Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-27
s1QUARTERBACK DAVIS OF A. M. TO COACH LA FERIA
SPORTS

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ne Lone Star league, to pitch fol
hem this season. Darby was with
Waco a part of last season. He was
star in his high school days, not
My in baseball but in other sports
5 well. A graduate of the San Be
Ito high school, he is we'll known
a the Valley. At San Marcos
there he matriculated he made a
reat rep as a star athlete. If he
ccepts the Trojan offer. he ought
0 make that outfit a good pitcher.
When the San Antonio Bears
played Corpus Christi Monday
and Tuesday such well known
Valley players as Clyde Pratt,
Lupe Rodriguez and Jesse Pompa
cavorted for the Seahawks. Just
too bad that such an excellent
baseball town as Corpus may be
without the national pastime this
summer. No fault of theirs.
They are ready. The Valley is
not.
White boxing gloves made their
p%pearance for the first time in a
alley ring Monday night. And they
made a hit with the Paternity. May
ecome the rage from % on. Hope
D. They look much heater. and
re, than the old colored mittS.
Death has removed one of the
best catchers in Class ID baseball.
The grim reaper reached out last
week and took DoOley Ferguson of
Palestine. He was killed in an
automobile accident. Dooley was
not only a good player, but a
popular fellow. He had spent his
Entire baseball career with the
Palestine Pals of the Lone Star
league, his home town.
Kid Pancho might have been
hampton of the world if he had
hken proper care of himself. That
emark is heard on all sides, and is
orne out by fellows who know the
anne. The Kid is a likeable chap.
[e is a graduate of Main Avenue
Ugh school Of San Antonio. Pancho
as or did have every requisite Of
champion.
"How many fights have you hal
In your ~career?" he was asked
before the card Monday night at
Fort Brown, by Ben Freudenstein,
who knows the game. About
two hundred and thirty-five,"
Pancho replied. And the almost
unbelievable thing about this
statement is that there is hardly
a scar to mar his features. A nose
that is slightly crushed and a split
lip. The Kid is q years old, and
lmakes friends readily. We be-
lieye Valley fans would like to e
Pancho i'm the.same physical con-
dition again, as he was in the
scrap with Johnny Hughes, and
then take on Battling Shaw.
Kid Ruiz drew" out on Promoter
'ex Becerril for the card Monday
light. He had. agreed to fight Kid
Euerra. Maybe it was the San Be
ito boy Ruiz didn't want TO mix
nth. We haven't any patience with
hese fellows'who. after agreeing to
ght, have a, change of mind at
he last moment, It puts III pro-
1oter in a predicament, and disap-
Eoints the fan. But Tex showed
euiz that fights could be held with
ut his services, and substituted
he game Ken Macy.
A couple of black boys would
rroye a drawing card at any
fight. Why not put on a battle
royal, al, on your program Mon
day night at Mercedes?
roy Corgan, we'll known profess
ional baseball player, in the west
TN league last year, has been en-
aged to manage the TeXarkana
lub of the Lone Star loop. Twin
sity moguls made this announce
nent early part of this week. Cor
an will be a playing manager,
tharlie Miller bos5ed the Twins
asst year. and his club Won the sec
nd half Of the race. losing to Pal
slime in the playoff:
Glass d baseball is and should
be nothing more than a training
ground for youngsters. 1t Is a
shame that the Valley hasn't or
sanized a league Of this class,
with a $500 pei month salary
limit. Five clubs expressed a de-
sire to enter. Four in the Valley,
namely, McAIlen, Harrington, San
Benito and Brownsville. Corpus
Christi Is the outside city. a four
club loop wouldn't be bad. Think
it v you fans who want base
ball, and lend a helping hand to
those few who are trying or were
at least, to form the league. 1t
m remark of fans want
dnr to know how the league is
coming. Gentlemen. 1t isn't
coming. Your help Is needed.
Fans can help. Get in touch
with Billie Burnett al the Miller
hotel.
The Cotton States league, one OF
he oldest Glass D loops in organ
,ed baseball, is composed of Lau-
Ell. Hattiesburg, Meridian, jackson
nd Vicksburg, Miss, Monroe ano
alexandria. La, and Ell Dorado
lrk. Spring training has been or
II this circuit for the past two
Speks. F. j. Scott, of Vicksburg
J president Of the league. 1t is 8
DING concern, with a population
nat would admit them in Class E
aseball. And they play a higher
rade of ball than is usually founc
4 the Glass D circuits.
Texas two Class d leagues get
started In spring training April l.
The Lone Star and West Texas
|Ioops, who at the end of the sea-
son tangle in a series for the Class
d title, are considered, and with
fact, two fast and prosperous lea
CUES.
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