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■ ■ * m mmm m m-. *■ *■ »»»»#<##################,# fW/rf JJWJ JJJJ Jff f f «rrrrj j j j ■ ' !::: =: The BROWNSVILLE HERALD SPORTS SECTION OMDO*® i^jjjjjjrffffffrrfjttfrffftrfrif/fj/^ frrrr ■ > » »»»»« »•••—ffruirfrrjf f fffJifijjf JjjjiP _ _ -.- — .-i-u* V. B B By HAL EUSTACE *■■■■■■■■■■■! BEND LOW on folded kne^s, oh ye faithful ringworms. Do obeis ance to A1 Singer, lightweii h* champion of a day. Last night the popular little New York idol buzzed from his corner a slam-bang, slash ing tornado of action. Before the resonant clang of the bell had sounded for the second time, one time champion Sammy Mandell lay prostrate on th*’ canvas a badly beaten boxer. The abrupt r.v a ' * ness of Singer’s attack caught the or.. ^ ' ; champion clearly unawu c.:. re- t fore he had time >o throw hi o ti fighting machinery :ito > it was too h:» The Br .e. al ready had exploded ft • * a. swishing ’ights on h. ’ ; .1 • . him well ou hi* kj; t • i < Nod. THE FAMOUS Manaell left, which in times of v :v hat! worke with the precision of a - an ma chine needle, never hat! a eiia m • against Uv stark sav. y w th which Singer sought the crown. The ring general:-:::;, \ !i mar believed would carry S.'mmv over the route never came into y •. Af ter a fashion, th one-side fi ht resembled the Dempsev - Wi"ar: classic at Toledo M: II el ed but one of the q earned him to the 1 mat ■ ur age Shrntd AH r.inm IN THIS day of b"/irk an lwa 1 weights who whin • u on slightest provocation, or none at all this champion kip I 1 ‘1 deed refreshim It rlirul*1 < m h to restore confidence in the fi ■ <* game The light wen In r . n al ways has l> on outs:.r-. In the opinion of Sports Sn i< I'm Vie boys have produced in out n 1 ing champions than the . : r * .if LOOK OVER th - !1 * of :ht weich* kings and i them are rcwnrely n rh 1 * * n the annals ef bcxin form 1 Jfi icken. Billy F ’ ^■Thambers Jack B nr tb Wrareil. Jr k M'Aultthn C rr Laving?, Frank F nr .Joe < Battling Nelson, Ad \Y •n«f. V.'. Ritchie. Freddy W ' -h. !" rv T ard. Jimmie Goodrich Ft kv X sas, Sammy Mandril and A1 S-nvr- ! er. One doesn't hav*. * > b ing expert to kn* '•*' tHa* ma* v these bovs were among 1 est ever to step into th« ring n any weight. ONF IMPORTANT f * ;re of the S nger-Mandell car l ” o« ■ the attention of manv r ■ ; the successful debut of Ju ' ’ E ’a South American li atm:- * decisioned Jqe Glick in * v • ’ final. Glick. let t be recoded rant high among the con* m :or . C Iyer's gives him a 284 rn*ine. W in other words is nr bad at a!' Distingu shing himself from remainder of foreigners who com* here in quest of \me~i"an do 'nr* Suarez is seeking th* f ;1e and irv When he stepped off the b a* a New York, he had several ! m. ’ thousand dollars air • > iv s • : from his earnings *n S :*.h V.r.er lean rings. Wants Title PROVING that he is T^kir glory and not cash. Suarez. • - h ablv the most popular Sc *h Amer ican fighter • seek a “star b-”iT ” TT v nr than glad to cot the -f'ml o> the champinr hip car record^. Suarez cra<ae ! * Pros with a victory in 'decisive sfv’.e. THE South American has won the lightw'epht title of the southe’T continent, taking on all foreign ©o-tenders. including several top. S -h American b-aw’ers Me •< /first heard of when he knocked ou Fred Webster, the End shman 1 one round Then he kuor'--, Bab Herman, the American ;f'lv lr one round Then when he knocke ’ out Lew Pahiso. a top notrher or American bills, in ta roun-' folk began to sit up and take noMoe Later Justo stoooed Hilario Mar tines, the Spar.; h w» '* • k five rounds Hilario once made r practice of beatinz Tack B’.rton Sid Terris and the hke WHEN .Tusto beat Voeoroa for *h title in Buenos Aires, forty thou sand people saw the fight The paid about $75 000 and tens o' thousands were turned awav. "P house by far ou*did anvtbinr the* Firpo or Carr.polo d-d in their own country. LITTLE JUSTO is not without honor ‘n his own country Wh»n h<" left for Ameriri he wi« ms dr Chancellor to the \reenMne Con sulate at New York The South American beean as an amaienr winning 50 straieh* before turning professional. Pot Shots JODIE TAYLOR. Sa:nt second vicker. got a pair of bingles against tymondville last Sunday, bringing ' leason total h;ts to two. Thi **• his batting average to .C87 to. league statistician /S*hV Jodie to get a eouole percents-re ccmnutator \ below .100. motorists used .000 gallons of Singer Scores Sensational One-Round Win LIGHTWEIGHT CROWN IS HIS NEW YORK, July 18—VP—The crown of the lightweights today adorn- the thick black thatch of 21 A1 Singer, whose sensa tiona! c;ne round knockout of Sain n.; Mondell last night brought back the 135-pound championship to New j York for the first tune since Benny Leonard retired. The boy from the Bronx and pro le-. of Leonard, making his title b’u at the Yankee Stadium, crushed Mandell. champion for four years.! m c minute and 46 seconds. A ci v. of 25.000 witnessed the match, j Singer floored Mandell four times ! for ;cce- :ve counts of two. seven, four end ten. and the champion tt k the final count flat on his back. Mandell did not land a solid pur.. h and was punched into a state ol help On Kness before he had time to make even a gesture. He bore no resemblance to the lighter who j two *.i . n o beat so dangerous a p .oh •• as Jimmy McLarnln. He U >n an; k- r from the crowd only for Ills gameness. It v: > the shortest lightweight . f h‘ ;ii his i’ and one of the* i . .j’.u in any chain-! ''I . . - i . k - • Palma to n . ' isnelhim: like a half minute I about 40 years hgo. TEXAS LEAGUE V. t 1 i y Night s Results Shit ort a; Waco 4. ihuisday s Results Fo.t Worth 5; Houston 2. Sun Antonio 6; Wi hit a Falls 1. Dallas 12; Waco 1. I t ’ay's Schedule Hr;:.-ton at Fort Worth. E r.t . t Shreveport, nigh" • i A an i ct Wichita Falls. Waco at Dallas. of the Clubs I m P W. L Pc* V I I!; .... 24 17 7 .70" w.t . ... . 24 14 10 .58" F : W : :h. 24 14 10 .58:' . 21 12 11 M . 23 12 11 .527 I > ’1 . 24 10 14 417 S n Ar ‘ ” 0. 24 9 17 .376 Er i tin oat . 22 6 16 .271 ! VIJTK AN LEAGUE i hurdT’s Pesuft* Cl i 1 Washing on 3. Be • n 12 Detroit 2. i*r ; nirt l ’ Chicago 8. >:■ ■ Yt.rk 18, S'. Louis 7. 1 ic’pg’s Schedule Fh..: tel h a at Chicago. New York at S'. Louis. Best on " t Detroit. W :?hii . m a* Cleveland. Slendrnf of the Clubs Team P W L Pet T■■■ V " ! jhia . 89 GO 29 .674 \Y. ' :i . 86 55 31 .640 New Y k . 87 fl 35 .59? CY-. r.. 8" J4 43 .50 r-‘: . po 41 49 .456 Cr '?a .. 81 32 52 .38’ S 1 v':;,' . 87 .32 55 .368 E st n.85 32 53 37" v'TFONM. LF AGUE ThursdiVs Results New York 12: St. Louis 9. C nr. r 14. Phlladelnhla 9. Pitt Irireh 6; B ion 2. Chicago 6: Brooklvn 3. Iridav’s Schedule Pittrbureh af Boston. Chicago af Brookhm. S' T u> a* New York ClnwnniV'! at PhTsdelphia. St inding of tlie ( tubs P. W. L Pr* J r n __ ?' 49 32 .603 C . . . 83 43 36 .576 N < Y rk . 8? 44 38 .537 S:„ I n. 89 41 39 .51" P von .. 82 19 43 .476 P ' h . 83 ,39 44 .476 C;> -:nnr.. 81 37 44 .457 Phiiu ielnh'a . 78 28 50 .359 ' (v "r *r *r «(• "T* *S* ajc afc afe a|c T v t T t t t t t v Senators Being Hard Hit on Western Trip BRUSHING UP SPORTS . ... By Laufer one of a savannah, ig*) VDORSome Sliced mis DRiue IMTO'A DEAl^AGE DITCH, BORDERING The FAiR^AV. . .. SEFDUe^hev Could ^ f;\ Sh SHOCT/^6 The. HOLE/ ^ To SHOOT* A _ 12-F007 AlucaTo^/ uohich they jm KEPT A<> A jO "T&dppm- R? k ' * ttSLMTjR., 4 6a ! GRID SEASON LOOKS GOOD Southwest Confere’ue To Be Filled With Strong Clubs BY GAYLE TALBOT JR. Associated Press Sports Writer DALLAS. July 18.—(.P>—Less than two months now until another Southwest Conference football sea sen will be on its way. It promises in several respects to be the great-1 est session the fans of this section have been privileged to sit in on. In the first place, the field prom ises to be stronger and more evenly balanced than ever before. Of the seven schools, only Arkansas and Rice are being counted out of the j championship at this time. Texas Christian. Southern Methodist, Bay- j 'or, Texas U. and Texas A. & M I will be powerful. Conference schools will eiv..\' in more Intersectional bouts t:/ i ever before. The big dav will be October j 4. when Southern Methodist engages Notre Dame at South Bend, Baylor ies into Purdue at Lafayette and the Aggies invade the Nebraska Cornhuskers' stronghold at Lincoln. Other games with an interseefton al flavor scheduled are Southern Methodist vs. Navy. Southern Methodist vs. Indiana. Rice vs. Ar izona. Aggies vs Tulane. Texas U. vs Oklahoma. Rice vs. Sewanee. and Rice vs. Iowa State. Two new stadiums of the moat _ VICTOR AND VANQUISHED SaivWIV MANiPE.Lt I A1 Singer A1 Singer <right*, new light weight champion, and Sammy Mandell (left), whom he defeat ed last night in sensational style for the title. It was one of the shorten fights ever staged where the title changed hands. Singer K. O'd the champ in the first round. A Californian naa Invented an apparatus to blow current* of air over fruit while it hangs on trees to remove rotting calyxes and pre vent formation of iacket rot. BY GAYLE TALBOT, JR. Associated Press Sports Writer All tins season the Dallas Steers have been trying to win as many as three games in a row, and they linally did it yesterday by defeat ing Waco 12 to 1 in their opener at Steer stadium. The victory push ed the Mavericks into sixth place and prevented the Cubs from gain- i ing on the Wichita Falls Spudders. who were dropping their inaugural to San Antonio. 5 to 1. Lee “Spec ’ Meadows turned in the days greatest mound performance, holding the Prar.men to four hits > over the nine-inning route, while J his mates battered the veteran Paul Wachtel fer 14 blows. Jim Moore snapped out of his bat*ing slump to lead the Steers to victory, piun mellng Warhtel for a pair of hom e's. a dcub’e and single in four times at bat. Doubles by Molesworth and Tate in the third accounted for the Cubs' only run. Larry Bettencourt's homer gave the Spudders their only run off Cyrus Smith, an ex-1“animate, as the San Antonio Indians copped their opener. Smith held the leaders to seven hits and had them blanked until Bettencourt hoisted one over the fence in the seventh Ballew led the Injun attack on Caldwell and Florrid with a double and two singles. A big seventh inning, in which they scored ail their runs off Rose and Brown, gave the Fort Worth Cats a 5 to 2 triumph over Houston in their opener and moved the Snydennen into a tie with Waco for second place. Umpire Golfer had a big afternoon of it. chasing four Buffs and one Cat when they dis puted his decisions. The Beaumont Exporters sank deeper into the cellar when they lost their first at Shreveport under the arc lights 5 to 4 The Shippers ?crred four times in the first frame i ff Moire’l. but were unable to do anything with his successor. Under hill. The Snorts won on five hits, two of them by Hutson I modern type will increase the sec lion's seating capacity by many thousands. Construction is bens rushed both on Texas Christian's new structure at Fort Worth and l cn Fair Park Stadium at Dallas. The Aikar.s^s FUicibacks will help the FroRs dedicate their arena on October 11. All seven conference squads will take their initial workouts on Sept ember 10, the date prescribed by statute. Night Troubles Night baseball, the San Antonio Indians have discovered, is not all j beer and skittles. Joe Moore, brilliant young out rider, w hom president Homer; nmmond had planned to barter to le big show at a fancy price, is ,'d up with a chipped bone in his m He is certain to be out for sev ral weeks, and he mlghtnot regain he form this season that has caus d scouts to go pop-eyed. Moore received the injury in a .edtime battle at Shreveport, a last ball catching him on the arm. He ?.as quoted as having said: • If we'd been playing in daylight lie ball wouldn't have hit me." Moore has been hai’ed as the neatest outfield prospect the league has seen in a decade But if his throwing arm is impalrd perman ently. his price tag will shrink con siderably. Woe is Mr. Hammond. Good Record If the pitchers keep chunking to Larry Bettencourt, the big biff and bam man of the Wichita Falls Spudders. there is possibility that Clarence Kraft s Texas League rec ord of 55 home runs will go by the boards Bettencourt, who gained immor tal glory by scoring seven touch down sfor St Mary s from his cen ter position a few vears ago. has been driving the ball with terrific force this season. Through games of July 14. with almost two months yet to go. he has banged 30 for the | circuit 8nd appeared virtuallj cer tain to lead the league To equal Kraft's great mark, how ever. Bettencourt must average something like a homer every two games the remainder of the way. i Turns Fighter Ox Cowan, one of West Texas' greatest football heroes for the last several years, has turned pugilist and looks '.Ike he might do well at it. In two tsarts out El Paso way the big fellow has dispatched both op ponents in short order, indicating he has a kick in his right Although he p'aved out his foot ball career with Sul Ross College of Alpine, a secondary school Cow an was such an outstanding per former as to statewide recog nition Sandi Esquivel and Johnny Estes of Texas University were other Texas collegians to enter the ring in recent years. Both did well for a time and Estes is stiH fighting oc casionally. Esquivel laid away the milts to pursue further his med ical education at Galveston. Ambulance drivers in Tulsa have ly'en ordered to observe traffic lights and a 30-mile-an-hour speed limit. SOLONS FALL TO 2ND PLACE Are 3Va Games Behind Loop Leaders and 4 Ahead Of Yankees BY HI GH S. FULLERTON. Jr., Associated Press Sports Writer The current western trip of the { eastern clubs of the American league 's proving rather painful tc ! :he Washington Senators but profit able to the rest. The Senators started a losing streak when they started west and the result has dropped them clear out of first place and into a somewhat pre carious second. The Senators left home as league •raders and now are 3 1-2 games behind first place and only four \ ahead of the third place New York Yankees. They split a series with Detroit and so far have dropped two out of three to Cleveland while their rivals have been sweeping i through in a steady stream of i victories. Washington dropped an- I ether encounter yesterday, go n? down 4 to 3 befenf the Indians a Edrti~ Morgan’s batting gave th home team the edge in a mound duel between Willis Hudlin and Ram Jones. Morgan drove in thre* runs with a home run and a single. Seven Straight The champions and leaders, the Philadelphia Athletics, made it seven straight wins, six in the west, by plugging out another victory over the Cmcago While Sox, 12 to 8 The Sox again had a bit the better oi tne hitting, getting 15 blows tc Philadelphia's 14, but made few serious threats until the ninth, when they scored five runs. Tht Yankees aided themselves and the Boston Red Sox as well by ham mbring the St. Louis Browns for 21 hits and a 16 to 7 victory, mak ing it four straight wins for the Yanks and seven successive defeats tor the Browns. Besides improving their position the Yankees shoved St. Louis in to last place as Boston trounced the Detroit Tigers, 12 to 2. Hoc Lisenbee pitched a fine ^ame t< earn the honor of moving Boston out of the cellar and his mater backed him with 18 hits, five b. Lari Webb. The Sox now are a full game ahead of Si. Louis and only a half game behind Chicago. Chicago and Brooklyn again wer the leading lions in the National league’s arena and they tore at each other I r 13 inn ngs before tht Cubs finally gained a 6 to 3 deci sion that reduced Brooklyn's Seat' from three to two games. The final blowoff came when Dazzy Vance essaying the relief hurling role ii a great battle, cave four singles, three of them of the scratch var etv and the Cubs converted the-». into three runs Guy Bush did a great finishing job, giving the Robins cn'.v three hits in 5 2-3 inn’ngs after home runs by Phelps an-' Finn had enabled Brooklyn to make it an overtim** came. Poor Ball New York and St. Louis, sttrtinc their own crucial series w!th third place at stake, played second divi sion baseball, committing nine er rors between them. Clarence Mit chell held the Cards more or less in check through the early :nningc and the Giants won out. 12 to f a’though they were outhit. 21) t~ 15. The victory eave New Y*k p margin of two games. The first three clubs of the sec ! ond division drew a bit closer to ! gather in their pr*vat» race a* j Pittsburgh gained a 6 to 2 decision ! over the Boston Braves and th* | Cincinnati Reds played havoc wit1" Philadelphia pitching for a It t 0 victory. The Pirates now are onlv | a half fsme behind the fifth plac^ Braves with the Reds another game back. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT NEW YORK.—A1 Singer. New York, knocked out Sammy Mandell. World Lightweight champion *1), championship; Justo Suarez, Argen tine. outpointed Joe Olick. Brooklyn • 10 *; Midget Wolgast. Philadelphia pinpointed Ernie Peters, Chicago <8h OMAHA Neb.—Primo Camera Italy, knocked out Bearcat Wright, Omaha, <4>. liJafa- (Cvet most mw *».**»«. <*k A Great Shoe for Men Exclusively Here Brownsville _. .... Gridster Dies GREENVILLE. S. C., July 18 — V —Ernest Holmes. 22 of El Campo Texas, star tack’e of Furman Uni versity’s football team died in a' hospital yesterday of complications settling in alter an oper.u to A lor appendicitis. ^ PRIMO’S PAPAS AT IT AGAIN Europe Bound, Says See; To Stay Here, Duffy Declares OMAHA. Neb., July 18— P - Leon See, French ntanacer of Primo Car nera. the giant Italian fighter, may Intend to pack his charge in moth balls and ship him back to Europe next week, but Bill Duffy, of New York, co-manaurr and American renre^entative of the mammoth Itr.l-; ian. is not in sympathy with the idea. Duffy, arriving yesterday to at tend the Camera-Bearcat Wright fight last night, announced that he lias signed a contract calling for the Italian's appearance against W. L. (Young) Stribling in Atlantic City. August 30 Sec announced here two days a«> that he and Camera would sail next week and would not re turn until his fighter was assured of better treatment in New York. SWIMMING RECORDS SET Japanese and American College Athlete* Shine HONOLULU. July 18—Two American swimming records were bettered here last night in the In ternational meet featuring entrants from Yale University and Meijl University of Japan. Clarence Crabbe of Honolulu, swimming for the University of Southern California, eclipsed his own American mark for the 1300 meter free style, finishing In 20 min utes 6.3 seconds. His former rec ord was 20:48 ii The American 200 meter breast ■ re oh! .,i 2 minutes 55.2 sec onds held bv Walter Spencer was shaded by Y. Tsuruta of Meijl Uni versit in winning that event here. Tsuruta finished in 2:53. >! \JOR LEAGUE LEADERS Butting—O’Doul. Phillies, .408. Runs—Cuyler. Cubs. 85. Runs bared in- Klein. Phillies, 97. II: K'ein Phillies, 131. Double -O Doul. Phillies. 27. Triples—Cuyler. Cubs. 12. lorn runs Klein. Phillies. 26 Stolen bases—Cuyler, Cubs, 20. Ball inf—Simmons, Athletics, .392. Runs—Ruth. Yankees. 98. Runs batted in—Gehrig, Yankees, 102. Hrts—Hodapp Indians. 127. Doublet McManus. Tigers. 27. Triples- Combs. Yankees. 13. Home rum Ru*h. Yankees 32 Stolen Bases—McManus Tlger^ 14. ' ■ ———1—— * 1 Men whoVe known what it is to , ^ pa wear Florsheim Shoes will be X quick to add a new pair to their ' Jk ft** Stylet wardrobe at this low sale price GOLF EQUIPMENT Just Received i a complete line of WALTER HAGEN McCREGOR and VULCAN Golf Clubs and Bags ALFONSO 20 years with the Brownsville Country Cli ’» (Steward) EVERYTHING FOR THE GOLFER Repairing a Specialty P. O. Box 465 Brownsville _ __i at AVM College ~Ju!y 28 to Aug. T«a w::s r;. a ti«at s-tu. I...s tfc i « - <»* will be prot'table and wet! worth w.iilc. To eo-opertte with the.ee ir* r noted in Agriculture t.H» draeticaily reduced round tri.> fare i.» btf'.t < '• ’’ ■ Southern Pacific Line* to aftnrri ectryutve an .»«»»!■* air* opportunity oi attend nit thi* ro-.ree. Tick-*, on eaV 'or Jn‘y 25. 25. 2*. a d w-r tra n# art!** in* College Station July flit; return bn» i by Ana - 12.90 side round trip to on Irn* ( ■ » ’ " ' on male for At|. 2 ard for tram* arrtttn* t,a..euton Acr. 3; limit Aug. 5. 1 1 ROUND TRIP KILL THE FATTED CALF! DALLAS WINS THREE IN ROW