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

Il a senior high school girls play
groU1d baseball team has been or
ganiAkH at the local school, under
the ~alentorship Of Coach Margaret
Valenta. They plan to play high
school teams of the Valley. The
club won the county meet in this
city last Saturday. 1t is a good
team. The Cherry twins form the
battery, and their mates compose
a combination that should be hard
to beat.
What, no baseball park in this
city?" That was the remark a big
league baseball scout shot at Ben
Proctor Tuesday. Tile scout, who
doesn't want his name published, at
this time, was much surprised that
a town the size Of Brownsville, and
Z a territory as fine as the Valley,
did not have ball teams. MI. Proc
tor, in his younger days a player
of ability is making an effort to
find out if the Valley, along with
Corpus Christi, wouldnt support a
four-club league.
Kid Guerra, the San. Benito
rooster" was in Mercedes Mon
day night attending the fights.
The kid" challenged any fight
er in and out of the Valley to a
bout who can make around the
1873 pound limit. Guerra is due
to punish anyone he meets, and
by his aggressive tactics has gath
cred a large following.
The kidney and rabbit punches
were barred at the Mercedes fights
Monday night. Congratulations!
Another step forward in the fight
game. AS we have stated before
these punches are dangerous and
slow up bouts.
Mckinney, new member of the
Lone Star league, is one Of the
fine cities Of north-central Texas.
1T has always been a good base
back yonder in IS and some
odd played ball on the high school
nine there and later on the town
team. That city, like others, has
learned that the only kind Of
baseball worthwhile is of the or
ganized kind. 1t should be an
asset to the league.
Joel Hunt, the former Aggie foot
I ball luminary, and baseball player,
in the making, has been sent to the
Danville club Of the Three-I league
by the Houston Bluffs, with whom
he has been trying out this spring.
Joel played with Laurel, Miss, in
the Cotton States league last sum-
ner. Danville and Laurel are farms
Of the ST. Louis Cardinals.
This fellow Ruiz, who threw a
scare into Battling Shaw's fol-
lowers Mpsday night at Mercedes,
Knows qIerS a bit about ring gen.
sraIshipa AkAs long as Shaw kept
, him away the San Antonio lad
liidn't look so good, but the Mer-
sedes boy couldn't do that thing
egularIy. And when he didn't
2uiz dealt Shaw plenty misery.
The bout ended on a foul, unin-
territorial, of curse. But there
we're five rounds of action worth
anybody's cash.
Old-timers tell us that Shaw's
jumping style of fighting is liable
% cause a foul at any moment. And
t is remarkable that he hasn't been
;ouled many times before.
"Of late there has been much
comment in the sport columns in
regard to pitchers being called
cousins by batterS. Now that
name is old. 1t has been in COM
mon use in the minors for several
seasons. 1t is thus: Certain bat
tiers can hit certain pitchers with
regularity. OF course that pitcher
lis an asset to that certain hitter.
fence the monicker cousin"
Uncle Billy Disch, Of the U. Of T.
seball team, lost q good player in
lsty Rhoads Monday. The third
cker broke his hand in the game
tn Northwestern u. The Steer
ach had brought Rhoads along in
isy stages, from a very mediocre
rformer to a bright major league
aspect. But such is the game OF
Seball, and life too. Rhoads will
out the rest of the season.
END OF THE TRAIL
rookie leaves home with a tat
tered glove,
A toothbrush, a collar or two,
d swears by the stars and moons
above,
He will make his dreams come
true.
: will make the fans forget Ty
Cobb
And the swish Of his mighty bat:
1T a month finds him back on his
blowing job,
With a head that will fit his hat.
Pat Patten.
Here's an interesting article from
ne pen Of l.. H. Addington, well
nown sports write. 1t follows:
Baseball and boxing have several
Kings in common. Some of them
Ire decidedly common, while others
ire more refined. One hit often
RESULTS in a fighter being Knocked
put. The same holds good for q
Y pitcher. A fighter sometimes gets
a technical knockout, but there's
absolutely nothing technical about
1t for the pitcher. Sock one on the
nose is a favorite expression of
both the boxing and the baseball
II an.
zone means just what he says
nd the other only wants a base hit.
n boxing, a foul Is a blow below
he belt. In baseball it's a belt
u1tside the white line. Three strikes