Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-26

ID llOW 1OOtUd1l IOdOl1 VI VIC OOAPUo
Christi high school, will leave the
Buccaneer city sometime this week
to join the Macon, Ga, baseball
club of the South Atlantic league,
Pratt is the property of the Brook
Ign team and Macon is a farm OF
the Robins.
McAllen high school has won
distinction in two interscholastic
events this year.. First the Bull
dogs won the basketball title of
the Valley and the district, and
last week students of that school
presented a One-act play i'm Ed
inburg and were declared winners
over competition from other VAL
ley schools. Brad, in 1.-THE City
of Palms" Column in the McAllen
Press, has this to say: This Nc
Allen high school goes out to win
and wins"
In the baseball game Saturday be-
tween the San Antonio Bears and
the Missouri Pacific nine of Kings
vile, a we'll known Valley pitcher
was on the firing line for the Mo-
pac. He was lefty Deck, and he
hurled creditable ball for the Pho
neers after a bad first inning. This
Bears won. Deck was a trifle wild
his weakness while with the loca,
club in 1926.
Did you know that Art Schacht
former Valley ball player, is with
the Houston Bluffs : > : that Wal
ter Kinney who pitched a part of
the 1926 for San Benito is in the
Pacific Coast league = = . that the
kidney punch is one of the most
disgusting things in prize fight
ing = . = that the Brownsville
Skeet club is proving one of the
most popular sports among par
Elephants . = 5 that the sheriff
and assistant district attorney Of
Cameron county are left-handed
and in their PALMER days were
star bail players = :" " that the
Brownsville high school is ex-
pected to have an even better
football team in 1929 than in
1928?
Now that Jeck Dempsey ha.
signed to promote fights for Hum.
bert Fugazy, of Detroit, maybe thu
rumor mongerS will cease in regarC
TO the mauler's actual re-entranct
to the ring. 1t is remembered tina
the late Tex Rickard advised Jacl
never to return to the squared cir.
Gle in a fighting capacity. We. fol
one, believe the ring career of thu
greatest slugger of them all, is over
But he is aiding the game by stay.
ing in as a promoter. No, STREE
Dempsey didn't turn his back OF
the game that gave him life" 81
TO speak, as Gene Tunney did, after
making his million.
Grover Cleveland Alexander,
the Cardinal pitcher, has been
shunted to the has-becns for
many years by scribes, but he is
still the king of the crafty right
handlers of the National league.
The other day when Alex had
held the Athletics well in hand
in a game between tn Cards and
AS, Connie Mack turned to his
first aid, Kid Gleason, and re-
marked: "The old boy has as
much stuff as he had VIXEN / first
saw him back in 1911 when he
beat us in the spring"
Ballinger, a town Of 5000 has re
placed Lubbock, with its 10000 O
more population, in the West Texa.
league. 1t brings to mind if town
above 10000 will support Glass I
baseball. AS an example, Austin
and Waco were members of the Ok
Texas Association in 1923. Neithe
city supported their clubs. AlIstiI
finally sang its swan song. Wac,
entered the Texas league, and is on
OF the most prosperous members o
Doak Roberts circuit. Something +
think about.
Other day at the Yankee train
ing camp as the players we're
warming up just before a game
with the Boston Braves. Babe
Ruth happened to walk between
Durocher and Larry who were
warming up and got socked on the
Jaw, causing a general swelling of
the face. During the game that
same day, the Babe got a double
and two singles, and drove in
three runs. Incidentally il was
the slugger's best day with the
willow this spring.
Rules in all kinds of athletics ar
a bone Of contention. and may al
ways be. The Sporting News Of
recent issue has the following to sal
in this regard:
Each year, in days gone by
there was a demand for the revi.
sion of the baseball rules. True, tn,
rules could have been helped, bu-
more as to a classifying of their Eng.
lish than because baseball had {
wooden leg.
AS often as a revision of the rule:
was suggested there were enough
who vel conservative to prevent it
1t was their opinion that baseball
should be played at least four OF
five years under the same rules tt
get the fans accustomed to it.
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Mote the difference in football
Each year the rules are changed
and little by little football is beine
metamorphosed- Some say it is be,
ing atrophied. It is not foolhardy
to predict that in ten years from
now it will not be football except
as a football is openly exhibited tx
the public in a chariot drawn by
white horses before the game begins