Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-31


lighters the other day for unethical
tactics-aad the commissions actions
are to be commended. Both fighters,
Lwick and Shack, resorted to unfair
methods, such as the rabbit punch
and being overweight, and not hust-
ling in their bout. This action should
serve as notice to other boxers and
managers over the country that the
game of boxing is and should be as
clean rs any other sport, and !. n
enters the fistic profession either as
fighter or manager, he must toe the
mark or get out.
There is nothing wrong With
boxing as a game, but the probes
sion is oyerrun with fighters and
managers who should be banishcd,
and they are being turned out fast
by commissions such a that Of
Wisconsin, and Inc sooner the bet
ter
We ran into a little story the other
day about a manager and the time
keeper Of a certain bout being in
accord when the bell should be rang
regardless of whether the limit was
up or not When the certain man
ayers protege would be getting the
worst OF the scrap the bell would
ring and vice versa. The public "a
not fooled, and managers and fight
ers had better come TO that conclu-
sion If the business in which they
are engaged is TO survive. 1t is just
what they make it-and they are
doomed to oblivion, along with their
game, IL they do not keep IL on Q
high plane.
Earl Sande, was once Americas
premier jockey. Today he is over
weight, and is to make an attempt
10 reduce his poundage and ~re-enter
the turf game. Sande had best be-
ware, because many jockeys have
ruined their health by trying to re-
duce.
Give Roy Henderson credit-he
made a decision this week that
won't be contested. The state
high school basketball tournament
viii be- held at Texas 4. & VI. March
B and 3, was the statement from
the ln:erscholasfic league directors
sanctum at Austin. But high
school quints in the Valley are at
n distinct disadvantage. because
they haven't indoor courts 10 per-
form or.
Austin is Boosting that they have
a coming champ in the welterweight
division in Gene Cullen of that city.
Cullen has been going great guns OF
late, and Promoter Tex Becerril of
Brownsville might do well in match
ing Cullen with some of the welter-
weights in the Valley.
Mr.. Lee kyser and his Des
Moines baseball club is 10 train
at hingsville. That's news to VAL
ley fans in that the Des Moines
president propositioned several
towns down here TO put up $4,000
for privilege Of bringing his club
TO train. San Benito fans got hot
and for a time ii was thought they
would put up the three grand.
But common sense prevailed. Mr..
kyser may be the best baseball
man in the world. but he pulled
a boner when trying TO get San
Benito 10 pay him for the privilege
Of bringing his club for training.
Those Des Mcines ball players are
ID 20 good that il would have
been worth three thousand dollars
to watch them cavort in spring
Iimbering up And another thing
the Western league II the slow
est Class 4 circuit in organized
baseball. The Valley has the cli-
mate and the right kind Of citi-
zcnry. and if some of these ball
club chiefs want TO trek down here
to train. all well and good, and
the Valley would be glad to have
them, but this part OF the country
doesn't have to pay for that privi-
lege, and Mr.. kyser may as well
take note.
San Antonio schools, in their prog
nostications upon debating rs to the
ineligibility or gridders &C other
clubs. do not have an off-season IN
this line. and a recent dispatch from
the Alamo City has the following,
which is of interest to Brownsville
fans in particular:
"The breach in athletic relations
between Main Avenue high school
and Corpus Christi high seems to
have widened since its inception, en-
gendered, as il was, by the protests
filed against each other on ineli-
gible players.
"A real bombshell a dropped in
20 the Ease Tuesday BY Coach Roy
Cochran, when he intimated that
Main Avenue high school would sew
err football relations with the coast
al city next fall. His information on
the subject came from sources high
or up, he stated.
Cochran announced that the lea
que required each team to play but
four district games and that Main
highs 1929 schedule would probably
be composed Of games with Alamo
Heights, Austin, Breckenridge, and
either Laredo or Brownsville.
Brownsville high. with Doug
~Fessenden. former coach at Main
high. as its athletic mentor. is ex-
pected to enter Class A next sea-
son and If so, will he a member
Of District 8. in which the local
schools are also entered. They