Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-19
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Dark, dank skies that threatened
to leak at almost any moment,
greeted the galaxy of field, track
and heavy-thinking stars of the
four Valley counties as they gath
cred here today for the district
interscholastic meet. AT any rate
quite a few of the events listed
for Friday were to be indoor af-
fairs and perhaps the day will not
be lost.
The events that send the fans
scuttling through the admission
gates, however, will not get under
way until 8 a. m. Saturday. At
that time preliminaries in field
and track r to begin on Tucker
field. Several Valley records stand
a good chance to fall before such
performers al Mcclure and Ruth
ven OF Donna. OverStreet Of Nc
Allen, Murphy of Mission, Bella
font OF Mercedes and Newman.
Cabler, Barnhart and Todd of
Brownsville.
Ii you get a thrill out OF pole
Vaulttng, dent miss the opportun-
10y TO see Ruthyen in action. The
Donna star has been clearing the
cane around IL feet and 8 inches.
This is enough to cop almost anv
hlgh school meet. including the
mterScholastlc finals. III other
words. Ruthven is a potential state
champion. Vaulting to many is the
prettleSt athletic event. They reyeI
II the vaulter'S balanced run with
the pole and his high spriny
stretched to the utmost by divers
eenVorttous Of the body.
To our mind, the most graceful
o. Held events Is the discus throw
me motions move easily into each
other and the follow through
makes 1t appear complete. It lacks
the strained contortionS Of high
Jump, broad jump, daShsS. etc n
you don't believe US, be out and let
Caoler prove our contention.
Our ear to the ground depsrt-
msnt has uncovered a hot SCOOP
II hasn't broke yet but is expectes
"ltnln the next few days. We
are reliably informed that if the
flrSt team OF the local Skeet clu5
doesn't improve their shootirr
the alegedly second" team Il 90
ing TO demand first place. The in
~surrectlcn is headed by a wen
known laundry magrate.
Norman e. Brown. nationally
RACED sports writer. declares that
the world series viii turn out to
be merely a New York City champ
lonShlp. He S well in line with
the scrlbes. toutS and h-angers-on
II picking the Yankees but few are
placing their money on the Giants
s5 this tnne. The majority of the
rams pick the Chicago Cubs 10 cor
Gne National league bunting.
Lefty Lewis. 1S4 pound colored
!ad Of Omaha, Neb., rolled into
BroWnsvh1e recently. Lefty
hunted up Promoter Tex Becerril
and declared himself ready to az
battle. He was told there was no
one In his class here. Hinoiosa
l85-pound local boy. was men
toned Lefty noted the difference
In weight but said he was willing
TO take Elnolosa on any basis
Lefty has demonstrated his wares
IN Kansas City, Oklahoma CITY
Little Rock, New Orleans ana
other fight centers.
Morris and Southweli. survivors
or a tennis tournament at Edin-
burg Junior College, are to play
With a strong pair from SOUTH
western university at Edinburg
Saturday. They would add much
the athletic prestige of the VAL
ley If they could COP q fan Or two
QUO OF the Pirates.
Inc above paragraph recalls why
we don't play tennis.
We are rather beShfuI. We were
playing our first game. A girl
was teaching us. Thought We
would find out who was winning
We called over the net to her. She
answered Two. Love" And we
haven't played another game since.
The eyes Of the American sport
world are turned Europe-ward.
They are trained on the u. S.
Ryder cup team and the liner
taking Misses Collett and Wills
across the big pond. Great things
are expected Of them They have
never failed before. Miss Wills is
TO be ably aided IN her net con-
quests on the Old Continent by