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Big League Clubs
Breaking Camp in
Souths Optimistic
SAN ANTONIO. Texas, March 28.—(/Ft—'The Giants are through their
training grind, and their manager, Jotin McGraw, has decided they are
a good ball team. McGraw grew enthusiastic over the condition of his
squad after the final practice game yesterday, although he would not pre
set it would bring the National league pennant to New York.
I
Richard Ferrell was a free agent
hot so long ago but now he is the
chief candidate for the regular
catching post with the St. Louis
Browns.
So popular was Dick that the
Browns gave him a bonus of $25,
000 to sign with them after Com
missioner Landis put him on his
own hook. Ferrell formerly was
with Detroit. He caught for Co
lumbus of the American association
last year.
His brother, Wesley, is a pitcher
with the Cleveland Indians, while
George, another brother, plays in
the outfield for Memphis.
Dick caught 126 games for Co
lumbus and batted .333. He bats
right handed, is 23 years old. Is
five feet eleven inches tell and
weighs 170 pounds. His home is
at Guilford College. N. C.
• "The club is much stronger tnan
last year on paper,” he said, "but
you don't win pennants on paper.
I have strengthened my ciub quit?
a bit by trading O'Doul for Leach.
My pitching is stronger. OTarrel!
is in better condition and will hit
better. My reserve strength is
greater than 1928.”
Robby Cheerful
Wilbert Robinson finally has
something to feel cheerful about.
Jake Flowers, his only second base
man. has changed his mind about
having his appendix removed.
Flowers found an operation on his
tonsils was plenty and decided to
wait a while before letting the
surgeon have another crack at him.
The condition of Ray Benge’s
arm is the chief worry just now
of Manager Shotton of the Phil
lies. Benge was the most success
ful of the club’s pitchers last year,
until his arm went bad late in the
season. He has taken it easy thus
far but when he tried to cut loose
against the St. Louis Cardinals
Tuesday something slipped in his
elbow and he quite the game.
The additional outfielder to be
carried by the Athletics probably
will be Walter French, a member
of the club last year, who re
nounced baseball several months
ago to go into business.. Now he
wants to play with the Athletics
again and Manager Mack is ready
to take him back should Baseball
Commissioner Landis reinstate j
him. The Boston Nationals hand
ed the Mackmen their second
straight defeat yesterday, winning
8 to 4.
Cards Ready
"Yes. were ready,” was Manager
Billy Southworth’s comment as the
St. Louis Cardinals wound up their
spring training yesterday. Twenty
nine days were spent in camp.
Southworth, who expects to com
pete for a field berth, will try out
his arm tomorrow for the first
time since injuring it last fall.
Manager Jack Hendricks, survey
ing the spring training of the Cin
cinnati Reds today expressed
satisfaction with the progress made.
A game scheduled with the Mon
treal club at Orlando, Fla., today
marked the close of drill, and the
squad will break camp tomorrow.
1 blazing %
I SPORTS TRAIL
.*§»• ALAN J. GOLLD
(Associated Press Sports Editor*
At Paris in 1924, several agile
youths of Gallic bloood figured con
spicuously, although not with ulti
mate success, in the Olympic tennis
tournament. A Parisian friend said
to me:
"Watch these fellows. They may
not look so very good now. They
have a tendency to fold up in a
five-set match. But all they need is
experience and more confidence.
They will win the Davis Cup before
many years have elapsed.”
Their names were Lacoste, Cochet
end Morotra. Most anyone can tell
you w'hat they have done in the ten
nic world. The titles they haven’t
won are not worth boldface type.
Of Germany, about the same time,
it was also said.
“Watch the development of ath
letics there within the next few
years. You will hear from them in
the next Olympics and in other
branches of comnetitlon. They have
the material, the method and the
urge.”
Germany not only cut a big fig
ure in her return to Olympic com
petition at Amsterdam, but has pro
duced a number of world's record
breakers and an outstanding candi
date for the heavyweight champion
ship In Kerr Max Schmeling.
| The prophetic features of this
story, however, are not so vital in
cataloging the proerres of sports as
that they are notable factors in the
growing challenge to American ath
letic supremacy.
It looked like a set-up for your
Uncle around and about 1923-24.
Hutchinson and Hagen lifted the
British Open golf crown, starting
the big rout on the links. Tilden
and Johnston were still supreme on
the courts. Olympic honors came
harder but they came, nevertheless.
The polo “Eig Four” swamped Eng
land's best. Firpo, Wilde. Criqui
and other boxers left these shores
better off financially than ever be
bore but as beaten men, though.
The old brawn and sinew was in
good working order.
But things have taken a turn. And
perhaps they aren't through turn
ing. France now dominates the ten
nis world. Finland’s distance run
ners have cleaned up consistently
and that most prized of all Uncle
Sam's Olympic crowns, the sprint
title, rests on the curly thatch of
Canada’s young Mr. Percy Williams.
Schmeling and the burly Spaniard.
Paulino, represent a double-barreled
threat for what is picturesquely
called the “battle for the heavy
weight championship.”
It should not be gathered from all
this that the situation is altogether
bad or that any change will be for
the worse. Golf laurels in any in
ternational conflict are fairly safe
so long as one R. T. Jones, Jr., is
available. Or Walter Hagen, the
nresent holder of the British Open
crown. Yankee eight-oared crews
haven't been beaten abroad in any
Olympic regatta since the war.
Helen Wills has lost only one set
and not a single match on any
European court in two years.
The competition on the whole,
however, is keener now' than ever
before. And closer. The set-ups
in any field are fewer. Instad of
sallying forth with a big mental or
. Low Excursion Fares
To
San Antonio and Houston
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This is your opportunity to see big league stars
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Tickets on sale for Sunday morning arrival,
March 31. Return limit to leave prior to mid
night Sunday, March 31.
Fast overnight train—through pullman, 8:15 P. M.
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ROOKS PESTER
SANDLOT BOSS
A. O. Green, Who Discover
er Waner Boys, Gets
Letters By Hundreds
ADA. Okla., March 26.—(A5)—The
man who “discovered" the heavy
hitting Waner brothers, Paul and
Lloyd, wants the world to know he
is not in the business of compound
ing poison for big league baseball
pitchers.
A. O. Green's mail has been flood
ed with appealing letters from am
bitious players since he coached the
Waners and sent them to fame with
the Pittsburgh Pirates. A baseball
craze has been created in Ada by
I the success of this rotund, jovial
' pharmacist in sending sandlot play
ers to professional clubs.
Yet Green ignores pleas from
would-be Ruths and Hornsbys, who
write asking a chance to play under
his direction.
“I never answer any of them,” he
said. “We can’t use the boys be
cause baseball here simply is a
home town proposition.”
From Ada’s six-team sandlot
league “A. O.” recruits players for
I his Ada Independents. It was from
an assortment of home town per
formers that Green singled out the
Waners as big league material. A
dozen or more of his proteges now
are scattered throughout the coun
try with major and minor league
teams.
Homer Blankenship went from
Ada’s team to the Southern asso
ciation and the Texas league be
fore he was traded to the Pitts
burgh Pirates. Green coached Earl
Williams, an outfielder, before he
was bought by the Pirates and later
sent to the Texas league.
Guy Williams, a southpaw, left
, Green’s tutelage to play in succes
sion with Pacific coast teams, Fort
Worth in the Texas league and
Minneapolis in the American asso
ciation.
Basketball Finals
Of N. A. U. G. On
Tonight At Wichita
WICHITA. Kan.. March 28.—(/P)—
With all but middle-western and
southwestern entries and one lone
eastern team eliminated from cham
pionship play, eight sextets were to
day in readiness for the quarter
finals of the National Amateur Ath
letic Union Girls’ basketball tourney.
Texas, with three of its teams
still in the running, is given more
than an even chance to retain the
national pennant within its borders
for another year. However, two of
its teams, the Randolph College
Kittens of Cisco, and the Golden
Cyclones of Dallas, meet tonight to
battle for entry into the semi-fin
als. The game is scheduled for 9
o’clock. The other Lone Star sextet.
Schepp’s Aces, Dallas, holders of
the 1928 pennant, will take the floor
against the Oklahoma Teachers of
Ada, Okla.
San Benito Kiwanis
Club Told to Show
Valley From Air
(Special to The Herald.>
SAN BENITO, March 28.—“If you
want to sell the Valley to outsiders,
take them up in planes and let
them see the Valley from the air,”
said Jack McDermott, division pas
senger traffic manager of the Tex
as Air Transport, Inc., in speaking
to the Kiwanis club here Wednes
day.
Mr. McDermott was scheduled to
address the Rotarians Thursday and
j the Lions Friday, speaking about
aviation before these clubs. He came
to San Benito for the three address
es at the invitation of J. E. Bell,
secretary of the chamber of com
merce.
Mr. McDermott traced briefly the
history of aviation, speaking espe
cially of the rapid developments in
commercial aviation in the past few
years. He spoke also of air mail
and its advantages, and said that
transportation by air is becoming
one of the safest methods of trans
portation.
The program at the meeting was
m charge of Dr. R. E. L. Mewshaw.
A. L. Harris announced that all ar
rangements have been completed for
the appearance of the University
of Texas Longhorn band at the Ri
voli theater here next Wednesday
night.
Eddie Werner of Rio Hondo en
tertained the club with several piano
selections.
physical edge. Uncle Sam now can
expect a five - and - take - tussle,
whether it is on the links, the cin
der-path, the polo field or in the
ring.
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Tommy
Loughrah
CHICAGO, March 28.—(JP)—
Mickey Walker, the middleweight
champion, tonight will attempt to
match the triple title record of
the great Bob Fitzsimmons by
toppling Tommy Loughran from
his light heavyweight throne.
The battle, billed to go 10
rounds to a decision at the light
heavyweight limit of 175 pounds,
will open the largest and most
luxurious sports amphitheater in
the world, Paddy armon’s $7,000,
000 Chicago stadium.
It is Chicago’s biggest ring at
traction since the Tunney-Demp
sey spectacle at Soldier field two
years ago and 20.000 spectators
were expected to pay $250,000 to
watch it.
With both fighters superbly
trained and confident and with
thousands of their admirers from
all sections of the country on
the scene, odds vaccilated to
Walker and then to Loughran.
When the gladiators pull on the
leather at approximately 10 p. m.,
central standard time, however,
odds were expected to be even.
For Walker, the match carries
not only gold but the glory of
equalling Fitzsimmons’ record.
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Mickey V/alkes,
Mickey once held the welterweight
championship and the middle
weight crown now rests on his
head. Tonight, he seeks a new
- caronet for his Irish brow.
For Loughran, the fight meant
vastly more than the light heavy
weight title. The Philadelphia
Adonis is out to succeed Gene
T u n n e y on the heavyweight
throne and defeat tonight would
drop him several notches from his
rank as leading contender.
This is how Tommy Loughran
and Mickey Walker will compare
physically when they clash for the
light heavyweight title tonight:
Walker Loughran
26 Age 26
5 Ft. 8 Height 5 Ft. 11 1-2
166 Weight 175
36 Chest Normal 38
70 Keach 73
15 Biceps 16
24 1-2 Thigh 22
14 Forearm 13 1-2
8 Wrist 7
33 Waist 31
11 1-2 Calf 15
9 Ankle 8 1-2
SECOND OUCSSWO* SPORTS
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Cardinal Coaches Have To Work
Earle (Greasy) Neale and Charles
(Gabby) Street, coaches of the Car
dinals have to work at their Avon
park training camp and will find
as much or more to do when the
National league champions return
to St. Louis.
Not that the Cardinals, proper,
require more coaching than other
players. The St. Louis camp is re
inforced by more than a score of
players from the St. Louis base
ball chain store system—eight
branches in addition to the home
club—and all this baseball talent
must be sorted, garded and wrap
ped up for delivery, north, east,
south and west.
Most of the players are at Dan
ville. 111., but some of the better
prospects were ordered to Avon
park to learn the ways of big
leaguers at first hand. When they
| come up for their major league
trials they will have the advantage
of being at least on speaking terms
with some of their fellow players.
Manager Southworth used three
of his farm hand pitchers, one from
Rochester and two from Danville,
in his first exhibition game with
the Athletics and Connie Mack's
men could get only three hits from
the trio.
Two changes have been made in
the make-up of the “Rickey sys
tem,” named for Branch Rickey,
vice president of the Cardinals,
since the last season. Fort Wayne
in the Central league has been
taken over, replacing Dayton.
Shawnee, Okla.. has taken the
place of Topeka in the Western
association. The others are Ro
chester, International league; Hous
ton, Texas league; Danville, 111.,
Illinois - Iowa - Indiana league;
Waynesboro, Pa., Blue Ridge
league; Scottdale, Fa., Middle At
lantic league; Laurel, Miss., Cotton
States league.
Most Valuable Players Meet
The first exhibition game of the
1929 season between major league
contests, not only brought together
the Athletics of the American
league and the St. Louis Cardinals,
champions of the National, but fur
nished a side contest between the
most valuable player of each league
as decreed by vote of sports writers
after the last season.
Mickey Cochrane caught the full
game for the A’s, while Sunny Jim
Bottomley remained at first base
throughout for the Cards. Neither
played a prominent part in the of
fensive actions of their teams.
Cochrane drew two bases on balls,
grounded out once and lifted a long
fly the other time. Bottomley hit
two long flies, wTas out once on a
foul to his fellow “most valuable
player” and rolled once.
Johnson’s Record May Not
Stand Up
Walter Johnson, new manager of
the Washington ball club, spent 21
years on the club as an active play
er and pitched nearly 6,000 innings,
but was never put out of a ball
game by an umpire.
“I don’t know what will happen
now that I am a manager,” he said.
“Maybe I will be asked to leave
some game this year.”
The chances are, however, that
he will keep his record clean. It is
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LEAGUE MEET
IN THIS CITY
Cameron County School Stu
dents To Be Here Fri
day and Saturday
Preparations have been com
pleted for the Cameron county In
terscholastic league meet in this
city Friday and Saturday. Tucker
Field where most of the athletic
events will be held is in shape for
the meet, which starts at 9 a. m.,
Friday, and ends Saturday after
noon, at which time finals in all
events will be held.
Literary events, of which Dean
S. A. Caldwell, of the Brownsville
Junior College, is director, gets un
der way at 9:10 a. m. Friday, with
the folowing program:
9:10 a. m.—Spelling. Metha
Scaief, director, main building;
senior division, room 223; junior di
vision, room 117; sub-junior di-,
vision, room 113.
10-12—Essay contest, Roma Wilson,
director, room 225.
1:30-4:30—Music memory, Mrs.
F. L. Crown, director, high school
auditorium.
1:30-4:30—Extemporaneous speak
ing. Mary Conkling, director, main
building, room 223.
1:30-4.00—Debates, L. V. Mont
gomery. director, main building,
rooms 113, 117 and 223.
8:00—Final debates, L. V. Mont
gomery. director, junior high school
auditorium.
8:00—Declamation. T. J. Yoe, di
rector, Junior college-high school
auditorium.
Saturday morning — Arithmetic,
B. B. Stokes, director, main build
ing, room 113.
Red Irvine, athletic director of
the meet, will hold a meeting with
the coaches and officials at 8:30
a. m. Saturday in the Junior college
building.
The best talent of Cameron coun
ty schools have been entered for
the events, and one of the largest
county meets ever held is expected
for the two day meet, Director
Irvine declares.
Schools have been divided into
two classes, A and B, with La Feria,
Harlingen, San Benito and Browns
ville in the Class A division and Rio
Hondo, Wilson Tract. Stuart Place,
El Jardin, Rangerville and Browns
ville junior high competing in
Class B.
TRUSTEE ELECTION
AT MERCEDES SOON
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MERCEDES. March 28.—Election
notices have been posted that four
trustees of the Mercedes independ
ent school district will be elected on
April 6.
Trustees ■whose terms expire this
years are Charles Hunp. president
of the board. H. T. Stotler, J. R.
Barry and R. H. Kern.
Mr. Hupp and Mr. Kern have
served for six years and Mr. Stotler
and Mr. Barry, four years. Al
though no candidates have form
ally announced for officers it is
understood that friends and pa
trons of the school will have the
names of the above men placed on
the ballot.
J. W. Irby, John L. Bruce and
C. E. Blankenship have been ap
pointed election judges.
extremely unlikely that Manager
Johnson will abuse an umpire, no
matter how emphatic a protest he
may voice, and umpires seldom
eject players who do not call them
names. A short and ugly word,
preceded by the adjective “blind,”
has resulted in banishment of more
baseball players by umpires than
any other one expression.
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Horton Smith Wins Open
Golf Title at Pinehurst
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AGGIES-OWLS
. OPEN SEASON
(Special to The Herald)
COLLEGE STATION, March 28.—
Coach Bob Countryman's Texas Ag
gie nine will open their conference
schedule with a two-game series at
Kyle field with the Rice Owls Fri
day. In view' of the showing made
by the Aggies in their two pre-sea
son games last week, in which they
held the Houston Buffs to a 4-4
tie in an 11-inning battle and over
whelmed the Houston Southern Pa
cific team 13-1, fans are looking
forward to an interesting debut on
the conference schedule.
Coach Countryman took advan
tage of the tw'o pre-season games to
give his younger charges their bap
tism of collegiate baseball fire and
with the confidence gained in these
games the Aggies are expected to
make a good showing in their con
ference opening. Friday’s game will
be the first conference game for
the majority of the Aggie players
and it will be the first for all of
the twirlers except Kasprowicz and
Wendt.
MRS. GEORGE TO TALK
AT ‘NEIGHBORS’ MEET
♦ Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO, March 28.—Mrs.
F. R. George, resident of this city
and a national officer of the Royal
Neighbors of America, will be one
of the principal speakers at a dis
trict meeting of this organization to
be held here April 15.
Members from San Benito,
Brownsville, Harlingen and McAl
len will attend the meeting.
Mrs. George was elected to a na
tional office some time ago, when
she wras a resident of Missouri.
BERLIN—From an agent of the
firm of Kristeller. which has plan
tations in the Kamerins, comes an
account of a native girl reared by
apes. A hunter fired at a group of
apes in trees. The one victim
proved to be a negro woman. From
her lack of customary tatoo marks
it was concluded she had lived
with the apes since childhood.
PINE HURST, N. C., March 28.—
(/Tj—Horton Smith, from Joplin,
went on his golfing way today with
another title tucked away in his
bag and 700 more first money dol
lars in his pocket. The new sen
sation of the golfing world kicked
in with a 72-hole score of 287 to
win the historic North and South
open.
Tommy Armour was runner-up
for the second time in as many
years. His score was 289.
Roland Hancock, the Lynchburg
youngster who gave Bobby Jones
and Johnny Farrel the shivers in
the national open last summer,
served notice he is back in cham
pionship form by shooting a 291 to
collect third money.
Others to finish in the money
were Billy Burke of Westport, N.
Y., defending champion, whose 294
was matched by George Voight, New
York crack and the highest finish
ing amateur; Walter Hagen, British
open champion; Joe Turnesa of Els
ford. N. Y.. and Ross Somerville cf
London, Ont., Canadian open
champion, who tied for six place;
Wild Bill Mehlhorn of New York,
Hugh Kirpatrick of Columbia, S.
C . Emmett French, veteran Youngs
town. Ohio, pro, and Jack Forrester
of Oradell, N. J„ who were in a
four-cornered tie for ninth.
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C„
March 28.—(>P)—On the heels of the
North and South open over the
neighboring course, a field of more
than 100 feminine golfers faced the
36-hole grind of the women’s mid
scut h golf tournament opening here
today.
Among the entries were Miss
Glenna Collett, national woman’s
[ champion; Miss Virginia Van Wie,
national runner-up and Florida
west coast titleholder; Miss Helen
Hicks, young Long Island sensation;
| Miss Maureen Orcutt, Metropolitan
; champion, and Miss Marion Tur*
: pie, southern champion.
Woodward Seeks To
Oust Norris From
State Water Board
SAN ANGELO, Tex., March 28.
—Charging that John N. Norris,
chairman of the state board of wa
ter engineers, had displayed par
tiality toward a power company.
Senator Walter C. Woodward of
Coleman last night asked the resig
nation of the official.
Senator Woodward was the prin
cipal speaker at the annual con
ference of west Texas public offi
cials. More than 50 business men
from surrounding towns attended
the meeting.
WM. WENTZ IMPROVED
FOLLOWING OPERATION
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN. March 28.—Wil
liam Wentz, son of Dr. G. W.
Wentz, of this city, and until re
cently a student in the Brownsville
Junior college, is recovering from
an appendicitis operation performed
Tuesday afternoon.
Young Wentz was employed at
the Thompson mortuary here, and
was suddenly stricken, being rushed
to the Valley Baptist hospital for
the operation.
TORONTO—One very mournful
stenographer is described by the
Mail and Empire. She bought In
ternational Nickel last fall, $1,000
worth, and pyramided. Her paper
profits ran up to $16,000. It’s ail
igone now with her original $1,000.
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