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EDINBURG, MERCEDES PLAY FOR SOFTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP HIDALGO TEN BEATS SAINTS Hot Contest Expected In f Finals At San Benito Thursday ▼ALLEY BALL TOURNEY Tuesday Results Edinburg 7. San Benito A Championship Thursday—Edinburg vs. Mercedes. Previous Results Mercedes 8. McAllen 6. Edinburg 7, Brownsville 3. Sun Benito 2. San Jusn 1. McAllen 6. All-Willacy 1. Mercedes 6. Harlingen 2. Brownsville 15. Donna 1. (Special to To# Herald) SAN BENITO. Aug. 14 —The Mer cedes and Edinburg softball aggre gations will meet on the local dia mond Thursday night with an All Valley championship at stake. These clubs have battled their way Into the finals by eliminating a faat field which entered the Valley tournament sponsored by the local Kiwanis dub. In reaching the top rung- Mer cedes heat Harlingen 6-2 and Mc Allen 8-6. Edinburg drew a bye in tr.a opening round and then whip pea the Brownsville entry 7-8 and Ban Benito 7-6 to qualify for the final event. Edinburg won over Ban Benito Tuesday night in an interesting Contest With McKinney twirling four-hit ball Edinburg won in spite Df a five run rally in the eighth frame by the San Benitans. Play afield was ragged with 14 miacues— ntven for each club—being recorded BAN BENITO— AB R H O A E Taylor. 2b. 2 1 1 1 1 0 Croc. 2b . 4 1 0 8 0 1 Wallace, sc . 2 0 0 2 0 1 Davis, sc . 2 1 0 0 0 0 Jacob* If . 4 0 1 2 0 2 Thompson, rf .... 3 0 0 2 0 Kachtik, ib . 4 0 0 4 1 0 Roberts cf . 3 0 0 0 0 0 Howland, cf ..0 0 0 0 0 0 EfeMfctt as . 4 12 2 11 KHnter. c . 3 1 0 6 1 0 Plastld. p-3b .... 3 0 0 2 1 0 Warburton. p .... 2 1 0 0 1 0 Totals .... 37 6 4 24 8 7 EDINBURO— AB R H O A E McDonald. 2b .... 2 0 0 3 2 0 Orlffln. If . 5 0 110 0 Carter sc ........ 5 0 0 1 0 Stephens, ss. 3 0 0 1 2 2 Hearn, lb . 3 2 3 15 0 2 Cavazos. 3b . 4 2 2 2 5 2 Bridges, cf . 3 0 0 3 0 0 Patrick, rf . 2 2 0 0 0 0 young, c . 4 1 2 1 0 0 McKinney, p. 4 0 2 0 *5 0 Totals.35 "7 10 27 14 7 By Innings: Ban Benito . 107 000 050—6. Edinburg . 010 030 30x—7. Left on Bases—San Benito five, EJlnburg 12. Pitching Records— McKinney allowed four hita. struck put one and walked one in nine Innings; Plastld allowed five hits, It ruck out four and walked four in tour innings; Warburton allowed R\e hits, and walked three in four Innings Umpires—Lee, Yeoman and Lewis. Scorer—Pickens. \ STANDINGS I TEXAS LEAGUE Standings Team— W. L. Pet. Oklahoma City. 75 59 360 Beaumont. 71 53 350 : Galveeton. 71 60 342 ^ Houston . 65 67 .482 Ban Antonio . 61 70 466 Port Worth . 56 72 .438 Dallas.57 74 .435 Tuesday's Results I Oklahoma City 1-1; Oalveston 0-7. Tulsa 1: Houston 14. Dallas 8; San Antonio 4. Port Worth-Beaumont. rain. Games Wednesday Dallas at San Antonio. Tulsa at Houston. Oklahoma City at Galveston. Pert Worth at Beaumont. AMERICAN” LEAGUE Standings Team— W L. Pet Detroit . 66 38 .635 New York. 60 42 388 Boston .. 55 49 329 Chicago . 52 48 320 Cleveland . 51 52 .495 1 Philadelphia..... 44 54 .449 Washington . 45 59 .433 l fit Louis . 35 66 347 Tuesday's Results 1 Boston 9; Chicago 5. » Philadelphia 14; 8t Louis 1. Washington 4: Detroit 3. New York 8; Cleveland 2. Games Wednesday I Boston at Chicago. New York at Cleveland. I Washington at Detroit. [ Philadelphia at St. Louia. NATIONAL LEAGUE Standings Team— W L. Pet. New York... 67 38 .638 £ Jui. . 64 40 .612 Chicago . 67 43 .609 PiXSSrgh. 59 51 336 Philadelphia . 46 56 .453 Brooklyn .*7 #7 45. Cincinnati . 47 61 435 Boston .26 0 25(i Tuesday’s Result. No games scheduled. Games Wednesday Cincinnati at Boston. Chicago at Brooklyn 8t. Louis at New York Pittsburgh at Philadelphia. SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION New Orleans 2; Birmihgham 1 Knoxville 14: Chattanooga 9. Little Rock 0; Memphis 5. Nashville 2; Atlanta 3. YESTERDAY’S STARS (By The Associated Press) Bed Ruffing. Yankees—Held In dians to four hits, drove In two guns with a double. In 11th victory of §68non Buddv Myers and Earl Whltohlll. | senators—Myers three hits helped {•* er Tigers, gave him league _ laud over Joe Vosmik with j whitehill held Detroit to sev en hit-*' johnny Marcum. Athletics—8nuf i fud out Browns with seven hits as {•unmates piled up IT to win 14 to! E Dusty Cooke and Mel Almada. drove In tour rune with two doubles aod a single as Boston beat Chicago 9a take Blind place. Entertainment Features Of Tarpon Rodeo Are Outlined PORT ISABEL. Aug. 14. — The program of the Rio Grande Valley Fishing Rodeo has been completed and the following outlines Its en tertaining features: i Beginning at 8:00 P. M., August 23. a social program will be held at the 8hary Yacht Club. This Is to enable guests to meet a represen tative group of Valley cltlaens and also enable the contestants to be come acquainted In advance of the actual fishing. One of the Valley's bast orchestras will provide music for dancing and for a floor show en tertainment. Actual fishing starts at daylight, August 23 and stops at 8:00 P. M.. August 25. On the evenings of August 23 lid 24 at 8:00 P. U. a bait and fly cast ing tournament will be held under flood lights at the Ahary Yacht Club. Sunday, August 35, will be the big day of days from an entertain ment standpoint. Officials expect a large attendance of Valley peo ple—larger than last year, A full day of entertainment has been worked out. designed chiefly for the Valley visitors. At 10:00 A. M the porpoise riding contest will be held. This contest was planned In order to give the Fishing Rodeo the true spirit of the accepted definition of the word “rodeo”. In this contest an attempt will be made to ride some live porpoise. At 1:00 P. M. the finals of the bait and fly casting tournament will be held. At 2:00 P. M the human fishing contest will get under way. With fishing stopping at 3:00 P. M., catchers will begin to arrive at the receiving stt' tion about 3:30 P. M. Alf activities will be centered at this point until 5:00 P. M.. or until all boats are in. At t:00 P. M. on August 25th an open air program will be held to which the entire public Is invited A few short talks will be given In advance of the actual awarding of prises by the judges to winners of the various contests. This will close the entertainment at Port Isabel. In the evening of August 25th, many of our guests will meet at Matamoroe for a final celebration of their luck. Red Sox Are Beginning To Justify Yawkey’s Outlay (By The Associated Press) The golden boys of Boston have begun to pay dividends on the ambitious Investment of Thomas Yawkey. The Red Sox have climbed into third place in the American league ana in doing so have shown class that perhaps presages even a hlgh tr rating. They tumbled the White Sox from third place Tuesday with a 9-5 vic tory. Boston unleased a 14-hit bar rage against John Whitehead and Jock Salveson with Bill Werber LAABS IS TOP MINOR HITTER Eckhardt, Former U. of T. Star, Ranks Second At .416 DURHAM. N. C.. Aug. li.-UFh Chester Laabs of Fort Wayne faces the loss of the 1935 batting crown of the minors unless he swings into I action Immediately. The Three-I League slugger has been idle a month, forced out by I mjury. His battrng average of .427 i nas been in only 67 games. TO be eligible for the trophy, a player must appear in 76 par cent of his team's games, which means that Laabs must play In 96 contests. Meanwhile Oecar Eckhardt of the Pacific Coast League Missions has increased his mark to .416, standing in line to cop the prise If Laabs continues on the sidelines The minor league leaden, com piled from latest available averages ov the National Association Press Bureau, are as follows; Laabs. Fort Wayne. Three-I. .427; Eckhardt, Mission. Pacific Coast, 416; Ferrell, Richmond. Piedmont. 394; Hodgln, Fleldale, Bi-State, .389; Harig. Washington, Penn State, .384; Wbsdeli, Zanesville. Middle Atlantic, 383: PuocintUi. Baltimore, Inter national, .381; Dean, Opelousas, Evangeline, .381; Arlett, Minneapolis, American Asso., .385; Catchlngs, Muskogee, Western Asso., .379; T. Cooper, Rogers Arkansas State, .378; Pyle, Tyler, West Dixie, .374; P^-ploski. Scranton. New York-Penn, .369; Warren, Beatrice, Nebraska, £iate, .369; E. Browne, Little Rock, Southern, .367; Harper, El Dorado, E»« Dixie. .359; Koch. Fargo-Moor hcsd, Northern, .358; Cole, Americus, Georgia-Florida, .354; Tauby Dal las Texas .340; Clements, Council Bluffs, Western. S40. Movie Sidelights CAPITOL Film* go further afield for mur der mystery locales aa Paramount brings to the screen a particularly engrossing film of the thriller spe cies set in a peaceful college cam pus. The picture Is “College Scan dal” which shows Wednesday and Thursday at the Capitol, Browns ville. , “College Scandal” has a cast of good-looking and competent Juve niles. a compact script and imagi native direction. It manages to blend its chiller aspect with some effective comedy and just the right proportion of romance. Kent Taylor, a personable young man who has been seen often on the screen of late; Arllne Judge, the pert comedienne, and Wendy Barrie, a winsome English Importa tion. head the cast of this pic ture. Wendy Barrie acts the girl who has Just arrived on the cam pus. an Irresistible oenter of at traction for the Impressionable young males. While the air Is rife with rumors of romance, one of her admirers, the editor of the college paper, is mysteriously murdered. QUEEN The two most talked of sura in Hollywood come to the screen as a new co-starring team In the pic ture, “Reckless,” showing Wednes day and Thursday at the Queen theatre, Brownsville. And thoee two stars are Jean Harlow and William Powell. The picture Is one of the most colorful ones In recent months- It Is the story of a beautiful blonde dancer who rises from a back country carnival dancer to the golden lights of Broadway, a dan cing star who becomes a nation wide sensation, who marries a playboy with minions, who cap tures society by her charm. It is the story of a girl who be comes tangled In front page sen sationalism through the suicide of her husband. wno fights for her name, for her child—a story of her bravery and decency, her cour age and her hope, with one man in the background who has al ways loved her and understood her •nd who cornea to her rescue. belting a homer. Dusty Cooke a pair : of triples and a double and Melo AJ mad a two doubles and a single. I It was the llth defeat in 13 starts for Whitehead, rookie right hander who early in the season chalked up eight straight victories. The Sox are six games behind the second place Yankees and 11 be I bli:o the first place Tigers. The Senators took the measure of Detroit Tuesday as Earl White hill, Washington's veteran south paw, pulled out with a 4-3 decision in ten innings. The Tigers tallied all their runs in the third inning when Pete Fox hit his 12th homer of the season with Flea Clifton and Jo Jo White on base. Charley Ruffing held the Indians to four hits as the Yankees scored an 8-2 victory' at Cleveland, but sloppy fielding on the part of the Indians gave their opponents six unearned runs. The Philadelphia Athletics mal treated four St. Louis hurlers to pound out a 14-1 victory. They blasted out 17 hits, every man in tbc Athletic lineup except Marcum entering the scoring column. No games were played in the National league Tuesday, but the Cards move into New York as guests of the Giants. Ar the league leaders battle It out on the' Polo Grounds, they will have cn eye cocked in the direction of Brooklyn, where the Cubs, right on ! their heels in third place, take on the Dodgers in a five game series. Eoth play doubleheaders Wednes day, GREYHOUND IS BIG FAVORITE Baksr’i Star, Unbeaten To Date, Due to Capture Hambletonian GOSHEN. N. Y., Aug. 14. (JPf— Broadway, Park Avenue and Farm talked the same language Wednes day as they invaded this little Or ange county capital some 40.000 strong for the ninth renewal cf the 833,000 Hamjletonlan stakes for three year old trotters. Not all of the visitors knew the same language ol the horses but they concentrated on the same prob lem—picking the winner of the world's richest light harness horse racing stake from nine starters. Six out of 10 came up with the same an swer—Greyhound, s smooth striding j grey son cf Guy Abbey from E. J. Baker’s St. Chsrles, Illinois stable. Steve Phillips was scheduled to send the two fillies, two geldings and five colts away at 3 p. m. EST. Greyhound, unbeaten this year, remained the odds-on-cholce to chalk up his fifth victory cf 1035 and carry off the winner’s share of the spoils. 118,670. So popular was the grey speedster that many horse men predicted the race would be de cided In two heats. Despite the strong support given Greyhound, many were willing tc back their convictions with money that either the LaSalle stable’s Law rence Hanover of Chicago, holding a two year old record of 2:02; E. J. Merkle’s Silver King cf Columbus, Ohio, or C. W. Phellis filly, Tilly Tonka, of New York, would be ac claimed the winner. Lawrence Han over won the only heat lost by Qrey hound this year. With only an cutside chance, the remainder of the field was com pe ed of Henry’ E. Warwick’s Warn + Worthy. New Hamburg. N. Y.; Wil liam Stubley’s Cola Arion. New Burgh. N. Y.; H. Stacy Smith’s Ped ro Tipton. Newark; O. C. Bell’s Cal umet Pinery, Columbus. Ohio, and Harper Hancver. a stablemate of Lawrence. Texas Negroes Win WICHITA. Kas.. Aug. 14.—<**— The Austin. Texas. Centennials, s negro aggregation, defeated the Japanese stars of Stockton, Calif., 4 to 2. in tiie second game of the national baseball tournament here Tuesday night. Shlrachi. Japanese hurler, struck out ten men and kept the negroes’ nine hits well scattered, but the erratic fielding of his mates kept him almost constantly In hot water. Score: Austin . ooo 200 011-4 0 1 Stockton .... 000 002 000—2 6 4 /lien and Roberts; Shirachl and Kakata. The custom of clinking glasses originated in Reman days. Before a duel, each gladiator drank a glass of wine, snd. to guard against the treachery of a poison being slipped into one of the glasses, it became a custom far the fighters to touch the glasses and pour the wine from one to the other. BATSELL HITS FIRST ‘FIFTY’ Vat Shooter Turn* In Two Porfoct Rounds Of Slcoot The first perfect string of 50 to be shot st the local skeet field was turned In at the Tuesday afternoon Valley shcot by J. H. Batsell of Brownsville* Shooters havs been working dili gently for this honor, but It regain ed for Batsell, who was also first to shoot a perfect 38 and first to shcot 25 straight with a .410. to turn the trick. The shoot Tuesday produced some other fine shooting, especially the perfect string of 35 made by Oliver Studeman. Pan American pilot, w^h a .410. This Is the second perfect sc ere to be turned In with the small bore gun. The Tuesday afternoon Valley shoot will be l. regular event at the field here, the regular shoot for local people being held Wednesday after noon. Scores shot Tuesday were: With large bore guns: McCendless . 21 20 20 18 18 Studeman . 24 21 23 33 Mathews (Pharr) .. 19 16 20 Smith (Ray'vllle) .. 11 30 19 Bob Batsell . 19 32 Scott (RayYille) .. 17 20 19 Young. 23 Ewing (Harlingen) .. 16 17 19 OU1 (Ray'vllle) .... 15 18 Batsell . 38 28 With .410 Studeman . 25 30 Young . 22 Oill . 17 Scott . 21 Armstrong .19 THIS IS THE big day of the year for the harness racing gentry, what with the Hambletonian classic for ihree-year-olds being run at Goshen, N. Y. Oreyhound, the horse which won the Hambletonian futurity last year, is a top-heavy favorite to take tfc< big stake Wednesday. Grey hound trotted the mile in 2:04%— excellent time for a two-year-old— tc win a $3,000 purse at Ooshen last >ear, and this horse has been win ning with great regularity this season against the best the field had to offer. Harness racing Is the outgrowth of fine buggy and sleigh horses, and the sport almoet died a natural death when the automobile came Into Its pnme. But the sport was kept alive bv a few millionaires and country scuires. and the game is on the ud swing once more. There are prob ablv more fine pacers and trotters in the country today than there have been In the past ten years. • • • LIGHT BUGGIES and sleighs became popular In England In the early 1700’s, and there is where pacing and trotting were developed. The hone’s natural gait Is a gal lop but you cannot use a galloping horse in light harness to a buggy, you might for a short time, but sooner or later you will wind up In a culvert with your fine buggy smashed to bits. So the Englishmen made the horses develop a shorter step which was called “fast walking,” and that, my dear friend, is what they call trotting today. When the horses could not trot, they hobbled them and that is what developed the pacing horses. The development of trotters and pacers for buggy and sleigh use be came a fine art In the 1800a * a a ALL OP THE blooded American trotting horses can be traced back to Messenger, an English flat racer, which was Imported to the States about 1783. This horse never ran a trotting race nor did any of its off springs, but Its granddaughters and grandsons were crossed with Ca nadian ponies and these became the great trotting horses of America. Practically every blooded trotting horse In the country can be traced back to Messenger, the flat racer who once won the King’s Plate In England. • • • THOSE Port Isabel and Rio Hondo girls certainly know how to play a bang-up game of softball. They duelled thirteen innings at Port I&ubel recently before the home girls came off with a 6-5 victory. L. venderheider, the Port Isabel tw trier, went the full route wrlth D. Pattee for her batterymate. Hollon and Burleson twirled for Rio Hondo Ruo THEATRE LA FERIA Independent Horn* Owned Theatre Wednesday and Thursday “MEN WITHOUT NAMES” Fred McMurray - Madge Evans Every Night Is a Big Night STEPPING OUT TOGETHER In this typical campus scene from Paramount’s mystery picture, “College Scandal”, which shows Wednesday and Thursday at the Cap itol Theatre. Brownsville, you see a group of the featured players. The four centrally located are Kent Taylor, Wendy Barrie, Arllne Judge and Eddie Nugent. ROMANCERS OF ‘RECKLESS’ Jean Harlow and William Powell in "Reckless", with Franchot Tone, showing Wednesday and Thursday at the Queen Theatre, Brownsville. with the catching assignment be ing handled by Burleson and Car penter. Port Isabel recently took the measure of the Arroyo Girls 3-1 at Sar Benito in a well played contest. • • • ITS A small world after all. Yc Spade climbed atop the 150 foot not aw tanlr Koincv at thn ! Brownsville turning basin, „nd after a precarious Journey over the topj who did we see but ‘‘Peewee’ Gar ner, We hadn’t seen him since he fought Simon Salinas at Harlingen a couple of years back and he was the last person we would have ex petted to see in the 100,000 gallon bowl of that big tank. Incidentally you can see a far 1 iece atop that tank—providing you art willing to make the dangerous climb, and further providing Jack Golden, the foreman, will let you get near the^ dangerous Job. tilffmam — TONIGHT — “The Most Precious Thing In Life” with JEAN ARTHUR DONALD COOK From the McCall magazine story by Travis Ingram SEWS — CARTOON Admission 10c 1 . ...—^ ! Two stars in a musl-, j caT dramatic ‘ romance 2 Jean HARLOW i D William POWELL * ‘RECKLESS’ with Franchot Tone Tfi# grand*st of mil muilcml drmmas! i To Address Rotarians SAN BENITO. Aug. 14.—Bert A Epstein Is on the Rotary club pro gram for Thursday to speak on “Out of the Depression—and After.” Char les Greenslade is to talk on “Civic Activities and Project Support." Beth speakers are Rotarians. INDIANS AND BUCS SPLIT 2 Beaumont Gains Ground By Being Idle; Buffs Whip Oilers (By The Associated Press) The Oklahoma City Indians, lead ing the Texas league, had a tough time of It Tuesday night with the third-place Galveston Pirates. The Indiana managed to squeeae one run past the excellent hurling of Jim Moore, making his first start for the Bucs. to shut out the gulf coast team. Moore allowed only four hits, while Galveston’s five were not enough to aid Moore materially. In the nightcap. Cole of the Bucs, the only pitcher In league history to hurl a perfect game, allowed only three hits. His mates collected nine to win. 7-1. Beaumont, idle at home, where two games with Fort Worth were postponed because of rain, gained three points because of the Indians’ division of the double bill, and were ten points behind the leaden In second place. Houston's three-game losing streak at the hands of southpaws was broken with a vicious 15-hit barrage on Clarence Orlffln and Al Shealy. W’lly Mike Cvengros. Houston vet eran allowed five hits as the Buffs trounced the Tulsa Oilers. 14-1. The Dallas Steers, whose heavy hitting somehow seems to fall to carry them out of the cellar, blast ed 14 hits to San Antonio’s 10 to jvin, 8-4. Gllatto hurled steadllv in the pinches for Dallas, while four Mission pitchers failed to halt the stream of hits off the Steers' bats. When Franklin Pierce was Inaugu rated as president of the United States on March 4. 1853. his running mate. William R. King, was residing in Cuba for his health. William Sharkey, U. S. Consul at Havana, ad ministered the vice presidential oath of office to King by special act of Congress. THE DUET Michael Bartlett and Grace Moore In “Love Me Forever”, with Leo Carrillo, showing Friday and Bat day at the Capitol, Brownsville. Budge To Test Spanish Threat NEiyPORT, R. I, Aug —(JP)—Don Pudge. America's outstanding Davis Cup prospect, will apply the yard stick Wednesday when Newport Casino's critical gallery measures I the ability of the game’s latest for | elgr threat. Enrique Maier, the burly Spaniard. In the country leas than 24 hours, Mater made a spectacular American debut Tuesday when He gave the seventh seeded J. Btlgert Hall, the courageous New Jersey veteran, a 7-fc. 6-1, 6-1. setback. Budge moved into the fourth round, a bracket behind mast of the other seeded players, on a de fault and a pair of easy wins over fellow westerners, Jess Mlllman of Los Angeles, and Henry Prusoff of Beattie. r M •I 'SS k A SALESMAN may be short or tall, fat I XI or lean, but the boss measures Ms value by just two things t (1) the results he gets; (2) how much k easts to hire him. Herald Want Ads got rosults because the I people who turn to them are already in the market for what they have to sell. Want Ads meet with no “sales resistance.** They waste no time ringing hostile door bells. Herald Want Ads get results cheaper, too. The Herald's average circulation is over 8,000. The cost of a 20-word Want Ad Is forty cents. No other salesman we know of will call on as many prospects as cheaply. Whatever you sell, Herald Want Ads will sell more of it. Use them often. ftlje SnmmsuQle Herald I