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i | The BROWNSVILLE HERALD SPORTS SECTION |
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I League Meet Starts
This Morning, Track
j and Field Saturday
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£ , Cameron county interscholastic league meet got under way in this
\ .City at 9 a. m. today. Tennis, playground baseball and girls’ volley ball
.were scheduled to consume today's program in the athletic events. Red
-Irvine, athletic director of the local schools, is in charge of the field meet
of the county schools.
Dean S. A. Caldwell of the'
.Brownsville Junior college, director
; of the county literary events, an
| nounced Thursday that the literary
I events would get under way this
! morning at 9:10, and this depart
f ment of the meet will be closed to
day with one exception. Arithmetic
j will be held Saturday.
Director Irvine has outlined the
following program for the Saturday
j track and field events:
Morning
9:00—1st heat 100 yard dash,
- 9:10—2nd heat 100 yard dash,
cl&ss A.
J; 9:20—1st heat 100 yard dash
1 class B.
9:30—2nd heat 100 yard dash.
h ..class B. 1
'v 9:40—3rd heat 100 yard dash,
. class B.
'9:50—1st heat 220 yard dach,
* class A.
10:00—2nd heat 220 yard dash,
class A.
10:10—1st heat 220 yard dach,
class B.
10:20—2nd heat 220 yard dash.
Class B.
10:45—1st heat 120 yard high
hurdles, class B.
10:55—2nd heat 120 yard high
hurdles, class B.
-11:05—3rd heat 120 yard high
hurdles, class B.
i —11:15—1st heat 120 yard high
hurdles, class A.
i 11:30—2nd heat 120 yard high
| hurdles, class A.
Weight Events—Morning
~9:00—Shot put, class B.
•,'.10:00—Discus throw, class B.
*^11:00—Javelin throw, class B.
-£T Jumping Events—Morning
9:00—Pole vault, class B.
10:00—Broad jump, class B.
..11:00—High jump, class B.
^rack Events (Finals)—Afternoon
-2:00—100 yard dash, class A.
2:10—100 yard dash, class B.
2:20—880 yard run, class A.
2:30—880 yard dash, class B.
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2:40—440 yard dash, class A,
2:50—440 yard dash, class B.
3:00—1st heat, 220 yard low
hurdles, class A.
3:10—2nd heat 220 yard low'
hurles, Class A.
3:20—1st heat 220 yard low
hurdles, class B.
3:30—2nd heat 220 yard low
hurdles, class B.
3:40—3rd heat 220 yard low
hurdles, class B.
3:50—4th heat 220 yard lowr
hurdles, class B.
4:10—Mile run, class A.
4:20—Mile run, class B.
4:30—220 yard dash, class A
4:40—220 yard dash, class A.
5:00—Mile relay, class A.
5:15—Mile relay, class A.
Weight Events—Afternoon
2:00—Shot put. class A.
3:00—Discus throw, class A.
4:00—Javelin throw, class A.
Jumping Events—Afternoon
2:00—Pole vault, class A.
3:00—Broad jump, class A.
4 00—High jump, class A.
Junior Boys’ Track and Field
Events
12:00—50-yard dash prelim
inaries.
12:45—100 yard dash prelim
inaries.
1:15—50 yard dash finals.
1:25—100 yard dash finals.
1:40—440 yard relay.
Field Events
12:00—Chinning the bar.
12:00—High jump.
1:00—Broad jump.
TO SPEAK ON C. M. T. C.
HARLINGEN. March 29.—H. B.
Taylor, head of the Officers’ Re-:
serve club in this part of the Val- |
ley, and Sergeant H. C. Kelsey, or- ;
ganizer for the Citizens’ Military!
Training camp, left today for j
Brow'nsville, to talk at the Junior'
hugh school in that city on the;
camp. 1
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RAJAH POLES OUT HIS FIRST ~HOMER FOR CUBS
Rogers Hornsby, the Cubs’ $250,000 addition from the Boston Braves, polling out a home run, scoring
Kiki Cuyler for the Chicago Cubs in their first practice game with the Los Angeles club of the Coast
league. The Cubs won 11 to 6.
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■ By Bishop Clements *>
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Soc Plato, baseball coach of the
high school-junior college nine,
needs a pitcher. That is, the coach,
after a couple of days with his
hopefuls, hasn't found a flinger.
But maybe one will appear. It is
said Bob Myer, the Scorp star foot
ball player, is,a hurier. It will
bring joy to the mentor if Bob is a
pitcher of ability. Charlie Baker
is a very good receiver.
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A good battery is most essen
tial in high school baseball if the
club is to win. Given a good
pitcher and catcher, fair players
at first, second and short, and
outfielder of merit, and a couple
of fair hitters, and you have a
very good high school team. Pro
vided they are taught the essen
tials of the game.
Old G< Ad wins
at Princeton
in a test of the 4 leading cigarettes
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“The Daily Princetonian ” was asked by the
P. Lorillard Company, makers of OLD
GOLD Cigarettes, to conduct a test at Fire upp«r-classmcn comparing the leading cigarette
Princeton to determine w hich of the four brands in the rooms of the Princeton Inn.
widest-selling cigarettes had the greatest
taste appeal.
For the purposes of the test the four leading
cigarettes were “masked” to conceal the'
- brand names. Undergraduates were asked
to smoke the four brands w ithout know ing
their identity. The cigarettes were num
bered, and the men merely chose, by num
ber, the one that appealed to them most.
The test was made at eleven Princeton
. upper-class clubs and at the Freshman Com
rr . 111 1' 1 T 11 ~r\'' The four leading brands of cigarettes.. .“masked'’with
mons on January lltli to loth. In all, alb rapersieeves to conceal their brand names,
students smoked and compared the four
" cigarettes. The test was conducted in a
perfectly fair and impartial manner.
jT The results showr that “Cigarette \Y” won
-•* 75 first choices; “Cigarette X’* won 74;
“Cigarette Y” won 36; and “Cigarette Z”
(which was OLD GOLD) won 118. The pref
erence for OLD GOLD was 57% greater
than that for the next highest brand.
THE DAILY PRINCETONIAN
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“N OT A COUGH IN A CARLOAD”
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San Benito Chamber of Com
merce met Wednesday night; of
course that is general news. But
when it donated $300 toward im
provements on the baseball park of
that city, then it is good news to
this column. And that's what they
did. San Benito has a fine field,
but a dilapidated grandstand, and
that's where most of the money will
probably be spent as the stands are
in dire need of repair.
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If novelty advertising means
anything in the prize fight busi
ness, then a certain San Antonio
manager of boxers should make
good. This choice bit of business
card advertising was found on
our desk this morning:
“Elizondo Filling Station, Gon
zalo P. Elizondo, Prop., and
Manager of Prize Fighters.
Quality Gas and Oils—Low
Prices.”
• • •
Dana Bible, former Texas A. & M.
coach, and now with Nebraska Uni
versity in the same capacity, will
take over his new position Monday
of next week. And he will go to
Nebraska with a smile on his face
for another reason. He is the fath
er of a baby girl, which came to
the Bible home at College Station
Monday. Coach Bible wired H. D.
Gish. Nebraska athletic director, as
follows: “Strong Cornhusker root
er arrived here Monday afternoon.
Little girl and Mrs. Bible doing fine.
I will arrive in Lincoln next Mon
day.”
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The Shreveport of the Texas
league are the talk of baseball
these days. They are going good
this spring. They have a num
ber of new players, young and
old, and among the youngsters
making a bid and a strong one for
an outfield berth is Pete McClan
nahan, who placed with San Be
nito in 1926. The Sports pur
chased Pete from the Palestine
club last year, where he made a
great record. In practice game
Mac has been hitting the old ap
ple all over the lot.
* * *
If you fans think the fight game
is on* the down grade in attendance
glance over the following sums of
money taken in at the gate in the
past six months:
Nov. 16—Joe Glick vs. Joe Gans,
$55,583.64.
Nov. 30—Tuffv Griffiths vs. Jim
Braddock, $53,836.87.
Dec. 14—A1 Singer vs. Tony Can
zoneri, $64,493.44.
Dec. 28.—Ace Hudkins vs. Rene
De Vos, $64,439.44.
Jan. 11—Jimmy McLarnin vs. Joe
Glick, $63,574.80.
Jan. 25.—Jack Sharkey vs. K. O.:
Christner, $73,609.10.
Feb. 1.—Max Schmeling vs. John
ny Risko, $66,220.92.
Feb. 22.—Paolina vs. K, O. Christ
ner. $81,504.92.
March 1.—Jimmy McLarnin vs.
Joe Glick. $71,797.81.
March 22.—Jimmy McLarnin vs.
Ray Miller, $83,000.00.
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The last no-liit game pitched in
the majors was by a Texan, Ted
Lyons of the Chicago White Sox,
who, on August 21, 1926. blanked
the Boston Red Sox. Only five
pitchers have performed this feat
with not a single batsman reach
ing first base, and another Texan
was one of them, Charley Rob
ertson, cf the White Sox, dispos
ing of the Detroit Tigers on April
30, 1922, 2 to 0, in a perfect game.
* * *
The Boston Braves, an interest
ing ball club if nothing else, plan
to use Lester Bell in the outfield.
Joe Dugan, you know is now a mem
ber of the Braves. Bell's batting is
his main asset. Some of these days
Lester Bell is going to the Chicago
Cubs, where his former boss, Rog
ers Hornsby, is now holding forth;
don’t you belieev that?
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Is the chain baseball system, as
exemplified by the St. Louis Car
dinals, doomed? That question is
being asked and raised by base
ball moguls and fans over the
country, and more so since Cotn
misisoner Landis declared nine
ball players free agents, recently,
because several of the club own
ers, who also operate “farms” did
not live up to the letter and spirit
of the law. Judge Landis is to be
congratulated, and baseball is
fortunate in having the Judge at
its head.
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Major and minor league club
owners need working over every
now and then. It is all to the cred
it of baseball. There isn’t any
cleaner business in the world than
professional baseball. The chain sys
tem works to the detriment of many
players, and to the advantage of
some. The main argument for the
system as we see it, from a stand
point other than the club owning
the team, is that many communi
ties are able to enjoy the national
pastime, whereas if they had to
operate their own club they wouldn
not. Clark Griffith, president of
the Washington Senators, is against
the chain system operation, and
Clark knows his stuff. There is
going to be a big argument along
this line sometime this fall among
baseball owners.
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Not all sports scribes are of the
opinion that Art Shires is a great
ball player, and among them is Don
Legg, Austin Statesman sports edi
tor. After watching Shores perform
against the Longhorns in Austin
Monday, the White Sox winning, 5
to l, Shires getting two hits, mak
ing an error, and stealing home,
comments as follows:
“This fellow Art Shires may be
a great first baseman but we can’t
see it that way. We went to the
game expecting to see some player
who was colorful and we saw a
cocky first sacker who played a
mediocre brand of baseball. He did
make a nice steal of home but out
side of that he did not do so much
and we can not get the idea of his
being captain of the Sox. Willie
Kamm should have the job. Shires
does not have the right attitude for
a captain. A bunch of students
gave the big fellow their regards by
sending apple cores in his direction.
A bit raw, but expressive at least.”
F/SHTS ifl
Knight
<Bv the Associated Press'*
CHICAGO. — Tommy Loughran.
Philadelphia, outpointed Mickey
Walker, N. J., flight heavyweight
championship*, (10*. Tuffy Grif
fiths. Sioux City. Ia., outpointed
Leo Lomski, Aberdeen, Wash., (10*.
HOLLYWOOD, Cal.—Mushy Cal
ls hap. junior welterweight champ
ion. knocked out Jackie Carr, Glen
dale, Cal., (4).
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WINDLE BACK IN
WACO CLUB FOLD
Dallas and Fort Worth To
Play Saturday; Hot Sun
Greets Spudders
DALLAS, Tex., March 29.—i/P)—
The Waco Cubs today were hosts
to the New' York Giant Yannigans
at Waco for a three-game exhibi
tion series. The Cubs’ pennant
hopes have been boosted by the
signing of Wayne Windle, star in
fielder, who has been a holdout.
Manager Pratt has begun to cut
his squad down, several having
been given releases during the past
few days.
A bright sun made it possible
for the Wichita Palls Spudders to
get into action once again today
after being idle for two days be
cause of weather. The Spudders’
two-game series with the New
York Giant Yannigans were rain
ed out. The first game of a three
game series with the Tulsa Oilers
of the Western league will be play
ed at Wichita Falls this afternoon.
Manager Mitlon Stock had his
charges out at 9:30 a. m. today for
a long siege of batting and field
ing practice. He said a late after
noon, intra-squad game was a pos
sibility. Charlie Barnabe, star
southpaw of the Steers, was an
nounced as starting pitcher for the
! exhibition game against the Fort
Worth Cals here Saturday.
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Backfield Material
At A. &. M. Plentiful;
Bell Out With Squad
COLLEGE STATION, Tex., Mar.
29.—MP)—Spring football training at
the A. and M. college under Matty
Bell and his assistants has taken
on a remarkable semblance to real
practice. While the coaches have
not lined up their charges for the
kickoff and real practice games,
the work for the prospective grid
sters during the past month fell
little short of scrimmage. Offen
sive and defensive teams were lined
up opposite each other and plays
were run in anything but the
dummy fashion.
One of the most interesting fea
tures of the practice has been the
large number of backfield candi
dates with which the new mentor
will have to work next fall. Be
sides Captain Mills and Conover, at
present busied with other sports,
there are Dorsey, Zarafonetis and
Bible, all freshmen last fall, and
a large number of last year’s
squadmen and freshman numeral
men who are strong bidders in the
competition.
BROTHER IN DIVORCE
LONDON.—John Welford named
his own brother in his divorce suit
and was granted a decree.
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Great Collection Athletic
Stars for Austin Relays
By HAROLD BANKS
Associated Press Sports Writer
AUSTIN, Texas, March 29.—(JP)—Low hanging clouds and intermittent
rainfall which yesterday threatened to turn Memorial Stadium into a
quagmire and blast hopes of record-breaking performances in the Fifth
Annual Texas Relays gave way today to cloudless skies as athletes by the
score trooped into Austin to compete in the first major outdoor track
event or the season. \
The broad oval where assaults
are to be made against track and
field marks became a riot of color
as twenty teams from the middle
west limbered their legs on the cin
der path. Missouri University
trackmen jogged around the course
alongside athletes wearing the
spangles of the University of Flor
ida. and giant weight men from
Rice Institute, last year's south
west conference championship
squad, exercised their throwing
arms with proteges of Coach Rob
ert Simpson of Iowa State.
Oklahoma City University and
Northwestern State Teachers col
lege of Oklahoma were among the
college class performers to work
out midst flurries of rain.
Attracted by the entry list num
bering near 1,100. Texans from all
sections of the big state were here
for the track event which in the
five years of its existence has
reached proportions rivaling that of
the Penn relays and I. C. A. A.
meets. Relay officials said they ex
pected the audience to shatter
previous attendance records by ap
proaching the 10.000 mark.
In the typically collegian knots
of yellow slickered youths who
gathered last night in this univer
sity town, the final outcome of the
100-yard dash held first interest.
Admittedly the best field yet en
tered in the Texas relays, it seem
ed certain that one of the human
expresses might threaten seriously
the 9.5 mark made last year by
Claude Bracey. Rice Institute, who
streaked to victory in one of the
greatest races the Southwest has
witnessed. Bracey again will vie
for supremacy in the event, but
faces rugged competition, partic
ularly from Jack Elder of Notre
Dame; Simpson, Ohio State flyer,
who defeated Percy Williams;
Knight of Florida, and Leland,
Texas Christian University flash.
Rosenheim, a potent factor in the
Missouri University backfield on
conference gridirons, also is to be
considered.
Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner,
arrived for competition in a special
two-mile event.
CHICAGO, March 29.—(&)—Forty
teams from 33 states will compete
in the University of Chicago’s elev
enth annual national interscholas
tic basketball tournament. wThich
opens next Tuesday and ends Sat
urday night.
The final entry list includes:
Central and Classen high schools.
Oklahoma City; Raton, N. M.;
- Athens, Tex.
TIGER STAR IS ~
ON PROBATION
Harry Heilmann BrcSt*
Training Rule*, And
Harris Clamps Down
DETROIT, March 29.— (/P) —If
Harry Heilmann shows a sincere
desire to comply with Manager
Bucky Harris’ edicts concerning
| training rules, it is likely he will be
at first base for the Detroit Tigera
j when the season opens. This de
spite Harris’ action yesterday in re
questing President Navin to ask
waivers on the former outfielder
who has won four American league
batting championships during his
14 years with Detroit.
At the moment Heilmann is orf
probation. The drastic action taken
by Harris was explained to be the
result of training rule violations,
while the team was in Los Angeles.
Heilmann has not been in a game
since the second exhibition affair
on the coast until yesterday when
he was sent in as a pinch batsman.
Frank J. Navin, president of the
Detroit baseball club informed of
a report that Stanley Harris, man
ager of the team, has asked waivers
on Harry Heilmann, outfielder, at
first said he “knew nothing about
it.” Later he declined to discuss
the situation. Heilmann has not
been used in recent exhibition
games because, reports said, ha
broke training rules.
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Mission Filled With' 1
School Students As
Meets Gets Started
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MISSION, March 29.—This city
took on a gala attire this mom*
ing as students from practically
every school in the county began
pouring into the city as either
participants or rooters for their
different schools.
The county meet got under way
at 9:30 in both literary and ath*
eltic events. Supt. E. E. Cham*
ness, of the Weslaco schools, is gen*
eral director. Information booths
have been established in the senior
and junior high school buildings,
with Miss Lucille Mason and Mis*
Esther J. Clark In charge.
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