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!_ The BROWNSVILLE HERALD SPORTS SECTION I
ROG TENNIS
TEAM ON EDGE
—
inference Meet of Hoop
sters To Be Held In
Austin April 20
________
r*ORT WORTH, April 5.—Win
ig two of their first three inter
tional matches, the Texas Chris
a university tennis team began
>apration this week for their drive
the conference meet to be held
Austin April 20. The Progs have
| i of the best teams in the his
fcy of the school and if the rate
improvement continues as it has
the last two weeks, the Purple
expected to go far against the
ter conference schools.
The Drake university team, a two
n squad, was defeated on the
irts here early in the week. The
>g netters, John McDiarmid and
arles Ewell, were at the peak of
■•ir foim, taking both singles and
i double matches. The Drake
l 1 man, who is prominent in
d-western net circles, was down
easily by John McDiarmid, who
ds the junior cahmpionship of
I io. Ewell, a brother to last year’s
Iotain, had little trouble with the
ond member of the invading
m. The two, playing together,
ph in straight sets in the double
! tch.
Allowing their 5-1 defeat at the
nds of the Grinnell team several
eks ago, the Prog courtmen have
m put through strenuous prac
e sessions by Capt. Weir McDiar
ii
■The marked improvement exhlblt
by the squad in downing the Ok
toma A. & M. squad 4-2 evidenced
» heavy work that the team is
ng.
Dn Saturday, the North Texas
ite Teachers’ team from Denton
|l be the guests of the Frogs for a
: 1 six-set match. The visit will
returned on April 13 when the
5gs will go to the normal for a
\ urn match.
thanking for the remainder of the
■tson appears to be definite, with
McDiarmid having won the
£ition of No. 1 John is a sopho
%re and has already shown so
uch tennis ability that net fans
predicting a brilliant future for
in. He is tall and fast and han
s his racquet like a veteran. He
•,de a walking tour of the mid
list last summer, annexing the
po junior title and winning many
•ter meets.
>To. 2 place goes to Charles Elwell,
3 to Capt. Weir McDiarmid. The
t place on the team is greatly
•itested, with Roy Jenkins and
ly Pox waging the best fight,
.ikins was the only man to win
•m a Grinnell netter and has
jwn good form. Fox has also been
proving and the final ranking
ist be decided by match-play be
•e each tournament.
:n doubles play, the two McDiar
d brothers usually work together,
;h Ewell and Fox or Jenkins play
the other match.
GIRL STABS MANIAC
BELFAST—Attacked by an ln
ie man. William Syle, in her
me, Miss Rose Glendon, aged 19,
bbed him and escaped.
IN PIRATE FOLD i$u
7^- >•
■i ■ ■ i. 'J-r - ___
Paul and Lloyd Waner are back in the Pirate outfield. Lloyd
signed two weeks ago, and brother Paul put his John Henry to a
contract yesterday. Both had been holdouts.
Players Who Once Failed
In Majors Back for Trial
By BRIAN BELL
(Associated Press Sports Writer)
NEW YORK, April 5.—(.P>—At
least a dozen baseball players, pos
sibly more, will wear major league
uniforms this year as they say
“better later than never.” They
are drafted athletes “selected” last
autumn after they apparently had
been passed by the scouts.
Twenty-five players were selected
from minor league clubs, 15 by the
National and 10 by the American.
Two have changed clubs since
they were promoted but a decided
majority have retained major
league status for the time being
and at least half promise to go
into the season as big time players.
Hay Rhyne was drafted by the
Athletics from San Francisco and
claimed by Boston when Philadel
phia decided it could not use his
services. He has made good in the
Red Sox infield. Harold Elliott, a
pitcher drafted by the Cardinals
from Waco, has landed with the
Phillies. The Cincinnati Reds have
asked waivers on Walter Lutzke,
but the infielder will not go back
to Newark until the other clubs
have spoken.
Perhaps the most sensational
spring performers of the drafted
players have been turned in by
Earl Sheely, first baseman, late of
Sacramento, and Johnny Kerr,
Hollywood second baseman. Sheely
took over the Pittsburgh first base
assignment and was the only Pir
ate infielder to survive the train
ing trip without Injury. Kerr
stepped into the second base job
without a struggle on the Chicago
White Sox.
More than half of the ten pitch
ers in the draft list probably will
make the grade. Luther Roy and
Phil Collins have done well with
the Phillies, and Win Ballou seems
certain to remain with the Brook
lvn. Mike Cvengros can make
himself useful as a left-handed
Chicago Cub, and Cincinnati may
be able to find room for Marvin
Gudat, former Cardinal.
Archie Campbell, ex-Yankee, has
had some good and bad days with
Washington, but the good ones have
outnumbered the bad. The fate of
Leverette and Peery with the
Braves and Estrada of the Browns
has not been decided.
COACHESMEET
SN SAN BENITO
Ccaches of La Feria, Harlingen,
Rio Hondo, San Benito and
Brownsville girls athletics will meet
tonight in San Benito for the pur
pose of forming a baseball league
among the senior girls of these
schools.
Margaret Valenta, local mentor,
will represent the 3rcwnsville
school.
A schedule will be made out, and
the season is expected to start
sometime next week.
Chi Cubs Pour It On
Houston Buffs, 10-0;
Sheriff Blake In Form
HOUSTON, April 5.—<7Fi—Sheriff
Blake has convinced Manager Joe
McCarthy he is ready for his share
of hurling in the Cubs’ campaign
for the National league pennant.
Blake pitched seven innings
against Houston yesterday and al
lowed four hits. The Cubs won,
10 to 0.
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Southern Quints in Title Battles
ATHENS FIVE IN
NATIONAL RACE
8 Teams Left In Running,
Six From Dixie; Hot
Battles
By ORLO L. ROBERTSON
(Associated Press Sports Writer.)
CHICAGO, April 5. — (/P) — The
South’s aspirations to become the
high school basketball center of tne
nation appeared nearer realization
today.
Eight teams from three sections
of the country were still in the race
for the national title but six of them
were from beiow the Mason-Dixon
line. The mid-west had only one
entry in Jackson, Mich., while tne
West was represented by Joes. Colo.,
—the team that yesterday showed
how a novice team could defeat
an outfit of tournament veterans.
Because somebody must lose
whenever somebody wins tw'o of the
Southern teams are certain to be
put out of the running today.
Athens, Texas, and College Grove,
Tennessee, clash. Warren, Ark., a
dark horse encounters, Classen of
Oklahoma City, conqueror of Ash
land, Ky., the national champions.
Jackson, Mich., and Wheeler, Miss.,
meet in the upper bracket and Jena,
La., and Joes, Colo., in the lower
bracket.
Yesterday's Results
Athens, Texas, 34; Naugatuck,
Conn., 21.
College Grove, Tenn., 34; Wheel
ing, W. Va., 20.
Jackson, Mich., 15; Pocatello,
Idaho, 11.
Wheeler, Miss., 33; Raton, N. M.,
11.
Jena, La., 25; Heath. Ky., 23.
Joes, Colo., 22; Yank town, S. D.,
20.
Warren, Ark . 26: Vienna. Ga., 24.
Classen, Oklahoma City, IS; Ash
land, Ky., 14.
Pirates-Tigers In
Ft. Worth Series;
Harris Is Pleased
FORT WORTH, April 5.—(JFh~
Although they were beaten 3 to 1
by Pittsburgh yesterday. Manager
Bucky Harris found a measure of
satisfaction in the performance of
the Tigers. Owen Carroll and Lil
Stoner pitched good ball and dem
onstrated they are about ready for
the start of the American league
schedule.
Detroit again was to engage the
Pirates today.
Babe Ruth Sans Hit
As Mates Pound Ball
Out of Waco Park
WACO. April 5.—UP>—Babe Ruth
is the New York Yankees’ train
ing camp attraction, but his team
mates are doing most of the heavy
hitting. While the Babe enter
tained the kids in right field, Tony
Lazeri and Lou Gehrig hit three
home runs between them to enable
the Yankees to down Waco, 13 to
3 yesterday. Lazzeri hit two home
runs, his second, over the center
field wall, being the longest hit any
Yankee has made this season. Geh
rig hit one homer and drove in six
runs.
Claude Bracey, Rice
Sprinter, To Enter
Drake Relays 26-27
HOUSTON. Texas, April 5.—UP)—
Claude Bracey, Rice Institute
sprint pride, will be entered in the
Drake relays at Des Moines April
26 and 27, it has been announced.
Bracey will attempt to duplicate
or better his performance in the
Southern Methodist university re
lays when he ran the 100 yards in
9.4 seconds, one-tenth of a second
better than the world’s record. The
mark was not allowed because the
former Olympic sprinter was aided
by a wind.
Babe And Lou Invade
Dallas For Game, As
10,000 Fans Expected
DALLAS. April 5.—UP)—'The barn
storming New York Yankees, fea
turing the terrible twins, Babe Ruth
and Lou Gehrig, were here today for
a single stand against Manager
Milton Stock’s Dallas steers. Close
to 10,000 fans were expected to
watch the world’s champions per
form.
Charlie Barnabe. veteran south
paw. has been appointed to face the
slugging Yanks from the hill.
White Sox In Wichita
Falls Today, Beaten
By Des Moines 6-4
WICHITA FALLS, April 5.—UP)—
A tired and weary White Sox team
trooped Into Wichita Falls today
for a game with the Texas league
Spudders.
Yesterday, they made a hard trip
to Seminole. Okla., but were listless
and got the short end of a 6 to 4
score with the Des Moines Western
leaguers.
60,000 BADGES BURIED
AT SEA BY CITY’S ORDERS
LONDON.—Farewell to London’s
famous handsom cabs! The last
phase of their passing was marked
by a burial at sea by order of the
city of London. The remains put
in a watery grave consisted of 60,
000 badges made in the past for
drivers of horse-drawn vehicles. Ef
forts had been made to sell them
as scrap, but no applicants came
forward. When the lot was con
signed to the water a police sergeant
in charge ol the obsequies gravely
saluted.
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a By Bishop Clements •
91
■ a a ■ a n ■ a h m m m ■
Do you remember how the first
touchdown of the Erownsville-De
Paul football game was made? Here
it is: The ball was on the DePaul
11-yard line as the first quarter
closed. Cabin- replaced Perez in
the backfield for the Eagles. Cabler
made 2 yards off tackle, Barnhart
2 more at the same spot, Weller
circled left end for 4 yards, and then
Bill Cabler went over for a touch
down. Three minutes of play.
* * •
E. B. Wells of San Benito was in
the city Thursday. E. B. declares
the Athletics will win the (‘National”
league race and the Braves the
“American” pennant. Our San Be
nito friend also believed the Eagles
were the best “baseball” nine he
ever saw.
• • •
You fans expecting to attend big
league games this week-end, do not
kid yourself in expecting a regular
game as played in mid-season. You
won’t see it. These are exhibition
days. They mean more than that
to the managers. Tha big thing
about these games is that one gets
to see in action the big leaguers,
read and heard of so much.
* • *
So take advantage of the rates
offered by the railroads and attend
the games over the week-end. You
will enjoy watching the big lea
guers, at any rate.
* * *
Abilene, state high school football
champs, are in training. Coach
Dewey Mayhew is putting his char
ges through spring games. Abilene
fans are optimistic. Mayhew is too
smart to make any predictions. Abi
lene will have another good team
this coming season.
• * •
On July 1, 1922, there appeared
on the streets of El Paso, Texas,
and Juarez, Mexico, a six column
paper named “The Garden
Punch.” The paper in question
was a sports sheet, doting on
prize fights. At the head in large
type is this: “Fistic fireworks
flame at garden play arena.” Ben
Frcudenstein was its edtior.
♦ • *
They tell a story on Ben that his
paper would beat all the daily sheets
on the streets after fights in that
part of the country, and how! Blow
by blow, round by round—a perfect
account of the fight would greet
patrons In Ben’s journal as they left
the arena. Figure it out.
« • •
The Red River Valley baseball
league, like the proposed Valley
loop, seem-i to have “blown.” Five
towns in Oklahoma and Texas
had declared their intentions of
entering the league, but a fifth
could not be found. Same thing
happened in the Valley.
* • *
We don't know much about this
fellow Murray Golinda, who is to
meet Carlos Garcia in the main
event of the semi-monthly boxing
card at Mercedes, which will be
held on the 15th of this month. But
he looks like a fighter. Ought to be
an interesting scrap.
* * •
Jack Payne, of Donna, is going
to promote a boxing program in
that city Monday night of next
week, and he has lined up Robert
Hinojosa, of Brownsville, and
Ralph Leach, of Weslaco, heavy
weights, as the main eventers.
They are to go ten rounds.
EIGHTS LAST
(By The Associated Press.)
Los Angeles—Tod Morgan, junior
lightweight champion, outpointed
Santiago Zorilla, Panama, (10)—
(championship).
Elam. Pa.—Joe Scholocker. Cali
fornia, outpointed Sylvan Bass. Bal
timore, (8>. Leo Claro, New York,
won on foul from Georges Amblard.
France. (6).
Berlin, Germany.—Ludwig Hay
man outpointed Rudi Wagner, (15>.
(retaining German middleweight
title.)
Buenos Aires—Lou Paluso, Salt
Lake City, Utah, and Julio Mocoroa,
Argentina, drew, (12).
Hot Spring, Ark.—Jack Ashton,
Chicago, knocked out Jimmy Dav
enport. Little Rock, Ark., (5).
McKeesport, Pa.—Battling Gizzv.
Donora. Pa., and Chet Smallwood.
Aron. Ohio, drew (10). Phil Scello.
McKeesport, outpointed Babby
Green. Akron. (10).
Peoria, 111. — Johnny Sherrod.
Chicago, outpointed Don Lewis. De
troit, GO). Cecil Hurt, Indianapolis,
and Pete Lacrosse, Lafayette, Ind.,
drew, (8).
Hounds Meet Cards
In First Baseball
Game of Season, 17
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO. April 5.—The first
game of the local high school base
ball team will be played with Har
lingen on Wednesday, April 17, and
will take place at Harlingen. The
San Benito High school won the
high school championship in base
ball for Cameron county last year,
but lost the district title to Mis
sion.
ST. JOSEPH’S TO
PLAY SCHOOL NINE
St. Joseph’s academy baseball
team is scheduled to cross bats with
the high school-junior college team
this afternoon at 4:15.
The game will be played mi the
old American Legion grounds.
Today’s battle will be the third
in which the two teams will have
played, the first resulting in a vie
tory for the public school nine, and
the second was a tie.,
These boys fought on Tex Bec
erril’s card at Ft. Brown several
weeks ago. The fight was nothing
to brag about, but it w’as interesting.
It is declared the former high school
football stars have improved since
then and are in perfect shape. There
will be preliminaries, also.
• • *
On August 1. 1918, Pittsburgh
and Boston battled twenty in
nings without a runner reaching
first base. In the 21st stanza, the
Pirates made two scores, and won
the game. It is the longest num
ber of innings any major league
clubs have played without ft ran
being scored.
* . * •
The Yankees cinched the Ameri
can league pennant race of 1928 on
Sept. 28. The St. Louis Cardinals
cinched the National league flag on
Sept. 29. This year, what!
* * •
The poor Phils—will they ever
get started. They have been try
ing to get somewhere ever since
tige was a pup. Manager Shotton
had his infield working fine—
along came Mister Jinx—and
takes his star shortstop, Theve
now. He was injured in an auto
mobile wreck Tuesday night.
Month before he will be able to
play. Necessitates a shift in the
lineup. Tough on the shortfielder.
Broke his leg while with the Card
inals in 1927.
* * *
The fight game in San Antonio
is losing out. The Alamo city used
to be a good athletic town. It has
deteriorated in almost all lines of
sport. Other night they held one
of their weekly boxing cards and a
San Antonio paper had this to say
of the event:
“It should require, at the most,
just about one or two more cards
like the miserable flop at Beethoven
hall Tuesday night to put the final
touch to the flickering fight business
in San Antonio. The card last week
was bad enough, but this week's
fiasco set a new high record for
sloppy shows.”
• • *
The article goes on to relate
that one of the boys on the main
event was no match for the other,
and took the count in the second
round. One of the prelim boxers
left the ring before the fight was
over.
• • •
V/hat makes a fight is the even
ness of the principals. Two boys,
rude in the technique of the game,
but evenly matched, will please the
cash customers. One battler com
pletely outclassing his opponent will
certainly kill of the game. Something
for Tex and A1 to think seriously
about.
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Fish Class Boat
Races For Lipton
Trophy At Houston
MOBILE. Ala., April 4.—<&)—
The annual September series
of fish class boat races for pos
session of the $5,000 Lipton tro
phy will be sailed at Houston,
Texas, this year as the result of
the Mobile Yacht club comply
ing with the request of the Tex
as organization asking that the
classic be held there this year.
None of the events have ever
been staged west of New Or
leans.
SPORTRAITS
' P/z Tga y*/os<
“Pie” Traynor, Pittsburgh third
baseman, and one of the best in
the league at the hot corner, is
trying to switch back to the short
stop position, the post be held be
fore breaking into the National
league in 1921. He has played
there occasionally for the Pirates,
and in great style, but whether he
can readjust himself to that po
sition permanently after so many
Atheltic Homeward
Bound, Bowl Over
Opponents Handilj
RICHMOND, Va.. April 5 (/P>—Re
turning home from their FIoridE
training camp by easy stages. th<
Philadelphia Athletics have devel
oped a powerful punch.
They have collected a total of 4;
runs in the last three games playec
on their northward journey. Cap
tain Eddie Collins, in charge of th<
squad, has been revising his lineuj
daily and nearly everybody is con
necting with the ball.
Against the Greensboro team o:
the Piedmont league yesterday th<
Athletics unloosed 17 hits, five o
which were home runs.
STAR LINEMAN
ENTERS SCHOOL
Jack Allen, Tackle On 1927
Squad, In School; Eagle Ilf
Stock Up
Strength was put in the Eagl*1^
wings by the entrance of Jack A'iW
len, star lineman of the 1927 gricr
squad, into the local high school.
Allen will be eligible for play next
season. He is a big boy, tips the
beams around 175, knows the game,
and is a fighter. Coach Fessenden
is delighted with his newest charge.
The big boy didn’t attend school
in 1928.
In 1927 he was a star tackle on
Coach Rubartli's squad. At that
time he was regarded as one of
the best linemen in the Valley.
Where he will be used, the coach
didn t know. It is probable center
will be his position, or tackle. Bob
O'Bryan, who graduates this spring,
will leave a big hole to fill in the
center of the line, and Allen may
be just the boy to fill it.
If Allen's play is as good during
the 1929 season as it was in 1927,
he will add to punch to the team.
Some good linemen will be lost by
graduation, and experienced plav
ers will be needed to fill the gaps.
RISKO-PORAT
BOUT TONIGHT
BOSTON, April 5.—(JP)—Johnnv
Risko, Cleveland baker, tonight will
make a last desperate effort to re
trieve his slipping fistic fortunes by
blocking Otto Von Porat’s road to
the select inner circle of heavy
weight boxing championship con
tenders. They will meet in a ten
round bout at the Boston Garden.
iYesterday’s Baseball
Results
At Fort Worth—Pittsburgh (N) 3:
Detroit (A) 1.
At Birmingham—Cincinnati (N)
3; Birmingham 2.
At Houston—Chicago <N) 10;
Houston 0.
At Mempihs—St. Louis (A) 8;
Memphis 6 <10 innings.)
At Waco—New York (A) 13; Waco
. 3 <8 innings.)
■ At Pensacola—Brooklyn (N) 15;
•! Pensacola 2.
At Grenesboro—Philadelphia (A)
i 15; Greensboro 4.
I At Jacksonville—Washington (A)
• 4; Jacksonville 0. ,
; At Macon—Macon 7; St. Louis
i (N) 6. ft
At Biloxi—New York (N); Tol
edo 6.
At Columbia—Boston (N) 5; Col- ,
i umbia 4 (11 innings.) jmb f
At Seminole—Des Moines
cago (A) 4.