown
rivalry was very keen.
The game was not particularly
exciting as Vangilder was too good
a pitcher for the other fellows, but
a play came up in the last part of
the eighth inning that caused more
than ordinary commotion.
The Cape was batting and had
two out and no one on the bags.
The batter also had two strikes
and on the next pitch was prompt
ly called out. He turned to argue
the point and noticed the catcher
had dropped the ball. Instead of
running to first he continued to
jawing with the ump. The catch
er then threw the ball to the pitch
er, w'ho dropped it into his hip pock
et and started walking off the field.
At this time, spurred by shouts
from the bench, the batsman sprint
ed toward first. The pitcher, like
wise realizing the situation also
sprinted to the bag. trying all the
while to get the ball out of his
pocket. It was a close race, but
the pitcher got there first, still
clutching at his pocket.
The base umpire ruled the run
ner out. then reversed himself when
the offensive side pointed out that
the pitcher had another ball in
the same pocket.
It led to a real country argument
and had the score been close it
might have provoked a hot time
for that umpire, no matter which
w-ay he ruled.
_I
SINKER ARTIST
TO START OVER
I Wiley Moore, Texan, Had
Bad Year In 1928, But
It Coming Back
ST. PETERSBURG. Fla., March
28.—Mr. Edward Barrow, chief aide
to Col. Jake Ruppert, of the Yan
kees, may take credit for signing
Wilcey Moore, the sinker ball art
ist, who hopes to stage a comeback
this season.
But I heard different, as they say,
in various parts of the country.
As a matter of fact Mr. Barrow
came within $4,000 of making as
bum a guess on Mr. Moore as Mr.
Bill Hinchman, of the Pirates, did.
Half a dozen big league clubs gave
Moore the once over during the
summer of 1926. when he was in
the throes of a winning streak with
the Greenville club of the Sally,
league. Moore finished the season
that year with something like 30
victories and but three defeats.
"Thumbs Down"
He had won 17 in a row when
Bill Hinchman. ivory hunting for
the Pittsburgh Pirates, gazed on his
stalwart form. It so happened that
Bill's final check-up on him was re
i served for a day destined to see Mr.
Moore bumped off for one of those
three defeats. If there is any dif
frence between looking bad and
looking worse while losing, Moore
looked worse. So Hinchman turned
thumbs down on the price of $7,000
the Greenville club had put on the
sinker ball artist.
Bob Gilks, then scouting for the
Yankees, also looked the big fellow
over and decided that he would be
worth $7,000 to the Yanks. Gilks
pointed out that they could use him
for that much collateral in a later
trade if he didn't come up to expec
tations.
The more Gilks watched Wilcey.
the more convinced he became that
Moore would be a good buy. Two or
three phone conversations with Bar
row, however, found the Yankee
business manager only luke warm.
"If we took him on it would be
simply to give us another pitcher
for batting practice,” insisted Bar
row.
Along about that time, according
to one of Moore’s buddies, the
Greenville club received an offer
of $4,000 for Moore from a fast
minor league club and, wanting to
give Moore a chance In the big
show, offered him to the Yankees
at that figure. Barrow accepted
the offer. »
Of course it is history how Moore
worked in 50 ball games for the
New York club in 1927—allowed 2.28
earned runs a game and proved the
"key man” of the pitching staff.
More History
It is history, also, how Mr. Moore
helped route' the Pittsburgh Pirates
in the world’s series of 1927, thereby
collecting a winning share instead
of a losing share of the divvy.
Whether or not Moore can regain
some of the efefctivenes he showed
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1929 HIGH SCORERS IN MAJOR COURT CIRCUITS
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PURDUE IDAHO < TEXAS
High scorers in the major basketball conferences for the season just ended were: Goodwin. South
ern, 244; Thompson. Rocky Mountain. 201; Schaaf. Eastern Intercollegiate, 114; Churchill, Big Six, 124;
Murphy, Big Ten, 143; McMillan, Pacific Coast, 123: Meyer, Missouri Valley, 185; Brock, Southwest, 161,
and Hyatt, All-Eastern, 302. Hyatt’s total is for all games. The others are for conference games only.
two years ago remains to be seen.
He was practically a total loss last
season, going into voluntary retire
ment when he found that his arm
had gone dead. But he earned two
years’ salary, at least, with his spec
tacular pitching in 1927—and piled
more than $4,000 into the Yankee
treasury.
So he's starting from scratch this
year.
And the Pirates still could use
him.
EDINBURG SPORTSMEN
FORM WALTON LEAGUE
EDINBURG, March 28.—Eighteen
local sportsmen were enrolled into
the Izaak Walton league organized
here last night, with George P.
Brown, president.
C. A. Wheatley, president of the
state organization, addressed the
gathering, explaining the workings
of the league and of the benefits
derived therefrom. The president
has been in the Valley for some
time and a number of such organ
izations have been formed in other
Valley cities.
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LIFE LOST FOR A CIGARETTE
WAUKEGAN. 111.—James Ker
nan stopped in the middle of the
street to light a cigarette and was
killed by an auto.
HIDALGO MEET
PLANS READY
Mission To Be Hosts To In
terscholastic League
Entrants 29-30
(Special to The Herald)
MISSION, March 28.—With the
biggest number of entrants ever
entered in a Hidalgo county inter
scholastic league meet, schemed
to get under way in this city Fri
day morning and to continue
through Saturday, Mission has
taken on a gala attire for the
meeting.
General headquarters have been
established at the junior high
school, and information booths
and all other necessary arrange
ments have been completed.
Supt. E. E. Chamness of the Wes
laco schools, is general director of
the meet, and both literary and
track and field entrants have been
selected by the different schools,
and a large number have been en
tered.
Legion Park will be the scene of
the athletic events, and the senior
and junior high auditoriums will
house the literary events. Both
events are scheduled to start at
9:30 a. m. Friday.
JAPANESE GOLFERS
WORRIED ABOUT TAX
TOKYO. March 26.—(&)—T h e
golfing fraternity in Japan is wor
ried by the action of the perfec
tural assembly of Fukuoka, in sou
I them Japan, in voting to levy an
annual tax of 20 yen ($10) on golf
club memberships, subject to the
approval of the home office.
Fukuoka is still an insignificant
center as far as golf is concerned,
but enthusiasts in the big cities
where the ancient and honorable
game is thriving remarkably are
afraid the precedent will be fol- !
lowed by their own local govern
ments.
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