Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-03-02
Athletics To Haze
Cobb AGAIN oYnsby
Signs For 3 Years

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PHILADELPHIA. Mar. 2.-OF-i
Connie Hack. boss Of the Philadel-
Fhia Athletics. was happy at Fort
Myers, r w., today because he had
added 10 fhis basket Ct peaches for
1928 one AZ the Georgia variety.
" cohb has wired thes Ne will be
with the club again this year. No
figures are announced.
sIt/took = long campaign 70 get
tr smother season." Mack said.
had virtually retired from
eball and didn't want to play. but
en- / showed him how useful he
build be 70 me the next season and
borrower give us . chance for the
ypennant, he finally consented TO join
us.
4rm one mansrer who never
thinks of age when selecting . ball
player. All I want TO know IS what
they can do. Ty will be N inspira-
ton to evsry player and help the
whole team. ~
~cobb, Speaker and Simmonzs
What an outfield that will be with
which to electrify the nation"
oTWWWH8 ~ peg ANA~ +[@4
Speaker Is center, and Cobb in
right
At Winter Haven. Fls., the Phil
lies are working on q twice-a-day
schedule, with all hands putting
their stuff on exhibition under the
watrhfnl eye Of Manager Burt Shot
ton. Nearly every position will be
an open fight this season.
ROBINS SEX LOCKE
BOSTON. Mass, Mar. 2.-LFl-Ad-i
vices from the Braves training camp
at 81. Petersburg. Fla, about Rog-
ers Hornsby's new three-year con-
tract are that he will receive $40,-
600 a year with aa annual bonus Of
$500 to net as captain. He signed
the contract yesterday.
The contract was voluntarily sub
mitted 10 the rajah by Judge Emil
E., Fuchs. president Of the club, and
came as . surprise 20 Hornsby
whose contract with the New York
Giants. which the Braves took over
when he was traded TO Boston, had
another year to run.
Hornsby's New York contract was
for $4,000 q season. He character
lied Judge Fuchs action as hand
scmer and said, "you may be sure
appreciate the consideration shown
me, and IL ] can make IL up to
the Boston club, giving il the best
that is in me, ! certainly viii do
So.
Things have moved along so
smoothly at the Bradenton, Fla,
camp of the Red Sox that Manager
Bill Carrigan has announced that
real baseball will start next week BY
the Sox entertaining the st. Louis
Cardinals on Wednesday. Carrigan
figures he has about nine pitchers
reSdy TO 'get in there"
Robins Seek Locke
NEW YORK, Mar. 2.-tR1-Roiand
Locke, famous Nebraska Splinter.
has an offer to give up the cirder
path for the diamond.
Acting upon the recommendation
Of Dave Bancroft, Manager Robin
son Of the Brooklyn Nations has in
vited Locke TO report at Clearwa-
ter, Fla.s for q tryout with the
Dodgers.
Bancroft il q friend Of Locke and
although neither he nor Robinson
have seen the Nebraskan perform on
q baseball field, they have reports
that he displays ability as an out
fielder.
X Is understood that Locke will
abide by Robinson's judgment as 20
whether he should abandon the track
in his pursuit for a major league
rarecr.
Although Dazzy vsnce has not
signed a contract for 1928, he pitch
ed two innings for the Robins in q
practice game yesterday indicating
m~-mn -.kn~-nw& - &ha al
airy controversy.
The Giants had their first drill at
Warren Park, Ga, yesterday With a
squad Of SO reporting. Vic A~ldridge,
the pitcher traded to New York by
Pittsburgh in return for Burleigh
Griraes, has yet 70 put in appear
ance.
Rookies had q big day at the
Yankees camp at St. Petersburg,
Fla. Byrd Of Alabama and Cooke. a
Czrolinian performed in the oufield
to the satisfaction of Manager Mil
Ter Higgins Lou Gehrig connected
for another long swat to the lake
adjacent TO the diamond. Babe Ruth
is becoming bronzed by the sun with
his religious patrol Of the golf links.
CUBS TO PLAY GAME
CHICAGO, Mar. 2.-tF1-A z
lar ball game, the first of 1929 for
the Cubs, has been arranged for to-
morrow BY Manager Mccarthy, to
prepare the squad for q full nine
inning contest Sunday At the Cata-
lima Island camp with the team
from the battleship Tennessee. To-
morrow's fray will last only five
innings. with about three pitchers
doing the flinging for each side.
Mccarthy took charge al the slid
ing pit yesterday, teaching Woody
English, last years shortstop "find,"