Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-25
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1ick Wyr8bre and Battling shaw
are the h~eadliners. being scheduled
% step 10 three minute rounds. That
fight In itself. should ard undoubt-
ediy will draw hundreds OF fans
from al parts Of the Valley
A new fighting nzn to valley
fans win appear On the program
tonight. me Is Jesus soils. I'D
pound srrapper OF SaltlIio. Mexico,
and he will take ON Homer tkIul
Goodman, In an B-round seft0.
Soils comes to this city backed BY
u reputation Of q fighting man
from the time the gong sounds
until the little bell clinks for the
last time during a fight. he will
have a worthy opponent In Good
man, who isn't the spectacular
kind OF fighter, and may not
please the fans ar u whole with
his style, because me In cautious.
But Homer Is a clean xcrzpper and
carries dynamite Tn his mittens-
When the state Of Florida was
Its well known boom OF W
eral years ago, citizens of that COM
m0nWealth and the newcomers pour
ing in. forgot all about sports, and
with nothing In mind but to sell and
property. they dropped In
athletic uotoriety. especially OF the
kind. They suffered for it.
You know what that boom did for
the Gator state. Ask any citizen
OF Florida what helped cause that
catastrophe, and he will invariably
tell you IL was TO a great extent the
neglect OF athletics.
Today Florida IN fhe nee for
sports, and especially big league
baseball clubs. They have . state
league and some Of It's cities are
members Of the Southeastern lea
que They have other kinds uDf
we are wont 70 bring before you
today. There IN no good reason
why the Valley can't support .
professional league; IL win can
the incoming of q class Of people
the Valley needxs those with the
dinerp, and those or the better
class. The tourists wants rerrea-
ton, and on n sunny afternoon
nothing pleases him more than u
good old baseball game
Yes. we can profit from Florida's
mistake. They forgot their God.
their fellow men around them. their
welfare. they forgot the essential
thing the American demands. and
that is sports; forgot all about base
golf, tennis. and all the other
and excellent forms of entertain
ment-except grabbing and grab
bling money here and there. In a
wild, mad scramble; with no
thought Of recreatiDn--and baseball
In this case, particular. But they
changed--chnnged overnight, and
the Valley Is going 70 change
sooner or later In its attitude toward
Maybe this turn-about face
win take place today. tornorrow-but
some day IT. willard when 1t does
watch the land cf sunshine
show Its heels To those other states
getting the millions OF dollars worth
or publicity free Gin the sports
columns OF newspapers al over the
country
q. N. Boston and Bob Wells OF
Brownsville, appointed u commit
tee by Chairman Guy Trent Of the
baseball gathering in this city
mined effort this week to organ-
Ire q Class ID league In. the Valley.
re Ii up to every fan and citizen
Of the Valley 10 give these fellows
n helping hand; n IN nm expensive
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by a handful Of fans Of Cameron
county. If HidaIyo fans have a
better plan. Or know u = better
"a than that being presented
then the committee, Chairman
Trent and the baseball fans Of
Cameron county want 70 know
about it. and viii Join In; but the
plan being submitted Ii the one
and identical plan Of the Nebras-
ka state league, which operates
successfully, On = $500 per month
salary basis: the Valley 81 sup
port that kind OF baseball: 10 may
be that next year the league can
expands but n is a worth while
experiment; yea, more than that,
it IN one or che finest things that
could happen to the valley III q
league y organized
Here's what the san Benitc Light
has 70 say. In . recent issue. OF
baseball.
Baseball or q high calibre Is an
,ther sport that Valley residents
probably viii be privileged to enjoy
Ia soon as q result OF plans for q
-lass ID league that are progressing
satisfactorily. Two II have been
to devote their entire time
% communicating with interested
,ersons In upper Valley towns and
determine exactly the outlook for
UGH an organization Response
the proposition has met with
far indicates that the Valley this
aeason will support q baseball league
hat would reflect credit upon d
Eroup Of much larEer cities"
As stated before ,The Herald win
announce the results of the prog
rrss NJ the fixht "Wednesday night
between Striking and Sharkey.
blow by blow, round by round. will
come over The HeraId's wires d.
rect from fhe rinRSide. starting
about Bs4kn The public Us
whole II invited to come and
joy this fight. NJ II with be mega
phoned from I'm front or The
Herald office.
Dr. Mike Bennett. director cf
Ithletirs Of the University III the
Bcwnree. Tenn. who was
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