Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-18
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BY BISHOP CLEMENTS

Boxing cara roNlEnr ~ Nercedesf
staring al $50 o'clock.
Chnck burns and Danny Gasparo.
| l65-pound leather singers. will head
line the show. Ken Macy and Bat
/ tling Shaw, will also scrap in the
preliminaries. as will Johnny Cruz
and Plakie Payo.
Promoter All Robinson believes this
will Be the best card he has ever
put on. The promoter may surprise
fans bv having other scraps not yet
Announced. on tonight's program, and
nur fans in these parts are hoping
! courle Of negro fighters will be on
the program. or a battle royal, pref
erably.
Free throws, coming about BY
fouls, in the game between the
Ivford and Raymondville high
school ouints Friday, for the cham
uionship OF WiIlacy county, was
the feature Of the game. reports
from Lyford state. Lyford con-
verted into six points out Of six
teen free throws, whereas Ray
mondyille made 10 points out OF
i sixteen free throws Quite a NUM-
Der Of fouls during that game.
The two centers we're the outstand-
ing performers for their quints.
Keene Of Lyford, looping the hoop
for s points. while Cook Of Raymond
willie made s points. Come to think
Of IL. these center boys in basketball
in the Valley, from Tire high school
70 the town teams, and Junior col
lege squads, are certainly making
that position important by their
great playing.
Colonel Howard shannon or the
Donrn News. says there il a lot OF
interest in his part of the Valley
for baseball. and believes a Valley
league organized along the lines
of the Nebraska State circuit will
be a going proposition. The Col
onel. a sport fan de luxe. is heart
lily in favor Of Hidalgo county
towns joining those Of Cameron In
forming a Class ID league.
Allen Carter, one Of the outstand-
ing high school football players Of
the Valley this past season. has been
elected captain Of the San Benito
team for the 1929 season. Carter de-
serves that honor. He played a con
sentative, loyal, hustling. type of
ball. that all coaches delight in. He
is also the type Of boy the coaches
like. and the fans. 90 In the game
with McAllen. who pitilessly tram
pied Coach Morrison's Hounds under
foot. IL was Carter and Captain Nc
Williams who made what little prog
ress the San Benito squad made that
day; and their play was remarkable.
too, because they had never been
up against such an attack OF football
passing as Coach Dykes Bulldogs
Haunted in their faces.
The writer regrets that Phil
Brady, a star athlete on the San
Benito team. Ia not in school there
this year. He IL in Michigan.
Phil injured a leg az the start OF
last football season. and was prac-
lically useless throughout the sea-
son. But IL is of his ability as a
baseball player. or his potential
ability, al least. that we bemoan
the passing Of this. we believe.
major league prospect. Big and
strong. and with the instinct of all
good athletes. Brady, in the games
we watched him perform last sea-
son on the diamond, looked mighty
good.
College Station athletes-better
known as the Farmers Of A. 4 NJ,
to the number of 20, are working out
daily as track aspirants. Coach
Frank Anderson believes he has
some promising material for a win
ming squad. Coach Clyde Littlefield
Of Texas University. himself a we'll
known and successful track coach, in
a talk some months ago, bemoaned
the fact that Texas schools had so
few track a~spirants. In some of the
up-courtry institutions, as many as
two and three hundred candidates ap-
pear for training each year, Little
field said. That's right, and the
squad of candidates are increasing
each year in Texas schools, and Lit
tlefield had and is having a lot to
do with the increasing track interest
because Of his ability along that
line.
A dispatch from T. c. U. saws:
"The Texas Christian University
Frogs will be out to run their total
Of victories 70 three when the Rice
Owls invade P~urpleville Feb. 10 for
the second game Of the year between
the two teams. The Frogs nosed the
Owls out by n point in their first
encounter, winning the tilt in the
las few seconds of play. The Frogs
have four games on their list, having
won two and lost six. They pulled
themselves out OF the cellar last week
by %trouncing the Baylor Bears de-
eisively. Dopesters are busy at this
point in the season figuring how
they'll stand
We don't know Row they are going
10 stand when the season has run
its course, but up i'm Arkansas.
those long tall boys of PoFkerviiIe
have the inside track on the has
ketbail honors IN the Southwest
conference All six feet and some
a little NOR Arkansas viii win
It's fourth conference champion
ship, II they come through 20 vic
tory this year, and who Is il that
doesn't believe they won't?
Won't be long until the basketball
season Will be ver In the Valley,
in fact IL il scheduled % be settled
this weekend, when the district
tournament Is to be played at Me-
Allen. of which Coach Jimmy Dykes
Is director. And then. and then
wei You know what we mean-base-
ball viii take its plscs in the differ
ent high schools It's going 10 be
mighty pleasant on these sumnery
afternoon 70 watch-and perforce
chronicle the doings Of the teams