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The BROWNSVILLE HERALD SPORTS SECTION
Managers Now at San Benito McAllen
DENVER SQUAD
DUE SATURDAY
Eddie Palmer Now Making
Arrangements; Three
Aviators Here
'Special to The Herald )
SAN BENITO. Mar. 6.—Express-
ing confidence that his club will
finish high in the Western league
during the coming season. Manager
Eddie Palmer of Denver arrived in
San Benito Thursday. About 15 of
his men are due to arrive Saturday
and the remainder will drift in
early next week. Manager Palmer
said.
The Denver head is optimistic to-
ward the coming season. His team
finished fifth in the league last
year but he feels he has Improved
his club by 25 per cent largely
through solving a hot sack prob-
lem.
Palmer is well known in Texas
league circles having played with
Dallas and Fort Worth for nine
years. He is still covering second
base in acceptable fashion. Palmer
got into over a hundred games last
season.
He plans to start training as soon
gs his first men arrive.
San Benito fans who guaranteed
the Denver club $3000 to come to
this city and train met Wednesday
night and appointed two commit-
tees. One of these will name local
men to look after the business end
of the transactions. The other will
make collections on the underwrit-
ten sum.
MEN ARRIVING
AT McALLEN
McALLEN. March fl. — Three
members of the Wichita. Kansas.
Aviators of the Western league ar-
rived In McAllen today the van-
guard of the club which will en-
gage in a five weeks spring train-
season here
^The three arriving today were
Frank Shipley of Ada Oklahoma.
Alton Watson of Kerlin. Arkansas
and John M. Robinson of Wichita.
Kansas.
Another group of players Is ex-
pected to arrive Thursday morning
with President-Manager Art Griggs
boss of the Aviators’ spring train-
ing camp. All players have been
ordered to appear in McAllen Sat-
urday.
Griggs will immediately confer
with E. Lee Keyser. president of the
Des Moines club upon his arrival
here regarding the schedule of
games to be played by the four
teams of the league which will train
in the Valley. Three big league
clubs. New York Giants Pittsburgh
Pirates and Chicago White Sox. will
play exhibition games in the Valley
with the Western league clubs. The
Pirates will meet Wichita here April
4. according to present arrange-
. raents.
MAHERS WILL
REBUILD TE AM
The Brownsville Hatters a strong
Bmateur nine for the past several
•aason?. will be reorganized this
year. It has been announced by E.
de la Rosa who led the club last
year.
Guadalupe “Polvo’* Olvera who
has played with & number of local
teams will manage the team this
eeason.
The Hatters will not enter the
proposed amateur league but will
play with the stronger independent
teams of the Valley. They are
planning games with Monterrey
and the Veracruz Marines. The
Marines are said to be one of the
strongest teams in northern Mex-
ico.
Sandlotters Play
For Championship
Champion's Owlets and the A C.
J. M. quint will meet on the Fort
Brown court 8 p. m Thursday for
the Brownsville atndlot champion-
ship
These two teams have survived
la an eight-team tournament which
opened last Sunday.
Maurice Pipkfn. Junior college
basketeer. will referee the cham-
pionship game.
1 MCRI JUNIORS CHAMPS
j fSpecial to The Herald.)
■MT T FN. Mar. 6—The McAllen
Junior high quint won the Valiev
championship here Wednesday af-
ternoon by defeating Rangerville.
Cameron county champion. 46-24.
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Bartley Madden
Killed by Fall
WASHINGTON Mar. 6—(>f»>—
A fall of 20 feet from tV steps
of the Treasury building during
a sightseeing trip here brought ;
' to an end the career of Bartley
Madden. 4I-year-old Irish heavy-
weight who became famous for
his staying qualities against
championship contenders.
Madden died in a hospital here
last night a few hours after
he had accidentally stepped off
the incline. He had stopped for
a day in the capital on his way ]
to New York from Miami where
he had attended the Sharkey-
Scott fight.
VALLEY BALL
SCHEDULE SET
Six high school baseball teams
In the upper portion of the Valley
will play a 32-gamc schedule begin-
ning Mar. 11. it has been announced
I by Claude Dailey athletic director
of the Valley district.
The winner of this schedule will
play the winner of a lower bracket
April 26 for the Valley title.
The schedule will open Mar. II
and close April 18 with Mercedes.
Edinburg. Pharr-San Juan-Alamo.
Mission. Weslaco and Sharyland
taking part.
The schedule follows:
March 11—Mercedes vs. Edin-
burg Pharr-San Juan-Alamo vs.
Mission. Weslaco and Sharyland
not play.
March 18—Mercedes vs. We* taco.
Pharr-San Juan-Alamo vs. Edln-
i burg. Mission vs. Sharyland.
March 21—Weslaco vs. Pharr-;
San Juan-Alamo. Edinburg vs.
Mercedes Mission vs. Sharyland.
March 25 —Weslaco vs. Shary-
land. Mercedes vs. Pharr-San Juan 1
Alamo. Mission vs. Edinburg.
March 28—Weslaco vs Mission.
Mercedes vs. Sharyland. Pharr and
Edinburg do not play.
April 1—Weslaco vs. Edinburg j
Mercedes vs. Mission. Pharr-San
Juan-Alamo vs. Sharyland.
April 4 —Weslaco vs. Mercedes
Pharr-San Juan-Alarm' vs. Mission.
Edinburg vs. Snaryfand.
April 8—Weslaco vs. Edinburg
Pharr-San Juan-Alamo vs. Shary-
land. Mission and Mercedes do not ’
! play.
April It —Weslaco vs. Pharr-San
Juan-A!amo Mission vs. Edinburg. j
Mercedes vs. Sharyland.
April 15.—Weslaco vs. Mission. :
Pharr vs. Mercedes Edinburg vs.
Sharvlard.
April 18.—Weslaco vs. Sharvlsnd.
Pharr-San Juan-Alamo vs. Edln-
' burg. Mercedes vs. Mission.
Amateur League Is
To Start April 27
HARLINGEN. March 6—A six-
club Valley amateur baseball lea-
gue was organized here Wednes-
day night with Guy Trent presi-
dent.
Towns In the league are Browns-
ville. San Benito. La Feria. Mer-
cedes. and Valley Box of San Be-
nito.
The amateur league will swing
into action Sunday. April 27.
Links Planned By
San Benito Group
SAN BENITO. March 6—A golf
course for San Benito is expected
to become a reality in a few days.
A number of memberships have
been signed up in a proposed nine-
hole course and definite announce-
ment on the project is expected in
a short time.
BOBCATS OFF
EDINBURO. Mar. 6—The Edin-
burg Bobcat high school quint. Val-
ley and bi-district champions left
here Wednesday for Austin where
they will participate in the state
tournament Friday and Saturday.
The five first string men who
left were John Young. Lidell Row-
an. John Barnum. De Witt Berry
and Lee Walker. Eight other play-
ers left Thursday.
SAINTS UPSET
DOPE TO WIN
Defeat Edinburg 28 to 25;
Crucial Games Come
Friday Saturday
Team P W L Pet.
Harlingen . 4 3 1 .750
Edinburg .......... 4 2 2 .500
Donna .. 4 2 2 .500
San Benito . 4 13 .250
Wednesday Result
At San Benito 28. Edinburg 25.
Schedule Friday
Edinburg at Harlingen.
San Benito at Donna.
Saturday
Harlingen at Edinburg.
Donna at San Benito.
BY HAL EUSTACE
El Nino Fidencio must have paid a
call on the “crippled" San Benito
amateur cagers. Either that or the
San Benito Saints have been at-
tending the medicine show en
mass. At any rate. Geo. Sanders'
boys threw away their crutches last
night and defeated the fast moving
Edinburg Firemen 28-25. Any five
which does this cannot be called a
team of cripples.
As a result of this upset of the
dope there is a strong possibility that
Donna and Edinburg will tie for
second place in the championship
round robin. The importance of
this tie becomes evident when one
understands that the two leading
teams in the round robin will make
the trip to San Antonio to repre-
sent the valley in the state ama-
teur tournament.
Methodists Favored
The Harlingen Methodists should
emerge on top of the heap Satur-
day night when the final game will
be played. Edinburg has a pair of
games with Harlingen Friday and
Saturday. As viewed by the dope-
sters the best Edinburg can hope
for is a split. Donna has a pair of
games with San Benito. She should
at least split with the Saints. That
would leave things knotted up for
second honors.
If it hadn't been for second place
ties the Valley amateur race would
have proved far less interesting this
season. It looks as though these
are the general rules for Valley cag-
ers.
Crucial Game
The crucial test of the season
will come Friday at Harimgen when
the Methodists take on the Firemen.
This will put the two bracket cham-
pions together. Fans have been
waiting for this game all season
and a large crowd of fans will like-
ly be on hand. They will meet
again Saturday night at Edinburg.
Wednesday night. Wallace and
Campbell of the Samts outdid them-
selves to tie nine-all for high point
scoring honors. Tom Winningham
and Garrett of the Firemen were
close behind with eight each.
This game was fast from the out-
set. and was one of the best exhi-
bitions seen on the Stonewall Jack-
son court this season. A fair-sized
crowd of fans was on hand to wit-
ness the rise of the crippled Saints.
The box follows.
San Benito (28) FG. FT TP PF
Taylor 2 0 4 1
Adams f 0 0 0 3
Casey f 10 2 1
Adamson f 2 0 4 1
Newman c 2 5 9 4
Wallace g 3 3 9 2
Campbell g 0 0 0 0
Totals 10 8 28 12
Edinburg (23) FG FT TP PF
Tom Win'gham f 2 4 8 2
Trig Win'ham. f 0 0 0 4
Cochrane f 10 2 4
Garrett c 3 2 8 1
L. Win'gham g 1 1 3 l
Pitner. g 0 0 0 0
Arrington g 2 0 4 2
Totals 9 7 25 10
Figures at the University of Tex-
as show the average age of fresh-
men Is lower each yeer.
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ASSIGNED TO ROOKIE TEAM
NEW YORK. March %—(/P>—Man-
ager Bob Shawkey of the New York
Yankees does not intend to let the
coming duel between Col. Jacob
Ruppert and Babe Rum over the
question of the Bambino's salary
overshadow the other events in the
Yankee training camp at St. Pet-
ersburg. Pla. Shawkey has decid-
ed the Yankees have progressed
far enough to do a little real play-
JOCK COLLINS
NEW CHAMP
Winter Golfing Caravan
Leaving Miatai With
New Titleholder
ST. PETERSBURG. Fla . March 6
—(IP)—The winter golfing caravan
prepared to move on to Miami to-
day with a new titleholder In Its
midst. Jock Collins professional
of Dayton Ohio broke into the
ranks of the winter tourney win-
ners yesterday when he carded a
141 for the 36 hole St. Petersburg
open and took away $1000 in prize
money.
Ci06e on the heels of Collins came
Horton 8mith. who has Just signed
a Contract to be professional at
Crag ton-on-Hudson New York
and Frank Walsh Chicago who
scored totals of 142 each to divide
second and third money. They re-
ceived $400 each.
Joe Tumesa and Tony Manero.
New Yorkers chalked up 143s to
split fourth and fifth money each
taking $150. Gene Sarazen. Fresh
Meadow. L. I.. Fairly Clark Sav-
annah Oa . and Billy Burke. Green-
wich. Conn. were one stroke be-
hind to participate in the cutting
of sixth seventh and eighth place
purses each getting $58.33.
Wrestling Card At
Harlingen Tonight
HARLINGEN March 6 -Wrest-
ling will come back in the Valley
tonight with Charlie Lehman the
Flying Dutchman and Kid Chaney
of Houston thudding in the main
event at the Fair park stadium.
Regardless of what you may
think of wrestling you will get a
good show tonight. The boys al-
ways see to that in an inaugural
card. There will be plenty of ac-
tion-slams splits grunts groans
yells and taunts all of which will
go to make up usual wrestling
cards.
Lehman and Chaney both of
whom are well known wrestlers in
Texas straining centers wll wres-
tle two out of three falls with a
45-minute time limit.
Geo. Polous and John Ellis will
meet in the opening bout. It will
be three-fall no time limit.
The card opens at 8:30 p m.
ing and scheduled the first six in- j
ning practice game for today. And
perhaps to impress the Babe with
his present status in the camp he
assigned Ruth to the Rookie team.
The New York Giants open the
spring barnstorming season today.
A squad of 16 of them goes to Aus-
tin to meet the University of Texas
in the first exhibition game.
The Brooklyn Robins have dis-
covered a battery that can get along
without signals unless some undis-
covered linguist turns up in the Na-
tional league. With ancient Adolfo
Luque pitching and young Alfonso
Lopez catching the instructions can
be passed in their native Spanish
with no one the wiser. They also
may be able to get In a few words
about the way the umpire is calling
'em without leaving the field. Lu-
que dropped into the Robin camp
at Clearwater Fla. yesterday.
Young Pitchers
Young pitchers in the Detroit Ti-
gers training camp at Tampa Fla.
will have an early chance to show
what they can do against Major
league batters according to plans of
Manager Bucky Harris. Harris
who has found nothing to complain
about in showings made by his var-
ious charges to date expects to try
out two and possibly three recruit
hurlers against the Boston Braves
in the first exhibition game here
next Sunday.
Dan Howley plans a board of
strategy In the Orlando. Fla. train-
ing camp of the Cincinnati Reds as
soon as Long George Kelly first
baseman and only absentee ap-
pears. Howley expects to hold a
series of meetings of the entire
squad and discuss methods of sub-
duing the enemy.
Two Holding Out
The end of the week should de-
termine whether two of the Wash-
ington Nationals' players who for
some time have been adding to the
worries of President Clark Griffith
are to return to the fold peaceably i
Griffith has written catcher Roy
Spencer that If the latter does not
accept the terms of his contract by
next Saturday he will be assessed i
$100 suspended and required to get j
Into condition at his own expense
if not forced to take less money
than has been offered As to out-
fielder Leon “Goose" Ooslln it was
intimated drastic action was plan-
ned m this case also if he falls to
come to terms by next Sunday. The
Senators are training at Biloxi.
Miss.
Glenn Mvatt veteran catcher and 1
Zeke Donura whose future status j
with the Cleveland Indians depends
much on whether the ailing Lew i
Fonseca returns to condition hold
the home run honors of the Tribe
today. Both rashed out long drives
over the walls in the first batting
practice of the season at New Or-
leans yesterday.
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PASO ROBLES. Cal. March 6-
'/P—Pittsburgh's Pirates winners of
two National League pennants in
the last five years and always one
of the tough-to-beat teams of the
senior circuit give promise of hav-
ing a lot to do with disposition of
the 1930 championship.
The spring workout has been un-
der way in full force only two days
but Manager Jewell Ens has seen
enough to convince him he will pi-
lot a club "that should be up there
with any kind of breaks.”
A great squad fast young fellows
hard hitting outfit good pitching
is the way Ens sums up the situa-
tion.
"Pennants aren’t won in training
camps but you can tell anyone who
cares to listen that the Pirates are
going to give a good account of
themselves this season.” he declar-
ed. ’The general structure of the
team that lost out to the Cubs in
the closing weeks of last year's pen-
nant chase remains the same but
two corners have been reinforced.
Gussie Suhr. home run hitter from
the San Francisco Seals replaces
Earl Sheely at first base w'hlle A1
Bool catcher has been purchased
from the Baltimore Internationals."
With Suhr at first. George Grant-
ham at second and Captain "Pie
Traynor at third the Pirates have
a trio whose hittings efforts should
be better than .300.
The shortstop problem is unsolved
as Dick Bar tell regular last year
is a holdout. Sam Dreyfus vice-
president. and Manager Ens ap-
parently haven’t lost much sleep ov-
er Bartell's absence. Instead they
have worked themselves up to a
high point of enthusiasm over a
rookie .Ben Sankey. who played
with Selma. Alabama in the South-
eastern league last season. Drey-
fur. says Sankey is a "sweet pickup.”
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