Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-09-16
Sports Chats
- With -
Hal Eustace

The Donna Skeet club. state
champions. came back Sunday on
the local range and defeated the
Brownsville club by eight birds out
ola possible 500. The visitors made
Niger talcum" out or asa OF the
wh.rling discs. while the local ag-
gregation demolished ass of them.
That was a fair brand of shooting.
Donna averaged 23.2 breaks out OF
each round Of IS: Brownsville 22.75.
Mat Skeet shooting Is a game OF
practice and that much improve
ment has been wrought in the past
few months Is shown by the Sunday
scores. In the past a perfect round
of Is was notwithstanding 70
crowd about. Sunday there were
four perfect rounds and there was
no undue excitement. Arnold limp
cd his way around to n 25 as did his
fellow teammate. Beard. Jimmy
George or Brownsville banged away
for two perfect rounds.
There we're ten men competing
and the scores ranged from 90 TO 30
within seven birds Of each other
That's good shooting and compare
bic. we believe. TO the average IN
other parts of the state. Anderson
of Donna had the best score Of n
dav. shooting four successive 24S.
George Of Brownsville was second,
getting /. 20 25's, a % and a p.
In a special shootoff match for
thnSn tied with 92's. Arnold p
BEARD each obtained 24'S while BOD
wade. usually Brownsville's main
stav felI off 10 a 20. Vincent Ste
venson and Buck Weaver aiso SiiOV
III this field and broke 24s-
Year ago. before the advent OF
ekeet there were two gunnerS IN
kansas who ran nip and tuck races
az tran shooting. Their names were
Decker and Arnold. They were
among the best marksmen IN the
central portion Of the United states.
Arnold. however. managed 10 pese
his opponent most OF the time.
Both OF them moved 70 p val
lev and took up Skeet. Decke now
holds the whip hand. He manages
N nos out Arnolds most OF the
time these DAYS. And don't belieVe
NJ doesn't lay On the r~aspberrie5.
III downed Arnolds Sunday rs 70 W
ara ~ poured IL on ArnoldS sore
back from time 20 time
Two good ball games were on
taD here Sunday when the Iigers
and Hatters tied up. splitting a
twin bill. Martinez, Halter hurler.
moved himself the local iron man
bv serving up his slants throughout
both contests. He allowed but SIX
hits in each of the games Inc
first n was dropped 81 but he
earned a victory in the second 5-3-
Martinez uses a submarine delivery
that Is hard to connect with solid
IN. His fast one has a way 81
sc-ewing down and In while his
curve drifts around in a tantaliz-
ing manner.
Bullet Joe" Salinas did not win
his game. but his work was out
standing in the secord contest. He
poled one over the palings that
came near to winning the second
game. In addition he spanked out
a double and a single. Clemente
Garcia. veteran infielder. also
twinkled afield and at the plate.
j. w. Red) Irvine has taken an
other step toward ultimately reach
ing all children in the public school
system with his health education
program. Children out at the noon
hour at the central building will
have the advantages of a supervised
playground. This work will be un-
der the directions OF Raymond
tSoc) Plato. He will watch over
the youngsters and help them en-
Joy themselves at games they like.
Any little business you would like
to transact at the courthouse per-
tanning to golf. why. see II. d. Sea-
90. He's the courthouse champion.
Was crowned Sunday after defeat
ing NJ r. Hall. Milton West. Judge
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