Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-24
sports

BY BISHOP CLEMENTS

ire known to be in a receptive
hood to form a league, namely
icAllen. Harrington. San Benlto
brownsville and Corpus Christi
tone more town IS needed.
Mercedes dropped out as a
/ rossibIe entrant last week, when
l Bob Kirkpatrichk of that city
jnnnounced that his town could
~ not raise the necessary funds,
b or, as Bob put il, the Jack Ia
redo il a possibility, But san Be
nito. according to Guy Trent,
would not enter a league with
Laredo. Billie Burnett brought
lthis statement to the city atu
.day after 2 conversation with
Trent.
II Z Five or six men have worked hare
y get a league organized. IL noW
boks as if their efforts Will go foI
Aaught. and it is to be pltled. Co
ag to be mighty lonesome IN the
" Ealley this summer without baseball
Ia the only plane worthWhlle--or-
lsnized.
Kingsviiie may yet ask to join
sthe proposed league. That Will be
known today, as the Corpus rep
/ Preventative, w. b. Pyeatt is IN
that city in the interest oil the
league. In case K%ingsville wants
to come in, it would make a COM
spact circuit, but we do not know
the attitude Mr.. Trent would take
lif such should happen.
An inter-city skeet club shoot be-
: sWeen Brownsville Donna IS in the
4Ifaking. This city organized 6
ikeet club sometime ago, and re-
Fsently Donna followed suit. 1t !:
Expected that a number of Other
Valley cities will organize clubs.
Reports tell us that Heinie
Soluble, former Valley baseball
a ! ulayer, is about to be benched by
the Detroit Tigers, who are train
ing at Phoenix, Ariz. Soluble is
a youngster, and probably is a
little over-anXiOUS. He has the
n ability, and we hope he makes
" the grade. II wouldn't speak well
ri for the St. Louis Cardinals If the
little sh0rtStOp did make the ma
j0r grade, because Heinie was
" cast aside by the Cards.
An Izaak Walton league was or
tanized in McAllen last week. c. A
Nheatley, state president, was OF
hand at the meeting, and gave al
l. .Jl~nrr Tho aroDnr NV nffiRarS n
.he McAllen club are: L. l.. ONeal
president; A. T. Ray, secretary
treasurer; DR.. j. o. Wharton, L. L
y xirkendall, W. T. Gartman, vice
presidents. This is a fine Crganl-
sation, and we hope every town II
he Valley organizes.
Earl "Red" Snapp, recently
chosen manager Of the Sherman
>, team of the Lone Star league. is
IL of the most successful ana
y gers in Glass ID baseball. Snapp
, lead the San Angelo club of the
u West Texas league last season and
won the pennant. His team a
trOunced by Palestine in the play
eff for the Glass ID title of Texas.
However, that didn't detract any
prestige from Reds ability, when
it Is taken into consideration
that the West Texas outfit car
ried nine rockies and the Lone
Star circuit five. remnants follow
Snapp. and Sherman fans are
pennant bound they believe.
Major league baseball clubs il
Iaining will this week enter thei
last lap Of limbering up. The frs
Of April viii find the clubs in dali,
i exhibition games on their trek bacl
TO their home bailiWicks. TeXa.
l weather, as has been found by TIT
New York Giants at San Antonio
and the Chicago White SoX at Dial
alas, is declared the best these team
!, RlaVe yer encountered in the spring
n IL must be gOOd-it Is. Pittsburgh
way out in California, has beer
handicapped by cold and rain. Tn,
y Cubs have found the same condition
..but of coure there viii be no com
iplaint because the owner Of tina
soutf1t is proprietor OF a plot Q
ground In the native state, Wherl
his team trains each spring. Blu
u Is different with the Pirates
They are not tied down under Sucl
circumstances and 1880 Will probabl,
End Barney Dreyfus5' team in tn
Aone Star state.
Speed ,speed-on the water. in
the air and on land. And in
athletics II Is speed the boss de-
mandS, and the public. Especial
rly Is this true in baseball, loot
ball and others
Jack johnson. the ex-negro pug
i writing a series. or TO be correct
= is being written for him. un6e
MS name, in which he tells hoy
good he Was and how bad Jacl
Dempsey was. The negro did NOR,
BARN to the game and his race thar
any fellow who ever squared off il
the reSin-floored ring.
Kid PanchO has been working
out nightly at the Fort Brown
skating rink in preparation for
Il his fight Monday night with Kid
JuareZ of Monterrey. Pancho
twas amid familiar scenes at the
|, rink, for it was in that same ring
a year ago that the Alamo CITY
boy and Johnny Hughes engaged
in n of the most thrilling bouts
ever seen in the Valley.
The Cameron county field am
literary meet to be held in this cit,
Friday and Saturday of this week
VIII be the mecca for the cream q
public school talent. The distric