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The BROWNSVILLE HERALD SPORTS SECTION
BURNS, FLORES IN MAIN EVENT AT VET ARENA THURSDAY
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Tonight
Punching will be at a premium
Thursday night when “Soldier
Jack” Burns, long-armed light
heavyweight, and Juan Flores, lan
tern - jawed Matamoros batt 1 e r,
climb through the ropes at the V.
P. W. arena for the 10-round main
event of the second legalized box
ing card to be held in Brownsville.
They have an old score to fettle,
and such things aren’t settled with
feather dusting lefts. Walloping
overhand rights, the kind the fans
crave to see, will likely be the or
der of the night.
Unsatisfactory Boat
Bums and Flores fought in Ma
tamoros some time ago with Flores
taking a T. K. O. victory in the
fifth after Burns had injured his
hand and was unable to continue.
.Bums, so he says, was winning
hands down, bitting Flores with
f everything until he injured his duke.
Flores, however, has another story.
The Matamoros boy says he was
winning, and that he was cheated
out of a clean-cut victory when
Bums quit.
Slnoe the fight, they have been
exchanging uncomplimentary com
ments with considerable smoke ex
uding from' their collars. Flores did
the matter no good by jumping in
to the ring at the last fight and
^challenging Bums without permis
sion of the management.
Flores Is Tough
"Soldier Jack” has been scrap
ping for the past three years, roll
ing up a long string of victories
in Matamoros, Corpus Christi and
up-Valley points. His boxing abil
ity may not be of the best, but he
has a fighting heart and a paralyz
lng right.
Flores has been fighting regularly
in Matamoros. He recently went
ten rounds with Manuel Zermeno,
one of the toughest middleweights
in Mexico. Zermeno was unable to
put Flores down in the entire ten
rounds.
The semi-final will pit Jack Doss
of Austin against Ramiro Munoz, a
Laredo product, in a six rounder.
Joe Averella, M. de la Rosa and
Johnny La Tour will be matched
against Valley boys in the pre
lims.
The card gets under way at 8:15
the Vet Arena.
Rio Hondo Ready
For Donna Game
RIO HONDO, Sept.v28. — Coach
Jack Freshour is pushing the Rio
ttmpdo high football squad hard in
aamr to have it make a strong
showing in its first "B” game
against the Redskins at Donna Fri
day. Heretofore Rio Hondo has
playid “C” ball, but is stepping up
this season.
N. Burleson, quarterback, is out
with an injured back, and Russell
HH11 wilT likely run the club against
Coach George Vest’s Redskins Fri
day.
The Rio Hondo line-up will like
ly be: Ends, Rushing and Jones;
tackles, Watson and Dykes; guards,
Keith Hoover and Sam Mize; cen
, ter, Wheeler; halfbacks, Lewis and
Kuhn; quarter, Russell Hill; full
Black..
WIND-DRIVEN LIGHT PLANT
ABERNATHY, Tex. (JP)— R. T.
Marquis, farm youth, makes the
wifld Ught his room. A 32-candle
power automobile light globe bums
from electricity furnished by a radio
battery, charged by a wind-motor
on the roof which operates a gen
erator.
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Will This Win World Series?
Carl Hubbell’s famed left hand.
Pitcher Carl Hubbell, screwball
ace of the New York Giants, who
has pitched remarkable shutout
ball this season, shows you how
he holds the horsehide in deliver
ing his specialty. This hand is
expected to be the most formid
able weapon the Washington Sen
ators must face when they meet
the Giants in the world series.
Mission to Open
Against Weslaco
By Lyle Lehman
MISSION, Sept. 28. — Coacn
Claude Dailey will send his screech
ing Eagles out on the gridiron here
Friday lacking in experience and
weight, but with a fighting spirit
against Harry Johnson’s panting
Panthers of Weslaco.
Mission will be handicapped :n
this year’s pigskin tussle with a
small and inexperienced team lack
ing in reserve strength. Coach
Dailey has been putting his ooys
through hard practice the past two
weeks with lots of emphasis on
hard driving and sure tackling.
Mentor Dailey hasn’t let up on his
Eagles for a minute, but has been
devoting lots of time to getting the
boys into shape for their first en
counter.
Weslaco is slated to win the game
by a couple of touchdowns, but
they will be met with a hard fight
ing bunch of little men.
Mission’s probable line-up: Ends,
Pierce and Smith; tackles, Garza
and Wallace; guards, T. Munoz and
Castro; center, Cooper; halves,
Freisen and Tripson; quarter, Dun
bar; full, Parrish.
FIGHT RESULTS
PHILADELPHIA. — Tommy
Loughran, 183, Philadelphia, out
pointed Jack Sharkey, 202, Boston,
(15).
CHICAGO.—Solly Dukelsky, 147,
Chicago, outpointed Carlos Herrera,
140^, El Paso, Tex., (8).
SAN FRANCISCO—Billy Dono
hue, 170, New York, outpointed Tony
Poloni, 180, Reno, (10). Metro
Sherby, 126. San Francisco, out
pointed Joey Raj’, 130, Chicago, (4).
The food and drink consumed by
the average man each year weighs
abcut a ten.
Bears to Open
Against R. G. C.
PHARR, Sept. 28.—Coach Sigler
opens the football season here Fri
day when he places his Tri-City
Bears in the field against the Rio
Grande City Hillbillies. The Bears
look different this year from the
runner-up champions of the Rio
Grande Valley last year, and Sigler
bemoans the fact that the eight
semester rule is in effect. The
scholastic requirements cut down
the otherwise long list of eligibles
for this year’s team.
Three letter men. Scheer, Ricks
and Mauer are leading the Bears
with hopes of developing a fast,
light eleven. Coach Sigler laments
the fact the team will not average
over 135 pounds and many of the
boys have never had on a suit be
fore. The game with Rio Grande
City is expected to be interesting
however and a fair crowd will fill
the bleachers.
The Bear line-up Friday is as
follows: Ends, Snowden and Parks;
tackles, Scheer and Green; guards,
Ricks and Pool; center, Hein or
Salinas; quarterback. Maurer;
halves, Preston and Fulks; fullback,
Jackson.
WILD HORSES REPORTED
IN MINNESOTA FORESTS
GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. </P)—
Adding variety to tales from Min
nesota’s big woods are reports that
an occasional wild horse is seen
and that Indians sometimes capture
one of the animals for use in farm
ing cut-over lands.
The horses, which resemble draft
steeds, are believed to have origi
nated from strays from lumber
camps or from animals left in the
woods by timber operators who re
leased them on breaking camp.
Years ago wild horses w'ere nu
merous in Minnesota woods, and
traders often captured many head.
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EX-CHAMPION
IS DEFEATED
Loughran, Feather Duster,
Outpoints Sharkey
At Philly
BY EDWARD J. NEIL
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 28.—(ff)—
It can be marked down today that
the fighting career of Jack Shar
key, stormy petrel of the heavy
weights for almost ten years, is
over, and in the same breath there’s
no telling where 31-year-old Tom
my Loughran is going to wind up.
Sharkey climbed into his big car
early this morning, slid behind the
wheel, pulled up his coat collar and
headed home for Boston. The far
ther he drove, the faster he drove,
away from the fight game, appar
ently forever.
In Baker Bowl last night, home
of the down-trodden Phillies, Shar
key came to the end of the trail.
Tommy Loughran pecked his eyes
with left jabs through fifteen
rounds, stood up under a terrific
body bombardment, grinned back
courageously from a blood stained
face, and in the end won the deci
sion, though the officials barely
gave it to him.
Sharkey Floored
The crowning blow was a right
hand punch Tommy flung into
Sharkey’s face in the tenth round,
a desperate smash that landed cn
the bridge of the former heavy
weight champion’s nose, and to the
gleeful amazement of a crowd of
less than 10,000, knocked Sharkey
to his knees, stunned him though
he came up without a count.
As far back as fight memories go,
no one has seen the feather oust
ing Loughran, famous for his box
ing but never his punching, floor
a rival. In Tommy’s career, long
before he won the, light heavy
weight championship, there appears
a couple of technical knockouts.
But never has he seriously hurt a
rival since gaining the top-notcn
ranks a dozen years ago.
It was an evening of sweet tri
umph for Loughran, even thougn
he got no pay and the gate receipts
scarcely covered the $25,000 guar
antee paid Sharkey. Four years ago,
when a heavyweight title chance
was at stake, Sharkey stormed into
Tommy in the third round of a
battle in the Yankee stadium,
whipped an overhand right into
the head of a boxer who should
have laughed at such an unorthodox
punch, and stretched him on tne
canvas.
Tommy Took It
Loughran rose at “five” that
night but he hadn’t the faintest
chance to continue as he walked
dazedly across the ring, holding the
ropes, asking Referee Lou Magnolia
for a chair to rest in, and think it
over.
It was Loughran’s turn to add
the final crusher to Sharkey s ca
reer after four years of waiting, to
add this beating to the knockout
Prime Camera scored in winning
the sailor’s heavyweight title in
June, and the trouncing King Lev
insky gave him in Chicago ten days
ago.
Miners Off to Play
Longhorns Saturday
EL PASO, Tex., Sept. 28. UP)—
The Texas College of Mines foot
ball team entrains today for Aus
tin, where on Saturday the "Muck
ers” play the University of Texas
“Longhorns”.
With a powerful, heavy line and
a fast backfield, the College of
Mines team stacks up as one of the
most promising in the school’s grid
history.
Coaches Mack Saxon and Harry
Phillips were taking 22 men on the
trip. They planned a workout to
morrow in Austin.
On October 7, before returning to
El Paso, the "Muckers” will clash
with Southern Methodist University
at Dallas.
In the Wieliczka salt mines at
Cracow. Poland, there are altars,
shrines and statues made of salt.
Hubbell Looms as Best
Hurler in World Series
By ALAN GOULD
NEW YORK, Sept. 28. (ft — It
seems to be an old American lea
gue custom and privilege to sur
round the World Series pitching
selections with secrecy. Connie
Mack gave a successful demonstra
tion of this type of strategy several
years ago when he baffled the Chi
cago Cubs with a "dark horse”
starter, Howard Ehmke, and Clark
Griffith, the “old fox” of Wash
ington now seems to have imbued
his young pilot, Joe Cronin, with
the same mysterious habit.
Whereas the principal pitching
secrets and hopes of the Giants are
wrapped up in the great left arm
of Carl Owen Hubbell, who will toe
the slab against the Senators next
Tuesday afternoon at the Polo
Grounds, the experts still are busily
guessing how Griffith am' Cronin
will rotate the Washington staff.
Who’ll Oppose Hubbell?
The logical choice would be A1
Crowder, the sturdy right hander
who has worked in 50 games this
season, scored victories in 24 and is
equipped by experience and pitch
ing craft to bear the brunt of the
Senators’ hurling defense. But
there are plenty of “smart” base
ball men who think it would be
suicidal for the Nats to send their
ace right hander against Hubbell in
the opening game. Their theory, in
short, is that the Giants will be
heavy favorites to win any game
that Hubbell starts and that it be
hooves the Senators, as a conse
quence, to save their stoutest pitch
ing arm for other occasions in a
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7“IN LEGS
Number 106
ALEX MORRISON says:
Tension in the legs means ten
sion in the rest of the body as
the swing progresses. And a
smooth, easy swing is impossible
as long as the legs remain tight.
Tension in the legs is indicated
when the heel raises off the
ground before the foot has rolled
over toward the inside.
This leg tension exists in the
swings of most golfers, yet they
don’t believe that it has anything
to do with their feet.
You can demonstrate the ad
vantage of looseness and ease to
be had by rolling your feet prop
erly simply by standing fully erect
and without lifting your heels off
the ground roll first your left foot
over toward the inside, then shift
your weight back to your left leg
and roll your right foot over
toward the inside.
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series that may go the limit of sev
en games.
Perhaps Griffith and Cronin
have been weighing this aspect of
the situation, as well as the fact
that Crowder was knocked out of
the box by the Athletics on his last
time out. Whether the Senator
boc-jes “fear” Hubbell or not, the
fact is that the ace of the Giants’
staff looms more formidably than
any other pitcher on either team.
Consequently the gossip in Wash
ington is that the Senators may
gamble on the former University of
Virginia professor of mathematics,
Monte Morton Weaver, for the
opener, with Crowder and the two
southpaw stars, Earl Whitehill and
Wally Stewart, to fall back on.
Monte Has Stuff
Weaver, a six-foot right hander,
won 22 games in his first full major
league season, 1932. He failed to
repeat this sterling performance,
due apparently to mental as well as
well as physical worries. Neverthe
less, he has turned in some fine
performances, has a lot of “stuff”
and may give the Giants a flock of
trouble.
Hubbell’s final “prep” for the
World Series yesterday, "hen he
tamed the slugging Phillies for his
23rd triumph of the season and the
100th victory of his major league
career, was all that could be asked
from the sensational exponent of
the “screw ball.”
Hubbell will rotate with Hal
Schumacher, the younger right
hander, and Freddy Fitzsimmons,
the burly “knuckle-ball” expert, ac
cording to Manager Bill Terry’s
well-laid pitching plans. If the
series goes the limit, Carl is cer
tain to start three games. It is
equally likely that he will be called
for relief duty at . ny especially
critical stage of the proceedings. He
has worked in 45 games this year,
registered ten shutouts and never
been reluctant to respond to Terry’s
emergency calls.
Lefties Star
Schumacher was belted briskly
by the Phillies yesterday in his last
workout but the Giants still have
plenty of faith in the St. Lawrence
collegian from Dolgeville. N. Y. He
is slated to start the second game
at the Polo Grounds. Fitzsimmons
will work the first game in Wash
ington on Thursday.
Scuthpaws of the grade "A” va
riety have a habit of rising to
World Series occasions. Plank.
Ruth, Nehf, Pennock. Grove, Hal
lahan and Gomez have written
their names large in championship
history. For that reason, a.aong
others, the American league anti
dote for Hubbell may be Whitehill
and Stewart, two seasoned and
crafty lefties. Whitehill. in his
11th season, has enjoyed his great
est success. Stewart, a fine work
man of the Pennock type with per
haps the best control of any mem
ber of the Washington staff, may
be the “surprise’’ that Griffith and
Cronin are grooming.
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Friday Football
Harlingen at McAllen.
R.G.C. at P-SJ-A.
Santa Rosa at Mercedes.
Raymondville at La Feria. • .
Edinburg at San Benito.
Weslaco at Mission.
Rio Hondo at Donna.
With high hopes hidden behmd
a screen of dire public prediction,
the Valley football contingent, tak
ing in upward of 600 ambitious
youths, will swing into action Fri
day when seven high scnool games
are billed.
The Harlingen Cardinals, one of
the two Valley "A” aggregations,
will make their debut against the
Bulldogs at McAllen. The Cards
have been minimizing their chan
ces, while the Bulldogs have been
conspicuously silent.
The Mercedes Tigers, defending
Valley "B” champions, will o;>en
the season on their home grounds
against the Santa Rosa outfit, a
new aggregation to the ,,B” ranks.
The Tigers should win without
overly exerting themselves.
The Tri-City Bears, runners-up
in the “B” race last season, are to
engage Rio Grande City in a non
conference game at Pharr for an
opener. The Bears, so they say,
have lost most of their punch.
Rio Hondo, a newcomer to tne
“B” ranks, will step up to Donna
to do battle with George Vest’s
Redskins. The Arroyo City boys are
due to throw the boys a few curves
before the season is over.
Edinburg, with one victory al
ready under ner belt, Is to visit
Friday and Saturday
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San Benito in what should prove
an interesting tussle. The Bobcats
took the measure of Falfurria* 14-0
in the opener.
Other games include Raymond
ville at La Feria and Weslaco at
Mission.
Leading Hurlers
NEW YORK. Sept. 28.—00s)—
Here are the pitching records up
to-date of the “big four” of the
Giants and Senators:
Giants Games W. L. 8.0.
Hubbell . 45 23 12 159
Schumacher .... 35 19 12 94
Fitzsimmons .... 35 15 11 80
Parmelee . 32 13 S 130
Senators:
Crowder . 50 24 14 101
WhitehiU . 38 21 8 96
Stewart . 33 15 6 68
Weaver .. 22 9 5 44
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over the past, asserts a psychol
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to recall their Miss-spent lives.
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