Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-24

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ball players will be packing their
grips and treking TO training camps.
The c~ff-season for the average ball
whole il seems like q dozen. and es-
pecially the last few weeks before
training grind starts. The big lea
CUES. OF course. get away TO an earl
Ter start, and then the Class "A and
SO on down the line to the Class .
clubs.
Which brings to mind the pro-
posed Valley leegue-aiso right
around the corner in the making.
San Benito fandcm In in line for
the league on a 500 per month
per mar basis, and that's a SEN
sible idea IL baseball is TO exist
in this part of the country. The
complaint may be made that ball
players of very little ability can
be secured at that price. The first
thing each club must do IL 10 get
a high-class capable playing a
ager, one who will take a loyal.
whole-souled interest in the play
ers. And the secret Of the sue
cess of any league is the uniform
competition. If every club will
live up 10 the salary limit, and
they had better for their own
sake, the playing inferiority OF
the inexperienced plays win be
overlooked BY the fans.
Elizabeth and Katherine Cherry are
twins; they are forwards on Coach
Nalenta's Brownsville high school
basketball team-and about the best
goal shooters the Valley has seen
IN many years-if ever their equal.
The writer offers a suggestion to
Miss Nalenta, in fact something has
TO be done, If the correct score is
10 be kept: They car hardly be told
apart, so IL is up TO the coach 10
put some kind of numerals on the
backs OF their sweaters designating
them apart, or better still, from our
standpoint, why not have their names
written on the backs Of their sweat
ers?
And while we're on the subject
OF basketball, you fans who are
missing the games in which Miss
Naienta's team plays. are absent
from some Of the best executed
games and plays possible in bas-
ketbali. The starting lineup COM
posed Of KuEhstoR and Parheco.
centcrs; Cabler and Walton guards,
and Bennett and the Cherry twins.
forwards, certainly do play with
precision and teamwork.
Soc Plato's high school basketball
squad Is going to have 10 improve
IN shooting the basket III ID IL 10 get
very far in the Valley race. The
Eagles are hustling. and playing a
smart defensive game. but their goal
shooting is out Of proportion to the
defensive work.
Kid Soils of Brownsville and
hid Lupe Of San Bcnito-they al
ways call these boxing boys
kids" for many and various rea-
sons. are TO battle four rounds IN
the preliminary skirmishes Of the
boxing program 90 be put on Mon
day night Mt Fort Brown skating
rink by Promoter Tex BecerriI.
These two boys weigh lis pounds.
and are fast, and clever for their
limited experience. In previous
scraps they have demonstrated a
willingness 10 mix il, and that's
what the cash customers Iike-the
dead heads" don't like anything.
Blondy Cross, our sports scribe
friend Of the San Angelo Standard
Times, remarks in his column several
days ago, that it's time to play base
Dali and quit wranEling, in discussing
the affairs of the West Texas league
biondy ~ right. Personal animositv
and Jealousies have wrecked more
ball clubs and leagues of the Class
D caliber than any one thing else.
Right here in the NaIley-it n
high time TO forget personal ieaI-
ousies and pull together, for what
- good Tor one town is good for
another, and vice versa. For IN.
stance IL San Benito has n good
club IN the proposed league and
Brownsville doesn't. and all tire
other clubs are weak, then the lea
cue would become uninterestinr.
We have remarked before. and be.
iieve Il worth repeating that. II ~
the uniformity Of the different
CLUBS of any league that makes the
circuit interesting and pulls the
customers TO the games.
University Of Texas students. r.
ports state, got raw" last Saturday
night when about two hundred W
them couldn't gain a~dmittance 70 the
Texas-S. III. U. basketball game. The
gym holds only 600. They crashed
the gate and several windows. and
otherwise displayed their wrath. and
whether IL rs good or bad for TIRE
school, we hope Texas authorities
rush up the finishing touches on the
100000 gym started sometime aro
Up Ut Waco fans are bemoaninv
the fact. they believe. that Paul
Iyson's Tigers won't win the state
football title next year. Gradu-
uation- IL IS pointed out, will take
a heavy toll of its star PLAYERS.
Waco has an advantage over most
other teams of the state in thai
II has a high school 10 serve ~
forty or fifty thousand population
and consequently has more materi-
al. whereas the average high school
In Class A serves a population Of