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

The writer is in receipt or the fol-
lowing letter, in part, from g.. W.
Gotke, superintendent of the Browns
willie public schools:
Il want TO take this opportunity to
express 20 you my appreciation for
the most gracious way IN which you
advertised the Alamo Heights
Brownsville football game. | want
YOU 70 know that our athletic folks
and | appreciate what you have done
for us in the way Of good wholesome
publicity. We know full Wei that
II is possible to have a good football
team but IL may prove a failure due
to the wrong type Of publicity. ]
personally feel hat 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 al the Texas
Arkansas game IN Austin Saturday,
was Gerald Mann. last years great
quarterback Of S. NJ. u. Mann was
I'M attendance at the game ostensibly
as a scout. Gerald must have gotten
his eyes full. 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 at :. VI. ".
30 Mcmillan, former Centre col
lege star. and now coach Of the Kan
sas Aggies, lost his first game Sat
urday, of this season, to the Kansas
University Jayhawkers. Z to Q. Re
ports Of the game say that the Jay
hawkers 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 exact year. He played
second base. Was a good one, too.
He reminisces that many a 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 TO letting out a lot of %pent-up
enthusiasm. when the Brownsville
Eagles whipped the San Antonio
Mules here last Thursday.
There is going To be a mighty
good junior high football game
a.. -. -l. TtruIar
afternoon, starting at 4 o'clock.
Coach Connally's Red Ants will
take on the juniors from Harlin-
gen.
Hope springs eternal in the hu-
man breast, we arc told. or words to
that effect. Then W. hope the local
football squad gets a game with Cor
pus Christi this season. 'Twould be
a mighty crowd out for a game be-
tween Fessenden'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 we're 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 az that time in Willie Heston.
This l90-pound back made LOG 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 to pen this
verse:
Backward. roll backward. o Time.
on your way;
Make me q kid again Just for today;