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EnH@a The BROWNSVILLE HERALD SPORTS SECTION EEnI5
MANTELL, WATKINS HEADLINE MAT CARD THURSDAY
San Benito Boy
Out For Navy
Grid SQUAD
(Bv SAT- Correspondent.)

CBy Staff Correspondent
SAN BENITO. Aug. 25.-Born
Brooks. former San Benito
gridiron star who hopes TO make
the navy eleven this fall. Is on
his way to Annapolis after hav-
ing visited here with his grand
mother, Mrs. Bellinger.
He was midshipman on the
u. S. S. Wyoming, the vessel
which towed the Nautilus. Sir
Hubert wilkins polar sub
marine. into port when IL be-
came disabled in the Atlantic
this summer.
He played on the plebe or
first year eleven last fall.
His fath-r. w. Y. Brooks, now
lives in Corpus Christi.
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BY EDWARD J. NEIL,
Associated Press Sports Writer

A sp.ndley left-hander and q tall
right hand sharpShooter, both from
the Pacific Coast league, are prov
ing better and better arguments,
as the season wears on, In favor
OF the fancy prices the West coast
youngsters command in the major
league baseball market.
Consider the l~eft-hander, Vernon
Gomez, late OF the San Francisco
Seals, polished a bit last season In
st. Paul. and now ace Of the Yankee
pitching staff. In a year when the
Yank hurting eccentricities have
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
MONDAYS Results

Mondays Results
Chicago al. New York AZ.
All others rained out.
Tuesdays Games
Chicago at New York.
st. Louis az Boston.
Pittsburgh al Brooklyn.
Cincinnati az Philadelphia.
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HIST NATURAL

Il have been married five years
and my husband and I ike each
other as well IS on our wedding
day."
But you quarrelled yesterday"
80 we did on wedding
day" Lustige Kolner Zeitung,
COLOGNE.
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Brownsville Beats
San Benito 81 Pins

SAN BENTTO. Au- ga team
or Brownsville ten Primers took the
measure on q local team here last
night bv 81 pins. The scores were
Brownsville 1856. san Benito 2.308.
WarburtOn NJ san Benit0 held
hirh three with 5O4. Ward of san
Rcnit0 had high single with 1873.
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YESTERDAYS 4

Babe Ruth, Yankees-Had a per-
feet day at bat. including 37th
home run. a double and two singles.
10 lead Yanks TO 8 to 5 victory over
White SOx.
Leroy Mahaffey. Athletics-held
Browns to five hits to win his
fourteenth game OF the season.
Eddie Morgan. Indlans-Hit home
run with two on base as Indians
defeated Red Sox, IL TO z
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LEAGUE
Monday's KcSults

Cleveland IL, Boston q.
Detroit 6. Washington 5.
New York 8, Chicago 5.
Philadelphia 5. st. Louis 4.
Tuesdays Games
Boston al Cleveland.
washington at Detroit.
New York at Chicago.
philadelphia al ST. Louis.
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- THE
TEXAS LEAGUE

Mondays Results
Houston l, Wichita Falls 0.
Galveston ?, Shreveport /.
(Others played doubleheaders
Sunday.
Tuesdays Games
San Antonio at Galveston.
Wichita Falls at Dallas.
Beaumont at Houston.
Shreveport at Fort Worth.
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INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE

Baltimore 3. Montreal 4.
Newark 6. Rochester 7.
Reading 2, Toronto 3 90 innlngs)
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NOT his FAULT

Cop: You can't sleep here, sir.
Reyeller: w I. Shtop the beash-
" autos goin' by. Then I canl-
London Opinion
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SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION
TEXAS LEAGUE LEADERS

Nashville 6. New Orleans S.
Chattanooga 10, Knoxville o.
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No Hope For Heflin

United States Sen. Hugo L. Black of Alabama,
speaking Of the investigation into the election in which
ms former colleague. James Thomas Helm. was de-
feated by John II. Bankhead, regular, saw no hone
for Helm at a recount OF all the ballots cast. For In
stance:
The recount in the ten counties selected by Sen.
Hefin has not demonstrated any fraud and corrup-
lions 1t must be apparent now that a complete re-
count would not transform Bankhead's majority Of
10000 out Of 100000 votes into a majority for Hef-
lin"
James Thomas Is on the outside looking IN. He was
ON the inside looking out for "A years. He viii lose
MS contest but think OF the marvellous volume of
publicity he will receive. Publicity is milk and honey
10 James Thomas. He loves It as a chorus girl loves
ner painted face In the news picture. He is not the
only politician in the, land who Graves pictured publi-
city. Trained washington correspondents are known
10 feed 1t TO the president OF the United States. 1t is
an old custom. 1t began in Washington's day. It has
been carried down the corridors for $50 years. DR.. Mark
Sullivan, Frank Kent and William Hard are among
the masterful as well as the most artistic daubers.
30 why pick on the Alabama political volcano and
make light OF his efforts?
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Hearse Driver Gave Pals s1O0
Party TO Celebrate Winning S25,-
900 Derby Pool, Then Learned
IL Was a Hoax
NEW YORK, June 10.-It was
the recent practical Joke" expert
ence OF a Ma-hattan hearse driver
that led to the spinning OF the
forthcoming yarn.
II you missed the hearse driver
story. then briefly It went like this:
After the Kentucky Derby, a note
arrived telling the young man that
he had won a certain pool OF s25.-
600. The New York newspaper
carried his photo and interviewed
him on what he was going to do
with all that money: he drew 500
from the bank and gave all the
boys a large party that highland
the next morning learned that it
was a hoax arranged by the un-
dertaking parlor lads. seeking to
amuse themselves between funer-
ais.
At any rate, several OF us were
lounging on an elaborate moving
picture set over in [-toria, I. T.,
when Charlie Ruggles. the charac-
ter comic, recalled a practical
joke" tale OF the old theater. 1t
was back IN Los Angeles when the
old Morosco was operating as a
popular : priced stock company
theater. Louis Stone, now an emf
nent film performer, was leading
man Of many q romantic play;
Ruggles was the juvenile and Vic
tor Scherzinger was leader Of the
orchestra. i was variously an ush-
er and a backstage flunky, sneak
ing away from high school because
the stage interested me more.
Stock players in those days re-
ceived but modest wages, and
Stone, Ruggles and the musical di-
rector sought to increase their
worldly goods by dabbling now and
then in race horse bets. One day,
Just before a matinee, they got a
tip that q horse with some-such
name as Golden Dawn was going
to be brought in" So the three
pooled such money as they had at
the moment and tossed 1t on this
long shot. which was listed at
about Is TO /.
Well" as Ruggles relates, "the
time Of the race was that Of the
last act OF the play. And. since
we were terribly anxious to know
how we came out, I arranged to
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have q friend notify me in my
dressing room.
But Victor, who had to be n
the orchestra pit. was as worried
as the rest OF US. He wanted to
know the result too. SO i said I
would try and find some way Of
giving him the information in the
lines I spoke from the stage. I
explained that J would try 10 al
lib something that would give him
q tip-off.
NOW the play in which we were
appearing was O melodramatic
war play. And IN the last act, I
was shot by the enemy while ar
rying q message through the lines.
Then I collapsed on the stage and
whispered my last words into the
ears Of Louis Stone, who played
the commanding officer.
Just before I went on with the
scene, the message came that our
horse had won. Stone and I were
prancing about back-stage. He
went on, and then I began to won
der how I could get the news to
Victor in the band pit.
"At that moment my u came.
A back-stage shot was fired and
I staggered on, collapsing as usual.
AS I was supposed to be lying
there. dying. q vision was also sup
posed TO come to me
Stones lines went something
like this: And what do you see,
my boy, in this vision7'
Il fairly shouted over the foot
lights, I see a Golden Dawn COM
ing over a hill-faster and faster
comes the Golden Dawn, beating
all pursuing storms
There were. Of course. no such
lines in the play. I had managed
to get the news about our horse
over the ~footlights, but all the
actors stood around wondering If
I had gone nutty. I had to hurry
back to my cue-line. before they
got mixed up, and Victor was SO
excited he could hardly wait for
the curtain. Without washing
makeup off. we all ran next door
to a little beer place-for this was
before prohibition7and began to
plan a grand celebration with our
money.
But. alas. before dinner time.
we learned that nv friend had
just been funny. Our horse had
not won and we had our dinner
over the free-lunch counter"
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HUGE PUMP UNIT.
IS INSTALLED
Mission Pump Plant In
stalls Unit With Capacity
Of 10000 Gallons

MISSION, June l3.-What Is be-
Iieved to be the largest electrically
driven pump unit in the Valley has
Just been installed and tested at
the river pump station Of the
United Irrigation co.
"A 65O-horsepower electric motor
has been installed TO drive q a.
inch pump. The motor develops
$50 horsepower OF a 100 horsepow-
er overload and the pump, which
has q rated capacity OF about Co.
900 gallons q minute, delivers $4,000
gallons a minute.
The electric motor driven unit
will be kept in reserve. Most Of
the pumping at this plant viii still
be done by a 900-horsepower diesel
type engine and a 48-inch pump.
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ty, as recommended by state audi
tor. This would eliminate more
than so employees.
When this much merging OF
functions had been done, then the
efficiency and consolidation COM
mittee could get a new perspec-
tive and at last begin to untangle
the maze OF ~crossed-up activities.
There really are four main func-
tons OF the state:
/. Administration and law en-
forcemenu.
2. Collection and handling OF
money.
3. Keeping OF records.
4. Custodianship OF state wards
and property and the equipment,
supplies and operating agencies re-
CURED to perform this function.
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AUTHOR OF
nc EhghusbdndHUnRrofc.

be so bad marrying Tommy now
and having TO wait for him 20 Eet
somewhere. They could live with
her family and she'd have all her
own money for clothes. This would
certainly be better than marrying
Derry Meade and becoming a social
outcast in Oakdale.
H0W could she ever have thought
- OF marrying Derry? Irene was
impatient with herself and her i'm
patience put an end TO her reveria.
She put on her most becoming
morning frock, changed ii after
lunch TO her most fashionable after
% dress and then, Just before
dinner, donned her loveliest in
formal evening gown
Tommy arrived shortly before
six. He had hurried To get into
clean clothes and come directly 70
the Everett home.
Beryl. an intensely miserabls
spectator. watched the couple drive
away in Tommy's new car. Shed
just reached home in time 10
change her knitted dress for a silk
one. grab a bite Of dinner. and then
rush back TO the store TO make
sandwiches for a boys club.
Her heart was heavier than ever.
Tommy had handed Irene into that
a with the gestures OF q noble
man assisting his lady fair into bis
chariot
Irene praised the car and Tommy
thought IL was generous or her not
to compare IL with the motors the
Premises owned
Before they returned home from
the short drive Irene had decided
definitely that she would break
with Derry Meade. She felt she had
gained considerable ground with
Tommy.
when he said goodnight 70
me-" she congratulated herself,
I'm sure he wanted 70 kiss me-"
But the break with Derry did not
come about rs Irene had antici-
pated- Next morning she refralncd
from destroying Derry's letter IN
read and was glad she had FoEtfa
young man threatened 70 come W.
see her, thus breaking his pr0nfbe
TO Gaylord He declared he couldn't
stand II any longer without ~ least
a brief visit with her.
Irene was tempted TO write him
a long slsterly letter but caution
interviewed Derry vas sure 90
come bonding on like a rubber
ball at the end OF q string. Then
Tommy would know about him
Tommy wouldn't forgive her fol
this latest affair.
She had played with FIRE and now
! she must put out the embers, Irens
told herself, at the same time
making plans 10 accomplish thli
4 purpose.
b. Ito BE Continued)
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Chemical Co. Erects
Store AT San Juan

SAN JUAN, June l3-Construc-
ton OF a store for the Gulf States
Chemical Co. is under way here
A contract has been let 70 J. ".
williams for construction or the
building which viii be 25x4S feet
and face the highway. The build
ing will be Of tile and stucco con-
struction and will have two plate
glass windows.
The building will be used both
for retail and wholesale operations
and viii be ready about jung ~
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shopped furiously had been de-
lightful. The next day when they
started for Oakdale IL rained. Driv-
ing was difficult and Gaylord was
~preoccupied pulling over the best
way to tell his father OF his hasty
marriage.
Irene, tired and cross, showed
her irritation. and their day was
spoiled.
THINKING back over the short
l. period OF her marriage Irene
blamed Gaylord for every difficulty.
He hadn't cared whether she en-
joyed herself In his old home or
not. All he could think or was the
soap factory. and hunting. He left
her whole days and nights az a
time and came back with nothing
but a couple Of wild ducks to show
for his time. What men could see
in sitting for hours in a boat hid
den IN q bunch OF seaweeds. Irene
couldn't understand
Irene" her mother called up to
her, I've made some mullins.
You'd better hurry down II you
want them hot"
Irene put a dainty foot on the
soft rug by her bed and sat with
one knee swung across the other.
She was still ~engrossed in the hard
ships OF her life with Gaylord
OF course her Irritation with
Derry had been q mistake. but II
wouldn't have amounted 70 any.
thing II Gaylord hadn't found out
about It. Irene hadn't forgotten
what he said to her, his face white
and furious. She continued tc
smart over his refusal to forgive
her after she had "humbled" her
self to ask him TO do It.
Then the conditions Gaylord had
laid down. Irene wondered tha'
she had agreed TO them. but she
had only to call to mind the vision
or her husbands countenance u
he declared himself to understand
why she had done 10.
. She would marry Derry. Gaylort
had done her the honor to take tina
for granted Ii was tough on Derry
he uniatteringly admitted, but thu
boy had let himself in for t.
. She would marry Derry, but shl
must not see the young man again
until her separation from GaylorI
was legal On this condition alonl
would the young husband agree u
get his divorce without scandal IN
I volving Derry's name.
, Irene, shrinking from the though
OF exposure before Oakdale society
consented to 60 away and alloV
Gaylord to divorce her without cor
D test. There was promised to her
reasonable sum OF money. Derr
was required 20 remain IN Oakdal
r where Gaylord could keep an ey
on him.
For this last stipulation Iren
4 was now thankful And 1t wouldn.
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foolish ideas and imagine they're
going 10 feel the same for fine rest
OF their lives. and all that, but 1t
doesn't amount TO anything"
1T could amount to something to
4 girl whose husband Is getting a d.
vorce from her." Mrs. Everett said
ominously. The boy lives in Oak
dale, doesn't he?"
Irene lifted her eyebrows. THE
postmark?" she said with an inflec-
ton that brought a flush 10 her
mothers face.
"what IL I did look at IT." she
challenged. MANY a mother would
have opened these letters and read
them!"
"Yes?" Irene returned, IL II
comes TO that I'll leave"
Mrs. Everett was about TO retort
in kind when her husbands voice
arose from below, calling for his
breakfast. The interruption pre-
vented what might have been a
serious quarrel between mother and
daughter.
WHEN she was gone Irene seized
w the letter and tore Il into bits
without reading II. Why couldn't
Derry have some sense! Shed
asked him time and again not To
write 10 her every day. For half
a cent she'd not answer n OF his
letters again. But then. she told
herself. 1.-THE young idiot would hot
foot II from Oakdale and spoil
everything"
Everything" was Tommy. JUS
the other evening before he'c
started for school, Tommy'd saiC
that fiirts ought 70 be shot" o.
course she hadn't meant 70 encour
age Derry but Oakdale hadn't beer
very entertaining. There were I
lot OF girls who were Jealous be
cause their most eligible younl
man had married outside OF tn
town.
Worst OF all had been the ma
irons who must have heard from
the debutantes that Irene had neye,
attended q finishing school. The.
tried patronizingly to induct he
into their society for Gaylord
sake. These and the "stuny oil
family friends" had driven her int
a Irritation with Derry Meade.
nicelooking boy who could dane
circles around anyone else the girl
in Oakdale had to play with
Derry hadn't much social bach
ground to boast OF. He was. 4
fact, the only member OF his famil
"a nice enough family, tool who
ever seen the inside OF the countr
club. He was welcomed because th
girls liked him.
Irene dazzled him. She was
newcomer as well as pretty and he
clothes were ravishing.
The last day Irene and Prentis
spent in New York when she ha
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Two steam-driven units, the first
70 be installed in the plant which
one OF the first 10 be built IN
the Valley, are still available and
one vas used just this week.
Over $4,000 acres r. irrigated by
the company plant. il Is the last
large privately owned irrigation
plant left in the Valley with the
sale owe a year ago OF the Amer
lean Rio Grande Land and Irriga-
ton System to the landowners.
John Shary is president; ri. M.
Melden. secretary and manager; n.
II. Ewing, engineer; and e.. ~.
Mitchell, plant superintendent.
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CRACKS In
THE DOM

board Of control. Comparable with
supervision Of homes for Confed-
crates orphan children. etc.
Blue sky division Of state depart
ment with bond approval division
OF railroad commission.
Central stationery and supply de-
pot, central telephone exchange.
central mailing division and ian
itor service in board OF control.
custodian Of building and proper
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BY the Political Analyst


AUSTIN, June 13.-The COVER
nor's office Is about the only de-
partment left that does not collect
taxes or fees for the state, the
legislative efficiency committee
starting work this week will find
that a regrouping Of functions will
accomplish far more than any at
tempted consolidation OF depart
ments themselves.
And there r some mergers Of
departments and bureaus possible.
There Is chaos now in the COL
lection of state revenues. "A single
collecting agency would relieve a
lot Of people Of unnecessary work,
simplify and harmonic the work
conflicts now:
State department. collects fran
chise taxes and certain other fees.
Sells books.
Comptroller, collects ad valorem
taxes, liquor taxes, gasoline taxes,
half a dozen other taxes.
Treasury department, collects
c.garet tax, interest on bonds.
Banking department, collects
fees.
Insurance department, collects
fees.
Motor bus division and gas utili-
ties divisions Of railroad commits
sion collect fees.
Education department handles
funds.
Board OF control collects reve-
nues for support Of inmates, and
from sale Of products.
Prison system collects several
kinds Of revenues.
Water board collects fees.
Courts collect fees.
Seed breeder license board col
lects examination fees.
Land office collects oil royalties,
fees, payments.
Agriculture department collects
licensing fees.
Labor department collects Il
censing fees.
Game department collects Il
cense fees and fines. the latter re-
mitted to its fund from courts.
Barber board collects license fees.
Mining board collects inspection
fees.
This does not mean merely hav-
ing collections credited to their
FUNDS. II means actual collection
by the agencies for transfer to ac-
counts OF these funds in the treas
ury.
One central money : collecting
agency-logically the comptroller's
office, would take a startling maze
Of tangled threads out or the
states organization chart.
As to consultations, the Joint le-
gislative committee will consider
several time-honored merger pro-
posals. along with others.
Such as:
Industrial accident board with
board Of insurance commissioners.
State reclamation engineer with
board Of water engineers.
State highway patrol and inspec-
tors OF motor transportation divi-
sion with state enforcement off,
GERS under direction Of adiutant
generals department.
Barber license board with board
OF health; then make board OF
health q bureau IN board OF con-
troll.
State department OF agriculture
with extension service. with separ-
ate subordinate division for N
fo-cement OF all quarantine and
licensing.
State board for selection OF pri-
son auditor, with state auditors
department.
Consolidate work Of board Of
control in installing accounting
systems and that OF auditors de-
partment in checking, UP on them.
Probably make the auditor-ap-
pointed by the governor-a member
and independent administrator Of
auditors division merged into
board or control.
Transfer pension division into
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The Great Were Once AS You

Atty. Gen. James v. Alfred delivered the commence
ment address TO the graduating class Of Cisco high
school Fifty-eight graduates Of the school received
their diplomas and The Cisco Daily News declared
the address one Of the best. II not the best COM
mencement address ever made before a Cisco gradu-
ating class. This is an excerpt:
The great are those who in youth fix for them
selves an ideal. a goal and with this in mind. forge
steadily ahead to accomplishments that have never
been realized before, needless Of mockery, or ridicule
and peSsimism."
Col Chas. Lindbergh and other immortals. living
and dead. who pioneered paths to new achievements
were pointed out to the class as examples OF that
type which leads and conquers. In closing the in
~Ecription written upon a monument standing be-
tween two mighty peaks OF the Rocky Mountains was
quoted by the speaker. It reads: God give us men
like these mountains"
Yes; they are needed. Perhaps they will be sent
through the direct primary route.