Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-04
CPORTS
OFORUM
BY BISHOP CLEMENTS

oAOAAoA SLLHlLAtl III
hAJgratulations to Coach Jimmy
snCNs6 and his basketball crew of
MoaAen. The Bulldogs won over
Corpus Christi Saturday night, at
klngsvllle, "a to %, for bi-diStrict
honors. The Valley champs will
play in the state finals at A. & M.
this weekend.
Battling Shaw and Kid Pancho in
the main event Of a fight card to-
night at Mercedes. Scheduled to
go 10 rounds.
Bib Falk has been wanting to
get away from the Chicago White
SOx for a span of at least three
years. His desire has been grant
ed. He goes to Cleveland in ex-
change for Catcher Autry. Both
of these players got their start in
Austin, Texas. Falk with the
ball team of Uncle Billy Disch Of
the University and Autry with
Rankin Johrson's professional
CiuD OF AuStln III 1870.
Falk has been with the White Sox
since 1919. Autry went to the New
York Yankees in the fall of 1923.
Autry'S entrance into professional
baseball is worth recalling. He e
ported to the Austin club unherald-
ed and unknown, didn't know if he
was a catcher, a pitcher, Or better
adapted to some other position,
just blew in as thousands of other
youngsters do in the spring on
training camps. Bert Gallia, well
known in Valley baseball circles.
sent him to Austin that spring, and
wrote johnson asking that he give
Autry a tryout. The boy from
Woodsboro, green though he was,
made good, proved one of the best
catcherS ever to perform in the
Texas Association, and was a good
hitter.
FaIk's goal is to play with the
New York Yankees, whose man
ager, Miller Higgins, he is per-
sOnally fond of. Not that base
ball powers that be will show any
tendency toward Falk in granting
his one desire; but we believe
that in the course Of time a deal
between the Indians and Yanks
will be completed whereby Falk
will join the World champions.
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The big question mark is IF" to-
night, in regard to the Pahcho-
Shaw fight in Mercedes. If Pan
n Tho is IN shape, Shaw will be given
tough battle, if he isn't, it's just
IS ~ to be too bad for the once
a<Sn boxer of San Antonio, and
ot.H parts. The conqueror Of
johnny Hughes has been idle for a
year, and two weeks ago looked
Tat and out Of condition, as he vas
introduced from the squared circle
on the last card at Mercedes.
Promoter Al Robinson made a
ten strike when he matched Jack
Revis and Homer Goodman i'll
of the preliminaries. These
two $50 pound boys may not be
the best fighters in the world
but no two cleaner OF finer spec
linens Of the reSined arena will
ever hop into the ring as Good
man and Revis.
Jack Dempsey, Of all persons,
and in the role of promoter. didn't
have to announce to the world that
some palooka had taken a pot shot
at him with a gun; Dempsey. the
spectacular. the colorful, got all the
publicity needed for his promotion
venture in Florida last week, and
some of it undeServed. Being an
admirer of Dempsey w can't be-
lieve that Jack Matched that bit Of
Fcblicity stunt; surely, it must have
come from other quarters.
Discussions galore among base
ball fans these days, concerns the
ability of the present day diamond
performers to those of the past,
which prompts the Sporting News
of last week to carry this interesting
story concerning this phase:
Here's the sort Of story that
doesn't often break into print. 1t
concerns the opinion of n OF
baseball's old-timers as regards the
present day performer. Most OF
them will tell YOU that the game
sain't what it used to be" But not
Bert Niehoff, new coach Of the New
York Giants.
Before leaving Atlanta, where
he managed for several years,
Nieboff gave a luncheon for the
newspape boys of the Cracker
CITY. During a talk he told them
how the player of the present day
had IL on the old -timer. They
are smarter now Bert said. They
have to be. When 1 got to the
ma iors, / was a third baseman.
Fhev told me one morning to so
out there and play second base.
md that was that. / went on
z played.
Gpw, when a third baseman is
a.Axrred to second base, every
coach on the field takes the player
IN hand in the mornings and az
night and works for a month get
ing him ready. They teach him
The tricks of the trade, show him
now to pivot on double plays n
now to play the batter on every
pitched ball. 1t is a major opera
ion. believe me, to make a second
oaseman out of a third baseman
hese days
The most deadly punch, and
the n that has Soured the pub
lie on the game, to an extent, is
the rabbit punch and the kidney
blows: the kidney boIws are gen.
orally struck when the maulerS are