Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-26

is now football coach of the Corpus
Christi high school, will leave the
Buccaneer city sometime this week
to join the Macon, Ga, baseball
club Of the South Atlantic league.
Pratt is the property of the Brook
Ign team and Macon is a farm of
the Robins.
McAIIen high school has won
distinction in two interscholastic
events this year. First the Bull
dogs won the basketball title of
the Valley and the district, and
last week students of that school
presented a one-act play in Ed
inburg and were declared winners
over competition from other VAL
ley schools. Brad, in The City
of Palms. column in the McAllen
Press, has this to say: This Nc
Allen high school goes out to win
and wins"
In the baseball game Saturday be-
tween the San Antonio Bears and
the Missouri Pacific nine of Kings
vile, a well known Valley pitcher
was on the firing line for the Mo
pac. He va lefty Deck, and he
hurled creditable ball for the Pho
neerS after a bad first inning. This
Bears won. Deck was a trifle wild
his weakness while with the local
club in 1926.
Did You know that Art Schacht
former Valley ball player, is with
the Houston Bluffs = g - that Wal
ter Kinney who pitched a part of
the 1926 for San Benito is i'm the
Pacific Coast league = : : that the
kidney punch is n of the most
disgusting things in prize fight
ing : = : that the Brownsville
Skeet club Is proving one of the
most popular sports among ar
Elephants = = = that the sheriff
and assistant district attorney of
Cameron county are left-handcd
and in their PALMER days were
star ball players = y " that the
Brownsville high school Is ex-
pectcd to have an even better
football team in 1929 than in
1928?
Now that jock Dempsey has
signed to promote fights for Hum
bert Fugazy, OF Detroit. maybe the
runor mongerS will cease in regard
to the mauler'S actual re-entrance
to the ring. 1t is remembered that
the late Tex Rickard advised Jack
never TO return to the squared cir
Gle IN a fighting capacity. We, fol
one, believe the ring career Of the
greatest Slugger of them all, is over
But he is aiding the game by stay
ing IN as a promoter. No, Stree.
Dempsey didn't turn his back on
the game that gave him life" Sc
to speak. as Gene Tunney did. after
making his million.
Grover Cleveland Alexander,
the Cardinal pitcher, has been
shunted to the has-becns for
many years by scribes, but he is
still the king OF the crafty right
handlers of the National league.
The other day when Alex had
held the Athletics well in hand
in a game between tn Cards and
AS, Connie Mack turned to his
first aid, Kid Gleason, and re-
marked: The old boy has as
much stuff as he had when I first
saw him back In 1911 when he
beat us in the spring"
Ballinger, a town of 5000 has re-
placed Lubbock, with its 10000 on
more population, in the West Texas
league. 1t brings to mind If towns
above 10000 will support Glass L
baseball. AS an example, Austir
and Waco were members OF the ole
Texas Association in 1923. Neither
city supported their clubs. Austin
finally sang its swan song. Waco
entered the Texas league, and is one
OF the most prosperous members al
Doak Roberts circuit. Something II
think about.
Other day at the Yankee train
ing camp as the players were
warming up just before a game
with the Boston Braves, Babe
Ruth happened to walk between
Durocher and Larry who were
warming up and got secked on the
Jaw, causing a general swelling Of
the face. During the game that
same day, the Babe got a double
and two singles, and drove in
three runs. Incidentally 1t was
the slugger's best day with the
willow this spring.
Rules in all kinds of athletics are
a bone of contention. and NAV al
ways be. The Sporting News of a
recent issue has the following to saw
in this regard:
Each year, in days gone BY
there was a demand for the revi-
sion of the baseball rules. True. the
rules could have been helped, but
more as to a clarifying of their Eng
l1sh than because baseball had a
wooden leg.
AS often as a revision of the rules
suggested there were enough
who were conservative to prevent it.
IL was their opinion that baseball
should be played at least four or
five years under the same rules to
get the fans accustomed to it.
Note the difference in football.
Each yea the rules are changed
and little by little football is being
metamorphosed. Some say it is be-
ing atrophied. 1t is not foolhardy
to predict that in ten years from
now it will not be football except
a football is openly exhibited to
the public in a chariot drawn by
white horses before the game begins.