Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-18
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CPORTS

By BISHOP

Boxing card tonight al Mercedes,
staring at $3.50 o'clock.
Chuck Burns and Danny Gasparo,
l65-pound leather singers. will head
line the show. Ken Macy and Bat
Ting Shaw, will also scrap In the
preliminaries. as will Johnny Cruz
and Plakie Peyo-
Promoter AL Robinson believes this
will be the best card he has ever
put on. The promoter may surprise
fans By having other scraps not yet
announced, on tonights program, and
mug fans in these parts are hoping
! couple az negro fighters will be on
the program. or a battle royal, pref
erably.
Free throws, coming about by
fouls. in the game between the
Lvford and Raymondville high
school quints Friday. for the cham
pionship Of Millacy county, was
the feature Of the game, reports
from Lyford state. Lyford con-
NPFFtu INTO SIN HoAhaN Nv - o~
teen free throws, whereas Ray
mondyille made 10 points out OF
sixteen free throws. Quite q mum
Der of fouls during that game.
The two centers were the outstand-
ing performers for their CUNTS.
Keene of Lyford, looping the hoop
for \ points. while Cook Of Raymond
willie made 6 points. Come 20 think
of il, these center boys in basketball
in the Valley. from the high school
70 the town teams. and Junior col
lege squads. are certainly making
that position important by their
great playing.
Colonel Howard Shannon of the
Donna News, says there n a lot OF
interest in his part of the Valley
for baseball. and believes n Valley
league organized along the lines
of the Nebraska State circuit will
be a going proposition. The Col
onel. a sport fan de luxe. In heart
lily In favor Of Hidalgo county
towns joining those of Cameron in
forming a Class ID league
Allen Carter, one Of the outstand-
ing high school football players Of
the Valley this past season, has been
elected captain Of the San Benito
team for the 1929 season. Carter de-
serves that honor. He played d con-
sentative, loyal, hustling. type Of
ball, that all coaches delight in. He
is also the type Of boy the coaches
like. and the fans, too. In the game
with McAllen. who pitilessly tram
pied Coach Morrison's Hounds under
foot. II wa Carter and Captain Nc
Williams who made what little prog
ress the San Benito squad made that
day; and their play was remarkable.
too. because they had. never been
up against such an attack VIZ football
passing as Coach Dykes Bulldogs
Haunted in their faces
The writer regrets that Phil
Brady, a star athlete on the San
Benito team, is not in school there
this year. He II in Michigan.
Phil injured a leg at the start of
last football season, and was prEc-
iically useless throughout the sea-
son. But il is of his ability az a
baseball player. or his potential
ability, at least. that we bemoan
the passing Of this, we believe.
major league prospect. Big and
strong, and with the instinct Of all
good athletes. Brady, in the games
we watched MIN perform last sea-
son on the diamond, looked mighty
good.
College Station sthletes-better
known as the Farmers of "a. Il Nj,
to the number of IS, are working out
daily as track aspirants. Coach
Frank Anderson believes he has
some promising material for a win
ming squad. Coach Clyde Littlefield
Of Texas University. himself a well
known and successful track coach. in
2 talk some months ago. bemoaned
the fact that Texas schools had 50
few track aspirents. In some Of the
up-country institutions, as many as
two and three hundred candidates ap-
pear for training each year. Little
field said. That's right, and the
squad Of candidates are increasing
each year in Texas schools, and Lit
tlefield had and is having a lot TO
do with the increasing track interest
because OF his ability along that
line.
A dispatch from 7. c. L. says:
THE Texas Christian University
Frogs will be out to run their total
Of victories TO three when the Rice
Owls invade Purpleville Feb. 10 for
the second game Of the year between
the two teams. The .FrCgs nosed the
Owls out by one point in their first
winning the tilt In the
las few seconds OF play. The Frogs
have four games on their list, having
won two and lost six. They pulled
themselves out of the cellar last week
BY trouneing the Baylor Bears de-
cisively. Dopesters are busy at this
point in the season figuring how
they'll stand "
We don't know how they are going
10 stand when the season has run
its course. but up in Arkansas.
those long tall boys of Porkerville
have the inside track on the bas-
ketball honors in the Southwest
conference. All six feet and some
a little more. Arkansas will win
its fourth conference champion
ship, If they come through "a vic
tory this year, and who is il that
doesn't believe they won't?
Won't be long until the basketball
season will be over in the Valley.
in fact il is scheduled to be settled
this weekend. when the district
tournament is to be played at Nc
Allen. Of which Coach Jimmy Dykes
is director. And then. and then
we'll you know what we mean--base-
ball will take its place in the differ
ent high schools. It's going to be
mighty plcPSant on these summerv
afternoon TO watch-an0 nerforae