Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-23

The writer IN III rerSipt Of the foi-
lowing letter, in part, from g.. W.
Gotkc. superintendent Of the Browns
willie public schools:
Il want TO take this opportunity to
express "a you my appreciation for
the most gracious way IN which you
advertised tho Alamo Heights
Brownsville football game. ] want
YOU TO know that our athletic folks
and | appreciate what you have done
for Us in the way Of good wholesome
publicity. We know full well that
II u possible 10 have a good football
team but ii may prove a failure due
TO the wrong type of publicity. !
personally feel that your generous
comments and editorials on the Ala
mo Heights game had much TO do
with the success Of that game, both
from the standpoint Of the game it.
self and from the financial point OF
view. And SO, please accept my
thanks for your most hearty coop
Grafton with our team
Among the spectators at the Texas
Arkansas game IN Austin saturday
was Gerald Mann, last years great
quarterback OF ). II. T.. Mann was
IN attendance al tho game %ostensibly
as a scout. Gerald must have gotten
his eyes fun. lie saw a powerful
Texas team down the R~azorbacks.
and it would be interesting to know
Just what reports he carried back TO
Coach Ray Morrison and his assist
ants nj $. NJ. Vi.
30 Mcmillan, former Centre col
legc star, and now coach Of the Kan
sas Aggies. lost his first game Sat
Urday, Of this season. TO the Kansas
University Jayhawkers, 7 to o. Re-
ports OF the game say that the Jay
haw kers gained their victory by a
last minute aerial attack.
Sherwood Bishop, Brownsville bust
ness man, and member of the local
school board. used to play baseball
In nineteen hundred and-well. we
don't remember exac year. lie played
second base. Was a good one, too.
He rcminisces that many n whipping
has he gotten because he insisted on
playing on Sundays when he was a
boy. He's an ardent football fan,
now. and is carrying a husky voice,
due 10 letting out a lot Of pent-up
enthusiasm. when the Brownsville
Eagles whipped the San Antonio
Mules here last Thursday.
There is going Ia be a mighty
good junior high football game
on the local grounds Thursday
.Frsu ZtafpU NJ nfatnel
Coach Connally's Red Ants will
take ON the juniors from Harlin-
gen.
Hope springs eternal in the hui
man breast, we are told, or words to
that effect. Then We hope the local
football squad gets \ game with Cor
pus Christi this season. 'Twould be
a mighty crowd out for a game be-
tween Fcssenden's Eagles and the
Corpus Christi Buccaneers. Let US
refresh your memory: Some years
ago Corpus Christi whipped the To-
Gals three years in a row. and two
Of the defeats were on the local
field.
In the old days Of football. from
1901 to 1904 Michigan had one Of
the best backficld men in the coun-
try at that time in Willie Heston.
This l9D-pound back made l0G touch
downs In his four years at Michigan.
Alonzo Stagg who has coached Mich
igan ~elevens so long that his name is
Synonymous with Michigan. is hav-
ing his ups and downs this year.
which prompts Grantland Rice in a
recent issue Of Golfers % pen this
verse:
Backward. roll backward, o Time.
on your way;
Make me a kid sgain just for today;