Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-19
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to leak at almost any moment,
greeted the galaxy of field, track
and heavy-thinking stars of the
four Valley counties as they gath
cred here today for the district
interscholastic meet. At any rate
quite a few of the events listed
for Friday were to be indoor af-
fairs and perhaps the day will not
be lost.
The events that send the fans
scuttling through the admission
gates, however, will not get under
way until 9 a. m. Saturday. At
that time preliminaries in field
and track are to begin on Tucker
field. Several Valley records stand
a good chance to fall before such
performers as Mcclure and Ruth
ven OF Donna, Overstreet of Nc
Allen. Murphy Of Mission, Bella
font OF Mercedes and Newman.
Cabler. Barnhart and Todd of
Brownsville.
II you get a thrill out of pole
vaultlng, don't miss the opportun-
lty to see Ruthven in action. The
Donna star has been clearing the
cane around III feet and s inches.
rms IS enough to cop almost any
high school meet, including the
lnterscholastic finals. In other
words. Ruthven is a potential state
champion. Vaulting to many is the
prettiest athletic event. They revel
IN the vaulter's balanced run with
the pole and his high spring
stretched to the utmost by divers
contortlous of the body.
To our mind, the most graceful
OF Held events is the discus throw.
Inc motions move easily into each
other and the follow through
makes it appear complete. IT lacks
the strained contortions of hign
Jump. broad jump, daShes. etc. If
you don't believe us, be out and LET
Cabler prove our contention.
Our ear to the ground DEPART
nlenC mas uncovered a hot SCOOP
IL hasn't broke yet but Is expected
within the next few DAYS. We
are reliably informed that if the
IlrSt team of the local Skeet cluh
doesn't improve their Shooting
the allegedly second" team is go
TO demand first place. The in
surrectlon IS headed by a we'll
known laundry magnate.
Norman z. Brown. nationally
RACED sports writer, declares that
the world series will turn out to
De merely a New York City champ
lonShlp. He is well in line with
the scribes, toutS and h~angers-on
picking the Yankees but few are
placing their money on the Giants
at this time. The majority of the
rams pick the Chicago Cubs to COP
the National league bunting.
Lefty" Lewis. 164 pound coIored
lad OF Omaha, Neb.. rolled into
recently. Lefty"
hunted up Promoter Tex Becerril
and declared himself ready to do
battle. He Vas told there was no
one In his class here. Hinoiosa,
l85-pound local boy, was men
TONED. Lefty noted the differences
IN weight but said he was willing
take Hinojosa on any basis
LelGy mas demonstrated his wares
n Kansas City, Oklahoma CITY.
Little Rock, New Orleans and
other fight centers.
motifs and SouthwelI. survivors
y a tennis tournament at Edin-
ourg Junior College, are to plav
WIN q strong pair from South
Eestern university at EdinburR
saturday. They would add much
% the athletic prestige of the Val
ey II they could cop a fall or two
Put of the Pirates.
M above paragraph recalls why
We don't play tennis.
We are rather bashfuI. We were
playing our first game. A girl
was teaching US. Thought we
would find out who was winning
called over the net to her. She
answered Two, Love" And we
haven't played another game since.
Inc eyes OF the American sport
World are turned Europe-ward.
rney are trained on the q. 8.
ryder cup team and the liner
'aklng Misses Collett and Wills
across the big pond. Great things
are expected OF them They have
never failed before. Miss wills IS
10 be ably aided in her net con-
quests on the Old Continent by