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.Shaw-Pancho SCRAP
Main Event Tonight
In Mercedes Fights
Especial to The Herald)

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MERCEDES, March 4.-PrOmoter
Al Robinson plans to wind up Inau-
guration Day with a boxing card to-
night at his Ohio avenue arena,
Win two OF the outstanding 100
pound scrappers, in the main event
OF a program full Of well known
SluggerS.
Kid Pancho, San Antonio, and
Battling Shaw, Mercedes own, are
scheduled to step 10 rounds.
The promoter has other fighters,
some OF which have never shown in
the Valley, to add spice to the pro-
gram, and incidentally, these box
ing cards are ~Semi-monthly affairs.
A glance over the list reveals that
CLAUDE Bowers Of DeS MoineS, Ia,
and Art Garner of San Antonio,
160 pound bruiSerS, will go 8 rounds.
The next eight round setto finds
Homer Goodman of Brownsville and
Jack Revis, OF Mercedes, $50 pound
scrapperS, ready to swap wallops.
Popular fighters, these boys, fans
may expect a classy exhibition. Rev
is, once the kingpin pepper" OF
the Valley, with a string of knock
outs and decisions over many well
known fighters, retired from the
leather pushing business about a
year ago, but the old urge was too
much for Jack, and he comes back
tonight, and before a local audi
ence, to a great extent, to regain
his lost prestige.
But standing in his way, and the
boy who will entertain Jack, is the
tough Goodman of Brownsville.
Goodman, one Of the cleanest fight
erS that has ever leaped through
the ropes and onto the reSined floor,
is battling his way to what he be-
lieves Will carry him far in the
fight game. He is a cautious box
er, cool and collected, with a punch
in his right mitt that, when landed
on the orthodox button, generally
brings his man down.
Revis and Goodman are fighters
using similar tactics. Both have
good rights, cautious to the nth
degree.
Little is known OF Bowers and
Garner. However, the DeS MoineS
battler challenged the winner of
the Burns asparro scrap here two
weeks ago, and was introduced from
the ring.
AS a curtain raiser, Young Mareno
and Benny Perez, are scheduled to
go 4 rounds.
Every man on the card is in ex-
cellent shape, it has been announc-
ed.
To win tonight means a lot to
every one of the fighters.
Shaw is DESTROYS of keeping up
his winning streak, and a loss would
set him back. Pancho. the veteran,
is trying to come back, a trail 50
difficult, and hardly travelled with
success; yet there have been fight
ers Of other days who have come
back.
Will Pancho come back?
The program is to start at s p.
m.
Bring on the fighters!
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see if he could aid me in my diff
cultieS.
I say this-rather than fight
again for BuloW I am ready to keep
out Of the ring for IS months, when
our contract terminates.
I hope that when I get back to
the United States from my vacation
trip with Herr Jacobs Che is going
along) my managerial troubles,
Whcih. I car tell you, are not very
amusing to me, Will be over.
While abroad I will visit my
folks in Hamburg. My mother is i'll
and l am anxious about her. I may
also make trips to Berlin and Paris.
In April I will come back to the
United States.
AS soon as I return I plan to 90
to Summit, N. j., and train there
for my scheduled fight at Boston
with Con O'Kelly to fulfill a con-
tract not yet settled.
Stories that 7 have been matched
with Tom Heeney, the Australian,
are mistakes. 1 have not signed to
meet him though I am not afraid
to. I have no plans for the future
other than that I want to meet the
outstanding candidates for the hea.
! vyweight title. I believe I can. de-
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Remember
IhiSO
Fi8ht
19I3-LEACH CROSS FLATTENS
JOE MANDOT

JOE MANDOT
Joe Mandot, the southern flash,
was well along on his campaign for
the lightweight championship of
the world when debonair Tommy
Walsh, his handsome manager,
made a hideous error. This was
early in 1918, when Walsh decided
that a bout with DR.. Leach Cross,
the New York dentist, would drag
out the Mardi Gras customers in
great numbers If Cross could be
persuaded to fight in New Orleans.
The doctor could-and did.
A neat little 15-rounder was
carded and tickets were kicked up
to S., a top price in those days.
good against Cross and he did-for
a while.
With a packed house for this
lightweight natural Joe Mandot
stepped away to a nice early lead.
This southern boy was clever. He
could jab and feint, use fancy foot
work, and knew all the little tricks
of the game. He could even hit a
trifle, as he proved when he floored
Cross in the fifth round.
But they grow them tough in New
York's ghetto, and the tooth puller
refused to be stopped by one knock
down. He kept after Mandot re-
lentlessly, and then, wowie-in the
eighth he spilled a long left that
collided with Mandot's button.
The home boy neve recovered
from that blow. He lasted through
the eighth and ninth, but was Sc
far gone in the tenth that Walsh
tossed in the towel.
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SUNDAY, MARCH 3


Pilot Phil Farless took off from
this field in the Air King 3187 for
four hops and made one solo
flight and had three passengers on
two others. The last was a student
flight with Clyde Owens, owner Of
the plane.
Pilot Eric Leche took some solo
work yesterday afternoon in the
Air King owned by Clyde Owens
and got in fifteen minutes of fly
ing and landings.
The Fairchild plane C6803 with
Pilot Lyle Thro took up three
passengers in the afternoon for a
joy ride. This plane is a new one
and is owned by the Mexican Avia-
ton company.
Pilot A. D. burst in the Curtiss
Robin plane owned by G. A. Nett
ert took up nineteen passengers in
nine flights later in the afternoon.
The same plane with L. Garcia
and r. t. Garcia took off at 10 a.
m. for the Garcia ranch, Mexico,
and returned at 1:50 p. m. after a
lAlp nlblI l1OU N. -. buIOL.
The Stinson plane with Pilot J.
Mattern and owned by the /. A. T.
Co, went to Soto la Marina for a
load of fish in the morning and re-
turned early in the afternoon.
The Ford tri-mOtOr plane piloted
by r. T. Rentz and owned by the
Universal Air Lines took two trips
to Point Isabel with the following
passengers who have bought Ford
cars through the Patteson Motor
Co.: MIR. Basal, Miss E. Moore, Mrs.
Bowe, j. V. Wills and wife, j. Rus
sell, A. R. Jones. Mrs. Jennings and
baby, Mr.. Groves, Lee Crum, Mrs.
Felan, Mr.. Barnes, j. McGonigle,
Jr., Mrs. j. l.. Bogus, Mrs. Vivian
Moore, Miss Friedman, G. E. Glenn.
A. Carter, and l.. Spencer.
The Ford tri-motor plane piloted
by r. T. Rentz and owned by the
Universal Air Lines left for Har-
lingen where they made passenger
flights. They left here at 2:40 and
arrived back at $50. The following
passengers made the trip to Har-
lingen and return: Mr.. Roy Weller,
Mr.. Walker, M. Celaya and Pedro
Chapa.
The Ford tri-motor plane piloted
by r. S. Riggs and owned by j. M.
Kenyon took up "a passengers in
seven trips for joy rides over
Brownsville and MatamoroS.
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Dull Cage Season
In Southwest Puts
3 Stars In Light

DALLAS, Mar. 4.-(P)-Although
the Southwest conference cage sea-
son attracted less interest than
man, former campaigns. it produced
what critics agree are three OF the
outstanding players in the history
Of the circuit.
Wear Schoonover and Tom Pickell
of Arkansas University and Holly
Brock of Texas University were I'M
animous choices Of IA sports writer's
and officials for places on the all
Southwest conference quint selected
for The Associated Press.
Brock set a mark that is likely to
stand for several blue moons when
he ran his season scoring record to
161 points in the final game against
the Aggies Saturday night. His 16
points in that game enabled him to
pass Pickell, who finished with 155.
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Wichita Falls Wins
Polo Tourney With
Twelve Victories

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Mar. A.
(P)-Wichita Falls great polo COM
bination climaxed its succession of
victories over the be- mallet teams
in the -outhwett by defeating the
Fort Bliss quartet from Ell Paso, II
to Z, in the finals Of the elimination
cup event yesterday. The elimina-
ton cup marked the close Of the n
nual mid-winter tournament here.
The Blue Jackets from North Tex
as won u straight games in the
tournament, capturing the circuit
cups title and low goal event in adj
dition to the elimination cups. In
winning from Fort Bliss yesterday
the Jackets were not forced to use
their three-goal handicap advantage.
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KINDLY JUDGE
WlLLATTEMPT
TO LEAD Club
BY BRIAN BELL
Associated Press Sports Writerl

ST. TTERSBURG, Fla, Mar. 4.
= (1 Emile Fuchs, former New
York judge, will sit this summer on
a strange bench and with him will
rest the hores of the Boston Braves.
1.-THE judge" as he is called, will
find this open air court quite diff
ferent from the ones he knew in
New York.
The head Of the Boston forces in
the National league is conducting
one of the most daring experiments
in baseball. He has stepped from
the shelter confines of his exec
utive office to the field itself and
although he has not donned a base
ball uniform to replace the judicial
robe Of other days, he is neverthe-
less the manager.
At first glance it would seem i'm
possible for a club president to lay
aside a pen to pick up a bat with
any hope of success, but the mild
hammered Fuchs with Z ready, pleas
ant smile and sympathy for all
mankind, certainly has a chance to
plished one third Of his task already
by selling himself as a manager to
his players. Now he has to con-
vince tk-o fans and opposition clubs.
Stars to Aid
He will be assisted by two stall
warts of the game, Johnny Evers
and Hank Gowdy, co-heroeS in the
1914 four game world series triumph
of the Braves over the Athletics.
On the playing field will be found
ct least two men who know a lot of
the game. Rabbit Meanwhile, an
other 1914 Braves star. and George
Sisler, former manager Of the st.
Louis Browns, will be very active in
carrying out the instructions of
"the judge" GoWdy may join the
+ ylg forces for fifty games or SO.
The five players BC-ton took from
Chicago have shown good form in
the spring workout and promise to
help tt cub. Mcguire. a sensa-
tional fielder. is established at sec
ond base. Louis Legett will get a
chance to do plenty of catching and
Percy Jones, Bruce Cunningham
and Harry Seibold will fit nicely in
to the pitching staff. Seibold is not
a youngster but has ripened in the
minors.
Vets Back
Kent Greenfield, Bob Smith. Ed
ward Brandt and Arthur Delaney
are veterans who will again be avail
able. Fl Cantwell and Bill Clark
son, who went from the Giants to
the Braves, Henry Wertz, former
Brace, George Peery, Wichita re-
cruit, and G. v. Leverett, former
White Sox, trying to come back to
major league baseball, are in for a
free for all.
The infield will be made up OF
Sisler, Mcguire and Bell on the
bases with Meanwhile and Farrell
at short. The fleet Lance Rich
bourg is the only outfielder sure of
his place. Earl Clark and Al Moore
! may complete the trio. leaving
George Harper, Heinie Mueller and
Jack Smith to fight for the other
pieces.
Pat Collins, eX-Yaknee. the vet
eran Zach Taylor, and Dick Smith
the Notre Dame football star who
caught for Montreal last year may
make up the catching staff unless
the ancient but nimble GoWdy
takes a hand.
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feat them all and win the cham
pionShip.
The next time I return to Ger
many I want to DO SO as the first
German heavyweight champion Of
the world.
But I may fail. as SO many for
eigners have failed. Heeney, the
Australian could not do it. Nor
could Carpenter, the Frenchman.
Nor Firpo, the Argentinian. They
all failed. So if I win the crown I
will be the first foreigner to do SO
since the days before John L. Sulli-
van.
However, that is all in the future.
So, until I return from this trip,
I want to say goodby as the Ger
mans say it: 2
Amerikaner. auf wiedersehen!
CThe Enid
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A. & Nj. EXES TO MEET
IN WESLACO TONIGHT
Especial to The Herald

IVES AGO, Mar. A regular
banquet of the ex-students of Texas
A. & M. in the Valley will be held
at the Cortez hotel here Monday eve
ming beginning at 8 o'clock.
Matters to be taken up include
loan fund, delegates to Bible ban
quet and annual April meeting.
Tex Sanders and Johnny Knapp
will furnish entertainment.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-04
BY MAX SCHMELING
Contender for the World Heavy
weight Championship.
Chapter Twelve
WHAT NEXT

WHAT NEXT
Just before I boarded the boat
which takes me back to Germany
for a vacation. my managerial
troubles reached a climax. Herr
Arthur Bulow, who brought me
from Germany, claimed American
managers were trying to steal me
from him.
For my part I prefer to work I'M
der an American manager, who
knows this country and is wise In
the ways of the ring business over
here. Bulow is not. He doesn't
even know English very well.
I return to Germany without
Bulow. I hope l will never have
to fight for him again. I do not
believe he helped me much in my
quests for fights over here, and ne
has made such a fuss over my ask
ing Joe Jacobs, an American man.
ager, to handle my affairs, that I
had to go to Washington to see our
German envoy there, Ambassador
Herr Won Frederick Prittwitz, to
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ALLEGED SLAYER HELD

SAN ANTONIO, March 4.-tH1-
Antonio Chavez. sought as the COM
panion of Ofilio Herrera, who is
charged with murder in connec-
ion with the Staying Of Sheriff AL
len t. Murray Of Mason, today also
was held in the Mason county jail
after his arrest Saturday night at
Santa Anna, so miles north Of Ma
son, according to Depuy Sheriff
Sam Baker.
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MULE KICK KILLS GIRL

DALLAS, Tex, March 4.-(P-
Virginia Irene Hart, 8, Of Plao,
Texas, died today from injuries re-
ceived when a mule kicked her
Saturday. She ran among a herd
of mules her father was driving to
a pasture.
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Of prestige to the banned sport
in this state.
There is nothing fair, however le-
gal it may be, to see a couple Of
scrappers pound away at each 9TH
er's kidneys when embracing each
other, in a position better known
as a clinch. AL Robinson and Tex
Becerril. two Valley boxing promo
ters, would certainly make a hit
with fans if they would bar these
attacks from their programs.
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Sitting at his radio set in Cleveland as the shrk@s rhg hghtp progressed round by round Jack
STdS S0tS6arOonHS write for Central Press and The Herald seNhed these high lights of the
battle rom the radio announcements
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MONEYS FOE PERISHES

YEADON, Eng.-Mrs. Sarah
Firth, who inherited $1,000, 900 and
always declared riches were a curse,
was burned to death in her home.
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The most deadly punch, and
the one that has sOured the pub
lie ON the game, to an extent, is
the rabbit punch and the kidney
blows; the kidney bolws r gen.
orally struck when the maulers are
i'm a clinching position. We be-
lieve those two blows should be
barred, they are in some states.
But in Texas where it is "agin"
the law to hold prize fights, but
they are held, it is up to the pro-
motors to bar this method of at
tack. We believe they would do
the fight game an inestimable
!. amount Of good and bring a lot
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Battling Shaw and Kid Pancho in
the main event of a fight card to-
night at Mercedes. Scheduled to
go 10 rounds.
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congratulations to Coach Jimmy
Dykes and his basketball crew of
McAllen. The Bulldogs won over
-Corpus Christi Saturday night, at
KingSville, "a to 30, for bi-district
honors. The Valley champs will
play in the state finals at A. & M.
this weekend.
Evening star., 1929-06-10
The Inspired One

A million farmers swung the nail. to
thresh their nutmegs, oats and fax;
though they were stalwart men and
hale, the labor nearly broke their backs
They toiled along throughout the day,
for men must work and also weep.
and when at night they hit the hay
they were so tired they couldn't sleep.
A million farmers dourly wrought and
piled the awkward noisy fail: there
that method always would prevail. But
there was one, forgotten now, who
thought that method was a shame, and
asAh mopped his streaming brow he
planned better threshing game. In
dreams he saw a big machine with
clashing gears and teeth of steel, all
painted brilliant red and green, that
took wheat stack at a meal. A mil
lion men will travel on the paths their
fathers used to tread, and have no vision
OF the dawn that may be breaking just
ahead. A million farmers swung the
scythe, year after year, their crops to
win; they started III the morning
blithe, and in the cleaning were all in,
They thought that farmers always must
swing heavy scythes TO get the grain,
their whiskers full of burs and dust.
their bodies full Of grief and pain. But
one, whose names forgotten now, be-
held the harvest, wide and green, and.
as he leaned against COW. he figured
out great machine. And now a reap
er cuts the straw and binds it into
handsome sheaves, and feeds them to
the thresher's NAV. as round and round
the field 1t weaves. There always Is some
man OF sense. inclined to think, in
clined TO dream, inclined to sit upon a
fence and plan an epoch-making
scheme. WALT MASON.
Evening star., 1929-06-10

rumors of poisoning, but they we're
apparently unfounded.
His enemies couldn't think as fast
as he. A courtier seeking TO humble
him by asking him to repair his watch,
BealImarchais replied he was no longer
expert. but very awkward. Then. tax
ing the watch as though TO examine 1t
he dropped it on the floor.
All monsieur" he said, Il warned
you of my awkwardneSS." bowed and
walked away. leaving the chagrlned
courtier to pick up the pieces.
He killed an adversary in duel.
Through the favor in which the royal
princeSses held him. he was able to
assist Du Verney. the great banker,
who made him rich by giving him
share i'll his speculations.
Louis XIV died. Louis XVI and Marie
Antoinette assembled the throne. Beau
marchaiS, carrying out mission to de-
stroy some documents attacking the
Queen shed his blood. The Queen gave
him her affectionate gratitude, and
thereafter he was powerful at court.
He was on the side of the American
colonies in their quarrel with England,
and was largely responsible for turn
ing French assistance to the Amerl-
cans.
With all his other activities he be-
came famous as writer. But his
memoirs and his plays. The Barber OF
Seville" and The Marriage OF Figaro.
which have survived today in the operas
barring those titles, innocently helped to
bring on the French Revolution, as they
gibed at society.
Strangely the revolutionists had no
Use for him. His wealth was respon-
sible His later years found him de-
spoiled of his former influence.
Copyright. 1929
Evening star., 1929-06-10

Famous among quick thinkers" and
particularly interesting to Americans. Is
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumar-
chais. Beginning life in 1882 as Pierre
AuguStin Caron. son OF Paris watch
maker. he achieved dazzling career.
Taught watchm making by his father.
he invented at 20. an improvement in
escapements which enabled him TO
make watches Of extreme minuteneSs
and accuracy. A powerful rival pirated
the invention. but the youth did not
surrender. He published his grievance
and carried it to the Academy OF
Sciences. where he gained the verdict.
His thoughts were always active and
he was ambitious. Handsome. too and
Jolly, he found means 10 profit from
the attention he had received. In
rapid order these events took place.
He made wonderful watch and OBJ
tanned the privilege of personally pre-
senting it to the King, who vas de-
lighted.
He made the smallest watch then in
existence: put 1t on a finger ring. and
presented 1t to Nine. Pompadour, the
Kings mistress.
He won the heart Of Mime. Franquet,
wife OF court official, who persuaded
her aged husband to relinqulSh his post
TO the Matchmaker.
Nine Franquet'S husband dying, he
married her, added the de Beaumar-
chats" to his name. bought the office OF
secretary to the King, and obtained
patents of nobility.
He won the regard OF Louis KV's
daughters and being an expert n.tisl-
clan, was made their teacher.
Always something was happening TO
Beaumarchais. His first wife soon oy-
ing. he married again. Shortly the
second wife passed on. There were
Evening star., 1929-06-10
A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK
BY HERBERT PLUMMER.

makers to Washington. andt.Mr. Tlnk-
ham had to caflcel all of his plans. His
tiger hunt must wait at least until next
year
Representative Tinkham probably is
the most widely travelled member of
Congress. Only one other-ErneSt r.
Ackerman of New JerSey-can approach
the Massachusetts mans mileage record.
Already he has been more than $50 900
miles outside the confines OF the United
States. He started his globe circling
while a student at Harvard and has
been at it ever since.
He is a bachelor and wealthy. Also,
ne is a big-game hunter of the flrst
water. and his quest OF thrills along this
line has carried him to the four corners
of the globe.
There is ample proof of his skill as a
hunter. The walls OF his office on Capt.
tol Hill are decorated with the heads OF
animals he has shot His apartment at
one of the hotels in Washington literally
is iammed with trophies of these hunt
ing expeditions.
The Smithsonian Institution has beer
the recipient of valuable African speci-
mems brought down by Mr.. Tinkham'
gun.
When he travels he surrounds him.
self with all the conveniences. Once
the king of Siam ordered out one OF
his own planes TO bear Mr.. Tinkham
Evening star., 1929-06-10
BRAIN TESTS

Answer the following questions in
three minutes-each may be answered
by single number. Three minutes for
the complete list, the object of the
test being to ascertain your ability in
quick calculation, also in analysis of
the questions.
ca A train leaves city A every hour
on the hour, arriving at city B in
hours and Is minutes. There is an
hourly train from B to A, each train
leaving Oh the hour and making the
run in z hours and Is minutes.
How many trains from A to B will be
passed by train running from B to A?
~ A man has three sisters. each OF
the sisters has three sons, and each OF
those three sons has three sisters.
How many people are there al
together?
80 A man changes a So bill He re-
ceives a certain number of half dollars
twice as many quarters, twice rs many
dimes as quarters, twice as many nick
els as dimes, and the balance in l-cent
pieces.
How many 1-cent pieces does he re-
ceive?
Answers.
% Five trains will be passed. Ex-
ample, train leaves B at IL O'Clock. ar
irving at A at 2:l5. 1t passed the 10, II
II, l and o'clock trains from A. ~
Twenty-Five people. One man. three
sisters, nine sons and nine daughters
Each son has three sisters, but each
group of three sisters are, sisters tc
three brothers. t3) Twenty 1-cent
pieces-one half dollar, two quarters
four dimes. eight nickels.