Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-24
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By Bishop Clements
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Just a few more weeks-right
around the corner then-and base
ball players will be packing their
grips and treking to training camps.
The o~ff-Season for the average ball
player is five months, but in the
whole it seems like a dozen, and es-
pecially the last few weeks before
training grind starts. The big lea
CUES, Of course. get away to an earl
Ter start, and then the Class IA and
so on down the line TO the Class d
clubs.
Which brings to mind the pro-
posed Valley l~eague--also right
around the corner In the making.
San Benito fandom is in line for
the league on a 500 per month
per mar basis. and that's a SEN
sible idea IL baseball is TO exist
in this part of the country. The
complaint may be made that ball
players of very little ability can
be secured at that price. The first
thing each club must do is TO get
a high-class capable playing man.
ager, N who will take a loyal,
whole-souled interest in the play
ers. And the secret of the sue
cess Of any league IL the uniform
competition. If every club will
live up 20 the salary limit. and
they had better for their wi
sake, the playing ~inferiority of
the inexperienced plays will be
overlooked by the fans.
Elizabeth and Katherine Cherry are
twins; they are forwards on Coach
Nalenta's Brownsville high school
basketball team-and about the best
goal shooters the Valley has seen
IN many years-if ever their equal.
The writer offers a suggestion 20
Miss Nalenta, in fact something has
TO be done, IL the correct score IL
TO be kept: They can hardly be told
apart, so 70 is up TO the coach 10
put some kind of numerals on the
backs Of their sweaters designating
them apart, or better still, from our
standpoint, why not have their names
written on the backs Of their sweat
ers?
And while we're on the subject
OF basketball, you fans who are
missing the games In which Miss
Nalenta's team plays, are absent
from some Of the best executed
games and plays possible in bas-
ket5all. The starting lineup COM
posed of H~ughston and Pacheco.
centerS; Cahler snd Walton guards.
and Bennett and the Cherry twins,
forwards, certainly do play with
precision and teamwork.
Soc Plato's high school basketball
squad is going TO have TO improve
IN shooting the basket IL il is 10 get
very far in the Valley race. The
Eagles are hustlinF. and playing a
smart defensive game. but their goal
shooting is out Of proportion to the
defensive work.
Kid Soils Of Brownsville and
hid Lupe OF San Denito-they al
ways call these boxing BOYS
kids" for many and various rea-
sons. are 10 battle four rounds in
h preliminary skirmishes of the
boxing program TO be put on Mon
Gay night at Fort Brown skating
rink by Promoter Tex Becerril.
These two boys weigh lis pounds.
and are fast, and clever for their
limited experience. In previous
scraps they have demonstrated a
Willingness 10 mix il, and that's
what the cash customers like-the
dead heads don't like anything.
Blondy Gross, our sports scribe
friend Of the San Angelo Standard
Times, remarks in his column several
days ago, that it's time 10 play base
ball ard quit wrangling, in discussing
the affairs Of the West Texas league.
Blondy is right. Personal animositv
and j%ealousies have wrecked more
bail clubs and leagues Of the Class
u callber than any one thing else.
Right here in the yalIey-it il
high time TO forget personal ieaI-
ousies and pull together, for what
y good for one town II good for
another. and vice versa. For in
stance II San Benito has . good
club In the proposed league and
Brownsville doesn't, and all the
other clubs are weak. then the lea.
que would become uninterestinE.
We ave remarked before. and be-
ileve Il worth repeating that. Il IN
the uniformity Of the different
clubs Of n league that makes the
circuit interesting and pulls the
customers 10 the games.
University of Texas students. re-
ports state. got "raw" last Saturday
night when about two hundred NJ
them couldn't gain admittance 70 the
Texas-S. NJ. U. basketball game. The
gym holds only 500. They crashed
the gate and several windows. and
otherwise displayed their wrath. and
whether IL Is good or bad for the
school. We hope Texas authorities
rush up the finishing touches on the
100000 gym started sometime aro,
Up at Waco fans are bemosninr
the fact. they believe. that Paul
Tyson's Tigers won't win the state
football title next year. Gradu-
uation. ID IN pointed out, will take
q heavy toll of its star PLAYERS.
Waco has an advantage over most
other teams Of the state in that
Il has N high school to serve in
forty or fifty thousand population
and consequently has more materi-
al, whereas the average high school
IN Class A serves a population Of