Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-07
PORTS FORUM
BIZ Bishop Clements

HI
There is action aplenty in the polo
games out mt Fort Brown these days.
IL matters not whether one knows
the game or not, IL is interesting to
watch the splendid horsemanship of
the riders, and the beautiful mounts.
Say. IL you arc a basketball fan,
60 out to the high school field to-
morrow night and watch the Eagles
tanslc with the Cardinals Of Har-
gen. Red Irvine and Coach Plato
have rot 10 take in nj least SIS
ut the gate to make expenses, and
they have put the price mt IS cents
per person. And III n hundred fans
don't attend, It's just going 10 be
too bad for the Messrs Irvine and
Pat0-for they will have to dig
into those we'll knows jcans-and
pull forth coin of the realm to
defray the expenses or staging the
contest. OF course these fellows
have no objection whatever 10 more
than n hundred fans attending-in
fact II would tickle them pink-if
the athletic directors facial adorn-
ment could get any redder. Come
on oBt tomorrow night, and sec
n good basketball game, and tickle
RED" and Soc"
Baseball players are receiving
their contracts nowadays, and re-
ports from Beaumont or the Texas
league have it that Pres. Stuart of
the Exporters is having les trouble
getting his hired hands John Han
cock on the dotted line than any
other club in this circuit. And II
is remarkable too. when, if these re-
ports are correct. salary cuts all
along the line are in vogue. Beau
mont has been the doormat Of the
Texas league for many years in the
past; ii is out this year to prove to
the world under Prexy Stuart that
the Oil city entry will be among the
pennant contenders. That old ball
park mt Beaumont. with its short
right field fence, has been a ink TO
ball players there. The Exporters
will be housed in q brand new park
this season. Claude Robertson. its
manager, is regarded ~ one Of the
smartest In the league; now that may
seem funny to some fans who follow
the fortunes Of only winners: vet
just ask any Texas league ball play
er as 10 Claude's ability.
Ed (Strangerl Lewis. former kea-
Nyweight wrestling champion or
the world. whom Dan Cupid aud
Qua SonnenbcrI worked on al thc
same time. tho N 10 carry tho
Stranger 20 honeymoon bliss and
the other to tho cx-champs. viii
wrestle In beaumont. February II.
Stranger declares he will stage
q comeback and regain his lost
crown.
After tho old legs have become too
ercRky, and the eye-sight a little too
dim, and the physical body won't
keep up with the mental mind. bali
players turn to other vocations. and
many and varied they are. For in
stance. "A dispatch other day says
Of Orville Overall, famous Cub pitch
er of other days:
"0rvic Overall. famous Cub pitch
err, Is ono Of the best trapshootcrs
IN the state or Californis. When not
busy with his real estate turns 1T
Visal:a. he's usually found at the
traps and he seldom misses any or
the big meets. They say he can
shoot curve balls at the clay pig-
cons that1l dust en- with startling
regularity. Orvie has done we'll in
the land business and stslI has !
keen interest in baseball
THE WOMAN PAYS.
The player zoe to training camp,
Where the wintry winds don't blow
f4tN wife tm fAwrmI - ESQ., - -
Where the weather's ten below.
The player lives ut swell hotels.
Swell meals and service. too;
The Mrs. In her four-room flat,
Makes U on hash and stew.
The player drills an hour or so.
And then his work III through:
But the Mrs. In her northern home.
Has a thousands things to do.
The player kicks and stfrs n fuss,
Tie grumbles all the way,
But the wife Is drudginE back az
home,
It's the women folks who paw
l. H. Arlington In Sporting News.
III we were any kind Of Judge III
the language Edgar A. Guest made
Us like, we would say the above piece
Of poetry is good; but knowing the
author Is exaggerating a bit on the
spring training grind M pertaining
TO the home, we are forced to the
conclusion that the Sporting News
poet. is a little off. Many ball play
ers wives accompany them 70 the
spring training camps, not only IN
the majors but in the smaller lea
gues. as well. Sure, the players
grumblo a lots; but the majority OF
those cases are not born In them.
III you have ever had every muscle
IN your body sore, aching. tired. and
feeling tough for a week ut q time.
e. do many ball players after the
first day Of spring training. you can
readily understand the crouch.
Tn 1921. Corpus Christi. Alice.
Robst0un and kinKsrilIc we're
members Of the Gulf Coast league.
AND IN was ono OF the best four
club circuits ever formed im south
Texas Come 20 think OF N, three
Of those tow nv with the three
Cameron county towns would make
a whale Of a baseball league or
six clubs or course this league
world be more expensive than the
proposed six club aIi-valEcy cir
cult. but then II Hidalgo county
towns do not want t0 Join with
Cameron county In forming a VAL
ley league. then the above plan
might be the very kind OF league
and baseball this part OF the VAL
ley wants. Baseball a. n mighty
fine thing 10 bring citizens of diff
ferent sections together on . COM