Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-20
CPORTS
OFORUM
BY BISHOP

baseball player, whose home is IN
Corpus Christi, wants to play II
this city, provided the Valley league
is organized. Pompa is in gooc
playing condition, having been prac'
ticing for some time, and has play.
ed several games. He sends his re-
CARDS to his many friends in this
city, and hopes he will be able tt
play here again.
Stories of the recent fiasco a
Miami Beach, Fla, continue to drift
in, and some Of them have beer
told and retold many times. TIL,
Beaumont Enterprise recently car
rled a long story Of the fight and
in part it relates as follows:
If Stribling had fought a littl.
harder he would have won the de.
cision. He did not show the ag.
gresSivenesS one would expect Of al
up and coming aspirant to the hea,
vyweight championship. Nor, fol
that matter, did Sharkey. Neither
has been eliminated from the rank.
of heavyweight contenders, anc
they may meet again in the ring
but the fight will not set the prai-
rleS afire, or cause a stampede o.
paying clients at the box office"
Bobby Cannon, former Texas
University star athlete, and for a
number Of years athletic direc-
tor of Peacock Military Academy,
and now connected with w. K.
doc" Stewards camp for boys at
Kerrville, was in Brownsville
Tuesday. Bobby may become
coach of one of the Valley high
schools this coming season. 1t is
known that he is dickering along
that line with a school in the VAL
ley.
Cannon knows football, baseball
and basketball well, and is also e
good track coach. And what;
more, knows how to handle boys. Il
he casts his lot as athletic director
of a Valley high school, another
high class coach will have been adj
ded to the already increasing num-
Der.
The show in Mercedes Monday
night wasn't the best Al Robin
son has put on, but it was inter-
esting. There was action aplenty
throughout the fights, in SO far
as punches were concerned of the
sleep producing variety, but in
the main, they were slow.
Al Prince, official announcer of
the fights in Mercedes, did himself
and the fight fans justice when,
after a number of hoodlums began
hollering about the weight of diff
ferent fighters, claiming the scales
Dr. the readings thereof were wrong,
Mr.. Prince invited them down to
inspect and look at the weighing in.
Prince was given a hand.
Childress, of the Red River
Valley league, gets a good mana
ger in Nick Carter, former Mexia
PAtNAACA. val LOl 10 OltC Vi Tic
best Glass D pitchers in baseball.
He is al old head. He is a screw
ball artist. and has disposed of
the adopted fact, in his case at
least, that a twirler who filings
that kind of ball will not last
long, because OF the peculiar quirk
it requires of the arm.
Kingsvile may not have a pro-
fessional baseball team this year,
out dyed-in-the-wool fans of that
city will have the opportunity Of
witnessing some good games this
season, as the Mopac has organized
one OF the best clubs of its kind in
he country. Saturday and Sunday
hey will take on the San Antonio
cam of the Texas league.
T~exarkana Of the Lone Star
league is without a manager at
this time. The north Texas me
tropolis, n of the hest baseball
cities In Class ID circuits, has GER
tainly had its ups and downs
with managers. Charlie Miller, a
really smart little manager, was
at the helm of the Twins in 1927
and 1928. His club played Pal
estine for the pennant last year.
and went to pieces in the series,
making a miserable showing.
What the Twins need is a playing
manager. Miller was not. Fans got
On him, not because they didn't be-
.leVe he knew baseball, but because
he directed the playing from the
bench or coach's box. Then too,
lost control Of some men,
oers Of the team, and that all went
against him.
Oscar Eckhardt, former Long
horn star, and a baseball player
of ability, is now a member of the
Seattle club of the Pacific Coast
league. Eckhardt was a pitcher
while at the University, but turn
ed to the outfieId. Reports from
the Coast league entry's Camp
tell us that Big Oscar is one Of
the most promising recruits on
the team.
Last weeks Sporting News had
his interesting editorial in regard
70 Sunday baseball, in part, as fol-
.oWs:
"A divine Of New England object
ed to Sunday baseball in that sec
ion Of the United States on the
ground that it prevented ball play
ers from going to church. Presum-
ably he referred to the professional
ball players.
IF he did, we beg to differ with
him. More professional ball play
r go regularly to church than
some of the members of an av-