Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-08-22
Sports Chats
With -
Hal Eustace

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high IS bordering over the advisa-
bill of c~ancelling the Maroons'
early season game scheduled with
Beaumont. Under the present line
up. the teams are programmed 10
clash In the second game OF the sea-
son at Beaumont. Benny Is a STRAIT
egist who knows his football. He
does not want to peak the Maroon
squad for the second contest of the
year. Hitting a fast stride at this
stage OF the game almost invariably
reacts on an eleven toward the mid
die or last of the season.
Local fans are inclined to rate
Austin as the greatest obstacle TO
the Brownsville Eagle squad. Al
though Strickland Is coaching his
first l'ear at the capital city and
does not know his squad. he is X
pected to throw a scare into the title
~contenders. A state championship
would not be at all surprising for
the Maroon gridders. They have two
stellar performers in Parigi at GEN.
ter and Graves at end. Graves is
one of the best high school wingmen
in the state.
Robstown. Corpus Christi. Main
Aver lie. Breckenridge, Alamo
Heights and Brownsville are to play
the Maroons. The Eagles play at
Austin Nov. %. Brownsville is not
cutting much Of a swath in the early
season tanning bees. Speaking of
the games scheduled by Austin. a
capital city scribe said: -Four are
sure to be tough. although some
think that Brownsville will not go
quite so well when they step out
into the Glass A connection. vet
nothing can be taken for granted"
And he may be taken at his word.
The Eagles cannot be expected TO
mop up in the Glass A division as
they did in Glass B last year. The
competition is just naturally tough
er ard the Eagle team has not
changed to n great extent. II
Coach Doug FeSsenden were able
to Jockey his club into winning half
Of its games this season. IL would be
a successful year. But YOU would
have a hard time convincing the
average Brownsville fan Of that
fact. They drank the heady wine
Of overwhelming victories last year
and are back TO revel at the lip OF
the same cur again. The AVERAGE
fan is expecting too much from the
Eagles.
A boxing match vas held in Dali
Inc Wednesday evening and the cops
die D interfere-in fact. they aided
in handling the crowd and general
" facilitating matters. Mickey
Kelley outpointed Charlie Currens.
both lightweights of Dallas. Four
prelims also were staged. Wonder
where GUNNER Dan Moodv's BUSH
whacking rangers were? The fight
was in the order of a club" affair.
II was staged for the employees of
a company and their friends. Here
tofore. these club" affairs felt the
hillystick Of John Law. This bout
NAV set a precedent that will be
followed W the state.
Agitation for the return of boxing
Is reaching a high pitch over the
state. Galveston fans are banding
themselves together to seek repeal
of the anti boxing law. Doubtless
some action will be taken at the
next session of the legislature. The
psalm singers and the boxing fans
will scramble ears when this fight
on the right to permit fighting be-
gins.
Boxing is no more brutal than a
half dozen other sports. Wrestling
is twice as brutal. A man playing
football Sops up about as much Dun-
ishment as a prize fighter. Row
ing sets a killing pace. Tennis sets
a fast ace II II is crookedness that
they object to. why don't thev do
something about wrestling? Wrest-
ling Is permitted. The major por-
ton of all wrestling matches are
framed. They have to be to draw
the crowds. Put two good men in
the ring absolutely on the square
and you'll see a slow Juggling eXhi-
bition which the fans would walk
out on. Frame it and see a slam
hang. rip-snorting limb-tearing af-
fair. This will bring the fans back.
Wrestling matches were held
here about a year ago. A big Swede
and a German put on several bouts
at Fort Brown. They staged a
'grudce" fight that appeared tx
tremely realistic. Even the harden
ed ton Serceants were velping about
the brutality of the thing. They
booed the Swede and called him a
'hig Scandinavian bore crusher."
with several other appendages that
would not do to print. But inva-
riahlv the much beaten IN little
Dutchrnan led the Swede out to the
center of the ring and slammed him.
The fights were obviously framed.
But even then the brutality was
there.