Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-03
CPORTS
OFORUM
BY 8 81 CLEMENTS

L ground DaSeDdu team has been or
ganis1fe at the local school, under
the Membership Of Coach Margaret
Valenta. They plan to play high
school teams Of the Valley. The
club the county meet in this
' city last Saturday. 1t is a good
team. The Cherry twins form the
battery, and their mates compose
"a combination that should be hard
to beat.
What, no baseball park in this
city?" That was the femark a big
eague baseball scout shot at Ben
Proctor Tuesday. Tile scout, who
doesn't want his name published, at
his time, was much surprised that
! town the size Of Brownsville, and
Z : territory as fine as the Valley,
lid not have ball teams. Mr.. Proc
5or, in his younger Gays a player
II ability is making an effort to
ind out If the Valley, along with
Corpus Christi, wouldn't support a
our-club league.
Kid Guerra, the San Benito
rooster" was in Mercedes Mon
day night attending the fights.
The "Kid" challenged any fight
er in and out of the Valley to a
bout who can make around the
1873 pound limit. Guerra is due
to punish anyone he meets, and
by his aggressive tactics has gath
cred a large following.
The kidney and rabbit punches
were barred at the Mercedes fights
Monday night. Congratulations!
Another step forward in the fight
game. AS we have stated before
these punches are dangerous and
slow up bouts.
Mckinney, new member of the
Lone Star league, Is n of the
fine cities of north-central Texas.
1t has always been a good base
ball town." Bob Wells, way
back yonder in 10 and some
odd played ball on the high school
nine there and later on the town
team. That city, like others, has
Learned that the only kind of
baseball worthwhile is of the Or
.ganized kind. 1t should be an
asset to the League.
Joel Hunt, the former Aggie foot
oaIl luminary, and baseball player,
n the making, has been sent to the
0anville club Of the Three-I league
" the Houston Bluffs. with whom
e has been trying out this spring.
DEL played with Laurel, Miss, in
he Cotton States league last sum-
ner. Danville and Laurel are farms
Of the st. Louis Cardinals.
This fellow Ruiz, who threw a
care into Battling Shaw's fol-
overs Monday night at Mercedes,
Knows quite a bit about ring gen.
.eralship. 9As long as Shaw kept
him awasethe San Antonio lad
didn't look so good, but the Mer-
cedes boy couldn't do that thing
'egularly. And when he didn't
Ruiz dealt Shaw plenty misery.
The bout ended on a foul, unin-
territorial, of course But there
were five rounds of action worth
anybody's cash.
Old-timers tell us that Shaw's
jumping style of fighting is liable
o cause a foul at any moment. And
t is remarkable that he hasn't been
.ouled many times before.
"Of late there has been much
comment In the sport columns In
regard to pitchers being called
cousins" by batters. Now that
name is old. 1t has been in COM
mon use in the minors for several
,easons. 1t is thus: Certain bat
ers can hit certain pitchers with
e%gularity. Of course that pitcher
an asset to that certain hitter.
fence the monicker cousin"
Uncle Billy Disch, Of the U. Of T.
lSeball team, lost a good player in
usty Rhoads Monday. The third
ECKER broke his hand in the game
it'll Northwestern U. The Steer
Zach had brought Rhoads along in
asy stages, from a very mediocre
,rformer to a bright major league
E'oSpect. But such is the game of
seball, and life too. RhoadS will
out the rest of the season.
END OF THE TRAIL
The rookie leaves home with a tat
tered glove,
A toothbrush, a collar or two,
nd swears by the stars and moons
above,
He will make his dreams come
true.
Ne will make the fans forget Ty
Cobb
And the swish Of his mighty bat:
k3ut a month finds him back on his
blowing Job,
With a head that will fit his hat.
Pat Patten.
Here's an interesting article from
the pen Of l.. H. Addington. well
known sports write. It follows:
Baseball and boxing have several
things in common. Some of them
are decidedly common, while others
are more refined. One hit often
results in a fighter being knocked
out. The same holds good for q
pitcher. A fighter sometimes gets
a technical knockout, but there's
absolutely nothing technical about
it for the pitcher. Sock one on the
lnose,' Is a favorite expression of
both the boxing and the baseball
fan.
"One means just what he says
land the other only wants a base hit.
In boxing, a foul is a blow below
The belt. In baseball it's a belt
outside the white line. Three strikes
- oIu,ovS oI1t IN baseball hIIt One