, 1935-04-23
The
Sports
Spade
N RAE. KUsTA0

That Relay
THE MOST exciting and holly
contested event at the Regional
Track Meet. held at K~ingsville Sat-
Wday. was the one-mlle relay. Don
ma won in the record smashing
time Of 1855 with Martin Stuart,
All Time Valley 40 champion.
breezing the anchor in probably the
fastest 40 he ever ran. He must
have famed the breeze In about
81 flat. for he closed up a 20 yard
gap on Clifton Schrieber of
Brownsville. and Clifton Is far from
a SLOUGH on that gruelling quarter
mile.
Every qualified school in South
Texas was cunning for that mile
relay. for IL would qualify four OF
their men for the state meet and
the first and second place Ninners
would be eligible for rebates at
Austin.
Many a relay team carefully rest
ed all morning, entering no events
in order to be in the best possible
condition for the mile relay.
Donna won, but to the Browns
vile team must go the honor Of
pushing the Redskins to probably
the fastest high school relay ever
run in South Texas.
Louis Fernandez, the first
Brownsville runner, grabbed the
lead at the start and brought Xavier
Quintero about a ten yard lead.
"Quinto" was off like the wind and
he increased the Brownsville lead
to about 20 yards before passing the
stick to Louis Kowalski. Louis put
ait everything he had and main
tanned the lead, handing Schrieber.
the Brownsville anchor man, about
a 20 yard lead.
Stuart. the greatest quarter miller
the Valley has ever produced, took
off after Schrieber, slowly closing
up the gap with a great exhibition
Of stamina and speed. The crowd
yelled itself hoarse as the Redskin
burned around the curves. He
overhauled Schrieber In the home
stretch. and passed him Just be-
fore hitting the tape. Donna won
by about three yards. setting a rec
ord which will likely stand for
many q moon in this section.
III Stuart had been running the
anchor on the Brownsville team,
the time would have been around
3:24.
THE EAGLES. and probably 9TH
er Valley track men, viii 60 to San
Antonio Saturday to compete in
| the annual San Jacinto relays
which draw a classy high school
field.
On The Hop
tive been told" said our Scotch
frined, that straight mescal will
kin II taken In sufficient quanti-
ties"
He has nothing to fear; his
friends aren't that generous.
Doc Osborn In his sports column
has much TO say about a fisher
man who failed TO catch taTpon. We
have always been led to believe that
Doc Is strictly a catfish fisherman,
and as such naturally Is out OF
place commenting on tarpon.
We also learn via grapevine that
being a good skeet shot doesn't help
a man catch trout
Upper Lee. our southpaw dep
uty sheriff. once was a big league
twirler, toiling on the hHlock for
the Cleveland Indians. But, please,
don't mention Babe Ruth to Zip. IL
kinda sets him off. II seems that
Babe hit a home run every time he
faced the Upper.
Billy McDautt certainly came
through In d big way for the Eagles
IL the district and regional track
meet. A few days before the dis
tlict meet. ii was discovered that
he could broad Jump. Charley Clark
Of McAllen beat him by 18th Of an
irch in the district for first place.
and then al Kingsville they tied for
top honors, both turning down the
great Charley Haas OF Corpus
J Christi football fame.