--rrrrrrrrrrrm—m—rrrrrrrrwf jjjjj The BROWNSVILLE HERALD SPORTS SECTION .-.... Mission Breaks Into List Of Contenders 1 " ■" ™ VALLEY FOOTBALL Claw "A” Corpus Chrlsti 31, Harlingen 0. Mission (B) 13, Brownsville 0. Claw ‘ B” Mercedes 72, Lylord 0. Donna 26. Rio Hondo 0 JEteu Benito 37, Edinburg 0 McAllen 26, Rio Grande City 0. Weslaco 0, Pharr 0. Raymondville 12, La Feria 0. ■ B’ Standings Team W. L. T. Pet. San Bento . 1 0 0 1.000 Raymondville .... 1 0 0 1.000 Weslaco . 0 0 1 .500 P-SJ-A . 0 0 1 .500 Edinburg . 0 10 .000 La Feria . 0 1 0 .000 Mercedes. Donna. McAllen and Mission in non-conference contests. Next Friday Class -A” Alice at Harlingen. Brownsville at, John Reagan (Houston). Class “B” Robs town * A) at San Benito. Donna at La Feria. Mercedes at Weslaco. Mission at Pharr. Edinburg at McAllen Raymor.dville at Rio Hondo. • • P The prestige of Valley "A" foot ball took a stinging blow Friday •when Corpus Christ! rolled over the Harlingen Cardinals 31-0, and the “B” Mission Eagles defeated Brownsville 13-0. These results ^ put the Valley “A’* clubs In the r dumps as they have never been I' before. The Corpus Christ: victory was not altogether unexpected, for the Bucs rate high in their district and have a big. experienced squad. Bobby Cannon expects to take his Pirates places this season. Dope Is Reversed Mission’s victory, however, was a complete reversal of the pre-season dope. It has been years since Brownsville went down before a Valley ‘ B * aggregation. Mission s chances in the ”B" race went booming after her victory That list of B” contenders now includes Mercedes, San Benito, Donna ans Mission. An Insight Into the Valley scramble was given by other re sults Friday. San Benito, defend ing champion, had little difficulty In romping on Edinburg to the tune of 37-0. Donna, runner-up last year, oiled up the skids by beating Rio Hondo 26-0. Mercedes, ranked as the leading contender for cham pionship honors, showed lots of power in beating Lyford 72-0. McAllen Opens Easy McAllen took &n easy contest from Rio Grande City to the tune of 26-0. Another upset was the 12 0 drubbing Raymond villa gave La Feria. The Lions were being count ed in as & strong club. TTns vic tory was a sweet one for the Oniontown boys, avenging a last minute defeat at the hands of the Lions last year. The final •‘B" contest of the day found Weslaco and Pharr-San Juan-Alamo in a scoreless battle. An unusual feature of the opening hostilities was that all defeated clubs were held scoreless. Poor fields served to empl«»size the strength of winning squads. • • • CONTESTS COMING UP THIS WEEK The wheat and chaff will be further separated Friday when all leading clubs get back into action. Harlingen, smarting under her de feat at the hands of Corpus Christ!, will take a whack at another neighboring “A” club—Alice. The Cardinals arc certain to come back strong in this contest and Alice is in for some tough sledding. The Brownsville high Eagles will find themselves in a tough spot when they collide with John Reagan , in Houston Friday night. Reagan paid their respects to the Eagles i here last season and gave them a [ convincing drubbing. The local boys are in for a hard week of drilling against the Reagan of fense. They were sadly lacking In practice when they turned against Mission. They had only one day o! practice and that In shorts before the Mission encounter. Rain kept them indoors. Other Games Mercedes will take a cut at Wes laco In what should prove an easy contest for the Tigers. Mission gets started against P-SJ-A. and Donna will get a trial at La Feria. The McAllen Bulldogs are slated against the Edinburg Bobcats. San Benito will play host to the class “A” Robstown Cotton Pick ers and are in for a tough con test. Robstown always has a strong club. In the remaining fray, Ray mondville Is to tangle with Rio Hondo. Donna Open* With 26 to 0 Victory r.*.'.-e the outbreak of the Civil 1 | San Benito Knocks Off Bobcats 37-0 (By Staff Member) EDINBURG, Oct. 1.—The San Benito Greyhonivli, defending champions, flashed their old power here Friday in the opening con test by knocking off the Edinburg Bobcats to the tune of 37-0. A wet field cut down effectiveness of running plays and both clubs took to the air frequently. The 6core did not indicate the eveness of play. San Benito rang up only nine first downs to seven for the Edinburg eleven. Pioneers Meet Mopacs Sunday TTie Brownsville pioneer baseball club, led by M. Garcia Gomez .will play the strong Harlingen Mopac club here Sunday at 9 a . m. and 3:30 p. m. The Pioneer team, composed mostly of Tiger and Cub players. ; lias been organized by Garcia Gomez to play all the year around, and plans on bringing teams from Mex ico. Baseball is placed the year around in Mexico. The Mopacs are well reinforced for the Sunday double-header as they now have Baker, Jeffries, Law rence and Garrison. The Pioneer line-i^ will be: Catchers—Ramo6 and Baker; pitch ers—Champion. Vargas and Cava zos; first—Sanchez; second—P. Baker; third—De la Rosa; shortstop —Rocha; left field—King; center —Tijerina; right—Aldape. Bulldogs Chew Up R. G. C. 26-0 fBv Staff Member) McALLEN. Oct l.—Determined to I comeback this season after a miser able showing last year, the McAl len Bulldogs got started Friday afternoon by burying the Rio Grande City eleven under a 26-0 count. With little Freddy Webb and his teammates clicking off in fine style. Rio Grande Citv furnished little op position to the Bulldogs. In the first quarter Webb started things by returning a punt 62 yards for the first touchdown. A recovered fumble on R. O. C s 32-yard line in the third quarter re sulted in another touchdown with Webb making the final lunge. Yates intercepted a pass in the final quar ter and stepped eight yards to a marker. OLDEST REPUBLIC San II* !no, a tiny country on the eastern slope of the Apennines, about 40 miles southeast of Ra venna. Italy, is regarded as the oldest republic in the wcrld. “IN OUR ALLEY” What a kick we did get— When we read the • Valley’* column— Of The Brown*vtUe Herald On Thursday and read of the— Oldtimers who used to be here in those by-gone days. We hope that when— The Fashion has passed on. Borne writer like our friend Stein, Will come along and tell Those who are here then— Of how good we were, In the "days when". . Which reminds us In passing That you will get a nice kick yourself— Out of these keen fall and winter suits. Which are on display right here— Now—at the Fashion. SUNDAY DINNER Fried Chicken Baked Chicken Roast Turkey Cranberry Sauce Log Cabin Salad Creamed Cauliflower Fresh English Peas Asparagus Baked Irish Potato Hot Biscuits Your choice of Drink and Pie 40c COMPLETE KIT CARSON S ' IT S DIFFERENT 1214 Washington —-" 'MISSION COPS OVER LOCALS Up .Valley Eagles Claw Brownsville In 13-0 Upset (By stall correspondent) MI6S1CN, Oct. 1.—Utilising two breaks to manulacture touchdowns, the Mission Eagles took a startling upset from the Brownsville Eagles here Friday afternoon Played on a siow field, the game was relatively dull, except for the tirewcrks following the Mission touchdowns. The up-Valley fans went wild for it was the first vic tory a Valley MB” eleven had been able to put over Brownsville since 1927. The Mission eleven got off to a good start in the opening quarter. Two blocked kicks gave them a decided adtantage. One of the blocked punts was recovered near the Brownsville goal line and Dan Seitz, stellar Mission back, went over lor the marker. From then on It was a battle In midfield until an intercepted pass, late in the final quarter, gave the fghting Mission squad its second marker. Trujillo, lert handed pass er, cut loose with a pass intended for Mickey West. Seitz grabbed a off in the flat zone and ran 70 yards to the touchdown. Trujillo was the only player to get close to the speeding Eagle. Mission fought hard from tnc opening whistle and earned the breaks she got. The first downs were one each. The Mission backs, realizing tnc condition of the field, ran their plays into the center of tk3 line Brownsville, on the other hand, tried outbacks which were no» effective on the wet field. The Brownsville backs lost momentum i and hit the ltne weakly after I outbacks. Seitz carried off honors for Mission in the startling victory Barber and Sid Bennett stood out for Brownsville. Trujillo was one bright spot for Brownsville, play ing a good game at safety. Out of every 100 drug addicts in the United States today. 80 are said to be men and the remainder wo men. I Alexander Leads All Batters In America CHICAGO. Oct. 1. i/F>—Big Dale Alexander of the Boston Bed Sox snatched the 1932 batting cham pionship of the American league from Jimmy Foxx. but the star first baseman of the Philadelphia Ath letics collected enough Individual leaderships to stamp him as the most valuable batsman in his or ganization. Semi-offical figures, which have been checked and doublechecked. give Alexander an average of ?67 for 124 games, while Foxx amassed a mark of 364. in 154 contests. Foxx batted in the most runs, scored the most runs, had the most home runs and the most total bases. HU 58 homers left him just two short of Babe Ruth's major league record, but ahead of the mark of 54 or right handed swatters, set by Hack Wilson of the 1930 Chicago Cubs. He slugged in 169 runs, scored 151 himself and his 213 hits were good for 438 bases. A1 Simmons, who will be with the Chicago White Sex next season, led In hits with 216. with Heinle Man ush of Washington, r.ght behifl with 314. Eric McNair, the voifl Philadelphia '.nfielder, won the tH base hit crown with 44. while fl Cronin of ashlngton. had 18 th^fl base hits for a leadership. In stofl bases. Ben chapman of the Yifl kecs repeated as champion with B»!f Ranking behind the new cha^fl pion and Foxx were the foUow^fl regulars: Gehrig, New York, 3» Manush, Washington, 342: Ru^fl New York. .341; Cramer, Phllad^fl phia, .336: Simmons. Philadelph^B 333; W'alker. Detroit, .323; Rifli Washington. 321; Combs, New York; Cronin. Washington, and R. Ferrell. 1st. Louis .319. In team batting the Athletics re* I peated as leader with 390, four points better than the champion Yankees. Washington shaded the j Athletics in team fielding by the merest fraction of a point, 37938 to I .97937. Johnny Allen, the Yankee freeh man. had the top percentage among I the regular pitchers, winning 17 and I losing four for a mark of -810. The Texas Centennial Means The 100^ Birthday of Texas - i — Sam Houston was inaugurated President of the Republic of Texas on October 22,1816. As a symbol of his assumption of civil office, be presented bis suord to the Speaker of tbe House, Celebrated in Honor of the Immortal Heroes of Texas9 Early History "It now, sir, becomes my duty to make presentation of this sword . •. this emblem of my past office," said Houston at his inauguration. "I have worn it with some humble pretensions in defense of my country—and should the danger of my country again call for my services, I expert to resume it, and respond to that call, if needful, with my blood and with my life." In this dramatic manner constitutional government began in Texas nearly a century ago. The centennial of that event, and of other events which marked the birth of Texan independence, w ill come in 1936. We should observe it with a Centennial Celebration worthy of Texas and the heroes who won and established Texan Independence. Such a Centennial Exposition can rival the foremost of such events ever held. Literally millions of people will throng the borders of Texas. They will not only see the glories of our illustrious past—but the golden oppor tunities of the present. Happily, such an Exposition will return revenue to the State far in excess of its cost. . . and individual Texans will see direct economic benefit. VOTE for the Texas Centennial Constitutional Amendment Nov. 8th Authorizing f ■'i“- ""l 1930 This is the third of eight patriotic messages prepared and sponsored by: TEXAS CENTENNIAL COMMITTEE < TENTH DISTRICT—ADVERTISING FEDERATION OF AMERICA TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION * TEXAS DAILY PRESS LEAGUE * PROGRESSIVE TEXANS, l»c.