Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-12
CPORTS
OFORUM
BY BISHOP CLEMENTS

III 81 ELEMENTS Ill
The Miller hotel Of this city will
be the mecca for baseball enthusi-
aStS tonight. Representatives from
Corpus Christi on down are sched-
uled to be present, the result of
which is expected a professional
baseball league will be formed.
A tentative Organization was per-
fected last week at a meeting in
Mercedes, but the personnel Of the
circuit could not be determined.
Baseball park dimensions have
been questions of contest wher-
eve baseball is played. Here
are the dimensions of the Ameri-
can league parks:
BoSton-Home plate to ri"ht
field, 358 feet, 6 inches; home
plate to left field, 800 TT. 6 in;
home plate to center field-great-
er than either.
Chicago-Home plate to right
field, 365 it.; home plate to left
field, 365 it.; home plate to center
field ass #.
Detroit-Home plate to right field
$40 #. II in; home plate to left
field, $40 ft. z in; home plate to
center field, 467 #.
New York-Home plate to right
field, 294 fit. 9 in; home plate to
left field, $50 fit. 7 in; home plate
to center field, 400 #.
Cleveland-Home plate to right
field, 200 it.; home plate to left
field, 376 it.; home plate to center
field, $50 it.
neutrality-suspicious. plate to right
field, 307 it,; home plate to left
field, 312 it.; home plate to center
field, greater than either.
st. Louis-Home plate to right
field, 800 it.; home plate to left
field, 355 it.; home plate to center
field, $50 #.
Washington - Home plate to
right field, 328 it.; home plate to
left field, 358 it,; home plate to CEN
ter field, 423 #.
Roberto Hinojosa, Brownsville
heavyweight boxer, has been the
target of several challenges Of
late. Jack Sullivan, manager of
Hinojosa, writes as follows in re-
gard to these challenges:
Il see that Jack Payne of Yves
laco wants to match his boy Leach
with Roberto Hinojosa. He says he
beat him before; but we called it a
draw.
"NOW down in Brownsville we try
to give a fair decision. I think his
boy was lucky to get a draw, and to
show Mr.. Payne that I believe
Robert can beat his boy, I will let
Robert box his boy in own back
yard at Weslaco and winner take all
in, in three weeks time. This will
show what 1 think Of the other
draw. I also have a man for
Kline, If he is such a wonderland
1 viii let both box on same bill"
lizard Luck John Temps, the
Trinity county farmer, allows.
etc" as Paul Yates of the Hous-
ton Post-DiSpatch would say.
If the old boy had been at the
Brownsville airport Saturday and
Sunday, he would have changed
his mind about hard times. a
dozen commercial flying machines
did a l~and-office business on
those " days. Don't talk hard
times. Those conditions are Just
what you make it-and it looked
mighty good in that instance.
Baseball is due for a healthy sea-
son this summer.
Harry Foehner, Of the San Be-
INTO Light, writes that from
this column he gathers that we are
preJudlced against the University of
Texas baseball team. He says:
Il agree with you that the Uni
Versity of Texas Longhorns prob
ably could not win pennants in the
Texas league but on the other hand
Ill wager you they would not be
the tail enderS. I believe you are
stralning it a bit when you say
that the belief the Longhorns could
WIN Texas league remnants is fairly
general on the Texas campus. In
the two years I was there I did not
hear 1T and you can find plenty Of
others who went to the University
who didn't"
Now Harry, why jump on us
because you did not hear n
such remarks on the campus
during the two years you were
the University? We were on a
baseball on a club with a fellow
n year, who didn't know the
signals during the entire season,
and he was a good player, too.
The University of Texas baseball
teams, r the greatest college out
fits, in general. we believe, in the
entire United States. Uncle" Bill
ly DiSch, whom we hay, known for
many years, and we are proud to
believe he is our friend, is heads
and shoulders above the coaches of
the country. 1t is just natural that
students become over-enthusiastic
about the prowess Of the Longhorns.
Probably it is an admirable trait.
The Longhorns, as you know,
start training in February, and
by the time they play exhibition
games with professional clubs are
in superb condition-much better
than their opponents. They make