Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-08
CPORTS

By 8 II CLEMENTS
AL hail the champions!


ton has taken a new view In re-
gard to basketball.
Athens, Texas, high school won
the national title Saturday night in
Chicago, at the university there,
defeating a brother southern con-
ttngent, Classen high, of Oklahoma
City. for the flag.
Texas and southern teams have
been in the race before. This was
the first time two teams from be-
low the Mason-Dixon line have
battled for supremacy.
Big boys, six foot and some odd,
tutored by a master technician,
the Hornets are the pride of the
nation today. They are declared
the greatest high school basket
ball team that we strobe upon
the plank court.
Truett Roberts, Junior college
student, likes to play baseball, and
does a good job of it, and is i'm
proving. Sunday Truett performed
with the Aztecs of San Benito CHS
home town. against the Palmer
Hatters of this city. He played a
hang-up game. Got g couple of
hits. He played outfield.
This boy Saenz Of st. Joseph's
academy, looks like he might
make a great player. He loves
the game. Plays mfield. Well
built, stocky with short arms.
He performed for the Hatters
Sunday at second base. Gave a
good account Of himself at that
position. In fact that seems to
be his post. Coach Mem OF the
academy has been using him at
sh0rtStop.
After playing baseball in the
summer months for Is years, it Is
the belief Of the writer, for what
1t Is worth, that a short, stockily
built fellow is not suited to the
shortfield position. A big fellow,
rather slim, with long arms are the
boys doing the job at the shortstop
post these days.
Leach and HinOjosa are to step
ten rounds tonight i'm Donna.
Colonel Shannon and Bill Speer
of that burg are all 'het up"
over the card. Probably it is be-
cause several dusky-hued boys
are to perform in the well known
battle royal
Johnny Hughes wants to fight in
this part Of the Valley again. The
last time the tiff-punching Hughes
displayed his wares in these en-
vtronS was against Kid Pancho. He
hasn't forgotten the lesson in box
ing Pancho taught him. Johnny
always gives his best. That's what
counts. Hughes and Shaw would
make a good pair. They may be
on Tex Becerril's next card, April o.
Colonel Ben Gordon Whitehead
Of the Pharr Sun, who is an ath-
letic fan, says of the fight in Mer-
cedeS last Monday night, between
Shaw and Ruiz:
THAT report that Shaw was
licked at Mercedes was a mistake;
q good deal like a certain re-
formers bank account, sadly over
drawn. Because that Is not the
town where Shaw will be van
ouiShed."
THE WAY OF THE CROWD
They'll razz a fellow in the seventh,
For muffling one in right:
But in the ninth they'll cheer him,
When he belts one out Of sight.
They'll raZz the quarter at the half,
He's pulled a bonehead play,
But later how they'll praise him,
On a thrilling getaway.
They'll boo a fellow when he's flat,
And bout to take the count,
But listen how they'll holler
When he'll from the canvas mount.
They'll pan the team that's losing,
For the winners how they'll shout,
But swiftly how their voices
change,
The game has turned about.
George Netherwood.
As school days are waning, foot
ball fans are "goSSiping" about this
and that; mainly of the prospects
for their home town teams. At
this time every school, with a pos
sible two exceptions, loom as
strong c~ontenders for the Valley
title. McAllen and San Benito are
the squads hit hardest BY gradual
tons.
Brownsville is in Glass a; they
will tangle with several Valley
teams. just the same. Harrington
and San Benito undoubtedly will
play the Eagles. The natural
rivalry will draw large crowds. You
know it takes cash to these
football teams.