San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-04
! M'CARTY SPURNS
! SCORING HONORS

Football fans of San Antonio are
beginning to wonder if "ShOrty" Nc
Carly. sclassy field general Of the ST.
Mary's Rattlers. is ever going to score
touchdown. this season. Game after
game they have watched the power
full Rattlers play and in almost every
instance pile up an overwhelming score
on their opponents. yet not once have
they seen the scrappy shorty fake
across the final marker.
1t is usually Shorty who heaves
a long pass TO put the ball into scoring
distance or even totes il there him
self, but always when il is a practi-
cal certainty that one moro thrust will
carry it over he passes the honor TO
one Of the other st. Mary's backs.
McCarty is a product Of Bracken-
ridge High. and the Purple elevens do
not run so much to personal brilliancc
as to team work.
Sliding practice. 81 far as can
he ascertained il is something new
in the way 81 football training. but il
has undoubtedly worked wonders
with the Main Avenue High squad
Anybody who has witnessed the
Crimson eleven in its last pair Of
games cannot but note the utter
abandon with which Tim GrieSen-
beck's warriors pile into every play.
Well. in order 10 bring about that
disregard for personal injury. Tim
has simply taught his boys TO take a
GOOD. brisk run and then slide head
foremost out on the hard. hard
ground. They don't have ball I'M
der their arms TO break the shock.
either.
Nice exercise. Try it sometime.
Athletic Officials at ST. Mary's Col
lege are 70 be commended upon the
manner in which they have assumed
rancial burden in order m furnish
San Antonio fans with high-caliber
college football game on Armistice
day. They are bringing the touted
Dallas University eleven here on that
day on the strength Of a flat $1,000
guarantee.
That will be great football game
and n great crowd will No doubt IAN
Schwab Field on the afternoon If No
vember II. As an apnetizer for the
main event. thew win be entertained
/ by the annual clash between San An
tonic Academy and West Texas Mill
tary Academy.
For genuine action and thrills.
/ the attention Of San Antonio fans is
respectfully called n the Junior
Academic League battle at Block
Stadium Saturday afternoon be-
tween the ST. AnthOnv's College Vel
lowjackets and the ST. Mary's Col
lege Buttons The -Four Magi-
clans" Of st. AnthOnv's uncover an
entirely new list Of freak PLAYS in
each game, while the Buttons" have
a darling. dasbing Young backfield
man named Menghini who can sup
ply a few thrills himself.
However. just wait until the Vol
| lOwjackets tansla M with the frisky
Alamo Heights Mules toward the last
Of the season. That will be foot
ball game.
In Vasquez. rs brilliant a LITTLE
! hal'nack as has bern seen In Junior
l Academic League circles this year
/ there is no doubt that Coach Jacb
1 Tolar ~ the Sidney lanier eleven has
uncovered potential star for some
local senior high school. This is said
TO bc his first serious attempt at the
rough game. but its hard 10 believe.
His most notable performance IA
date was against the Brackenridse
Wildcats at Block Stadium Monday
afternoon. The way he gathered in
pass after pass shot ~ him BIZ Flores
was revelation. The ball was \
mass ~ mud and water. but his fin
gers had M trouble retaining II. He
is an exceptionally fast runner and a
deadly tackler.