Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-18

CPORTS
OFORUM
BY BISHOP

Young Brooks Hooper, Of San An
tonic, will have a number Of fans
pulling for him tonight, in Mercedes
in his scrap with Billy Podraza Of
Houston, scheduled to go ten rounds.
Hooper is a nephew of Sam Brewer,
manager of the Eagle Pass Lumber
company of this city, and Sam is all
"hot" over the fight. THAT boy
could always fight" Sam declared
yesterday.
Hooper is a graduate of the
Breckenridge high school Of San
Antonio, and is looked upon as the
classiest fighter in the 135 pound
class in that part of the state. He
has been fighting professionally
eighteen months, and has an en-
viable record. PodraZa is a vet
eran of many fights and is well
known in the Valley, where he
fought some time ago. Tonight's
card has the earmarks of a real
struggle BEGINNING with the pre-
Inns and on down the line.
Do you like gar meat? 1t must be
good. In comparison to the cotton
tail rabbit variety it is good, acord-
ing to Jimmy, the office, properly
named Elmer" Howard Hamilton
and Ernest Phillips Of the compos-
ing room of The Herald, hied them
selves one evening last week for a
try at the finny tribe. One big gar
was their catch. And Elmer was the
recipient. You remember Hamilton
of hunting fame. The champion
mud hen shooter Of these and other
parts.
Judge Lands, baseball z has
inflicted the first penalties of the
season on clubs of both the major
as well as minor leagues. These
penalties consist in the main of
declaring certain players free
agents. And the judge cities the
laws Of baseball to back up his de-
cisions. This ought to be a lesson
to moguls of the high collared va
riety who believe they can get
away with almost anything. If a
player In the ranks should pull
off Apme of the stunts some of
these office birds do, he would be
cast aside for life.
THE BATS CURSE
I hope somebody rips YOU,
And splits your blomming hide
I hope somebody smacks you,
And takes you for a ride.
I hope somebody scrapes you,
And roughs you all about;
Then I hope somebody hits you,
And knocks your Stuffings out.
I hope they take sorne resin,
and rub it in your face;
] hope the fielders boot you,
And kick you DER the place.
Thus spoke the shattered hickory,
whose owne left him flat;
Said he unto the baseball:
That's the curse of a broken bat.
L. H. Addington.
Nick Cullop has the right idea
about baseball. Cullop, with the
Brooklyn team in spring training
at Clearwater, Fla. has this to say
In regard to himself:
81 don't know where / am going
to spend the summer, but I don't
want to stay with the Dodgers
If 1 am not going to play every
day. I'd much rather be a regular
at Atlanta than a bench warmer
IN Brooklyn, or any other major
league city. I'm not worth a dime
II I'm not in the game every day."
Cullop. who went from Atlanta to
the Flatbush outfit spoks words of
wisdom when he uttered the above
remarks the other day. MANY a
eood ball player has been ruined by
sitting on the bench. We remember
one case in particular, that of Tink
Riviere, pitcher with the Beaumont
! Of the Texas league. Tink was
one OF the best amateur hurlers in
Texas baseball in 1920. Charlie Bar
rett, Cardinal scout, picked him UP
while he was tWirling for Bay City.
He was given a nice sum of coin to
sign. He went to st. Louis the next
spring and was kept, and worked
daily in the "pullpen" and as a re-
suit became rusty. Today, a once
promising major league hurler is
having a hard time making the Tex
rs league grade.
Billy Southworth, popular man.
ager of the st. Louis Cardinals. is
a littiA peeved these days anent
reports from the training camp of
h Chicago Cubs, which outfit
has been conceded the National
league pennant by the "war" cor
respondents in California. South
worth declares that with Hornsby
in the lineup the Cubs are danger
GUS. The Red Bird boss believes
he has the best pitching staff in
the league and that Charley Gel
bert. the new shortstop, will sup
ply the punch to offset the DOS
sibility of not winning the PEN
nant.
The other day in an exhibition
game between the New York Yam
KEGS and the Boston Braves, Assist
ant Manager JOHNNY Evers shook
hands with the umpires. Age tells,
. we are told. And in this case it is
borne out. Who " heard of
Evers doing that thing before. W.