Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-11
CPORTS

BY BISHOP

eague. Webb twirled for the Tar
)onS last summer, under Uncle
BILLY Disch, who managed the club
md won the pennant.
The Lone Star league may be a
our-club circuit this summer. Of
icials Of the loop believe however,
hat six teams will enter before the
tart Of the season on April "a.
The Valley could have a four
h club league if someone would take
\ the initiative and, backed by the
citizens In a helping way, organize
it. "
+ How about Harrington, Corpus
II Christi. McAllen and Brownsville in
Fl 4-club circuit? 1t is not believed
san Benito wants to enter.
Vernon Taylor Is a high school
Ii pitcher Of Gonzales. He lost a
game to Main Avenue nine of
\ San Antonio Monday, 4 to 8. He
struck out twenty San Antonio
\ batters. How's that for luck?
Billy Podraza is headed for the
\ Garden of New York. His latest
4 yictim was Kid Peck of Little Rock.
4 Podraza showed Valley fans some
II Thing they haven't seen in many
\ years four weeks ago in Mercedes,
when he o~utpointed Brooks Hooper
Haof San Antonio by a wide margin.
MI HM~
A ball player who won't stay In
condition--who violates all the
rules of the club-and some 9TH
4 ers-shouIdn't be tolerated in or
III ranized baseball. m he is a re-
calcitrant on n club nine times
! out of ten he will be the same on
another. Conditions may not be
II the best on a certain club as others.
land that works a hardship on
the player.
But there Is no excuse for a play
Ter not taking enough interest IN
himself and the welfare of the team
fnot to stay in condition.
We know the general demeanor
I. of certain clubs work a hardship
on certain players, and 1T is an
/, Injustice. Those things can be
/ rectified, and are, in most cases.
Regardless of what you think of
Art Shires-the Waco club is going
TO miss him this year. And we be-
lieve Art will be on first base for
the Chicago White Sox when the
season opens. The boy Is not so
bad as painted by certain writer's.
Seats and everything-thats
what the Batsell- Wells Skeet club
of this city will have installed at
the shooting grounds on the high
way beyond the Meter Filling
Station.
. Taking as its cue the excellent
and and equipment of the
donna club. the local shooters Will
provide plenty parking space Tor
i cars, and seats for spectators. the
shooting circle will also be improved,
and when finished will be one Of the
most commodious fields OF It's KIND
in south Texas.
Dave Bancroft's playing days
are over. The beauty" is near
ing the age when good ball play
ers retire from active service.
Once the most graceful shortstop
/ in the National league, Bancroft
is a lieutenant to Uncle Wilbert
Robinson of Brooklyn.
Just imagine Dawes feelings these
days, knowing his legs won't stand
the wear and tear of the difficult
. position every day-when Brooklyn
needs a shortstopper so bad, since
! Wright's injury is bothering him.
Tex Becerril, Brownsville fight
promoter, announced Thursday.
that he would bar the kidney and
] rabbit punches from his cards at
/ TT. Brown skating rink. Fine!
! Al Robinson, Mercedes, and Con-
ner of Donna, announced m
time ago that those punches were
barred i'm their rings. Surely the
/ fight game is on the upgrade.
\
In last weeks Sporting News is
an interesting editorial concerning
baseball, although it tells Of only
two men, Hornsby and Mcguire. 1t
follows:
managers and others have ar
gued pro and on, some 1t con, for
many years as to the value of bat
tiers who are fair fielders, as against
the value of expert fielders who are
only fair batters.
This year there is a capital pos
sibility of a demonstration of that
much discussed theory in the Ma
tional league. For instance. the
cases Of Hornsby of the Chicago
Nationals and Mcguire Of the BoS-
ton Nationals.
sswhen Hornsby vas with Boston
he could not bat the team to a pen
nant or anywhere near one. Mcguire
~ q fielder was the best second
baseman in the National league in
1929 and perhaps as good as there
was in baseball. He could not bring
d championship to the Cubs al
though he very nearly succeeded In
his individual share of it.
"Hornsby is now with Chicago and
hating his way into prominence
again. It is held that he is just the
man who is needed by Mccarthy be-
cause he can supply the punch that
chicago lacked last year, despite
fhe fact that Mcguire gave the Chi
caro- pitchers wonderful support.