Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-15

situations as the one recently closed
and the sport will have lost its fas-
eination for thousands uf fans.
"The enthusiasm has grown Va ar
BY year. until 1895 when the innur1-
cradle protests, arbitrary decisionr
and endless uncertainty resulted in &
sharp decline in attendnnce-an In
disrutablc proof that something ia
wrong. Let us review briefly some
Of the Developments.
"As a starting point, consider Cie-
burne. Seamon Squyres. fuilback
was protested The district commit
tee ruled that he was eligible. After
Cleburne had won its way to tho
state semi-finals, the state commit
tee ruled that the triple threat star
was ineligible.
He could not have been both eli
gible and ineligible. Either he vas
one or the other. II he was ineIi-
sible, he should have been so ruled
ard tn time then corsicana would
have represented the district On
the other hand, IL Squyres was eli
Fible, then q grave injustice was
done 70 Cleburne when the Yellow
Jackets were deprived of his services
IN the Abilene game. In the judy
ment Of this writer. Cleburne would
have won the state championship
with Squyres In the lineup
Boyce House then rerites other and
numerous rulings and decisions Of
the district and state committees.
whereby they coaflicted at practically
every turn, and concludes with this
statement:
Folks are not going to pay mon-
ey and yell themselves hoarKe
about passes and runs when they
will not know until some commit
tee meets somewhere whether the
game meant anything or not. Even
after the committee decides, Ii Is
liable TO change It's mind--if any.
r ~ that committee stands
hitehed, another committee Is liable
TO override IT,"
The fault we find with these dis
trict committees IL that their deri-
sionk, IN 50 many eases, are deduced
from e personal standpoint: the
merits OF a case or cases are not
taken into consideration. And a.
Tor the state committee, IL has be-
come a joke. The district and state
committees combined have certainly
set a fine precedent for high school
students, IL those boys and girls are
70 look upon their wran9linr and
petty s~quabhles and iealousies IN nm
after-schonl way But we don't be-
lieve they will and are.
Max ~Schmeling has finally become
AmericanIzed. Latest doings In the
Herman heavyweight's camp Il NH
lMax's) charge that his manager.
Arthur Bulow, whom SchmeIinr
charges with anything bat good and
loyal work, has charged Joe la
cobs with "wiles and advances TO-
ward Schmeling. Jacobs want "a
De the Germans and an
pafentiy Max doesn't object. Kinda
sounds Ike n of these divorce cas-
es, alienation Of affections"
Not to be outdone by their civ
rivals. the 81. Louis Browns have
acquired another farm" SPRING.
field, No., of the Western assoeis-
ton will be used ais nm -agricul-
tural" club BY the Browns this
year. The Cardinals are pioneers
along this line, and the Browns
are falling in line.
The Texas University freshmen.
organized into two basketball teams,
are DESTROYS Of playing quints IN
other parts Of the state. The local
Junior college Scorps could probably
get q game with the "~freshies. but
lack an indoor court 70 play on. Edin-
purE Junior college has indoor court.
= . fine Notwithstanding
the Brownsville schools need.