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The BROWNSVILLE HERALD SPORTS SECTION I 11
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SAN BENITO-BROffNSVniE GOLF TOURNEY UP HERE SUNDAY
100 GOLFERS
ARE TO PLAY
Foursome Matches To Get
Under Way At
8 A. M.
Pairings of San Benito and
Brownsville golfers in the tourna
ment to be played at the local golf
course Sunday morning were an
nounced Saturday by Clyde Smith,
chairman of the golf committee.
All golfers not listed are in
vited to be present, and match
es will be arranged for them. Smith
announced
A special invitation has been
extended to tourists to be present
at 8 o'clock Sunday rooming, to
give their namps to Smith, and
they will be placed in matches to
be arranged then.
The tournament will be a match
play affair, arranged in foursomes,
with three points to a foursome
one for each singles match and one
for the four-ball match.
Pairings as tentatively arranged,
k. With San Benito players listed
first, are:
1.—Jim Augenbright vs. Charles
Puckett and A1 Pclzm vs. Jimmy
George
2— Pred Atkins vs L Voight,
and A. Herbst vs. V. W. Taylor.
J—D. S. Myers vs C. H. Rud
iroae and G. A. Holland vs Hari
Thomas
4— Bill Bates vs D. K Clint, and
H. J. Sandmeier vs Holman Har
rison.
5— Alex Works vs H D. Seago
and Sim S. Clark vs. Capt. A.
Cocke.
6— Fred Shore vs. Wm. 6 West |
and Matt Gill vs John M. Young.
7— L. S. Witte vs. Clyde Smith,
and A C. Smith vs R B Creuger.
8— App Wenkstrom vs Travis
Jennings, and Jack Dobson vs
Larry Lightner.
9.—Bob Works vs Harold Mc
Kay and Arthur Kumey vs Bob
Ernst.
10— Jim Sweeney vs G. D Sut
ten and Jack Elliott vs Duck Swan.
11— S. S. Dodds vs D. G. Rich
ardson and W. T. Moore vs George
Kraigher.
12— G. E Lovett vs Bill Brown
and Z. L. Fort vs Joe Sharp.
12—Art Cowden vs P W Sam
uels and J. E Ross vs Bill Wain
right.
14— Bud Bohner vs Charles Bur
ten and A J Gary vs George
White.
15— c. E. Boil lie? vs W. E. Me
Rex Beach Tournament
Plans Are Formed Here
At least 32 Brownsville golfers
are expected to take part in tne
annual Rex Beach cup handicap
tournament at the local course,
starting Sunday. Feb. 26, according
to present indications.
The tournament is attracting
much attention, with many of those
who have not been playing recently
swinging the club6 again to get in
form.
Qualifying rounds should be play
ed at once.
It will be necessary for every per
son desiring to enter to turn in to
Alfonso Escalante, steward at the
club building at least three 18-nole
j scores before noon Saturday. Feb
, 25. as draw ings for matches will be
A /PoloClubs
To Meet Sunday
Sunday at 2:30 p. m . the third
game of the hard fought polo
senes between otficers of the I?-!
Mexican Cavlary from Reynosa and
oificers of the 12th Cavalry, will be
played at Fort Brown polo field.
The Mexican officers, with their
spectacular riding and hard hit
ting. have won the last two games
by scores of 5-3 and 4-3.
As they will bring the same
team for this next game, this
final contest of the senes promises
to give the spectators a thrilling
exhibition of fast and furious
play.
Visitors are welcome to attend.
Nc admission will be charged.
The line-ups:
Ft. Brown (red) Reynosa (pink)
Maj. Andrew . Lt. Lopez
No. 1
Lt. Reed . Col. Marquez
No. 2
Lt. Col. Winfree . Lt. Col. Zamora
No. 3
Lt. Massey . Lt. Rodriguez
No. 4
Davitt and J. M. Jones vs J. L.
Putegnat
16— C. D. Kirk vs Tom Aziz and
Pat O'Brien vs Sam Perl.
17— Frost Bohner vs Leon Pen,
and Ed Zev vs Burt Hinkley.
18— Hugh Hardin vs Clarence
Reagan, and rest of foursome ar
ranged.
It will not be a handicap tour
nament.
Sunday will be a general get
together dny at the country club
grounds, with a special luncheon
at noon to be served at the club
building.
.made then, and handicaps must be
arranged.
Persons playing more than three
rounds are urged to turn in all
their cards, as a permanent system
of handicaps is to be worked out
at the golf course.
All Brownsville golfers—including
those living outside the city limits,
but in the Brownsville territory,
are invited to take part in the
tournament.
There will be no fee.
Clyde Smith, chairman of the
golf committee, baid the standard
American Golf association system
of handicapping, which is also used
by the Lower Gulf Coast Golf as
sociation. will be used.
This provides that a player be
given a medal play handicap of
the difference bet »ecn his average
best game and par. less two strokes
The match play handicap, which
will be used in the Rex Beach cup
tournament, is two-thirds of thv
medal play handicap.
For instance, a goiter having an
.average score of 95 for his th.*te
best games will have a medal play
handicap of 21. and a match play j
handicap of 14.
Hidalgo Announces
Elimination Plans
PHARR. Feb. 18. —At a recent
meeting of the official represen
tatives of the schools of Hidalgo
county, the athletic program for
this semester was arranged and
information was given out by L.
E. Chandler, county athletic di
rector.
It was decided to dispense with
the round robin schedule in vol- i
ley ball and indoor play ground
ball because of the expense in
volved in traveling, a preliminary
schethile will be used to eliminate
all but four teams who will meet
at Edinburg for the final games
on March 24.
Hidalgo county was divided mto
two brackets for the tennis match-1
es. The lower bracket is made up
of Mercedes. Weslaco. Donna and
Pharr-San Juan-Alamo upper
bracket. Edinburg. McAllen, Sharv
land. Mission. Hidalgo and La
Joy a. The finals in tennis will be
held on March 25 in Edinburg
Most of the schools of Hidalgo
county will have representatives in
the tennis contests.
FRIDAY BASKEBAI.L
TCU 31. Baylor 22.
A. & M. 25. Arkansas 21.
Southeastern Okla. Teachers 33.
Texas Tech 31.
Ranger Junior college 20. Tarle
ton 51.
El Jardin Wins
Over Cardinals
HARLINGEN, Feb. 18— Fight
ing like things possessed, the El
Jardin Cougars. Cameron county
' B champions, took the measure
01 the Harlingen Cardinals, “A"
champions, 40-35 here Friday night
to even their championship series
at one-all.
The El Jardin boys took the lead
in the opening moments of play
and never were headed. Hanna,
clever forward, was the firing pin
in the successful El Jardin blast
He accounted for 27 |>oinls.
The two clubs were to meet at
Harlingen again Saturday night In
the deciding contest of the series.
The Friday scoring:
Ei Jardin— fg ft tp
Hanna f . 11 5 27
Huffman, f . 0 0 0
Chitwood, f . 2 0 4
Van Dusen, c . 3 1 7
Cowan, g . 0 2 2
Bonn, g . 0 0 0
Margcnau, g . 0 0 0
Lokey. g . 0 0 0
Totals . 16 8 40
Harlingen fg ft tp
Anderson, f . 2 2 t>
Sliver, f . 5 2 12
F McElroy, f . 0 0 0
White, c . 2 15
Copen haver, c . 1 0 2
Hampton, g . 1 o 2
Barnhart, g . 2 2 6
J McElroy. g . 0 2 2
Totals . 13 9 35
Referee; Pipkin.
FIGHT RESULTS
PITTSBURGH—Frankie Goosby.
Pittsburgh, outpointed Paul De
laney. New York. (10). George
Reilly. Detroit. stopped Johnny
lJato. Pittsburgh. (3).
Valley Fighters
In Tough Bouts
Chester C. Houde. Valley scrap
per, will have his hands full Sun
day night when he Ues into Man
uel Zermeno, who is known as one
of the best battllers in Mexico.
This is Zermcno's first start in the
Moctezuma (Matamoros) arena, but
he comes well recommended. He
has been fighting outstanding boys
at Tampico for some time. Zermenc
made a Rood showing against
Tommy ”'hite. the American who
held the Mexican title for some
time.
The second fight of the night will
pit Simon Salinas of Donna against
• Chato” Gonzalez of Reynosa Sali
nas has been improving lots of late
but he will have to go some to best
the Reynosa bulldog.
The bouts will get under way in
the Moctezuma Arena at 8 30 p. m
Sunday.
Bears to Have Good
Tennis Squad Again
PHARR. Feb 18—There is a
great amount of interest shown in
the Pharr-San Juan-Alamo high
school in tennis this year with a
large number of boys and girls
trying out. Coach J. W. Vest has
high hopes for this pear in Walter
Brant and Forest Mclntire among
the boys, and the girls team con
sisting of Helen Nelson, Helen
Bell, and Mary Sorensen. Others
out for tennis include Carl Ray
mond Bigger. Adair Nawthorne,
Daisy Ellen Polk and Katherine
Melton.
Coach Vest took honors in the
county and district contests in
tennis and made a fine record in
the state tournament at Austin
last year hopes to give plenty
Df competition to other Rio Grande
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Valley schools this year. The pre
liminary contests in tennis will be
held on March 10. 14 and 17. ac
cording to Director L. E. Chand
ler.
Pioneers to Hold
Practice Sunday
The Brownsville "Pioneers” a
strong semi-professional baseball
club headed by Manuel Garcia
Gomez, will hold its first work
out of the season at 9:30 a. n».
on the old "36'’ diamond.
TTie manager requests all play
ers wishing to try out to be on
hand at the first meeting.
The ’Pioneers," composed al
most entirely of young Browns
ville players, made a strong record
last season under Garcia Gomez’
direction. It was his intention to
develop Brownsville talent rather
than to bring in outside players.
“IN OUR
ALLEY”
Here’s a hand—
For those who are put
ting—
The Brownsville Coun
try Club—
is
afford to get
1 of us get benefits
rom—
A country club,
Even if we never set
foot,
On its grounds.
So let’s get in and pitch,
And help put the coun
try club
Over.
Big!
Valiant hearts often beat be
neath baseball uniforms ... Henry
Johnson, who was traded to the
Boston Red Sox by the Yankee*
last year, and who retired to his
Florida acres to think it over,
actually asked recently to be re
instated ... and actually w as.
Mr. George Herman Ruth says
the Yankees need him m e than
he needs the Yankees.... which
is partly right — and partly just
a bit of idle chatter... because
the Babe is crazy about baseball
....you’d probably be. too.
Hockey seems to be surviving
the depression nicely_especially
in Detroit, where thousands are
turned away at Uie big games.
OVERHEAD
ECONOMY
Orey Stetsons — brown
Stetsons — mixtures -♦
snapbnms — welt brims
— narrow bands and wide
bands — a wide selection
at the season's lowest
price—
Stetson— $3=
While They Last!
Ctcfloctj
I “l/n« With Onions”
—C sir emit Pm. an.
Then there was a ynunt: lady
who had water on the knee, so
the doctor told her to wear
pumps.
—Slmit Lfm.
Here n to the mrl who steals,
lies, and swears — steals into
your arms, lies there, and
swears she’ll never love an
other.
I Boss—“You ask htfh wac* -
for a man with no experience.”
Applicant — ‘‘But it is so
much harder work when you
don’t know anythinc about it.”
Soy, are you going 1o vote
for me for Just ye of the
Fenee f
U. S. C. Wsmfmi,
►She: “Did you notice that
girl's face? Homely as a
hedge fence.”
He: “Was it? I didn’t look
closely, but I know she had a
run in the back of her right
stockuig.”
Alter seeing the bread in a
drugstore sandwich it seems
queer that there is such a thing
as a wheat surplus.
Give a business man enough
rope and you'll find him tied
up in a conference.
If all the Politicians were
laid end to end some would lie
still while others would still
lie.
—M. I. T. V•• D*t.
“Fou wouldn't hit a man
mth glasses!”
-L~s Jtf.
“My rrae,” he whispered
tenderly as he prewed her vel
vet cheek to his.
“My cactus,” she said as she
touched his face.
Why does he wear those col
ored glasses all the time?
So's he can sleep in dan
without arousing suspicion.
She (at house party) —
“Why do you insist on whis
pering words of love into my
ear?”
He—“Because ray wife’s sit
ting right over there.”
—TktUt.
THE BEST COMEDY IN AMERICA
Copyright, 1933, hy The Collegiate Publishing Co, (College Humor) Through Beil Syndicate.
1—— - i» I - ■ —
Orthopedic surpeons in Chi
capo say that the bipper a
woman's feet, the prettier the
woman.—Stun Item.
My pirl friend’s hair has
beauty rare
Her eyes are azure blue;
That silky skin and dimpled
chin
Are thinps to come and view.
Her ruby lips and slinky hips
Are — well, they're simply
neat.
Her beauty’s so mysterious
She drives me quite delirious
But then —I stop and ponder
that—
She has enormous feet.
Her well-bred poise attracts
the boys
From near and far away—
They doubt the truth but then,
for sooth
They change their minds and
stay.
Her praise is sung by every
tongue
But none of it s complete—
Some folks are so forgettable
But then —it's not regrettable,
They all omit this gruesome
fact:—
She has enormous feet.
—M. I. T. Vo* Do*.
Republican ('boarding train) j
“Porter. I’m in lo*er 3, is my
berth ready?”
Porter: “No Sir. I thought
you politicians made up yoar
own bunk.”
Frosh:—What profession are
you studying for*
SophomoreDentistry.
Frosh:—Oh, I see yon want
to tret at the root of things.
1st—‘‘How's business?*'
Und—“Bad—even the people
who never pay have stopped
buying.”
I've got those mml box blues
Thai I can't seem to lose—
All the notes I get
Say, “Pay your dues'’
\o wonder I've got
Those mml box blvcs.
—Ustt lj»9.
Drawing Prof: — Hare you
finished making your map?
Sweet Co-EdNo, dearie, I
can't find my compact.
There was a young man from
Peru,
Who, hatnng nothing better to
do,
Crossed otters with monkeys
And, gophers mth donkeys,
And sold the results to the too.
—TSt Gm
As big chief Rain-in-the-Face
said to Sitting Bull: “Is my
face red!”
—M. 1. T. V •• Dm,
• ROWDY DOW AT KILLJOY COLLEGE
HI FFILOW6 ■' - LITTLE
JERRY &»! E Tt NEr YOU —
HOW IN THE 'SwfcETSOEU.'
VF*rur\e Business
-•n .SELL lfl»& CAPUA con - I
FACTA - MICE WACKET, EH 9 I
HOW DO you- LIKE TMe 1
LATfAT ?
YOU CRAZY, jrmIV?
U)HO UJOUXD CUFR U4T
^A con pact that sixk?^
oh — That's all m*.«cr /
THTV US* TMV5C IN MR -
Ha*Y —the* sell thco t®
THE NUtUT COLOM4T4/ .
“My daddy 's & bookkeeper,”
said little Benny, proudly.
“I know it,” replied his lit
tle playmate. “He has several
of my daddy's.”
Lend me a nickle.
Can ya change a five?
—Uat* Lna,
“Wotta man, woua man;
with a heart like gold.”
“Yeah, hard and yellal”
loot’s do sotting up exereiees.
Sure—You oan be the dum
beil.
She was only a luggage
maker's daughter but she know
her gnps.
“A’o, I'm not (bring these
days. It gives me a head
ache.”
—7b* P«*nu*,
And when I first met her, she
thought hemstitehinc was just
a new sandwich.
—S*tt* L/tm.
“Who was that— f M
“Was it rifrht; she feel off
he bridpre last niprht.”
A pro-pretter once became his
own boss. In two months he
had worked himself to death.
—7b*Uf
Timyi “Why aren't there as
’many radroad accidents as
there are onto mwkapsf'*
Two Tiny: “The fireman
itnH always hnggmg the en»
“That gay feels everything
In his bones; be must fay peyy
chic.M
“Naw, he’s a orap aktoaurr™
Frat. Senior: What’s m these
trunks, fresh?
Frosh: Clothes. ^
Senior: Leave the keys oh
my desk and seram!
COOPERATE
Remember the banana. Every
time it leaves the bunch, it gets
skinned.
—GrfW On Jim. •
“SA