Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-09
CPORTS
OFORUM
By BISHOP CLEMENTS

61O44 P641lCQ a k1CdI OCdl It.
Gently by their apparent apathy
toWardS crowds. Put yourself in
Their position for moment. How
would you act? Would you enter
into every gathering with all the
"huzzah" possible? We think not.
Fact Is they are always good for
q story, and why the writer's, those
OF sportdom, and general news, have
the temerity to razz them, is some
thing to think about.
The field commonly called the
American Legion grounds, has the
natural making of one of the best
baseball diamonds in the Valley.
The dirt is Soft-the very kind that
is suitable for good grounds. There
Is plenty room. 1t is ideally located.
De la Fuente, the little pitcher
of the LOnghorn squad Of Texas
university, is going to huTl for
Bobby Cannon's baseball team of
Del Rio this summer. Cannon
made this announcement while In
the city Monday.
Cannon is to report to Del Rio
Monday of next week and take over
the managerial duties of the team
for this summer. The season which
starts May l, lasts two months.
Have pretty good bunch Of young
sters," Cannon said.
This from the Corpus Christi
Caller, The Crows Nest" OF Mon
days issue:
Wasn't it a fine thing for Cor
pus Christi students to carry off
the Nueces county field meet? Of
such stuff are future Corpus Christi
citizens made, that they go out and
wrest victory from their opponents
early in life. 1t is a healthful sign
for the future of the city"
Someone has to lose. San Be-
nito won the all-rOund meet of
Cameron county this year. But
that doesn't mean that they will
grow bigger and better citizens
than the losers.
o. J. Peterson, captain of the Los
FreSnos baseball team, writes as fol-
lows: will you please give me
the names Of some Of the managers
of Valley bali teams?"
L. r. Boiling Is manager Of the
PentagonS Of San Benito; Raoul
Padron, Brownsville Tigers; F. Nor
emo, Palmer Hatters, Brownsville;
Edinburg has an independent team,
and the local schools, with Coach
Plato of the high school, and Coach
George Mem Of st. Joseph acad-
envy, desire games.
The LOS Fresnos Spudders play
the Palmer Hatters in this city at
$3.50 p. m. next Sunday, and any
team wishing games with that club
should get in touch with Q. j.
Peterson.
Since the announcement Of last
week that Brownsville would be a
class A member Of the InterscholaS-
tic league next football season, the
school has received a lot Of publicity
in the sport pages Of different Tex
as papers. The latest is from the
pen of Prexy Anderson, Of the Abb
lene Morning News, as follows:
Down at Brownsville the foot
ball fans are whooping il up because
their high school team, Valley Glass
B champ has been admitted to the
Glass A conference along with RobS-
town, one OF the few small towns
ever TO cut much Of a figure IN
the rae for honorS in the upper
division.
brownsville last year beat down
all competition in its section, and
then defeated DePaul academy from
Chicago, So to 0, an accomplish
ment which likely meant less than
more. Brownsville then aspired TO
take on Abilene Eagles, but Eagle
officials had already satisfied them
selves Of the type Of football played
in the southern end Of the state
by roundly walloping Port Arthur,
the Class A representative. and did
not care TO give its backfield fur
Their track practice against the Class
p titleholder. The border town en-
thusiastS now enthuse because their
"gridders will have a chance az the
state title next season"
H
= this Brownsville officials like
those Of several other Class B
schools, are to be complimented on
their ambition. Events, however,
will probably prove that it would
have been better for Brownsville
10 have stayed its age. Its team viii
find the going three or four times
rs rough in Class A: its publicity
man will recall that there was more
satisfaction in d~eploring the injuS-
tice Of circumstances which pre-
vented q crack at the Class A title
than in offering alibiS for defeat
Only four Glass A teams have ever
won and only two have ever tieo
for q state championship. There
NAV have been a hundred Glass s
teams whose home folks thought the
BOYS as good as the Glass A win
nerS."
Rut what the Abilene scribe
failed to say, or possibly doesn't
NOW, Is that the coach Of the
brownsville school has lead Class
a teams In the past. He made a
xuecess in this city his first year.
He must know something of what
he u doing by getting the local
school IN Class A
Also Brownsville is a city Of go
400 Abilene Is the same IN popu-
iation. Unlike so many high schools
y,wa5ays the boys r pretty big
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