Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-15

situations IS the one recently cl0Eed
and the sport win have lost It's fas-
cinaticn for thousands Of fans.
"The enthusiasm has grown year
by year, until 1923 when the innum-
cradle protests. arbitrary decisions
and endless uncertainty resulted In a
sharp decline In sttsndsnce-an ia
~disputable proof that something IN
wrong. Let us review briefly some
Of the developments.
"As y starting point, consider Gle
burne. Sesmon Squyres, fullhack
was protested. The district commit
tee ruled that he was eligible. After
Cleburne had won its way to the
state Eemi~finsls. the state commit
tee ruled that the triple threat star
was ineligible.
He could not have been both eli
Eible and ineligible. Either he was
one or the other. III Ne was ineli-
gible, be should have been 80 ruled
and in time then corsicsna would
have represented the district On
the other hand, IL Squyres was eli
gible, then q grave injustice was
done 10 Cleburne when the Yellow
Jackets were deprived Of his services
IN the Abilene game. In the judg-
ment Of this writer, Cleburne would
have won the state championship
with Squyres in ths lineup"
Boyce House then ~recites other and
numerous rulings and decisions OF
n district and state committees,
whereby they conflicted at practically
every turn, and concludes with this
statement:
Folks are not going 10 pay mon
ey and yell themselves hoarse
about passes and runs when they
will o know until some commit
Tee meets somewhere whether the
game meant anything or not. Even
alter the committee decides, II Al
liable TO change its mind-if any.
And u that committee stands
hitched, another committee Is liable
10 override IT,"
The fault we find with these dis
triet committees Is that their deci-
slons, IN 30 many cases. are deduced
from a personal standpoint; the
merits OF q case or cases are not
taken n consideration. And ~
Tor the state committee, il has be-
come q joke The district and state
committees combined nave certainly
set a fire precedent for high school
students, IL those boys and girls are
70 look upon their wrangiing and
petty squabbles and ~jealousies in an
after-sch0ol way. But we don't be-
lieve they will and are.
Max Schmeling has finally become
Amerieanized. Latest doings in the
Herman ~heavyweight's camp Is his
lMax's9 charge that his nag
Arthur Bulow. whom Schmelinr
charges with anything but good and
loyal work, has charged Joe Ja~
cobs with "wiles and advances to-
ward S~chmeling. Jacobs wants to
DC the Germans manager, and ar
parently Max doesn't object. Kinda
sounds like one Of these divorce cas-
es, alienation Of affections"
Not 10 be oufdone BY their civ
rivals. the 81. Louis Browns have
acquired another FARM Spring.
field. No., of the Western associs-
ton will be used as an -agricuI-
tural' club by the Browns tiIis
year. The Cardinals are u-ioneer4
along this lire. and the Browns
are falling In line.
The Texas University freshmen.
organized into two basketball teams.
are desirous of playing quints in
other parts OF the state. The local
Junior college Scorps could probably
get q game with the @~freshiesr Nat
Lack an indoor court 70 rlay on. Edin-
burg Junior college has indoor 4
ana q fine Notwithstanding
the Brownsville schools need.