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I The BROWNSVILLE HERALD SPORTS SECTION |
Cubs and Giants in
I National League to
iBreeze Home Ahead
' ^^^ORK April 15.—(/P)—The National league starts a fight t '-
won't be decided for six months. Some critics contend the'
19-9 pennant won’t be clinched definitely much before the closing day
of the season October 6.
Most experts have contended themselves with stating that four clubs
VET SENDS UP
YOUNGSTERS
^Vhitted Former Member
Of Miracle Team De-
velops Talent
By NORMAN E. BROWN
j Central Press Sports Writer
^ DURHAM N. C. April 15.—While
Johnny Evers Hank Gowdy and
Rabbit Maranville once members of
the famous Boston Brave team of
1914 are laboring with President
Fuchs of that club to restore the
team to Its old heritage at least
one other member of that old mi-
racle club is still active in the game.
He is doing his bit to promote base-
»11 by developing young ball play-
ers for a career in the big time.
His name is George Whitted.
George has managed the local
team of the Piedmont league for the
last two years and is shaping up
another team for Durham. Eight
members of the team he directed
last season have moved into faster
company—a step toward the top.
The rest rests with them—and the
men under whom they play.
■Where They Went
Of these eight four drew the at-
tention of the Baltimore club of the
International league. The four are
Montie Weaver and Lee Reed
Ditchers and Hal Johnson and
'ack Lindley outfielders. Two of
lis boys moved up to the Mobile
. dub of the Southern association.
[ They are Outfielder Fred Tauby
gund Infielder Buck Taylor a brother
B)f the better known Zack.
F wo other players will show their
-tuff to South Atlantic league fans
s members of the Columbia team
'bey are Dode Phillips a third
seman and Kershaw Jones a
-handed pitcher.
ha*»e most interesting angle of the
Bu*had under me last year”
_^tted “was the fact that all
1 the Players were college
Vi t iad won their early base-
baTvp^Pl^n campus teams rather
thawUJlg^ndent or sandlot teams.
One of E®«L*Montie Weaver is an
instructormathematics at the
University of Virginia.”
Whitted played seven years in the
big show. All seven were spent in
the National league but during that
time he was a member of four dif-
ferent clubs.
He joined the Braves the very
month they started their meteoric
climb from the basement of the
league to the flag in 1914. That was
July. The following fall he found
ntmself traded to the Philadelphia
club with Dugey for Sherwood Ma-
;ee. The trade didn’t cut him out
if any world’s series dough however.
The Phillies proceeded to win the
'lag that year under the late Pat
vlorgan.
Moving Frequently
Whitted played in Quakertown
irttil the middle of the 1919 season
vhen he was sent to the Pirates by
3abby Cravath for Casey Stengel
n the spring of 1922 he found him-
elf mdving again. When waivers
vere asked on him Brooklyn claimed
iim. Then after he had played in
>ne game for Manager Robinson he
vas sent to Toledo.
He played whth the “Mudhens”
wo years then joined the outlaw
Anthracite league as a member of
he Mt. Carmel Pa. club. In 1926
he tried to drop out of baseball en-
tirely but the very next season found
him accepting the management of
he Durham club. For two years he
coached Washington and Duke uni-
ersity’s diamond squads in addi-
on to piloting his home town team
his year however he has given up
ie college job.
DINES BY STOLEN CANDLES
BIRMINGHAM Eng. — When
'rs. Martha Adams was arrested
ir stealing candles from a church
* e was found dining by their light.
if*—the New York Giants Chicago
Cubs St. Louis Cardinals and Pitts-
burgh Pirates—are the outstanding
contenders so closely matched no
one can be selected as a favorite.
This quartet is almost unanimously
picked to take the first four places.
The Giants and Cubs have re-
ceived the most pre-season support.
Of the four members most picked
to finish in the second division
Jack Hendricks’ Cincinnati Reds
appear the strongest.
Six Teams Granted
Chance To Win In
Fast AA Circuit
CHICAGO April 15.—(/P)—Two
long shots and six favorites :r.ake
up the race for the American as-
sociation pennant race which starts
tomorrow.
The campaign promises to be as
close as that of 1928 when the title
was decided in Indianapolis’
on the last day.
Indianapolis Milwaukee Min-
neapolis St. Paul Kansas City and
Toledo stood out as pre-season title
possibilities while nothing but a
battle for the cellar appeared in
prospect for the two other entries
Louisville and Columbus.
Tomorrow’s opening schedule:
Milwaukee at Indianapolis.
Kansas City at Louisville.
Minneapolis at Columbus.
St. Paul at Toledo.
Knox Will Be Head
Of P. T. Classes At
T. C. U. This Fall
FORT WORTH April 15.—A full-
time head of the boys’ physical edu-
cation department will take over
the reins at Texas Christian Uni-
versity next fall. The announce-
ment that W. S. Knox former stu-
dent of the Frog institution will
have full charge of the work next
vear was made by Dean Colby D.
Hall.
Knox transferred from T. C. U.
to the University of Iowa in 1923.
He took a B. S. degree from that in-
stitution with a major in physical
education. He has been instructor
in athletics at the Iowa City high
school.
Heretofore physical education
classes have been handled by mem-
bers of the Frog coaching staff. The
acquisition of Knox who has had
several years of experience in the
field. Will bring that deoartment of
the school on a par with the best
in the section.
MATADORS TO MEET
AGGIES MAY 6 AND 7
COLLEGE STATION. Tex.. April
15.—Coach Bob Countryman’s Tex-
as Aggie baseball nine will meet the
Texas Tech Matadors of Coach G.
H. Higginbotham in a two game se-
ries on the Kyle Field diamond May
6-7 as feature exhibitions during
the East Texas Chamber of Com-
merce convention.
The Texas Tech mentor is former
a Texas Aggie gridiron and diamond
star and is a brother of Roswell
(Little Hig> Higginbotham also a
former Aggie athlete and now fresh-
man coach at A. & M. As a means
of distinguishing the two Higgin-
botham stars when they were at
A. & M. Roswell was known as
“Little Hig” and his brother as “Big
Hig” names wdiich continue to fol-
low them in their athletic work.
PLAY FIRST WOMEN’S
COLLEGIATE TOURNEY
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BROOKLINE Mass.. April 15.—
(/Pi—The first collegiate tourna-
ment m the historv of women’s ten-
nis will be nlaved here at the Long-
wood club during the week of Juno
24.
Mrs. George W. Wightman has
arranged details.
Competitors will play as Individ-
uals. making it a “collegiate” rath-
er than an “inter-collegiate” event
she explains.
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COLUMBUS Ohio April 15.—(/P)
C. C. Pyle's pavement pounders
were free to continue their cross
country jaunt as far as Springfield
Ohio today but writs of attach-
ment held in Columbus three auto-
mobiles and a van with much of the
artistic talent of the side shows
while the promoter strove with fi-
nancial problems.
Sheriff’s deputies kept eyes on the
Pyle impedimenta in the interests
of the Chevrolet Motor company of
New York. There was no explana-
QUINN STARTS-
29TH
PHILADELPHIA April 15.——
Down at Fort Myers. Fia. training
ground for the Athletics Old Jack
Quinn one of the last of the fast
disappearing race of spit-ball pitch- j
ers is beginning his fifth year with
the Mackmen and his twentieth in
the majors.
Somewhere in his forties Quinn is j
already in good shape having j
trained for two weeks at Hot
Spings Ark. before going south. He
attributes his success to hard work.
He was a breaker boy in the coal
mines near Pottsville Pa. before
he took up basketball and a strong-
er physique has carried him through
many years on the ball field.
Eager for the season to begin
Quinn declares he will continue to
pitch “until they take my uniform
away.”
“There’s only a few of us still in
the game” he said. “Red Faber of
Chicago and myself are the only |
two spit-ballers left in the American
league. I believe Grimes of New
York and Mitchell of the Cardinals
are the only ones in the National.
“Urban Shocker died last year
and Bill Doak and Stanley Covel-
eskie have retired so there are only
a few remaining but wre still man-
age to get by and fool the batters.
“When the baseball powers ruled
out the spit-ball seven years ago
I think they had in mind to legis-
late only against trick pitching. I
have always contended that few
batters were ever hurt by spit-ball
pitching. It was the curve ball
hurlers with thfeir freak pitches who
did the damage.
“I see nothing mysterious about
the spitter. Just take a baseball
moisten it a little on the side near
the thumb and let the ball slip in-
ward or away from you as you
throw depending on where you
want to go. That’s all there is to
it.” _
COURT UPHOLDS MARRIAGE
BAN PLACED ON LAZY SON
LONDON—Frederick A. Smith
because he Is lazy must wait three
years to get married. Magistrate
Campion so decided when Cmith
who is 18 years old had his parents
summoned to court because they
refused him permission to marry.
The mother’s evidence settled the
case. She declared her son was so
lazy that she had to pour water on
him every morning to make him
get out of bed. The magistrate
said that no one as lazy as that had
any right to marry.
ROAD CONTROL ASKED
WASHINGTON April 15.—(A5)—
Control of the Wheeling and Lake
Erie and its subsidiary the Lora-
din and West Virginia is asked by
the Nickel Plate railroad in a peti-
tion filed with the Interstate Com-
merce Commission by the Nickel
Plate today.
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tion of the difficulty except Pyle'3
announcement the concern had ob-
jected to his arrangement with one
of its agents to pay for the vehicles
in weekly intsallments.
The runners had a 40-mile gallop
to Snringfield. with no attachments
about them whatever but their bun-
ions. Pete Gavuzzi of Southamp-
ton Eng. was at the head of the
pack. He finished first with Ed
Gardner Seattle negro in the 54-
mile run from Zanesville here yes-
itrrdav and retained his lead in
I elapsed time.
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CURLEY
<®@®H
Coincident with the decision at
Buffalo that Curley Ogden was one
of the big reasons why the Bisons
won the International league pen-
nant last year the Giants decided
that Curley was one of the new
pitchers they needed.
Curley who is tall enough to
make a good center at basketball
won 21 games and lost 10 for Buf-
falo In 1928. He has a fast ball
that is fast and a curve that breaks
when it's supposed to break and
the training camp news writers
brand him as a pretty good box
man.
Ogden is 27 years old is f feet
3 inches tall and weigJte 190
pounds.
CONVICT INHERITS WEALTH
BORDEAUX France — Marcel
Cortois serving a 10-year sentence
for banditry has inherit $300000
from an aunt. —
Clarence Demar Enters
Annual Boston Marathon
BOSTON April 15.—(.^—Clar-
ence Damar who has led the field
heme on six different occasions to-
day was added to the entry list of
the annual Boston marathon to be
run April 19.
Demar who ran his first Boston
marthon 19 years ago predicted
that he will be among the first
three finishers even though he
LOCALS DEFEAT
MERCEDES 7-0
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Martinez Holds Visitors To
Three Hits; Roberts
Gels Homer
Stepping back into the baseball
limelight where they left off last
year the Palmez Hat Makers served
notice on all and sundry that they
were very much in the running for
the Valley’s amateur title by shut-
ting out the Mercedes Lions here
Sunday afternoon 7-0.
Backed by an airtight defense
and a hitting strength M. Martinez
twirled “high hat” ball allowing
only three safe bingtes and whiffing
12 of the visiting. Lions. He turned
in better work than either of the
opposing moundsmen F. Pumarejo
and L. Rodriguez. Pumarejo is an
old Valley favorite having formerly
pitched for Brownsville nines.
Martinez’ wrinkling curves and
fast hops were well handled by R.
(Beefsteak) Padron. Padron pegged
fast and accurate and not a single
bag was stolen on him.
Truitt Roberts stellar junior col-
lege performer distinguished him-
self with the Hat Makers by collect-
ing a long homer over the center
fielder’s head with two men on the
bags ir the second stanza. Later
lie poled out a double.
R. de la Rosa local first sacker
had a perfect day with the willow
getting three blows and a walk in
four trips to the platter.
The Hat Makers completed three
fast double plays in the closing in-
nings that brought cheers from the
crowd etsimated at 500.
The lineups were as follows:
Brownsville: Serrato rightfield;
Saenz second base; Munoz left
field; T. Roberts centerfield; M.
Martinez pitcher; R. Padron catch-
er; R. de la Rosa third base; Rod-
riguez shortstop; E. de la Rosa
first base.
Mercedes: D. Gutierrez right
field; P. Espinosa third base; Za-
rate. catcher; L. Rodriguez first
base; and P. Saldana second base;
Balvan shortstop; Vavasos left
field Pumarejo pitcher; Castillo
center fielder.
Captain Moreno of the Hat Mak-
ers has lined up the following
schedule: _
April 21 Pentagons at San Ben-
ito; April 28 Aztecs at San Benito;
May 5 Pentagons at Brownsville;
May 12 Mercedes at Brownsville.
After the Detroit Tigers had lost
four straight games to the Chicago
Cubs Manager Stanley Harris gave
his men a tongue lashing that
should last them for some time.
Among other things he told them
that their showing against the Cubs
was “a disgrace to the American
league.” He charged that certain
of the Tigers were not doing their
best and that he intended to get re-
sults or else—. The next day the
Tigers rolled right over and played
dead again. _
has lost much of his old-time speed.
The veteran’s record for the
Boston race the greatest ever es-
tablished by a marathoner is six
firsts two seconds and two thirds
over a period of 18 years. He won
the race in 1927 and 1928 and if he
gets it again next Friday he will
have strung together three suc-
cessive victories for the second
time.
SHUDDERS LOOK
LIKE WINNERS
North Texas Entry Flashes
Classy Brand of Ball In
Win Over Cats
DALLAS Texas April 13.—(>P)—
With their final spring training
game behind them the Wichita j
Falls Spudders today went through 1
limbering up exercises while await- i
ing the opening of the Texas league i
season on Wednesday. The team
in an exhibition game with Fort
Worth yesterday made a good im-
pression by defeating the Pan-
thers 5 to 1 despite the fact that
two rookie outfielders were filling
in for the injured veterans Fitz-
gerald and Eldred. Fitzgerald is
expected to be in the line-up at
Shreveport Wednesday but Eldred
is out for at least two weeks with
a badly bruised hand.
The Shreveport Sports wTere back
home today from New Orleans to
put in a few final training licks
before the opening of the season.
The Sports swept their three-game
series at New Orleans and made
it five games out of six in a se-
ries with the Pelicans here and at
New Orleans. Owens’ pitching
stood out yesterday when for five
innings he held the Pels to one hit
and walked only one man.
The Dallas Steers will occupy
themselves for two days with bat-
ting and fielding practice the club
having lost their final exhibition
game of the spring season to Waco
yesterday 6 to 3. The Dallas club
management has announced ready
for the opening of season on Wed-
nesday with the statement that the
herd is a first division team.
Two games with Beaumont hav-
ing been rained out Manager Sny-
der will not have a chance to see
his Euffs in action against Texas
league opposition until the opening
of the season. He is putting his
team through hard wrorkouts to
keep the players in trim. Little if
any further pruning is expected
during the first month of the sea-
son as the transfer of Ray Pepper
centerfielder to Danville and the
release of two rookie hurlers cut
the squad to about its proper size.
Manager Claude Robertson to-
day led his Expotrers through a
snappy workout getting the kinks
out of his athletes who have been
idle for the past two days on ac-
count of wet grounds. John Chap-
man second baseman is back in
r-arr.p after an attack of influenza.
Manager Robertson still is silent on
his opening date pitching choice
but it will be either Elmer Hanson
Walter Newman or Dennis Burns.
DEMPSEY FAILS TO
GET DETROIT ARENA
NEW YORK. April 15.—(JP—Jack
Dempsey was back in New York to-
day disappointed in his quest for
a fight arena in Detroit.
He tried to get the Olympia arena
at Detroit but learned it was not
for sale. He said he had looked
over several sites for an arena but
had decided upGn nothing definite-
ly. The former heavyweight cham-
pion said he would confer with his
associate Humbert J. Fugazy with
an idea toward lining up a number
| of outdoor boxing shows this sum-
mer.
DEMPSEY MAY TAKE
OVER WINDSOR TRACK
TORONTO Ont.. April 15.—UP—
The Mail and Empire today pub-
lished a despatch from Windsor.
Ontario stating Jack Dempsey
might take over the Devonshire race
track at Windsor and operate it as
a racing fight and general sports
center acting as the representative
of Humber Fugazy of New York.
Yesterday’s Baseball
Results
At Baltimore. — Baltimore 4;
Philadelphia (N) 2.
At New York.—New York (N) 2;
Washington (A) 1 (10 innings).
At Newark.—Newark 6; Phila-
delphia (A) 2.
At Boston.—Boston (N) 4; Boston
(A) 0.
At Brooklyn—Brooklyn (N) 7;
New York (A) 1.
At Kansas City.—Chicago (N) 3;
Kansas City 0 (8 innings.)
At Detroit.—Detroit (A) 10; To-
ronto 3.
Others cancelled.
EASTERNER ASKS FOR
HOMESTEAD IN IOWA
AMES Iowa April 15.—UP—Per-
sons who answer letters at Iowa
State college have to be ingenious.
A man in Massachusetts wants
to know if there is “any free land
open to settlers and homeseekers
in Iowa that is level and could be
used for hog raising.” A few years
ago Iowa farm land sold for as high
as $400 an acre.
A farmer asks "what to put on a
cock’s comb to make it stand up”
and another letter requests some
“pamphlets on the monkey.” A
farmer’s wife wants “all your books;
on infiinte care.” and another seeks
“a pantlet on braided rugs.”
NEW GRAPEFRUIT GROVE
INDIO Cal. April 15.—UP)—A
$55000 grapefruit grove is to be es-
tablished alongside the stately date
groves of Coachella valley. The
project has been undertaken by
King C Gillette on 480 acres re-
claimed from the desert. It will
have 35000 grapefruit trees and will
be completed in a year
CAUSE OF THE WAR
CHICAGO—Mrs. Emma Colwyn
was arrested for punching Miss
Carrie Joseps who said to her;
“Fancy your being at large when
the zoo wants specimens.”
PAYS WIFE $635 TO QUIT
LONDON—Robert Marxon ad-
mitted in court that he had paid
his wife $635 to quit him and go
away with a man who loved her.
Hoover Will Pitch
First Ball to Open
1929 Baseball Race
CHICAGO April 15.—{&>—With the Yankee menace still casting its
shadow across the pennant horizon and chilling interest the American
league tomorrow launches what promises to be another one-sided cham-
pionship race.
Three years straight and six times in eight years have Babe Rutli
and his mates blasted tneir way to?
the championship. League officials
and rival club owners and mana-
gers who admit they and the box
office receipts are a bit weary of
this prolonged Yankee domination
dispute the “experts” by predicting
a tight race. It is generally to
Philadelphia the team that gave
the Yankees a scare last year; St.
Louis ^.combination of fair hitting
strength and great defensive pow-
er; Washington a great offensive
team with Walter Johnson at its
helm and Detroit with several
heavy hitters and the brain or
Bucky Harris that they look for
breakers in New York’s pennant
surge. The other entries—Chica-
go’s weak hitting erratic fielding
White Sox Cleveland’s mysterious
Indians and Boston’s mediocre
team are not expected to cause
much trouble.
The piece de resistance of tomor-
row’s four-game menu will be the
clash between Philadelphia ancl
Washington at the capital r.esi-
dent Herbert Hoover is expected to
start hostilities by throwing out
the first ball. Official Washington
and President E. S. Earnard of the
American league will attend the
contest. “Lefty” Grove probably
will get Philadelphia’s pitching as-
signment being opposed by the vet-
eran “Sad Sam” Jones
i Waite Hoyt has always been a
lucky star for Miller Huggins and
the Yankees so he has been chosen
for mound duty against the Boston
Red Sox at New York. Charley
Ruffing or Jack Russell are the
probable starting pitchers for Bos-
ton. Baseball Commissioner K. M.
Landis will watch that conflict.
Upset by injuries dur-ng its un-
successful training season Detroit’s
starting lineup and pitcher were
somewhat of a mystery. The Ti-
gers open their campaign at Cleve-
land. Joe Shaute is expected to
draw Cleveland’s initial mound as-
signment.
■/uhe White Sox-Browns’ opener
at St. Louis may see a mound duel
between Alphonse Thomas and
Sam Gray of St. Louis.
HUDKINS FIGHT
IS WEEK’S BEST
Con O’Kelly to Meet Jimmy
Maloney In Third Fracas
Between Pair
NEW YORK. April 15.—<A*>—Ace
Hudkins’ ten-round scrap with Ar-
mand Emanuel at Los Angeles to-
night stands out as the high spot
in this week's national boxing pro-
gram.
The Hudkins - Emanuel battle
doesn’t mean a thing so far as
championships are concerned but
it’s interesting because it gives Hud-
kins a chance to prove a good little
man can beat a good big man. The
Nebraska Wildcat probably will be
outweighed by 15 pounds for Eman-
uel scales a few pounds over the
light heavyweight limit. Hudkins
is not even a big middleweight.
Con O’Kelly the Irish heavy-
weight is to get his third shot at
Jimmv Maloney of Boston in Jess
McMahon's new coliseum at New
York on Friday night. O’Kelly held
Maloney to a draw in their first
meeting but dropped a decision the
second time.
On the same night Izzy Schwarts
now campaigning on the Pacifle
coast meets Pablo Dano Manila
Filipino in a ten-round fracas at
San Francisco. Schwartz’s flyweight
championship awarded by the New
York state athletic commission will
not be at stake.
BEDBUG BITE KILLS BABY
CHICAGO — The 3-months-old
baby of Mrs. W. C. Murray died as
the result of a bedbug bite.
JAYWALKER GETS HIS
ST. LOUIS Mo.—Reprimanded
for jaywalking Albert Sefton curs-
ed a policeman and was sent to jail.
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