Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-31

clubs.
j. f. Bell, secretary of the San
Ben1tO chamber of commerce, nas
written the scouts, pointing out
the advantages the Valley would
offer for a winter league. The
Lower Rio Grande Valley, with
about the same climate as Miami,
Fla, offers you an ideal location
1Or a winter league. NILnIn a
radius of about IS miles of San
BenitO are about 20 modern lit
tie cities ranging in population
from 1000 to Z5,00O," he wrote.
The total popu' .tion of this sec
ton is about 200, 900 persons, a big
majority of whom are baseball fans.
Out towns are Il connected with
concrete highways with an hourly
auto bus schedule. San Benito and
the other towns of similar and even
smaller size have excellent baceball
parks. Our hotels are strictly mod
ern. We have ver 300 sunshiny .>yS
each year. The average rainfall is
IS inches per year, falling for the
most part for April until Septem-
her y y y"
The scouts say that winter base
ball is used by the ma jors to keep
their men in trim and furnish
grounds for hunting out new ivory.
be that as it may, winter base
ball is just as commercial as the
ordinary hot-weather article. The
winter league will be placed where
it will make the most money.
Twenty-three athletes turned out
to the first football call sounded in
the Valley at Raymondville Monday.
The lads were very clipper and
anxious TO get down to brass tacks.
Beatty McCharen, a member Of the
Raymondville squad for the last
three years, was elected to head the
Willacy county eleven. Practice is
expected to get der way within a
week.
It's just a matter of a little
more time now until the Valley
will have gone completely foot
balf'-a dr. --iSeaSe akin in
symptoms to yo-yo but much
more violent in effect. Suffering
from this malady, q victim will
stand in a downpour of chilled
rain and wonder how lie got wet
after the game is over Ordinar-
ly sweet tempered folk will al
most burst their lungs shouting
Break those so-and-So's necks!"
Nothing is too good for a winner
nothing too rotten for a loser.
The Mercedes I ions are continu-
ing to assert themself in t semi
pro free-for-all. They Whipr ID the
Donna Legionnaires Sunday to the
tune of 1877. Pumarejo hurled good
ball, allowing only seen hits. He
struck out IA DONATES. These two
teams will get together 70 a re-
turn game some time next month.
PumarejO, former Valley Ieagu-
er, has struck out 224 len in IL
record book. The Mercedes team
has played 10 contests, losing only
five. They will take on either
Mission or Ia Feria at Mercedes
Sunda~. The Lions are looking
for additional games. Managers
wishing a ,irl should get in
touch with Pumarej0 at phone
1853, Mercedes.
Plans for a handicap match tour
nament at the local Country club
have been formulated. 4hirty-tWo
golfers will tee off in competition
| Sunday. Play will continue for five
weeks as the eliminations dwindle
down to Is, eight, four, two and the
winner. Each flight, to be composed
of 18 holes, must be played within a
week. Interest in golf has been
heightened here. The outstanding
achievement Of the recent team play
as the golfing committee views it,
was the establishment of official
handicaps by some 80 golfers. Now
the club is set for membership tour
neys, Lower Gulf Coa1 Journeys
or what have you.
Troops b and the Machine Gun
troop are scheduled to clash to-
day in the Fort Brown baseball
series. There are four teams en-
tered in the Fort Loop. They are
A, B, Machine Gun, and Head
quarters.