Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-06
CPORTS

BY BIsHoP CLEMENTS

7 ~. nleeC III the CITY a az Mcr-
con tonight.
Purpose is to form the league and
= Nart it off, with q president at its
eznead. The meeting is scheduled to
start at 1880.
r. Supt. g. w. Gotke of the local
n@nublic schools returned from .
10 meeting Of public school officials
Ii of the United States held in
nc Cleveland last week. Everywhere
1 vas asked about the Browns
-: vile football team" MIR. Gotke
said yesterday. what kind of
= football do you fellows play in the
"a SOUTH" was common question
IL on all sides, MI. Gotke says.
tr Mr. Gotke was supfemely happy
prover these remarks, which reflect
great credit upon the football club
!. of the Fessenden-coached machine
u of 1923. Brownsville certainly got
n its share of publicity in papers all
over the country by It's triumph over
the DePaul Academy team of Chi
cago, as well as its Valley champion.
ship record, Mr.. Gotke declared.
Dana Bible, newly appointed
J Nebraska coach, and of course
you know he goes to the Corn
husker state from Texas A. G. NJ,
is heartily I'm favor of the newly
I made rule anent fumbles. ID. X.
rs ne is Familiarity known among
acquaintance, is also a member
of the national football rules COM
mittee. Commenting on the FUN
bic rule, Coach Bible had this to
say:
Its been my experience that the
more powerful team RECEIVERS a
greater proportion of furnbles than
the weaker side"
Stories anent the Sharkey-S trib-
ling encounter In Miami last week,
continue to drift into different
parts of the country, but one OF the
best the writer has heard, or read
about this fiasco, goes like this:
Sharkey and his handlers en-
joyed = hearty laugh at the end
of the seventh round. They we're
chortIing because Pa Stribling
was shouting instructions to his
boy in Spanish. "That guy thinks
he is smart, but he is not footing
anybody" Sharkey told his hand
lers. Hes giving Stribling in
~structions in Spanish. / know more
Spanish than both of them put
together. I learned it while I was
in the navy"
I at st. Petersburg, Fla,
wkbp. the New York Yankees are
getting in shape for the coming sea-
son, there is a bit of skepticism in
the face of Manager Higgins. Tony
LaZzeri, second baSeman, who has
been bothered with q lame arm for
a couple of years. is still handicap
ped with the wing. It Is bad for
Tony because he is a really great
ball player with many years of Use
ful performance ahead of him. But
such is the fate of baseball; it is
a tough and heartless game: nature
is the ball players worst enemy.
Doctor Questioning negro appli-
cant for chauffeur: George, are
you married?"
mo, sub, boss. no., sub. All
makes my own living
Annapolis Log.
The San Antonio club of the
Texas league, is training at La
redo. Their ball park has been
turned over to the New York
Giants for spring training. Wen,
the fans OF the Alamo City may
get to see the Giants in some good
exhibition games, at that; even
il their own team falters as ii has
in the past few years.
Pat Newman, assistant to Mana
ger Bill Alexander of the San An
tonic team, will do his part toward
putting the Bears up in the race.
But it takes a smart business office
to produce a winning ball team as
well as a manager. For example:
The Fort Worth Cats of other years.
The late Paul LaGrave put the FIT.
Worth team where it used to be.
Honus Mite, former manager
of the San Antonio team, and a
free agent now, wants to manage
q club in the Valley league. Ho-
nus is a catcher, and a good 0ne
He Is also a smart baseball man.
His worst enemy has o. was dis
sipation. We are told the popular
Mite has cut out this foUlishness.
If he has. then he will make some
valley team an excellent playing
manager.
American league powers will dis
continue naming the most valuable
ball player" after this year. They
have good reasons for doing SO, n
ne of them, and in the writer's
opinion, the most important. Is thae
it causes many players who are thus
hon, I'D to get the swell head: lake
for II eance Mickey Cochrane, last
vearNlost valuable player" in the
league?E He became stralghtaway
the first holdout on Connie Macks
nine: and then too, Ii causes petty
iealousies to crop among the pay.
ers, not only in the club itself but
among players all over the circuit.
WE don't begrudge the player get-
ting the 41e00 award: for we be-
Iieye a ball player is entitled to ev.
erv cent he makes; but the award
rule is q bad one, and we are glad
the American league is to cut 1t out.
brownsville Junior college stu.
dent sarc 10 present d playlet to.
nikht al She auditorium; Music
is TO be furnished by the San Be-
nito high school band, under the
direction Of . Harrington man.
How's that for cooperation?
q
John Conway Toole, president OF
the international league, has passed