Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-20
CPORTS

BY 8 Fl CLEMENTS

Jesse Pompa, former Brownsville
baseball player, whose home is in
Corpus Christi, wants to play in
this city, provided the Valley league
is organized. Pompa is in good
playing condition, having been prac-
ticing for some time, and has play
ed several games. He sends his re-
CARDS to his many friends in this
city, and hopes he will be able to
play here again.
Stories of the recent fiasco at
Miami Beach, Fla, continue to drift
in, and some of them have been
told and retold many times. The
Beaumont Enterprise recently car
ried a long story Of the fight and,
in part it relates as follows:
IF Stribling had fought a little
harder he would have won the de-
cision. He did not show the ag-
gresSivenesS one would expect of an
up and coming aspirant to the hea-
EyhC4541G championship &NO4 LII
that matter, did Sharkey. Neither
has been eliminated from the ranks
of heavyweight ~contenders, and
they may meet again in the ring,
but the light will not set the prai-
ries afire. or cause a stampede of
paying clients at the box office"
Bobby Cannon, former Texas
University star athlete, and for a
number CT years athletic direc-
tor of Peacock Military Academy,
and nov connected with w. L.
DOC" Stewards camp for boys at
kerrviIle, was in Brownsville
Tuesday. Bobby may become
schools this coming season. 1t is
known that he is dickering along
that line with a school in the Val
ley.
Cannon knows football, baseball
and basketball well, and is also a
good track coach. And what's
more, knows how to handle boys. If
he casts his lot as athletic director
Of a Valley high school, another
high class coach will have been adj
ded to the already increasing num-
Der.
The show in Mercedes Monday
night wasn't the best AL Robin
son has put on, but it was inter
csting. There was action aplenty
throughout the fights, in SO far
as punches were concerned of the
sleep producing variety, but in
the main, they were slow.
Al Prince, official announcer OF
the fights in Mercedes, did himself
and the fight fans justice when,
after a number Of hOodlums began
hollering about the weight Of diff
ferent fighters, claiming the scales
or the readings thereof were wrong,
Mr.. Prince invited them down to
inspect and look at the weighing in.
Prince was given a hand.
Childress, of the Red River
Valley league, gets a good mana
ger in Nick Carter, former Mexia
pitcher. Carter is one of the
best Class ID pitchers in baseball.
He is an old head. He is a screw
ball artist. and has disposed of
the adopted fact, in his case at
least, that a tEirier who filings
that kind Of ball will not last
long, because OF the peculiar quirk
1t requires CT the arm.
kjnucri11c nav MT 1o-,1
fessional baseball team this year.
but dyed-in-the-wool fans Of that
city will have the opportunity of
witnessing some good games this
season, as the Mopac has organized
one OF the best clubs Of its kind in
the country. Saturday and Sunday
they will take on the San Antonio
team Of the Texas league.
Texarkana of the Lone Star
league is without a manager at
this time. The north Texas ME
tropolis, n of the best baseball
cities In Class d circuits. has GER
tainly had its ups and downs
with managers. Charlie Miller, a
really smart little manager, was
at the helm of the Twins in 1927
and 1923. His club played Pal
estine for the pennant last year,
and went to pieces in the series,
making a miserable showing.
What the Twins need is a playing
manager. Miller was not. Fans cot
on him, not because they didn't be-
lleve he knew baseball, but because
he directed the playing from the
bench or Coach's box. Then too.
Miller lost control Of some mem
bers Of the team, and that all. went
against him.
Oscar Eckhardt, former Long
horn star, and a baseball player
of ability, is now a member of the
Seattle club of the Pacific Coast
league. Eckhardt was a pitcher
while at the University, but turn
ed to the outfield. Reports from
the Coast league entry's camp
tell us that Big Oscar is one Of
the most promising recruits on
the team.
Last weeks Sporting News had
this interesting editorial in regard
to Sunday baseball, in part, as fol-
lows:
"A divine Of New England object
ed to Sunday baseball in that Sec
ton OF the United States on the
ground that it prevented ball play