Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-11
CPORTS

By BISHOP CLEMENTS

E0S4C. WC0b thAACQ AOI tl1C al :
pons last summer, under Uncle
Billy Disch, who managed the club
] nd won the pennant.
The Lone Star league may be a
pur-club circuit this summer. Of
icials of the loop believe however,
hat six teams will enter before the
tart of the season on April "a.
The Valley could have a four
club league IL someone would take
the initiative and, backed by the
citizens In a helping way, organize
! 1t.
How about Harrington, Corpus
christi, McAllen and Brownsville in
4-club circuit? 1t is not believed
Ian Benito wants to enter.
II Vernon Taylor Is a high school
pitcher Of Gonzales. He lost a
] game to Main Avenue nine of
San Antonio Monday, a to 8. He
struck out twenty San Antonio
batters. How's that for luck?
Billy Podraza Is headed for the
I Garden. of New York. His latest
4 ictim was Kid Peck of Little Rock.
/ sodraza showed Valley fans some
! hing they haven't seen IN many
ears four weeks ago in Mercedes,
then he outpointed Brooks Hooper
| ( San Antonio by a wide margin.
A ball player who won't stay In
condition-who violates all ~
rules of the club-and some 9TH
ersshouldn't be tolerated in or
ranized baseball. Yf he is a re-
] calcitrant on one club nine times
nut of ten he will be the same on
! another. Conditions may not be
l the best on a certain club as others
and that works a hardship on
the player.
But there Is no excuse for a play
| r not taking enough interest IN
4 himself and the welfare Of the team
lot to stay in condition.
We know the general demeanor
] of certain clubs work a hardship
I on certain players, and 1t is an
Injustice. Those things can be
rectified, and are, in most cases.
Regardless of what you think of
! lrt Shires-the Waco club Is going
o miss him this year. And we be-
ieye Art will be on first base for
! he Chicago White Sox when the
! eason opens. The boy is not so
: sad as painted by certain writer's
Seats and eyerything-that's
what the Batsell- Wells Skeet club
OF this city will have installed at
the shooting grounds on the high
way beyond the Meter Filling
Station.
Taking as It's cue the excellent
leld and and equipment of the
Donna club, the local shooters Will
| ,rovide plenty parking space for
/ ars. and seats for spectators. The
hooting circle will also be improved
nd when finished will be one Of the
most commodiouS fields OF Its KIND
n south Texas.
Dave Bancroft's playing days
are over. The beauty" is near
ing the age when good ball play
ers retire from active service.
Once the most graceful shortStOp
In the National league, Bancroft
Is a lieutenant to Uncle Wilbert
Robinson of Brooklyn.
Just imagine Dawes feelings these
lays, knowing his legs won't stand
he wear and tear Of the difficult
position every day-when Brooklyn
needs a shortstopper so bad, since
vright's injury is bothering him.
III
Tex Becerril, Brownsville fight
promoter, announced Thursday,
that he would bar the kidney and
rabbit punches from his cards at
TT. Brown skating rink. Fine!
Al Robinson, Mercedes, and Con-
Y ner of Donna, announced some
time ago that those punches were
barred in their rings. Surely the
fight game is on the upgrade.
In last weeks Sporting News is
m interesting editorial concerning
baseball, although it tells of only
wo men, Hornsby and Mcguire. II
ollows:
Managers and others have ar
,ued pro and con, some it con. fol
I many years as to the value of bat
ers who are fair fielders, as against
4 he value of expert fielderS who are
My fair batters.
saThis year there is a capital pos
libility Of a demonstration of that
Much discussed theory in the Ma
|IIional league. For instance. the
HIases of Hornsby of the Chicago
Nationals and Mcguire of the Bos-
lon Nationals.
"when HornSby was with Boston
Ae could not bat the team to a pen
tant on anywhere near one. Mcguire
q a fielder was the best second
aseman in the National league in
g2S and perhaps as good as there
saS in baseball. He could not bring
championship to the Cubs al
holigh he very nearly succeeded IN
IFS individual share OF it.
eHornsby is now with Chicago and
satting his way into prominence
rain. 1t is held that he is just the
/ nan who is needed by Mccarthy be-
! a1se he can supply the punch that
4 khicago lacked last year, despite