Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-30

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as.
And you don't have 20 keep this
under your hat-MeAllen and the
Eagles are going to put on one OF
the biggest football spectacles
in this city on Dec. 7, the Valley
has witnessed in many years in n
football way.
During and after the game, all one
could hear were questions and argu-
ments, ar to which was the better
team-McAlien or Brownsville. And
the writer has been asked a hundred
times as to which we thought was
the better. But our reply is that
football games are won the field,
and generally the best team wins.
And the team that wins many times
Is the one that hustles.
We enjoyed meeting J. NJ. and
Jack Smith Of the McAllen Press,
at the game in San Benito yester-
day afternoon. They covered the
contest for their paper. Fine fell
lows. and along with these sports
writers, were Harry Foehner Of the
San Benito Light and George Toolan
of the Harlingen Star. Won't be
long till different papers will be
able to form their own football teams
among sports writers-but then that
is another thing. There are enough
hard knocks in writing about il,
much less playing the game.
The committee to select an ALI
Valley football team Is scheduled
to meet in Mercedes, Dec. 5, ac-
cording TO L. B. Shifflett of this
city. Why not wait until after the
Brownsyille-McAllen game on Dee.
7, before making this selection!
In fact we believe, the selection
should not take place before the
close Of the scheduled playing s6,-
son
Ed Brady took motion pictures Of
the game in San Benito yesterday.
Brady, a moving picture magnate of
the I'VE Grow IL First" city tells
us that he has some excellent views
Of the aerial attack Of the Bulldogs
on the Greyhounds, which will be
developed and ready for showing in a
few days. Prior to the game pictures
were taken Of the San Benito team
in action form.
Art Schacht. well known Valley
baseball player. who pastimed with
Laurel, Miss, Cotton States league
club and several other St. Louis
Cardinal farms the past summer, is
home again. He is wintering in
Harrington. Schacht played with San
Benito and Weslaco in the Valley
league Of 1926. and prior TO that was
on Ed Brady's San Benito team in
1924 and 1925. Schacht still be-
longs to the Cardinals hut doesn't
know where he will play next year.
Noting that the big league clubs
are returning to the bench mana
ager. Billy Evans, general manager
of the Cleveland Club. writing for
". +. A.. minces no words about his
leaninrs toward the man who pilots
from the dugout, says the Sporting
News.
II have always been Of the opin-
ion that the job Of running a team
carries enough woe without adding
the responsibilities of playing every
day and trying TO maintain the high
standard that Is expected OF a star
Evans writes. Most playing man
ayers of recent date have been list
ed in the category Of stars as play
ers. II Is tough enough for a player
10 keep going when in a slump. but
when you add to that the burden Of
y ball club that Is going poorly. you
present an almost impossible situa-
tion.
1t is my belief that the bench
manager will hold the edge for n
great many years. Too many stars
have had their game dulled by man.
agerial responsibility to make club
owners willing 70 further experiment
along those lines"
According to information from
McAllen. a tie game does not count
a half game lost and half game won.
1t is reported that Roy Henderson,
head of the interscholastic league.
does not count the percentage in the
interscholastic league in that man.
ner. That being the case. Browns
vile and McAllen are tied for lead
crship in the Valley race.
In 1921 30 Mcmillan. coach Of the
Kansas Aggies now was a member
Of the famous Centre College foot
ball team. The Praying Colonies
toured the country. and played Tex
as A. & Nj. Coming to Texas with
an undefeated team. the Aggies
won from Centre in its only loss of
the season. Next year Mcmillan
will bring his Kansas Aggies 70 Dali
las to battle Bibles Texas Aggies.
The humiliating % to II defeat suf-
fered by Centre College in 1921. Of
which Mcmillan was quarterback Is
in McMllan's craw to this day, and