Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-03
CPORTS
OFORUM
BY BISHOP

this case.
observation-disclosures diamond
stuff-is a huge business institution
and if it cannot stand upon It's
feet financially, then we may as
well call 1t off as a bad job. The
business office of a club and CLUBS
is the main thing in the organlza-
ton. You can't expect someone
to dvote all his time to that end OF
the game away from his business
believe, and know it IS a TACT,
that if the Valley league is to sue
coed there must be a business or
ganization back Of each club-upon
a hired basis.
The plan, as PROMULGATED by
those who have been and are still
working at it, for the past few
weeks, towaG a league, simply is
that a $500 per month salary
limit be In vogue; that kind OF
league has proven a success finan-
cialIy and alse an interesting n
from a playing standpoint, in
other parts of the country; 1t can
be SO in the Valley.
We do not know of any n thing
that will bring fellow citizens to-
gether upon a common basis, than a
baseball league; we may have our
political differences, our personal
preferences for this and that, but
it comes to supporting the
old home town baseball club-Just
watch each towns citizens get to-
in a commendable as well as
heart-souled way.
Bring this thing right home
in the Valley-we believe 4 base
ball league will do the Valley
more good, especially this year
than any thing else; it will put
the Valley in a mood for pulling
together; ii will put the different
citizens Of the different towns in
a pulling mood, pulling for n
thing in common.
H. II. Dennis, of Mission, has a
novel as we'll as good idea, We be-
lieve, in the following note to us
Of Saturday:
"Just been thinking if it had not
already been done, if it wouldn't be
good idea to give Muggsy McGraW
personal invitation to the March
9Th, celebration in Brownsville.
he would find out we have
climate in the Valley for baseball
teams"
Fine, Mr.. Dennis; the Valley
climate is conducive year round
to baseball, and once a profess
siOnal league is operated success
fully in the Valley, you may rest
assured big league as well as other
baseball clubs will be stampeding
the Valley with requests to train
down here; and Furthermore, they
won't be asking any bonuses for
the privilege, as Mr.. Lee Kaiser
of Des Moines did, recently.
But first the Valley has to prove
to an anxious baseball public, that
she really wants organized baseball
and the only way that can be done
is to support a professional league
in the land Of sunshine" this sum-
mer.
DON'T FORGET THAT BASE
HOLDS A GENERAL MEET
ING EACH YEAR. THE VALLEY
CAN ACCOMMODATE Il H S
CONVENTION IN 1881. 1T MEETS
IN CHATTANOOGA in 1890; BUT
MUST HAVE A LEAGUE IN
ORDER TO PROVE THAT THIS is
A BASEBALL COUNTRY.
Baseball parks in most Of the VAL
ley cities is a thing to be had. and
will be. The Houston Post Dispatch
in its front page column Our
Houston" of Wednesday, has this
interesting bit of news, along this
I'm some cities amateur base
ball diamonds are maintained at
the expense Of the park depart
ment, and this method is a sound
one. The park department is un-
der just as much duty to provide
baseball facilities as to provide
facilities for golf. tennis and 9TH
err outdoor sports. If there is to
be a preference, baseball is en-
titled to it On the ground that il
appeals to a larger number of
people than any other sport"
We are for the municipal golf
courses, and any other thing that
S conducive to the general well be-
of the citizen along the sports
Inc, in this instance; but we also
agree with the PoSt-DiSpatch that
when city governments plan or con
template to build these municipal
golf links, they should also provide
fairgrounds for other sports, and
especially baseball diamonds. There
Ire thousands upon thousands of
Youngsters and grown-ups, too, in
he Valley who would be playing
baseball every afternoon these DAYS
T they had the playing field; it
would keep them in physical and
mental shape for the days work.
But it is of the young bows We
r more particularly interested
when speaking of municipal play
grounds; give these youngsters a
chance to develop limb and mind
in a competitive way; they will
make good citizens, and the city
government of Brownsville and all
other Valley towns could do their
towns no better turn. yea, i'm fact
one of the best turns, if they would
provide municipal playing grounds
not only for golf, but especially
baseball.
Mercedes, a cellar contender in
football circles of the Valley for
the past few years, is perking up.
The high school is holding spring
training for prospective members
OF the Tiger squad this year. Fine.
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