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| 23<? BROWNSVILLE HERALD SPORTS SECTION SBHIB I . """ ' " " " —"■ - 1 " — " " 1 1 ■l"1"*1 - ..... . .--■ — THOUSANDS JAM DERBY CITY FOR NATION’S TURF CLASSIC I _ - *-----—............ BLUE LARKSPUR j FAVORITE COLT ^ Rain Falling As Crowds Ga ther For America** Great est Sport Event / Louisville. Ry, May is.— (AP)—Derby day started out with ahowars, tree to the prediction of the weather bureau. About the time the vial ton here for the big race started stirring about* a moderately light rain be l tea falling. By ALAN J. GOULD Aaaoeiated Press Sports Editor. LOUISVILLE. Ky.. May 18.—<AV By train and motor, by airplane and! blimp, thorn and afoot, the main body of the greatest of all derby j crowds poured into the Bluegrass! eapltol today for the fifty-fourth I . running of the 160.000 Kentucky classic for three-year-olds. Semi-officials estimates placed the; number of visitors at 100.000. All | have come with one object in mind, j to place a bet on. and catch a glimpse of. the big race at Church- j Ul Downs this afternoon, but it will j be miraculous if more than 75.000 actually witness or even get within proximity of the running. In man? respects this is the great est of American sports spectacles. It yields to none in color and tradi tion and combines the best features of many others. Roll together the excitement of a big heavyweight fight or a baseball world’s series, season with the mellow flavor of such an ancient event as the Har vard-Lale boat race, and the spirit of a milling golf gallery—and you have a composite of Louisville’s Jam on derby day. "Umbrella Herb" There Class makes no difference or dis tinction. The relative merits of the outstanding two horses in the race. L Blue Larkspur and Clyde Van Du sen, along with all the rest of the record field, are debated Just as keenly by the millionaires in their private cars as by the turf tribe typified by "Umbrella Herb." who r \ hasn’t missed a derby in thirty years. The main facts of the 1929 edi Ition of the derby can be set forth A much more quickly than any argu 'V ment can be closed. Over-night, twentv-slx of the country’s foremost three-year-olds ,^^<have been named Post time was L*bU for approximately 5 p m , central * standard time. The race is at a mile and quarter. $60,000 Stakes Depending on the number of ac tual starters, the stakes were ex pected to approximate $60,000. of which $50,000 goes to the winner. $6,000 to second horse. $3,000 to third and $1,000 to fourth. The outstanding favorite. Colonel E. R. Bradley’s Blue Larkspur, the hope of the home folks, occupied a conflicting position. The son of Black Servant drew the extreme outside place. No. 26. for the start. By coincidence. Blue Larkspur's main rival. Clyde Van Dusen. drew position No. 25. and the chances of both were considered to be In dan ger. As a result prospects Increased for a more “open race,” with the hopes of rival contenders raised. Voltear, the Grayson-Fisher horse, drew the pole position. No. 3 went to Chl catie, Mrs. Graham Fair Vander bilt’s eastern hope, and No. 5 to Naishapur. the weil-liked son of a former derby winner, Omar Khay yam, and representative of the San Francisco sportsman. Chaffee Earl Minotaur, which ran second in the preakness. was No. 8 and Karl Eitel. bearing the apple blossom colors and .hopes of "Bath House” John Coughlin, of Chicago, was No. 13 In between these two were the Wag goner entry from Texas. Calf Roper, and Ervast. another far western horse, owned by Baron Long. On the extreme outside, along with Blue Larkspur and Clyde Van Dusen. was another highly regarded colt. Wlndv City, owned by F. M Grabncr, of Chicago. HAGEN, PRINCE WIN GOLF TILT Sir Victor, Aubrey Boomer Drop Match In Secret Link Tournament RWINLEY FOREST. Eng-^/FV The Prince of W’ales and Walter Hagen, American golf star, de feated Sir Victor Sassoon and Au brey Doomer, English star, by two holes in a “mytsery” foursome golf match today. LONDON. May 18—/^—Some where near London today the Prince of Wale* and Walter Hagen. American golf star, are engaged in a mystery golf match. The play had the form of a foursome with the prince. Hagen. Sir Victor Sassoon and Aubrey Boomer as the princi pals. but so secret were the ar rangements the pairings were not known to outsiders. It previously had been stated the prince and Hagen might play to gether against Sir Victor and Boom er. Private detectives kept all per sons far away from the match. V RAYMONDVILLE MAN MAKES BIG LAND DEAL (Special to The Herald) RAYMONDVILLE. May 18—Paul - us Hocke of Raymondville this week sold 300 acres of land 10 miles west of Lyford to John F College of Os kaloosa. La., for $18,000 cash. The tract consists of 100 acres in culti vation and 200 in the brush. The purchasers Intend to put the entire acreage In cultivation this winter. Mr. Hocke states. -The Thrill of Your Lifetime I CWSE a HARMONY Paramount’s All Talking, Singing, Dancing y Sensation It . It Starring ^ lfANCY BUDDY I CARROLL ROGERS H JACK OAKIR SKEETS GALLAGHER BARRY GREEN Character Comedian 4 JESS STAFFORD’S MELODY MAKERS R < the merry musicians who W * make whoopee with ROGERS | Elsie Janis’s dramatic story of the girl who had everything. And the / Boy — who couldn’t give her any H thing but love. And how she prov | ed to be his inspiration! In the I Spring, when a young man’s fancy I A harmonizes in songs of romance. 1 2 ACTS S Movietone News I MBMk I 111 11 11 '■ * £ HARLINGEN ______________ FLOR NAVARRO HERE FOR BOUT Red Foster Expected Satur day Afternoon* To Train t At Fort Brown Daniel Flor Navarro. Monterrey battler who Is to aid in the enter tainment of the State Medical So ciety here Tuesday evening, arrived Saturday morning expressing con fidence in his ability to “put away” Red Fester. They are billed for a ten round mam event on Promoter Tex Becerril'jj, fight card to be staged at the Fort Brown skating rink. Foster was expected in from San Antonio Saturday evening. Navarro Is a colorful Mexican fighter who has a strong following. He has fought extensively in Mexico and the Southwestern United States and is above the average. Navarro has been training in the Circulo Mu* tualista Mercantil in Monterrey. He and Foster will both probably go through the tapering off workouts at the skating rink. The semi-final wil draw more Val ley Interest than the main event. Kid Guerra, the “San Benito Roost er.” and Kid Monterrey, heavy hit ting leather tosser. will meet in a return engagement after fighting one of the fiercest slug fests ever witnessed in these parts. Monterrey had the edge in the first bout, sink ing a Jolting, smacking left into Guerra’s midsection many times. Guerra began to wise up toward the last of the /ight. however, and built a defense to the left. Monterrey lost in the seventh round on a foul. With Guerra's experience In the first bout, many fans are predicting that he will have the Indian sign on Monterrey. He certainly did not have it in the first bout. A battle royal also will be featured among the prelims. STANDING £s£-of the clubs— TEXAS LEAGUE Friday's Games Fort Worth 5. Waco 3. Dallas 10 Houston 0. Shreveport S. Beaumont 0. San Antonlo-wichlta Falls, rain. Standing of the Clubs Team— P W. L. Pet Waco . 32 20 12 .623 Houston . 32 18 14 .363 Shreveport ... 33 18 IS 345 Dallas . 33 17 18 .315 San Antonio .31 15 16 .434 Wichltg Falls .31 13 16 .484 Fort Worth . 32 15 17 .469 Beaumont ... 34 12 22 .353 NATIONAL LEAGUE Friday’s Games New York 9. Boston 5 Brooklyn 14. Philadelphia 13. Chicago 9. Cincinnati 3. Pittsburgh 6. St. Louis 2. Standing of the Clubs Team— P. W. L. Pet Chicago . 25 17 6 6280 8t. Louis . 24 15 9 625 Pittsburgh . 22 12 10 .543 Boston . 24 13 11 .542 Cincinnati . 24 11 13 .4.M Philadelphia . 22 10 12 .455 New York . 21 8 13 381 Brooklyn . 24 7 17 292 AMERICAN LEAGUE Frfday’t Games Philadelphia 4. Washington 1. 8t. Louis 7. Cleveland 6. Boston 5. New York 3. Chicago 6. Detroit 2. Standing of me Clubs Team— P. W L. Pet St. Louis . 26 17 9 634; Philadelphia . 23 15 8 .652 New York . 22 13 9 .591 j Detroit . 30 17 13 .5671 Cleveland . 26 12 14 .462 ; Chicago . 27 12 15 .444 Boston . 24 8 16 .333 Washington . 22 7 15 .318 SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION Nashville 1. New Orleans 3. Chattanooga 6. Mobile 8 Little Rock 3 .Atlanta 2. PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE San Francisco 6. Los Angeles 2. Portland 2. Seattle 0. Sacramento 9. Oakland 1. Mission 12. Hollywood 11. WESTERN LEAGUE Pueblo 4-14. Topeka 5-2. Omaha 7. Tulsa 8. Denver 6. Wirhlta 8. Des M nines-Oklahoma City, called In second, rain. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Minneapolis 8. St. Paul 7. Milwaukee 6. Kansas City 1. Johnny Salo Again Gains On Gavuzzi By Winning Second COLORADO. Tex. May 18— Seas of mud today lav between this city and Big Spring, the night stop. 40 miles away, of C. C. Pyle's bunion derby athletes. Heavy rains yesterday transform ed the road between Sweetwater and Colorado into treacherous mud holes, and the runners discarded their running shoes to pat along barefooted. Two changes in places took place as a result of yesterday s lap. Sam Richman. New York, captured the lap and advanced to fourth place, displacing Paul Simpson. Burling ton, N. C. Joe Spangler tied for third yesterday and slipped into fourteenth place, deposing Pat Har rison, Sullivan, Mo. John Salo. Passaic. N. J., second in elapsed time, was second yester day and again gained on Pete Oa vuzzi. England, the leader, when Ga vuzzi finished fifth. PHARR CITY OFFICERS FOR YEAR APPOINTED (Special to The Herald* PHARR. May 18.—Many things were accomplished at a meeting of the San Juan city officers here this week in a special meeting called by Mayor L. C. Warner for the pur pose of discussing matters relative to the affairs of the city. The ap pointment of officers for the year received a great amount of the time of the meeting and a complete list of the officers for the year follows: L. C. Warner, mayor; Houston Gos sage, attorney and counsellor; A. A Martyn. city clerk; C. F. Martin, water superintendent; L. Breiden bach. commission of water and light; R. L. Savage, commissioner of streets and parks; Frank Wagers, chief of police; Ray Hirth, deputy marshall; Roy Kintz, deputy mar shall: L. C. Lemen, deputy mar shall; Jose T. Garza, deputy mar shal; Kenneth Jones, fire marshal; Dr. T. A. Lonsgraf, sanitary officer; A. E. Sharrer, fire chief; board of equalization of taxes for the city. Chas. Boyer, H. L. McCombs, and J. R. Lemen. It was decided by the city com mission that the taxes for 1928 would not. if paid before the 20th of June, be penalized but decided the taxes for 1928 were properly assessed and In proper order. Major League Leaders (By The Associated Press) • National Batting—Stephenson. Cubs, .412. Runs—Douthit, Cards, 27. Runs batted in—Grimm, Wilson, Cubs, 27. Hits—Stephenson. Cubs. 42. Doubles—Frisch. Cards; Grant ham, Pirates. 11. Triples—Frisch. Cards. 5. Homers—Ott, Giants, 8. Stolen bases—Swanson. Reds. 8. Pitching—Grimes, Pirates, won 5. lost 0. American Batting—Kamm. White Sox, 396. Runs—Gehringer. Tigers, 31. Runs batted in—Hellmann, Tigers, 31. _ Hits—Gehringer. Tigers, 44. Doubles — Alexander, Tigers; Kamm. White Sox, 13. Triples — Alexander. Oehrlnger. Tigers; Blue. Browns ,3. Homers-Gehrig, Yanks. 8. Stolen bases—Johnson, Gehringer. Tigers: Averill. Indians, 5. Pitching—Uhle, Tigers, won o. lost 0. F/6HTS LAST t:-NI6HTL. (By tfje Associated Press* NEW YORK —Ignacio Fernandez, Filipino, knocked out A1 Singer, New York, (3). Gorilla Jones. Akron, O., stopped Izzy Grove. New York, (6). Vidal Gregorio, Spain, knocked out Joe Scalfarc, New York, (2). BOSTON. — Ricardo Bertazzolo. Italy, won on foul from Jimmy Ma honeytn. Boston, (4). AKRON, O—Eddie Anderson, Chicago, outpointed George Kauf man. New oYrk. Jimmy Neal. Cin cinnati. outpointed Otto Atz. Terre Haute .Ind, GO). PITTSBURGH. — Willie Davies, Charleroi, outpointed Frisco Grande, Buffalo. (10). LA CROSSE. Wis.—Joe Fuhrman. Chicago, defeated Jackie Palm. Minneapolis. (10). 58 STATIONS HOOKUP TO BROADCAST DERBY LOUISVILLE. Ky.. May 18.—(JP)— Arrangements were announced to day by the National Broadcasting company for sending the story of the running of the Kentucky derby through a hookup of 58 stations, by far the largest number ever to broadcast the racing classic. At least two stations will be on a short wave length, thereby enabling fol lowers of the English derby to fol low the race through the receiving station of the British broadcasting company. SPORTS APPEAR REAL THREAT Tuero Turns In Niftiest Per* formance of Year In Downing Beaumont There Is a more or less accepted baseball axiom to the effect that a pennant winning club must be able to win at least half of its games on the road. Taken year in and year out. it has proved itself a pretty reliable axiom. It is important to keep this in mind when considering the respec tive records of the league leading Waco Cubs and runner-up Houston Buffs for the current week. Each team has played four games since leaving tt$ own bailiwick the first of the week, and neither has been able to keep its head above water. Each as won only one decision while drop ing three to the big. strong fellers in the northern half of the circuit. If their week* pertormance may be taken a3 a criterion, the Cubs and the Bisons are apt to be dis placed long before they have fin ished their present jaunt. The Bruins lead over Shreveport in third place today was two and one-half games, and only three and one-half above Dallas in fcurth. If Houston should drop its third straight to Dallas today and Shreveport down the bewildered Exporters again, the Sports will climb into second place. Rain, wind and darkness put something of a quietus on the league's activities yesterday. Only one game went the full nine rounds, that In which Shreveport clubbed out its second win over Beaumont. 5 to 0. San Antonio and Wichita Falls were stopped in their tracks at SDudderville by wet grounds. Fort Worth held a 5 to 3 decision over Waco when their game was halted by rain at the end of the sixth. High wind and darkness caused the Dal las-Houston frav to be called at the end of the eighth with the Steers out front. 10 to 0. Paramount in the achievements of the day was the two-hit game pitched by Old Oscar Tuero. Cagey Cuban, over at Shreveport. Taking into account the array of hitters boasted by Beaumont, the veteran slabster gave one of the outstand ing performances of the season in blanking the Shippers. A pair of singles by Easterling and Lamb de prived him of a perfect afternoon. BEARS LOSE CHANCE FOR CHAMPIONSHIP (Special to The Herald) PHARR, May 18—The Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Bears lost the county championship Tuesday afternoon when they lost the final and de ciding game of the season with; the Mission high school team. The score was 7 to 8 in favor of Mis sion. It was a real contest with Pharr-San Juan-Alamo team clout ing out ten hits to the opponents’ six but errors of the locals were costly. Next Wednesday at noon at the regular weekly meeting of the San Juan Lions club, the local baseball team will be the honor guests. This invitation comes as a slight taken of appreciation of the work they have done during the season. TURNESA 2 DOWN TO BRITISH LINK STAR MOORTOWN. Eng.. May 18.—//P) —Joe Turnesa, American, was two down to the Britisher, Herbert C. Jolly, after 18 holes of their 36 hole final in the 1.000 guineas match tournament here today. ' i— 11 ■ Typing news about the life he failed to live! Today's duties throt tling the emo tions of tomor row. And the wom an whose devo tion he neg lected! Two of the ters in .... . “GENTLEMEN of the PRESS” A Paramount All Talking Picture with Walter Huston And Other Stage Stars — Also — Raymond Griffith ■ All-Talking Comedy “Post Mortems” T n Paramount H E News Events £ ? CAffljn | Now • 1 * , t * Cline and Brooks in Return Tilt Monday In Donna Fight Ring MAIN EVENT—Brooks Hooper n. ] SEMI-FINAL—Frankie Cline rs.< Young Saenz vs. Kid Olivares, 81 Battle royal—five Mexicans. Thats the fight card. Bob Con-’1 nor, Donna fight promoter, has pre pared for Monday night In the Don na open air arena. It is scheduled to begin promptly at 8:30 p. m. Promoter Connor believes he has the best card lined up that has ever been assembled for a program in the dty of Donna. Frankie Cline and Cowboy Brooks who are to step the eight-round semi-final, both top the scales around 170 pounds. Though it is not the final bout, it is likely that it will attract as much attention as any of the other fights. Cline and Brooks met a few nights ago and the cowboy won on a foul. Mon day night will bring the two fistic youngsters together again and should result In a real fight. Brooks Hooper, the game little boxer from San Antonio, and Kid Lopez, another Tamaleville product, will feed each other glove leather in the 10-round final event. Hoop er is the lad who fought Battling Shaw to a draw in the Mercedes arena three weeks ago. He has a big following in the Valiev. Both of these bab es of the resin ring have the reputations of being clever and willing mixers. East Donna s favorite son in the person of Kid Olivares will step into the ring with Young Saenz of Mercedes in an eight-round pre liminary. Olivares and Saenz pack dynamite in either fist, and especial [ ly effective has been Saenz’ right i hand. If some of that dynamite should explode Monday night there is a big possibility that one of these lads will take the count. Just which one it will be can only be determined after the dynamite explodes. And that will be some time after the i hour of 8:30 Monday night in the Donna arena. Promoter Connor has 'deviated somewhat from the well known bat tle royal personnel, and has lined up five Mexicans for this event. The battle should be a real exhibition the promoter believes It is be lieved that such a battle has never been put on in a Valley ring be fore. and should prove a drawing power. Prenarations have been made to take care of a large crowd for wher, the first bell is tapped at 8:30 p. m. Monday, there will be a big boxing exhibition on at Donna. lid Lopez. 10 rounds. ?owboy Brooks, 8 rounds. ounds. RED SOX WHIP” YANKEES, 5-3 Bob Grove Helps Athletics To Victory Over Wash ington 4 to 1 By WILLIAM J. CHAPMAN Associated Press Sports Writer. One short week ago fans were wondering whether the Yankee stampede was on again. Now they know. Seven days since, the champions, riding high on a wave of hitting, were reducing the fortifications of the west as the Mcekmen filtered along the line of march. The Browns not only had lost their single skir mish against the Athletics, but had fallen back three times before heavy Yankee cannonading. The cham pions then moved against Detroit to put down a Tiger rebellion, at which, moment things began to happen. The Yankees launched themselves upon their most ambitious May los ing streak since the year of Babe Ruth's classic stomach ache; the Athletics reformed their forces for a strong finish in the wes;; the Browns rallied, and the Tigers con tinued th«ir winning spurt. Just as though the Yankees had been the Red Sox. The home fans saw the New York losing streak increased to five at the Yankee Stadium yesterday as Ed Morris and the Red Snx dropjv' I the champions by 5 to 3 in a twelve round battle. Bob Grove pitched the Athletics to a 4 to ! victory at Washington and the Browns nosed out the Indians by a 7 to 6 at St. Louis. This combi nation of events not onlv enabled ! King Ranch Estate Assessed By Court At $7.50 Per Acre (Special to The Herald) RAYMONDVILLE. May 18—The I King ranch estate in Willacy county j including 110.300 acres of land, has been assessed by the county com missioners court at an average of $7.50 per acre, thus* increasing the assessed valuation more than 54 per cent above what it was last year. Last year the assessed valuation was ' placed at $4.85 per acre. In making the assessments. 25,- i 000 acres were valued by the court at $17 per acre: 32.000 acres were as- j sessed at $8 per acre, and 53,300 > acres of bay front land were placed ! at $3 per acre. During the hearing. Sheriff Luther D. Snow took the stand and testified that the King estate had authorized the sale of 25.000 acres of their best land at $10 per acre. i i i — Today Only — Hoot Gibson in “Burning the Wind” — Also — Chapter 4 of “THE DIAMOND MASTER* PATHE COMEDY Admission 10c — 20e ________________ Coming Tomorrow— RAMON NOVARRO tn “THE FLYING FLEET* the Athletic* to pa:n * NR caMfcffB over rh* n’nmm«i.s but aiia albed im the Brown* into second pl*c* Hill Old Ped Faber wm too mtarh far IM the Tiger*. and the White So* «w |B| the second fame of the aerie*. • to i. mm The tismmer-trwi tonga hr**I .n tiv* Na'nrai leacue «** the t~u5>t HH rccatn the a u-epdar-re lllllillf «Tfl The> ce: 'to-Mrd »h* f.r»t good m4 trip in vi-ar* hr comr heme to!Hg trounce the Red*. 9 to 3 jHH Yount Par FYewh otrtOkUdNMl •■rtorar. Ait \rd ' *n Ml! th« t.*rf* ■[ male to* « to ? r«* tv.b*s fML fftiflBf ♦hr Ped Birds fe» h it to a per il Ml IBI h '» -* r*uv> behind the Bruins §||| The Brooklyn lam* storot **» KHH tr o ; . hr '*;*. 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