Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-04
CPORTS

BY BISHOP

congratulations to Coach Jimmy
\ Dykes and his basketball crew of
McAllen. The Bulldogs won over
.CorpuS Christi Saturday night, at
klngSville, "a to 20, for bi-district
play in the state finals at A. & NJ.
this weekend.
Battling Shaw and Kid Pancho in
the main event of a fight card to-
night at Mercedes. Scheduled to
go 10 rounds.
Bib Falk has been wanting to
get away from the Chicago White
Sox for a spa of at least three
years. His desire has been grant
ed. He goes to Cleveland in ex-
change for Catcher Autry. Both
of these players got their start in
Austin, Texas. Falk with the
! ball team of Uncle Billy Disch of
the University and Autry with
Rankin Johnson's professional
club of Austin in 1923.
Falk has been with the White SoX
since 1919. Autry went to the New
York Yankees in the fall of 1923.
Autry'S entrance into professional
baseball is worth recalling. He re-
J ported to the Austin club unherald-
cd and unknown, didn't know if he
was a catcher, a pitcher, or better
adapted to some other position,
just blew in as thousands of other
youngsters do in the spring on
training camps. Bert Gallia, well
known in Valley baseball circles.
sent him to Austin that spring, and
wrote Johnson asking that he give
J Autry a tryout. The boy from
I WoodSboro, green though he was,
made good. proved one Of the best
catchers ever to perform in the
Texas Association, and was a good
hitter.
Falk's goal is to play with the
New York Yankees. whose man.
ager, Miller Higgins, he is per-
sOnally fond of. Not that base
j ball powers hat be will show any
tendency toward FaIk in granting
J his one desire; but We believe
that in the course of time a deal
between the Indians and Yanks
will be completed whereby Falk
will join the World champions.
The big question mark is "if' to-
hight, in regard to the Pancho-
law fight in Mercedes. If Pan
I'm shape, Shaw will be given
R~H battle, if he isn't, it's just
goK& to be too bad for the once
kim" pin boxer of San Antonio, and
other parts. The conqueror of
Johnny Hughes has been idle for a
year, and two weeks ago. looked
fat and out of condition, as he was
introduced from the squared circle
on the last card at Mercedes.
Promoter AL Robinson made a
ten strike when he matched Jack
Revis and Homer Goodman i'll
one of the preliminaries. These
two $50 pound boys may not be
the best fighters in the world
| but no two cleaner or finer spec
ever hop into TIL! ring as Good
man and Revis.
oo1h DSAAAbcOJS "a oAA RSAoOAh1
and in the role of promoter. didn't
have to announce to the world that
some palooka had taken a pot shot
at him with a gun; Dempsey. the
spectacular. the colorful, got all the
publicity needed for his promotion
venture in Florida last week, and
some of it undeServed. Being an
admirer Of Dempsey we can't be-
lieve that Jack Matched that bit of
Ecblicity stunt; surely, it must have
come from other quarters.
Discussions galore among base
ball fans these days, concerns the
ability of the present day diamond
performers to those of the past,
Of last week to carry this interesting
story concerning this phase:
Here's the sort of story that
doesn't often break into print. 1t
concerns the opinion of one OF
baseball's old-timers as regards the
present day performer. Most OF
them will tell you that the game
sain't what it used to be- But not
Bert Niehoff, new coach OF n New
York Giants.
Before leaving Atlanta, where
he managed for several years,
Niehoff gave a luncheon for the
newspaper boys of the Cracker
city. During a talk he old them
how the player of the present a
had it on the Old-timer. 'Ihey
are smarter now Bert said. They
have to be. When l got to the
majors, I was a third baseman.
4hey told me one morning to go
out there and play second base.
And that was that. / went on
anssyed'
Z" NV, when a third baseman IS
transferred to second base, every
coach on the field takes the player
In hand in the mornings and st
night and works for a month get
ting him ready. They teach him
the tricks OF the trade, show him
how to pivot OF double plays and
how to play the batter on every
pitched ball. 1t is a major opera
lion, believe me, to make a second
oaseman out of a third baseman
hese days
The most deadly punch, and
the one that has sOured the pub
liz on the game. to an extent, is