Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-29

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Br BISHOP CLEMENTS

Bf BISHOP CLEMENTS
Up around Loekhart, Luling. Con.
rales and Yoakum, baseball fans ar,
looking forward to some mighty
good games thrs summer. There il
q movement IN foot to form q semi
pro league. In days gone BY that
neck Of the woods produced base,
ball talent Of major league ability
Last summer semi-pro circuit
among towns in that part Of the
state was formed, and many game,
played, but IL was net Mt all salts
factory.
As We said in the above para
graph IL was q semi-prc league,
with rules governing or suppose
10 govern the circuit. One Of the
laws Of the league was that no
paid players we're to be had. But
that was where the rub anne In.
There wer charges and counter
charges among the clubs about
players being paid, etc. with the
result that IL became disgusting
10 all concerned, except a certain
gambling elemeat that always
hangs areuns these semi-pro cir
cats, creating more dissatisfaction
and msr unsportsmanlike tactics
Of some of those connected with
different clubs than any one thing
else. 4 good thing for Yoakum.
Lockhsrt. ct al. would be 10 form
Class ID league.
This department received a sport,
letter from r.. g. u. other day, re.
garding baseball prospects at the
Fort Worth institution. Among 9th.
er things the dispatch said that
Coach eyersM wasn't worrying about
his pitching staff. that he had plen-
~ OF proven material in that dc.
partmsnt. Well. we arc glad il has
come TO that point in the game OF
baseball whereby a manager OF
coach will and can say that his
hurting corps 10 all 20 the merry.
Dutch Meyer In the first and only
coach we have yer heard Of as re-
ported making that statement. II
he did. then the writer IA inclined
TO doubt Meyers ability as a base
ball tacticisn.
Heinie Odom. who in 1923, was
one OF Uncle Billy Diseh's best
diamond performers at State Uni
versity, In row the property OF
the Beaumont Exporters OF the
Texas league. Odom lost n pen
nant for the Longhorns In that
year on Carroll Field Mt Waco,
when with che score tied between
the Baylor Bears and Longhorns.
and n runner on third base. Odom
let m easy roller 70 between his
legs permitting the unner on third
10 cross home plate for what prov
ed % be the winning margin and
the championship hopes Of the
Steers went wrong.
Heinie Odon Il q good ball play
er. He has ~floundered around in
first one place and then another
after leaving Texas. He went 10
the majors. 10 several Glass "A
leagues, and finally landed at Beau
mont, where he has been ever since,
Preparations are being made in the
Texas leagues doormat TO put that
team in the first division, and
odom was the first player to send
in his signed contract.
Baseball talk is ell over the.Nal-
ley today. A committee Of enthu-
siastie baseball fans are touring the
land OF sunshine working Up inter
eat in a proposed Class u league fer
this section.
who made the charge that Ease
ball unpireS aren't human III queries
Daniel n. Daniel in the New York
Telegram.
Bring the rascal before the bar
he continues. who spread the can
ard that umpires are callous 10 crit
icism? Put hin in the pillory. For
here IL is proved at one fell sxoop,
a. you might say, that umpires are
both human and sensitive, even
after % years OF service in the royal
blue ~unmounted OF the National lea
que. The evidence is presented BY
the eminent Willism KLEIN, who aft
er some rzricyirg has decided ia
continue 10 call EN- riEht-and
sometimes vrong--in 1929.
mr.. Klein rrsents the statements
that he was peeved over having been
passed up in the 1928 worlds serie.
in favor Of Cy Pfirnan. Mr.. KLEIN
adds that the only reason for an.
~nouneing his resignation could be
traced TO the criticism Of his deci-
sion on Gsbby Hsrtnett's i~ntsrfer.
nee with Andy Reese. Of the Gil
ence with ANDY Reese. Of the Giants
in the first game 81 . late Septsni-
Der double-hesdsd at the Polk
Grounds.
KLEIN heard plenty about the de-
cision the afternoon he made ID, ana
re heard plenty right 10 the end o.
the sesson-and after that. Fol
years IL had been Bills boast thai
re never had called one ron and
Bill actually believed il, too. Crit
cism Of his important decision stunf
Klein to the quick. and he decide
10 quit his liferork and take NJ
some other way or making a living.
THAT stuff about umpires being
~ealioused ard obiivious Of genera
opinion is proved TO be the bunk
They are human after all, those mc-
in blue who seemingly turn deal
ears to the disapproving roar Of tbs