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.... *+++++*+4++++**++++»+0+++*+*+++#««««»»»»W*»»»***W**~ «*■ ... I 23<? BROWNSVILLE HERALD SPORTS SECTION | FANS BACKING BOTH FIGHTERS Winner Likely To Be In . Miami Bout This Win ter For Title f NEW YORK. Sept. 26.——Jack ! Sharkey of Boston and Tommy j Loughran of Philadelphia meet at the Yankee Stadium tonight in a 25-round bout. Barring disappointments of va rious kinds, the echoes are sched uled to carry as far as Miami, where the victor may have an im portant part in deciding the heavy weight championship of the world this winter. Neither fighter has been mad® an outstanding favorite among the bettors. Opinions are greatly at variance with the results about even Sharkey backers freely pre dict the talkative tar will bore into Loughran and end the battle before Its scheduled time. The Philadel phian's fans are as confident the former light heavyweight champion will completely outbox his rival and perhaps do better with the punch said to have come with added size. Conversation has been one of the most evident things in the prelim inaries of the battle, and some skeptics have even dared to say per haps the pre-battle statements of the principals and the disputes of the fans are responsible for the wave of warm weather that has brought a great increase in the ad vance sale of tickets. Today’s box office predictions are that some 50.000 persons will sur round the ring when the fighters enter it at JO o’clock, daylight time, and that receipts will be somewhere In the neighborhood of $300,000. Sharkey was expected to tip the boxing commission scales at about 195 pounds, while Loughran. bear ing the greatest weight of his ring career, was about ten pounds below that mark. There will be no radiocasting of the fights. FIGURE IN TWO A’S-CUBS SERIES Three men identified with the Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Ath letics, prospective opponents in the world series, also participated in the last world series in 1910 between the Cubs and Athletics. Con nie Mack was then as now manager of the Athletics. Joe Tinker, who scouted A s for Cubs this year, was the star shortstop of the 1910 Cubs, while Eddie Collins. Athletic coach and possible pinch hitter in the 1929 series, was starred at bat and at second for the A s in the 1910 series. r ... 1 ..—.-. .■—.— .. Sports Chats Brownsville Junior college at San Benito, Rio Hondo at Donna, El Jardin at Brownsville <B), Edinburg Junior college at McAllen and Stu art Place at Mercedes. That’s the crop for this afternoon. Games scheduled for Friday Include: Brownsville high at Harlingen. Ly ford at Raymondville, Pharr-San Juan-Alamo at La Feria, and St. Joseph's college at Santa Rosa. The Brownsville Junior college is looking forward to its best year on the grid with Calvin Surtees a6 coach. Surtees has some good ma terial with 24 men out for the squad. He refused to become a Goomy Gus" and says he is look ing for a fair season. The Scor pions will meet the San Benito Greyhounds this afternoon at San Benito. If the collegians get to clicking off together, they should sack up the game. San Benito fans will view treason a plenty ttfs afternoon. Several of the collegians are former San Benito high players. The 3rownsville Eaglets <B"> will open the season here Thursday In a game with the El Jardin Comets. Coach “Soc" Plato has built up a fighting little eleven that should mow down the larger part of its schedule with little difficulty. The players can get only so good on this squad before they are promoted to the “A” team. But even at that ' "Soc" has some excelent performers in Trujillo, Parra. Escobar. T. Todd and others. Trujuilo, center, has been appointed captain. “Soc" has two backfields between which there is little to choose. The first one is composed of Wilson q. Taylor rh, Todd lh and John Joe Garza f. The second: Villarreal q. Joe Sanchez rh, Champion lh and Baker I. The Large Event of the week-end. however, will be the Harlingen Brownsville fracas Friday after noon. The fair park stands are ex pected to be well filled when the two teams line up for the kick-off. Although it is generally admitted that Brownsville should win, Har lingen is clinging to the possibility that their fighting spirit will carry her through. Brownsville more or less has the rest of the Valley on her neck, following the Eagles' high ly successful season last year. As (Continued on Page 9.) SCORPION 11 SET FOR TILT Co-Captains Will Lead Ag gregaiton Against San Benito Greyhounds Co-captalns Morris Pipkin and “Buster" Monsees will lead their Brownsville Junior college Scor pions into battle for the first time Thursday at San Benito against the high school Greyhounds. The game will begin at 3:30 p. m. The co-captains were elected by the squad Wednesday afternoon. Pipkin plays tail back position and calls signals. He is probably the most finished player in the entire local system. After starting with Main Avenue, he played with the S. M. U. freshmen last season. Monsees has taken over the post of line captain. He was an out standing performer on the champ ionship Brownsville high school eleven of last year. Coach Calvin Surtees has some good material but would like for it to be in better condition. The col legians got away to a late start and have not hit their stride yet. The squad will average about 140 pounds. Coach Surtees says he will five all of his players a chance in She game Thursday if he gets the op portunity. Below is shown the first and sec ond string line-ups: LE. Scheiderman. No. 31), Ezzeil LT, Atkins, <29> Crockett. LG. C. Martin (38 •, Bullls. C. Cuellar (32), Underwood, Ball. RG, Monsees, Lind horn. Rt, Powell (27), Clark. RE. D. Martin (30), Gomez. Q. Pipkin (37), Lee Murphy. RH. Lebowitz (23), Moore. LH. Ceyanes (24), Sealey. F, Fritz Ball, (33 >. Kennamer. Kenneth Clark and Moore are be ing developed into good punters Fritz Ball and Lebowitz are now doing this work. 500 At Exchange Banquet In Donna (Special to The Herald) DONNA, Sept. 28 —More than 500 persons were guests Wednesday night of the Texas Citrus Fruit Ex change at a big barbecue given at the Val Verde plant of the organi zation. Speakers were John H. Shary, president of the organization: T. M Melden. manager, and A. R. Sand lin. sales representative. They dis cussed workings of the association, the sales end and problems, and compared points of the citrus in dustry in the Valley with Florida. A second barbecue is planned when the new plant at La Feria is opened in October. EAGLETS WILL MEET COMETS Thursday Encounter Will Give Grid Fans First Tucker Field Game Brownsville fans will get their first glimpse of football at 3:30 p. m. Thursday when the "B** Eaglets test their wings and spurs mi the El Jardin high Comets at Tucker field. The "B” squad has been out as long as the high gridders and they are in good condition. The team is ex pected to make a good showing among the rural and lesser "B" squads of the Valley. Coach “Soc" Plato says he will probably send in two complete teams against the Comets. There is little to choose between his two elevens, the coach says. The Eaglets line up as follows: RE. Guzman. 125 pounds; Kowalski. 125 pounds. RT. Ferguson, 135; Lopez. 165. RG, Egan. 145; Canul. 145. C. Trujillo 'cl. 125; Thomas, 125. LG. Parra. 150; Ceballos. 130. LT. Bennett, 150; Eklund. 150. LE. Escobar, 145; Taggart. 135. Q. Wil son, 125; Villarreal. 125. RH. Taylor. 135; Joe Sanchez. 125. LH. T. Todd. 135; Champion. 135. P, John Joe Garza, 140; Baker, 145. The team will average about 137 pounds to the man. Trujillo has been appointed temporary captain for the same. The ability of the players on the **B” squad Is automatically governed. When one of the gridders become good enough, he Is taken on F den s "A" squad. _ CiMore I “FASHION” CO >11 IKS BY HART, SCHAFFNER & MARX AND SOCIETY BRAND As up-to-date in the men’s clothing world as com muting by air in the economic world .... a freshness of style that isn’t flashy, but which sets you off as a nan of real judgment. --— When You Think of Sweets You Should Think of CANDY It’s Delicious and Nutritious. always good .... kept on ice. Harry’s Cigar Stores No. 1 —Merchants* Natl Bank Bldg. No. 2 — 1113 Levee Street Phone 840 Sun -Tan Is The Fashion! AN ANCIENT PREJUDICE HAS BEEN REMOVED False modesty is a relic of an ancient prejudice. AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE has cut it away and, in behalf of better health and pure enjoyment, sponsors the fashion of sensible swimming attire. V •.!« “toasting did it”— Cone is that ancient prejudice against cigarettes—Progress has been made. We removed the prejudice against cigarettes when we removed harmful corrosive ACRIDS (pungent ini* tants) from the tobaccos. !I YEARS ago, when cigarettes were made without the aid of modern science, there originated that ancient prejudice against all cigarettes. That criticism is no longer justified. LUCKY STRIKE, the finest cigarette you ever smoked, made of the choicest tobacco, properly aged and skillfully blended—“It’s Toasted.” “TOASTING,” the most modern step in cigarette manufacture, removes from LUCKY STRIKE harmful irritants which are pres | ent in cigarettes manufactured in the old-fashioned way. 1 Everyone knows that heat purifies, and so “TOASTING”— ! LUCKY STRIKE'S extra secret process—removes harmful cor j rosive ACRIDS (pungent irritants) from LUCKIES which in the old-fashioned manufacture of cigarettes cause throat irritation and coughing. Thus “TOASTING” has destroyed that ancient preju dice against cigarette smoking by men and by women. “It’s toasted” No Throat Irritation-No Cough. TUNE IN—The Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra, every Saturday night, over a ccast-to-coast network of the N. B. C O 1939. The American Tobacco Co. Mfra. —— .. ■■ ..... ■■■■■■■■■■■ ' "It's Toasted’*—the phrase that describes the extra “toasting*’ process applied in the manu facture of Lucky Strike Cigarettes. The finest tobaccos—the Cream of the Crop—are scien tifically subjected to penetrating heat at mini mum, 260°—maximum, 300°, Fahrenheit. The exact, expert regulation of such high tempera tures removes impurities. More than a slogan, “It’s Toasted’’ is recognized by millions as the most modem step in cigarette manufacture.