Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-18
| PORTS CHATS !
With Hal EuStQce
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THREE high school quints will:
fight 1t out for the Valley cham
ponship at McAllen Saturday. Will
son Tract will represent Cameron
county, Raymondville Willacy coun-
ty and Edinburg Hidalgo county.
Way back before the county tourn-
eys, Sports Chats picked Edinburg
as Dist. % champs and doesn't IN
tend TO back down now. Raymond
vile and Wilson Tract have good
rusty heel-that IS, dirt court
quints, but Edinburg is expected to
trim them on the McAllen board
floor.
NOTHING quite so pleasing as
sounding your own oboe, SO look
this over: Sports Chats has hit the
winners pretty well during the past
year. Among the predicted champs
who came through were the Har-
lingen Cardinals, Wilson Tract, Ed
inburg, the Harrington Methodists
and the Edinburg Firemen. When
the Scorps were floundering around
IN the cellar at the beginning OF
the season, il was predicted they
would finish around the top. They
are now in second place. Heigh no,
lackaday.
IF no girls championship is play
ed off in the Valley, there are 60
ing TO be some sorely disappoint-
ed young misses out Primera way.
Those Wilson Tract Aztec girls are
anxious TO make basketball whoople.
Although matched against expe-
rieuce and a strong record in the
Southern Pacific girls OF Houston
here last Saturday, the Aztec girls
o in a figurative walk. 25-2. Fast
passing. accurate sharp shooting
and a steady defense featured the
Aztec game.
Bubose and Bouldin. guards, kept
the s. p. forwards well covered.
Ferguson and Holiday. centers. re-
layed the ball to their forwards
Brown. forwards. knew what to do
with the ball when they got it.
And they did.
MUCH to the surprise Of all con-
cerned. President Coger Stokes of
the Texas Amateur federation has
ruled the Brownsville Junior col
lege Scorpions are eligible 10 par
ticipate in the state meet. 1t has
been general practice to bar school
and army quints in the past.
COACH CAL SURTEES' crew Of
~rollicking basketeers is now in sec
ond place in the lower bracket CT
the Valley Amateur league. San
Benito. with one postponed game.
IS in third place. Should both Of
these teams win all the remainder
Of their games. they would finish
in a tie. Then the Saints would
demand that their protested game
with the Model Laundry be PLAYED
over as per the ruling by Vice
President SpitZ Clark.
GENERALLY speaking. { n c
Saints should down the Cleaners,
but not in a case like this! You
must remember, gentle reader, that
II j. w. Red Irvine and one
RAYMOND (Soc) Plato are members
Of the Cleaner outfit. Irvine is
athletic director of the Brownsville
public school system and Plato is
the Eagle coach. Naturally enough
they want the Scorps TO finish sec
ond and get into the championships
round robin. So don't miss this
game, it's going to be good.
JUDGING from comparative re-
suits between the Harlingen Meth
cdists and the S. p. CUNT and the
Scorps and s. p. the Brownsville
aggregation should put III a credit
able showing IL 1t were to get into
the round robin. The Houston
visitors won over both Valley teams
by narrow margins.
THE Chicago White Sox are on
the spot in San Antonio. In their
midst Is Moe BERG. n OF the best
backstops in baseball. This little
Irish boy obtained an academic
education at Princeton; did time at
Sorbonne in Paris. and topped
things off with a law degree from
Columbia university. No shyster.
this chap. On numerous occasions
this winteyne pleaded cases before
the supreme court.
MOE feels that. ethica.lv. IT would
be wrong to parade himself as a ball
PLAYER while p~racticing law. He
avoids publicity Of this sort and IS
getting ahead a a barrister on MS
merits. .. Quick, boys. lend me a
hand here. Art Shires has tainted.
SUCCESS or failure for the New
York Yankees angles in that whip
hanging on the south side Of Herb
Pennock. LamenesS OF this So
year-old stars salary arm kept the
YankS own last season. He has as
sured Manager Bob Shawkey the
old wing Is in great shape and will
be worth the $4,000 swig he takes
from the clubs jack pot. Until
Lefty Grove hove into sight, Pen
mock was the American leagues
leading dispenser of wrongarm
wrinkles. He has won 1919 games
In G01fa~. Meet