Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-25
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CPORTs

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$50.
Thirty-eight rounds of boxing:
the best known and most popular
boxers IN the Valley are on the card.
Dick wymore and Battling Shaw
are the headliners, being scheduled
10 step 10 three minute rounds. That
fight in itself, should and undoubt-
edly will draw hundreds of fans
from all parts Of the Valley.
A new fighting man to Valley
fans will appear on the program
tonight. he In Jesus Soils, las
pound scrapper Of Saltiilo, Mexico,
and he will take on Homer kid
Goodman, In an s-round setto.
Soils to this city backed by
a reputation of a fighting man
from the time the gong sounds
until the little bell clinks for the
last time during a figi:- He viii
have a worthy opponent In Good
man, who isn't the spectacular
kind of fighter, and may not
please the fans rs n whole with
his style. because he ~ cautious
But Homer Is a clean scrapper and
carries dynamite In his mittens.
When the state OF Florida was
having its well known boom of sew
eral years ago, citizens of that COM
monwealth and the newcomers pour
ing in, forgot all about sports. and
with nothing in mind but to sell and
resell property. they dropped In
athletic notoriety, especially of the
winter kind They suffered for 1t.
You know what that boom did for
the Gator state. Ask any citizen
of Florida what helped cause that
catastrophe, and he will invariably
tell you IL was to a great extent the
neglect Of athletics.
Today Florida ~ the mecca for
sports, and especially big league
baseball clubs. They have a state
league and some of its cities r
members Of the Southeastern lea
que. They have other kinds Of
recreation, too, but IL IL baseball
we are won't to bring before you
today. There Is no good reason
why the Valley can't support q
professional league; IL win NEAR
the incoming of q class Of people
the Valley needs; those with the
dinero, and those Of the better
class. The tourists wants recrea-
ton, and on n sunny afternoon
nothing pleases him more than a
good old baseball game.
Yes, we can profit from Florida's
mistake. They forgot their God,
their fellow men around them, their
welfare: they forgot the essential
thing the American demands, and
that is sports; forgot all about base
ball, golf, tennis. and all the other
and excellent forms of entertain
ment-except. grabbing and grab
bling money here and there, In a
thought OF recreation--and baseball
in this case, particular. But they
changed-changed overnight. and
the Valley IS going to change
sooner or later in its attitude toward
sports. Maybe this turn-about face
viii take place today. tomorrow-but
some day it willard when 1t does
just watch the land Of sunshine
show its heels to those other states
getting the millions Of dollars worth
Of publicity free Gin the sports
columns Of newspapers all over the
country
O. N. Boston and Bob Wells OF
Brownsville. appointed . commit
tee by Chairman Guy Trent Of the
baseball gathering In this city
mined effort this week to organ
ize a Class ID league I'm the Valley.
IL IL up to every fan and citizen
Of the Valley to give these fellows
a helping hand; IL is an expensive
undertaking. being underwritten
by a handful of fans OF Cameron
county. III Hidalgo fans have a
better plan. or know of q better
m than that being presented.
then the committee, Chairman
Trent and the baseball fans of
Cameron county want TO know
about Il, and viii join In; but the
plan being submitted a the one
and identical plan of the Nebras-
ka State league, which operates
successfully, on . $500 per month
salary basis: the Valley can sup
port that kind Of baseball; 10 may
be that next year the league can
expand: but ft is n worth while
experiment.: yea, mor than that,
II Is one of the finest things that
could happen 10 the Valley III n
league II organized.
Here's what the San Benito Light
has to say. in q recent issue, OF
Valley baseball:
Baseball Of . high calibre Is an
other sport that Valley residents
probably viii be privileged to enjoy
as soon as q result of plans for q
Class d league that r progressing
satisfactorily. Two men have been
delegated to devote their entire time
to communicating with interested
persons In upper Valley towns and
determine exactly the outlook for
such an organization. Response
which the proposition has met with
so far indicates that the Valley this
season viii support q baseball league
that would reflect credit upon
group Of much larger cities"
As stated before The Herald viii
announce the results Of the prog
ress OF the fight Wednesday night
between Stribiing and Sharkey.
Blow by blow. round by round. viii
come w The Herald's wires di-
rect from the rfngside. starting
about s:45. The public ~ q
whole II invited to come and en-
JOY this fight, n II VIII be mega
phoned from I'm front ~ The
Herald office.
On. Nike Bennett, director of
athletics OF the University OF the
South. Sewanee. Tenn. who was
delegated and sent to Mexico as an
eniissary Of the National COLLEGIATE
Football Coaches association 1t the
request Of delegates from ira rTrf-