Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-13
It He BROWNsVnLE HERALD SPORT SECTION 80
CPORTS

By n CLEMENT

br0wnBvllle N III Jardlr hign
school boys basketball quints, are
scheduled to battle Friday afternoon
on the local court for the champion
ship Of Cameron county.
Coach Richey's ri Jardin Comets
gained the honor to battle for the
title when they defeated Santa Rosa
last week. and the Eagles whipped
the Greyhounds from San Benito
yesterday afternoon. to go into the
finals.
The local girls team was eliminat-
ed from the county ace yesterday
by Wilson Tract, who beat them,
~ to IL. Wilson Tract will play
Santa Rosa at Harlingen Friday aft
ernoon for the county title.
So, the basketball season. In COM
Ing to d close. Friday the county
championship will be settled. then
the winner will meet other dis
trict winners, and 10 on up until
the tournament to be held ut "A.
a III. in March. III a Valley teams
wins the right to enter the state
tournament they will be nc q dis
tinct disadvantage, because Of lack
OF indoor courts. Edinburg Junior
college has the only indoor bas-
ketbali court in the Valley, and of
course, o know, the state tour
nament games will be played on
an indoor court.
Something the local schools need
in the worst way, Is q gymnasium.
A gym is one OF the finest assets
and one Of the best investments n
school can make for its students. We
hope the local school board builds
a gymnasium for the local schools
soon.
Last Tuesday night Tommy
Loughran aad Armand Emmanuel,
heayyweights had q scrap in san
Francisco. Loughran doaned the
Basque. But the managers OF both
fighters were fined S200 apiece for
haggIing over q referee prior TO
the scrap by the California state
Athletic commission. They did .
good turn for the boxing game,
when they fined these managers,
most of whom create more dissat-
isfaction than any hundred boxers.
When one wants to take time 10
find out where all these squabbles
come from in the fight game, just
70 to the business management,
that's where 1t originates Don't
blame the fighters, they are In the
darkness as to the soings on
Up around Austin, where our good
friend Roger Powell, holds sway,
a semi-professional baseball league
has been organized, with San An
tonic, Yoakum, Seguin, Lockhart and
Austin, as entrants at present. Geo.
Huntress, Jr., is chairman at pres
ent, and Gene Seng, temporary Sec
rotary and treasurer.
Now don't get the San Antonio
entry mixed with the league club
there, because il isn't. IL will be
composed Of the best amateur tall
emit Of the Alamo City. However.
IL the Texas league club of San
Antoa;o this year isn't any better
than In the past few years, they
would do well to finish me, two, In
this scmi-pro league.
That "Rambiin' Wreck Of Georgia
Tech is still dealing misery to the
basketball teams in their parts. un-
defeated, with nine victories to their
credit, the court team, like their
football outfit, looks like IL will 20
through the season with a clean slate.
Mexia, "UncIes Jess McLendon's
little city, was not represented ut
the directors meeting Of the Lone
Star league last Sunday In Dallas.
Mexia has been In organized base
ball continuously since 1922, when
they were members Of the Texas
Oklahoma league at that time. Pri-
or to that however. the Gushers
were members Or various Class ID
circuits In those parts. Probably
a ear out Of organized ball will
do some Of the oil town citixens
good. There ID always an element
in every town who can't see the
benefits derived from baseball an
til their town goes without . team
these long summer months.
when the Detroit Tigers get into
Arizona a few weeks hence" says Err
nest L~annigan, in the Sporting News,
"they will be- invading the home of
the ella monster. This reptile Is so
tough that ii is said of il that when
it once attacks d man he is through,
hook, line and sinker. Its bite Is fatal.
STANLEY Harris was asked about
this. Stanley, q m~ild-mannered man,
was Of the opinion that the ella
monster wasn't 90 tough" continued
Mr.. Lannigan.
" We will spike him to death II
he wants to litter up our ball park
Harris said. Say he added, we will
have ball players so h~ard-boiled
that they will bite the fangs out Of
those ella m~onsters.'"
Names given athletic teams are
varied and, TO some extent, funny.
For instance teams are named
Eagles, Loboes, Cats, Panthefs.
Scorpions, Javelinas, etc. But one
name that attracts attention In
central Texas, - that applied to
the Taylor basketball team The
team II known ~ the Taylor
Ducks"
Howard William Of T~exarkana,
Texas, is expected to hold down an
outfield berth on the Houston team
Of the Texas league this summer.
williamson has belonged to the St.
Louis Cardinals ever since he left
the University Of Texas, several
years ago. He had the misfortune
to injure his leg. which has handi-
capped him, but ~pronounees his limb
In tip top shape, and Manager Sny-
der expects the pfotege Of Uncle
Billy Disch to come through with
flying colors.
An athletes legs won't stand NJ
forever ~ any Of the competitive
sports. The ether night Ray Coag-
ran Pssvo NurmI, TIA Finnish star.