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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-12
SHORTER YEAR
} UP to- CHIEFS
No Secret Farm Plan Of
Lands Due For More
IL Consideration
By WILLIAM J. CHAPMAN

ASSOCIATED FTeSS sports writer
NEW YORK, Dec. 12-tPEThe
great battle Of unbroken silences
came to a climax today with a meet
ing Of national and American lea
que baseball forces. Even at this
farewell conclave. the most import
ant item to the fans-the question
Of an earlier closing year-cannot be
officially decided; some Of the
guard house lawyers discovered the
two constitutions place this matter
entirely IN the hands Of the league
presidents.
Since both John Heydler and Err
nest Barnard are known to favor a
closing in September, II Is safe TO
presume the next major league cam
paign will extend from Tuesday.
April IS. through Sunday, September
%. Such a chart would provide for
169 possible playing days, an ample
number with Boston playing Sunday
baseball.
Notice Required
The chief matter before the Joint
meeting was another thing dear to
commissioner X. Nj. Lardis-his pro-
1ect to require both major and minor
league clubs TO give official notice
% baseball authorities upon acuuir-
ing contIcl Of a franchise in a
smaller league. The commissioner
arch-elemy OF chain-store owner
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FAL, MEXICO'S FOREMOST
QUINT, IS TOURING u. S.

States the spirit Of the new Mex
lean youth. strong and healthy and
clean in spirit. mind and body.
"On this tour we do not know
how many games we will win or
lose, but we are absolutely sure Of
one thing. and that Is that we win
do M best to win the hearts Of
all the young men with whom we
happen to get In touch.
Our main idea is TO learn and
assimilate all the good things that
may come our way, and also 70
grasp this wonderful opportunity to
give forth all the good that Is III
us"
Richard Williamson, national
secretary for the ". M. G.. "A. III
Mexico. who introduced basketball
into Mexico. said i can recommend
to the young men or the United
States this group Of fine Mexican
boys who took the championship
away from other crack teams In
Mexico
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~ ~
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 12-Eleven
members Of the Fa- basketball team
OF Mexico City, the champion five
Of the republic, with Coach Leon
icio Ochoa, and the clubs man
ager are on their way to the United
States to further the cause of in
ternational sport.
The team is now playing with
towns between Mexico City and the
border. and the first game north
Of the Rio Grande is scheduled
December % with the School OF
Mines at FL Paso, Texas.
The last game will be played
February Il with the Y. NJ. c. A.
Of San Antonio. Texas. During the
interval between these two Texas
games the Mexicans will play Is
other games in the Middle West
and Southwest.
The schedule includes games in
Texas. Kansas. Iowa. Wisconsin. Il
linois. Indiana. Ohio. Missouri. Ken
lucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Lou
isiana. and Mississippi. The col
legiate games on the schedule are
with the FL Paso School of Mines
Simmons college of Abilene. Texas,
Southwestern college OF Winfield
Kansas. Wichita university Of Wich-
ita, Kansas. Kansas State Teach
ers college Of Emporia. Kansas. the
University of Kansas at Lawrence,
Drake university at Dies Moines
Notre Dame at South Bend. Luosi-
ana. Louisiana college Of Pineville
Louisiana. and Mississippi college
Of Clinton. There Is also an open
date at Austin. Texas, when the
Mexicans will play either the Uni
versity Of Texas or another Austin
team.
The following men are MAKING
the trip: Claudio Mateo, Salvador
Paulin. Juan Rico. Ricardo Cho-
perena, and Angel Flores Rico, for
wards: Captain Benito Lopez Par
ra and Silvio Hernandez. center;
AMI jaime Roberts. Armando Luna
Gilberto Aznar. and Rodolfo Cho-
pe~ena guards.
Coach Ochoa. in leaving Mexico
City for points north. said: Il am
sure that every m Of the boys
on the team feels the responsibility
Of showing the people Of the United
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II SIGN FOR
DIXIE TUSSLE
Purdue, Notre Dame And
Illinois Stars To
Play Southwest

LAFAYETTE. Ind, Dec 15-tF-
Seventeen football stars have ac-
cepted coach Jimmie Phelan's in
vitstion to compete on the Middle
Western team III the Dixie charity
football game at Dallas, Tex. New
Years day.
MiddleWestern stars who have
agreed TO play are WEIGH and Woe
rner. Purdue; Colrick. Gebert and
Nash. Notre Dame: WoiEast and
Walker, Illinois. Westra and Myers,
Iowa; Pulkrabek and Pharmer
Minnesota; Gembis and Steinke.
Michigan: Calderwood. Northwest
ern: Young and Lardner. Detroit,
and Hal RebholZ. Wisconsin.
Three more are expected on the
Middlewest squad which will meet
an all-star team or Southwestern
players.
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GRIP FIzzLE
RUNS GUEST
Lauri Defeats Young Camp
125-101; Rudolph And
Taberski Win

DETROIT. Mich. Dec. l2.=(P
Marcel Camp. youthful Detroit
cueist. suffered his first setback in
the worlds championship pocket
billiard tournament at the Recrea-
ton building last night. His fail
ure TO make an easy shot for the
side pocket paved the way for Ono
FRO Lauri Of Brooklyn to win by
l25 to l0l in 8 innings.
Erwin Rudolph OF Chicago de-
feated Joseph j. Mccain Of Jack
sonville, Fla. in five innings. Ru-
dolph won his first game from
Lauri on Tuesday in ten innings.
and now shows the way with two
games won and nine lost.
Frank Taberski. defending cham
pion, defeated Spencer Livsey u
Los Angeles 125 to AZ. in "a inn
ings.
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gular league games, but this iE.
sue. like the schedule matter, doubt.
less VIII be finally decided only A
the Joint session tomorrow.
Rule on Farms"
The chief item before the open
Ing session cf the two leagues yes
today was that OF requiring clubs
purchasing franchises III smaller
circuits I'd make ia formal report
OF any such transaction 70 COM
missioner Lands. 10 the two major
leagues and 10 the national assocla-
ton OF professional baseball leagues.
Commissioner lands put this ques-
ton before the magnateS, pointing
out that since such reports now
were made IA individual players
purchases. such action was even
more necessary when an entire
team az players was acquired.
Commissioner Lands plan Is not
retroactive, but steps doubtless WILL
H. taken 10 prepare a record of
interlocking ownership interests
now existing. for the guidance or all
baseball. The national league mag
mates acted favorably upon the
commissioners plan. but deferred
definite decision until tomorrow.
The American league believed the
question could To- better solved by
restoring the universal draft.
The National league elected a
directorate composed cf Barney
Dreyfuss. or Pittsburgh. Charles :.
stoneham of New York. William
Week w Chicago and Emil ~
Fuchs 81 Boston. Shift RI Ameri-
can league directors provided for in
the constitution brought into office
Jacob Ripper OF New York. Robert
Quinn of Boston. Alva Bradley Of
Cleveland and Charles Coniskey az
Chicago.
The deadlock among warning fac
tons or the Brooklyn club OF the
National league was preached only
I'M president John A. Hevdler'S re
port 70 the club-owners. President
Heydler merely said ne hoped THE
two factions would meet As
matters stand. Wilbert Robinson
cannot he ousted AS president by
the McKeever interests. but can t.
deprived OF his job as manager.
Since Robertson himself could Gre
ate a deadlock on the question of n
new manager, It IS unlikely he viii
he molested-
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E~lectrocution Held
Not Always Fatal

BERLIN. Dec. 12-lPl- Proof
that electrocution does not kill Is
claimed by Or. Hartmann, a Siles-
ian.
He reports successful resuscita-
ton OF several seemingly dead per-
sons by massage and artificial res
piration. after hearts had appar-
emily ceased beating for hours.
@zss experiments are Part 90 a
wave Of interest that followed n
report by Professor Jellinek. before
the Viennese Society of Physicians,
that electric current brings only
seeming death. which he called
thanatoid.
1t Is asserted that monkeys have
been revived readily even after
electrodes were applied directly to
the exposed heart.
The interest Of physicians in Ger
many has stirred newspaper COM
meDt on the use OF electrocution
for criminals.
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by lay

bx JAY VESSELS
NEW Y~ORK-tReThey thought
Victoria Maria Campolo was about
the last thing in foreign man
mountains.
Six feet. six and one half inches
tall and weighing 230 pounds, he
was supposed to be the biggest In
captivity.
But now Victoria proves to be
just another diversified invader
compared TO Primo Camera. the
Genoa Giant. who has cast a mem
acing shadow yer the home pugi-
lstic field.
Primo Is a mere six feet, ten
inches In height and weighs an
even 200 pounds.
This business Of importing big
boys from foreign lands began in
earnest about seven years ago
when Luis Angel Firpo came over.
The vital statistics pertaining %
his height and weight were six
feet, two and one-half inches. and
go pounds. respectively.
The Transatlantic trail became
popular with the large men in sub
Sequent years leading up to the
current peak season.
Primo really should be credited
10 1923, though. since he was all
set to sail then but had to wait
until they could rip out a bulkhead
and build him a special made-to-
order stateroom.
That's a tip straight from his ad-
vance agent.
Primo may be saved for the 1880
outdoor season. You can write
your own explanation for that one.
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Enaa lie BROWNsvnLE HERAID SPORTS SECTION 80
Battle of Silence Continues in Baseball Meeting
AS If The Game
Weren't Tough
Enough Already

SAN ANTONIO. Tex. Dec. II.
-PAGolfers who stray from
the straight and narrow during
the ninth annual Texas open
tournament here, January 80 70
February 2, will have to dig their
way out.
Five hundred yards OF new
sand has been ordered for the
traps at Breckenridge Park,
where the meet will be held. The
San Antonio river, which me
aEders through the course, will
offer plenty OF water hazards.
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BY WILLIAM y. CHAPMAN

AsSOciated Press sports Writer
NEW YORK, Dec. l2-tPl-Ques-
ton of shortening schedules was the
most important business before the
meetings Of the National and
American leagues today. The Ma
tional league yesterday went on re-
cord as favoring the shorter sea-
son. and a poll showed the Barn.
ard magnates also ready to vote
affirmatively upon "a September 20
closing.
Both leagues planned 70 take up
the question OF broadcasting re-
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Wood Application
Is Made For Water

AUSTIN. Dec. l1-Apnlication OF
". MI. Wood or Brownsville for
authority to build a dam and i'm
pound water from Rancho VieiO re-
SAGA to irrigate 80 acres or land III
Cameron county has been set BY the
state board or water engineers for
hearing Dec. 23.
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BALL MACNATES CONSIDER
SHORTENING UP OF SEASON

gular league games, but this U.s.
sue, like the schedule matter. doubt.
less Will be finally decided only 2,
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FIGHTS LAST
&1NGGHT&A

. LIE A1cJ~ldtCQ ElCcc.l
NEW YORR.-Harry Wills. New
York. knocked out Andrea Casta-
no. Mexico. 81.
GREAT FALLS. Ort-Fred Len
hart. Spokane. light heavyweight
outpointed Chuck Burns, San An
tonic. G0)-
OAKLAND. CaI.-Fred Dummy
Mahan. Ell Paso. welterweiekt. stop
ped Babe" Anderson, San Jose
Calf. 90.
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ship, believes clubs purchasing lesser
teams should be forced TO notify the
commissioners office, the two major
league headquarters and the nation
al associations Of professional base
ball leagues.
The operation OF such a rue would
guide all clubs in organized baseball
IN their scouting activities. The rule
could be beaten. Of course, by sec
ret working agreements, but the
magnates will think twice before
trying any such ~subterfuges. They
remember what commissioner Lands
did last spring in the cas- of several
transactions which he ruled nTeg-
ular.
Breakfasts
The question Of broadcaStlng ma
jor league games also was on the
agenda Of the joint meeting To-Day
with the chances favoring a reten-
ton OF the present status-of leaving
the matter up to individual clubs.
Further deals or swaps of players
remained IN the air. The wholesale
homecoming made possible by two
transactions yesterday was featured
by the return Of Grover Cleveland
Alexander 70 the park where ne won
his major league spurs in 1911
Baker bowl In Philadelphia. Old
Alex broke IN eighteen years ago
with twenty-eight victories. No first
year man since has been 70 ap-
proach such mark.
Robert Shawkey, new manager OF
the Yankees, announced the coach
ing question had been settled by the
Yankees, that Charlie OLeary and
Art Fletcher would return for an
other campaign. This admission dis
posed reports Wally Pipp would be
signed BY the club with which he
spent most Of his major league ca
reer.
All Quiet
The meetings OF each individual
league az the Commodore yesterday
with the terse bulletin: "All quiet
on the baseball front" The winter
meetings doubtless will remain 50
until some other car rises TO
challenge duly constituted authority.
The American league. according
10 president Barnard, devoted its
time to private and internal at
fairs of mo public interest. The
National league goings-on were more
open, but of only slightly more in
terest. particularly since no positive
action was taken.
The National league did decide
TO ask the manufacturers Of the Of
fetal ball whether the balls could
be made without gloss. The senior
major circuit last year had its UNI
pires remove the gloss after the half
in the rae had been reached. Anti
home run screens also were discuss
ed, but no action was taken.
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GRID NOTES


The University Of Texas cage
squad will miss Holly Brock. but 1t
has some fine players in Rees. Rose
Camps. Cheatham, Fomby, Elkins
and others. st. Clair expects TO have
a good team. but scarcely fast
enough 10 finish az the top. ST.
Clair, like the other conference
cage coaches. was disappointed
when the faculty committee decided
not to permit basketball practice
during Christmas week.
Despite the fact he lost almost
his entire first team. Coach Jimmy
Kits Of the Athens Hornets believes
his team will be in the running all
the way for its third staight state
basketball title. He has another
bunch Of six-footers said to be just
as good as the lads who brought the
national title back to Texas last
winter. Denton. runner-up for last
years crown. also has fine prospects.
There r eight boys on the squad
over six feet. The Athens quintet
viii 60 out to FL Paso in January
for q tWo-game series with that
city's high school team. Athens
spcrtsmen will sponsor the trip.
The present state high school
gridiron race has been remarkable
for the scarcity Of protests. IN past
years the ineligibility bugaboo al
ways knocked out several strong
teams after the campaign was well
under way. Adherents OF the var
ious district champions lived IN fear
and trembling right to the last.
There has been very little Of that
this year. Not a one OF the sixty
eight class A elevens in the race
was forced to withdraw. There has
been no question OF the eligibility
of the four teams still in the run
ming. Waco. Breckenridge, Denton
and Port Arthur. II there Is the
slightest doubt of a players eligi-
bility. they tell him to turn In his
outfit.
Division OF the Texas i~ntercolleE-
late athletic association into two
sections promises 70 put p con-
ference on a sounder competitive
basis. Instead Of the former scram-
BILE. in which ten teams battled
about more or less ~aimlessly. there
will be tyG cacspact races. five
teams IN one, six IN the other. me
new member Is the State College
Of Arts and Industries at Kings
vile. The championship duel be-
tween the winners in their respec-
tive sections should provide a
healthy climax 20 the season. fl
nancially and otherwise. There will
be no more chapters like that just
closed. when the Southwest Texas
Teachers Bobcats thought they had
won a football title. but were not
given the official award at the an
nual meeting.
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rs APPRENTICES GET
ADVANCED DIPLOMAS
Abbot Vocational School Graduates
Glass in Six Of Seven
Trade Courses.

twenty-five youths received diplomas
as advanced apprentices in their trades
from the Abbot Vocational School at
1890 o'clock this morning Six of the
seven shops were represented in the
graduating class-printing. painting and
decorating, sheet metal. plumbing. cleo
trical and woodworking. c. NJ. Gaines,
business agent of the Painters Union,
presided.
Frank j. Coleman vice president of
the Central Labor Union, presented the
diplomas and delivered the graduation
address. in which he stressed the need
for vocational schools and the interest
felt in them by the unions. Short
talks were also made by Kenneth Trun-
mel, Herbert Purchase. George johnson,
William Baxter, Lorenzo Snyder and
Glenn Shorb.
Musical selections we're furnished by
a part OF the orchestra from the Lang
ley Junior High School
Glass day exercises we're held in the
school yesterday. Shorb. president of
the class, delivered the address of well
come and presided Following the ex-
ercises refreshments were served.
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ENGLAND MOURNS
DEATH OF BOOTH
People of All Creeds Honor
Salvation Army Leader in
Common Sorrow.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ADLEY WOOD, England, June ia
Regardless of creed or religious con-
victions all Britain last night mourned
the passing Of Gen. Bramwell Booth,
former leader of the Salvation Army,
who died Sunday, at the age of 70.
In his death the Salvation Army,
which was SO nearly rent asunder dur
ing the last year of his life, again was
cemented in the bonds of union by
sorrow for the common loss.
The full honorS of the army, to which
he devoted his long life, will be &C
corded him at funeral next Monday,
which will be attended by notable rep
reSentatiVes of churches, welfare organ
izations and public bodies. The King
and the government probably will be
represented
Apart from public acknowledgements
of the religious leaders work, in the
form of kilograms of coincidence, per-
sonal calls and magnificent floral Of
ferings, Gen. Booths widow and chill
dren withdrew to spend the last hours
with his earthly remains alone.
Full Salvation Army honors will es-
cort the body of Gen. Booth to the
burial place in Abney Park Cemetery,
London. On the Sunday night preced
ing the burial a great funeral service
is to be held in Albert Hall. This serv-
ice will be conducted by Gen. Higgins.
who superseded Gen. Booth as head
of the army.
The body of the general will lie in
state on Friday and Saturday in Con-
gress Hall, at Clapton, which will be
opened to the public.
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GARNER CR|T|C|zES
{. C. OPP. COLLEAGUES
Declares They Should Dis
pose of Muscle Shoals and
"Lame-Duck" Sessions.
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated PEeSS,
Republicans of the House are at
tackled in a statement issued by Repre-
sentative Garner of Texas, the Demo-
cratic leader. for their failure at this
session of Congress to provide for opera
ton of Muscle Shoals or to abolish
lame duck" sessions.
THE vast power potentlalltieS Of
Muscle Shoals" he said. should have
been given constructive attention in the
interest of the farmers and as step in
the development of important resources
OF the Government.
"a constitutional amendment should
be submitted, or legislation enacted,
providing for the converting of the new
Congress Immediately after the Novem-
Der election instead of March A.
Calling attention 10 the impotency
of the minority to advance original
legislation in the face of the Republi-
can majority, Representative Garner
cited as achievements during the ses-
sion the opposition to the "iniquities of
the Hawley tariff bill especially to that
portion of it which gives the President
of the United States the right to levy
and repeal taxes He also called at
tention to the Democratic attack upon
the provision in the apportionment bill
authorizing the President to say how
many Representatives shall be allowed
each State"
The Democrats also made every
effort possible" he concluded, ito have
included in the provisions of the So
called farm relief bill the only feature
that would have conferred real bene-
flt upon agriculture. But the Republi-
cans insisted upon enacting a make
shift piece of legislation which will
surely prove source of sore diSappoint-
ment to the farmers Of America
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FLORIDA VOTES OBJECTION.
Legislature Adopts Resolution of Protest
After Bitter Fight.

TALLAHASSEE Fla, June Is (4o).-
BY a vote of II to 13 the Florida House
of Representatives yesterday adopted
q resolution protesting certain social
policies of the administration in enter
tanning colored persons in the White
House on parity with white ladies'"
Nearly two hours of debate preceded
the vote and during which several
speakers took occasion to comment on
the effect of the resolution both in
State and national politics.
AS originally introduced the reSolu-
ton by Representatives Getzen, Speak
er of the House, and Way, was worded
to direct the protest at the act of Mrs.
Herbert Hoover in entertaining the wife
of Oscar de Priest, colored Representa-
tive from Illinois" but before passage
was amended to make it in general
terms
The resolution cited the South's long
standing opposition to social equality
of the white and colored races and
declared 1--WE believe the social inter-
course between white and black races
is contrary to decency and subversive
to the best interests of all concerned"
In introducing the resolution, Repre-
sentative Way declared that the State
of Florida has been betrayed by such
action"
The voters of Florida should be con-
demned instead of Mrs. Hoover said
Representative Caldwell, adding:
Equality of the white and black races
is one of the basic planks of the Re-
publican platform"
The resolution was termed Gin bad
taste" by Representative Day, one OF
the two Republican members of the
House who took the floor against it
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A statement from Representative
Fntminger that the House is about
to do something to bring down on our
heads the wrath of the Northern poll
ticians" brought from Representative
Gravely a caustic retort.
AS amended, the section of the reso-
luton referring to the White House
reads:
Now, therefore, be it resolved by the
House of Representatives of the State
of Florida that certain social policies
of the administration in entertaining
Negroes in the White House on parity
with white ladies were both shameful
and disgraceful, and if persisted In,
will destroy the Anglo-Saxon race and
set at naught the social fabric of the
country that has for ages guarded ana
kept sacred the purity of our Anglo
Saxon blood, which stands for the
highest type of Americanism."
The resolution also called on Glenn
B. Skipper Republican national COM
mitteeman from Florida, to convey TO
the President the earnest protest of the
House OF Representatives" and urged
him to use his influence to prevent
repetition of such incidents.