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1*1— 514 I and captai ng are •currying around >
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group is an uncertainty
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Lieutenant Govern- PMEniPa.Teipe
1 two went around the
Interest in picking up here in re-
gard to the 16-team Texas high
school basketball tournament to be
held here Friday and Saturday for
the champtonship of the state.
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LAST NIGHT’S FIGHTS.
AT COLUMBUS, Ohio-, Anthony
Powney, ineinnau, defeated Jack
Mfr. ChicAgo, 11 round.
AT NEW YORK— Sammy Noble.
Now York. Eot th* decinion over
Bill nyekott, Brooklyn. 10 round.
conference with the radio oprator
framing the baseball news for the
next day.
Oil Belt League Planned
RAXQER, Feb 11. _Local base-
bal tans today launehed plans for
th. orsanization ot a six club OU
Bolt league, to be comprieed at
tram. In th. Texas oll felda.
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he would establish a training camp
at Excelsior Nprings. Mo., before
gofng to New York for completing
his conditio fer the bout.
respective county championsh
district title, and bi-district chai
pionship
be used in MOON cars—This oil is obtained in our
service station. We are glad to drain the old and put
in the new. No charge is made for the changing.
Teem* scheduled to line up in
the Austtn city baseball league in
meeting Friday nlghv are all 6ct-
Reading left to right: Starling: Donoho (Supt.), R. MAnaHy (Cap-
tain), Adama. D Byrne (Coach). Seated, left to right: Hayes. D.
McAnally, Dobie.
association bunch in action, any-
how. bo there’s not much chance for
other games while the nines play-
ing in Austin
catchers will be the first type of
bell tossers that Foils will start
hunting for The rest of the po-
sitions on the nine will be taken
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the gamut of
the southern
&tda
No date has been set :
titular match. bet from 1
d cut urns the battle will
one when it does tabs
The two have untf t
the weak to settle the
ship to. They win proto
Saturday.
KamM plaved. Box
ch contest will be pub-
partment i
with the
tab of ali
ail leagues from
section of the
man to develop many
— the pitcher was winding up. Lefty
177— 42T/oughta be here about the 10th of
135- 460 this month.
151— 412 • • •
Only the highest grade oil obtainable is economical,
and the mere addition of new oil to old is of no
practical value. Don’t change oil by the oil gauge,
but by the speedometer.
As the days roll by the high
Th* pair ar* lightweights, and
followers of the sport here say
that the two will undoubtedly
stage a neat little slam bang af-
Kinda wish this Lefty Bugs Mc-
Carty who’s signed up to try out
for pitcher with the Rangers in
the training season would hurry up
and come on down. They tell that
he ain't any world beater, but that
he can toss ’em over all right and
mebbe stand 'em on their heads in
a pinch.
pects to bring one
Farrel Signs as Assistant
Coach and Scout for Boston
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And by the way some of the
Austin youngsters have ventured
forth on the pugilstic side of life.
Every red-blooded fight-fan in the
city oughta turn ut Friday a week
and check in for the high school
athletic association fight card.
Kinda give the boys a boost' they
deserve it.
o'
Missouri Valley
r:.. •!«» probadly mearch for anothor
I itle to Kansas hurene Hasbanat present on the
! PitehinR sta Just two athletes.
LAWRENCE, Kan. Feb. 28- ISher Falk ad puttieder Clarke.
The University of Kansas won ths •0 better pair of moundsmen could
Missouri Valley conference basket, be asked for, but two pitchers are
hn33 ---—to. . - . . not enough to earn' the nine
through the stggnuous season
planned •
that really counts.
Now ths next thing on the ath-
letic program here is to get local
high diamond warriors out and win
that Texas high school champion-
ship. And believe you me. the gang
hasghe goods, according to all pre-
season dope. to turn just that trick.
115- 334 base. .Then, out of spite, pilfered ।
133- 390I third. Now. I ain't lying. Ches ’
-25 $56 Fortier, who goes to Syracuse this.
132 146, season, told me this. Chea played
_ 1.1. | with Sherman last year. That fool
Lefty, getting madder and madder i
•very minue, stole hbme, nearly!
running all’over the batter, while.
six of the players who were making
the tour. No names were given .— --
Naturally, that aroused mucla ru-{ £ A Sehatze, % .. 1*9
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ball championship here tonight
when the Jayhawkers defeated the
U’niversity of Missuri 23 to 20
in the pear future. Indications are
that the old nine is going to be
there to the limit battling ’em all
styles for men. Some smart dressers, who in
former times never thought of wearing any
But the big reason for me want-
. Bugs to coir 9 on is to
get to hear that melodious voice of
his in action. Yeah, the boys Say
69s 660-- 1937
Pirates Land in Hot Springs
PITTSBURGH, Pa . Feb. 28 —The
"first contingent" of the Pittshurgh
Pirates has reached the Hot Springs
training camp, according to offices
here today. The rear guard will
trail along in a day or two.
cup to their opponents' five. Both
Meh.horn and Manning took three
putts on the last hole that would
have won the game and followed
by missing a 1-foot putt that
would have tied the contest.
The morning rounds resulted in
a deadlock. each pair having four
hole* to their credit. Hagen led
in the total score with 145 and
Kirkwood was second with 147
Mehihorn third with 148 and Man-
ning's total was ill.
clothing not made by some HIGH PRICE
TAILOR, are now our best customers—they
found out that at MUCH LESS COST they could
139— 893 mad Cut loose and stole second
Chicago Tribane Will Hold
Amateur Boring Tournament
CHICAGO.-Announcement was
made today by the Chicago Tribune
athletic association, fostered by
Lefty would make a hit with the
fans here if he’d jar loose and war-
ble a few every day or so out to the
old ball park whenever things kinds
let down and the fireworks are not
booming any too much. A fellow
like that oughta be a good drawing
card. If the ball game happens to
be on the bum that day. why. just
trot out Lefty and let him give a
few of his special selections.
round of a 34-hole foursome todav
and paved the way for victory for ——
Walter Hagen and Joe Kirkwood, j ing Lefty
Anstralian, one up Hagen and
Kirkwood took three strokes to
the hole and wn it. They fol-
lowed with a four for the • final
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FORT WORTH. Feb. 1
advance guard of White So
ers reached here thia men
route to Marlin. Kid Gieau
Walsh and Ray Schalk were
those in the party The
an hour here and reached
this afternoon.
I league will not conflict in any way I
with the Ranger nine whci it play*
---° here. One thing certain, the Rang- 1
z-. 899 ers are going to allow the city gang ,
189— 9711 to us Ranger park when the team
is out of town Then I suspect that
most of the city leaguers will want
to be on hand to watch the Texas
or Makes Awards, terday.
Chamber of Commerce
BOSTON. — Christy Mathen son. j
president of the Boston Braves, '
will become a member of the ’
Boston chamber of commerce. That
organisation tendered him a dinner
partments seem well taken care of.
according to the present list of bat-
tlers contracted to step it off in
the training spell
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Johnson is a man who plays
baseball 24 hours a day. You
know what I moan. Fact is, he
admits it himself.
■tic league officials
sold, this time to the Boston Amer-
Irena He played two years in the
Federal league and then reverted
back to Boston Boston sold him to
th* Fort Worth Panthers In 1814
During th* fall of '14 he wa* sold to
Milwaukee in th* American asso-
ciation. He played independent ball
out in Arizona in 1817. He went to
Milwaukee in th* spring of '18 and
was sold again to the Cardinals in
June The Carinals sold him to
Kanaas City in the American asso-
elation This was in 1819. He had
quit the Cardinals in "18 to work
for the government. Kansas City I
sold him to Fort Worth again and 1
Fort Worth sold him to Ran An- |
tonio.
yesterday and the first thing
"Matty" said was that the chamber
ought to take as great an interest
In the city's major league affairs
as does the St. Louis chamber.
member of the party somehow
reached us. either through letters
from our friends or some papr I
heard that a trade with Chicago-
which Involved my transfer from
Mathis will compete in the state
basketball tournament here Friday
and Saturday. Following is the
team’s rating:
Mathis 17. Sod ville 7: Ma thia 28.
Odem • ; Mathis 82. Sinton* 22.
Mathis 43. Taft 1v; Gregory Aran-
cording tn Manager Parke Houston 11) 111 if
of the Legion nine, that organizn-I11g1 asebdlI VIen
tion is coming along nicely. The' -
Hope to Cut Loose
£ For Practice Today School Fight Card
entry willcause trouble to all com- Austin high bassball aspirants' -= “1,-
petitors The Capitol team Is. failed to get under way for the Ini-| school athletic association lines up
keeping nuiet. but as tbe saying • tial practice of the season yester-more bouts for the big fight night;
gnem "Still water runs deep ’ i day, but, according to Coach Foltz, i scheduled by local athletes for
Blount of th* Printer* was a buoy ! will be out in full force this aft- Friday a week in the Junior high
auditorium.
The most important development
yesterday was the signing up at
one Red Walden to tangle with nn«
Farrell of Marlboro, Mass., former
big league catcher. coach and
scout, today signed a contract with
th* Boston National league club as
assistant coach and scout.
Tigers’ Roster Complete
DETROIT.-- The Detroit Amer-
icans' roster was completed todav.
Ira Flagstead. outfielder, and Fred
Helney, Infielder, having submitted
their nigned contracts. They were
the last of the Tigers to sign up
but there was no "hold out" ele-
ment in the delay according to
the club management.
One of the boys told me a little
story about Lefty yesterday that
ain’t so bad. It seems that Lefty
I* a temperamental cuss. Well, he
got all wrought up one day last
t year when h was playing with
■ Sherman in the T-O. Sherman was
I battling Paris that day. Lefty got
: on first base somehow or other, I
< don t remember just how. He was
both Austin
Ritola Beate Ray
NEW YORK Feb. 21 — WlUi* Ri-
tola. Finnish - American long dis-
lance star, set a new world's in-
___________ opamag. oor record and surpassed the out-
CHICAGO- Jess Willard, whois1 door mark for three miles in de-
matched to box Floyd Johnson oreatinE.-oie Ray, .Chicago star,
Iowa. 15 rounds May 21, announced An “ hand leap run at that distance
..... at ’ho anntal games of the
Knights of Columbus New York
chapter tonight. Ri tola's time wa,
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the Yankees to the White Sox, had
veen aiscussed. One day, to my
great surprise. I learned from the
radio bulletin that the deal had
gone through
"Waite Hoyt Aaron Ward and
Bob Mevsel of the New York Amer-
icana have been traded to the Chi-
cago White Sox for Eddie Collins
and Bib Falk," read the bulletin.
A day or two later another bomb
wa* thrown into camp by the fol-
lowing item:
"Eddie Roush of Cincinnati has
been traded to the New York
Giants for C’asey Stengel. George
Kelly and iosy Ryan."
By that time I had gotten over*
my shock and quit raving, but Kelly
and Stengel took up the cue where
I had quit. Stengel insisted that he
would play in New York or no-
where A few days later the radio
bulletin carried the report that
wajvers had been asked on at least
that Lefty can burn 'em up in the
song bird league. Got an idea that
GOLDSTEIN, Austin, Texas
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fair
As has previously been announced.
Bab Myers will meet Milton Ar-
nett in th* feature bout of the
card. The two are lightweight*,
also
Judges for the exhibitions have
not been picked yet. Blondy Cross
will referee.
It ha* been ata ted by all con-
cerned that the bouts will be
strictly amateur, and that pro-
ceeds will go to the Austin high
school athletic assoclation fond.
Baseballing in Japan got the
American expeditionary forces
going and coming. Irish Meusel
was ths lifs of ths party during
the selected team of big Isa guars’
The Austn basehall management I recent trip to the Orient udging
purchaxed hi releane from san An- ' trom this atory.a told to Biny
tonio tn manage the Ranger* Evans of NE A Senvice:
Jack Corley to Chaperon
Rudolf Valentino on Tour
NEW YORK, Feb. «—It wan
announced today that Jack Curley,
local wrestling promoter. would
forego all activities in thia line for
th* present in order to chaperon
Rodolph Valentino, the moving pic*
ture star, on a tour of the country
The date for the start of the pro-
posed tour was not mentioned.
was previously scheduled
May 11.
Schuhardt will go. Curtis
A Rankin Johnson of Burnet,
veceran twirler of many leagues
experience and gentleman of base-
ball. Is now player-manager of th*
Austin Rangers, local entry in the
new Texas association baseball race
wgich la scheduled to start tbs
latter part of April
After much long and heated de-
liberation last night in the oftice
of the Austin clubs president Qi-
rectors of the organiation chose
Jobnson over four other men. ath-
letes and ma nag s of the first wa-
ter. who had applied for tbe posi-
lion. The directors feel that they
have accepted the beet prr positign
made them by applicants for the
positfon and that Johnson is the
man to fill the btU if there is a
man who can do so
The veteran pitcher began his
baseball career here in Austin 15
years ago, when the city was a
member of the Texas league. This
was Jn the season of 1908,
Sinoe that date Johnson has run
Molla Wins Again
MONTE CARLO. F.h 28-Mrs
Moll* B Mallory th. Ameriean 1 K
woman champion, defeated Miss d
May Green of England. 4-3, 6-0. Inl 3
ths second round of th* Monte Carlo 1 V
lawn tennis tournament todav ■
Mia* Elisabeth Ryan, formerly of 2
California, won from Mrs. Rayner 3
England. 4-0, 6-0. 0
country to those In, most north-
ern part and then across country.
He has played them all and baa
stood the gaff.
Sold Many Times
He went to Galveston fn th* sea-
son of 1808 In the fall of 89 he
was sent to the St Louis Carinals.
The Cardinals farmed him to Dallas
of the Texas league in the middle
of the 1810 season In 'll he played
under Jne McGinntty. old New York
hurler. in the international league.
He was sold to a team in the New
York state league in 1912. From
there, during the fell of '13, he was
•old heck to the International Dur-
ing the season of '18 he went to
Syracuse in the New York state
league again. Once more he was
ting prepared for action
Manager O. P Bonner of he
YMBL state* that he has already,
signed up 14 fast h*H tossers Ar-1
Tribulation Wins First
BOWIE. Feb, 38—Tribulation,
setter, owned by Claude Wood*
df Wichita Falla who worked the
dog himself in two heat*, won first
place today in the membership
derby of the oil belt field trial*
here
Tees 8even.
During this span of baseball years j •
Johnson has managed a number of By WAITE HOYT,
teama all or wiych were ruccersfur.. Ritch*, fer Hew York Americana
He has rent dute e number and Worl series Here.
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Iig .nuse ma naze me n t * eel of the New Y orK ilants had the
JohnMO rare” ’o «»’ down to.nurparpupanghearrorabou
worxnimmediat”rterarhegreals; ‘ "Gs1WmEryrkoraheoahiPbparatot
zun..“ "inninK to imsue a daliy bulieti givine the
Tor A™ _____ I important newa ot the world in
A- . A., brief. Ai we neared the United
Nlanagers ill (.1tV Htates on the last lap of the trip
9’- from Honolulu to San Francisco
1 ... 2. T... Irian got in his work and it cause*
League on jump; allkinds or gossip.
, While in Japan we from time to
Nlppfinor H y-icIqv time would get some basebnI dope
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that had a direct bearing on any
will work in conjunction
citv tenguers and keep
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Conference Meet
This Week-End
The Longhorn grappiers having
won and lost one wrestling meet so
far this year will be given a chance
Friday night and Saturday after-
noon for revenge in one case and
for a repeater in the other when
the Southwestern conference wres-
tling meet ia staged here.
But three teams will be entered
in the tourney—the Longhorns, the
Texas Aggies and the Oklahoma
Aggies.
Varsity lost overwhelmingly to
the Oklahomans at Stillwater sev-
eral weeks ago, but decisively de-
feated the Texas Aggies at College
Station recently.
Coach Gallagher's squad of Okla-
noman* are scheduled to arrive in
Austin thia afternoon. The Wild-
cats will come Friday morning.
Varsity Coach McLean announces
that the following men will repre-
aent the Longhorns: Craddock
heavyweight; Captain Gorman,
light -heavyweigh t; Campbell will
take the place of Shropshire, who
is sick; in the middleweight divis-
ion; Lloyd, welter; Ford, light-
weight; Turner, feather; Frazier,
flyweight. Jack Rudnick, wres-
tling promoter, will referee.
mn«> Pinky Cm,by g *
out Tommy Raymond In tho Gmt ( 3
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College Youngster Looms Willard to Establish
A* Cardinals’ Shortstop Camp at Excelsior Springs
ST LOU13-- Roscoe Holme. Uni- et’mhmi • """
•as Pass forfeited to Mathis. Vathis
defeated Finsville for the district
championship 17 to 7. Mathis 23.
Robstown 18: Math!s 23. Falfurrias
18. Maths also defeated Edinburg,
champion of district 32, for the bf-
| district championship of dstricts 31
land 33.
have announced the schedule of
games, but time of each competing
team will not ba known until the
morning of the first game when
each quintet will draw for posi-
tions.
Teams will play in group* of
four Group 1 and 2 games will
alternate halves to conserve time
Teams not ready to play at appoint
ed time will forfeit
The schedole is: Friday morn-
ing. games of group one begin at
10 in the Longhorn gym. group two
playa at 11:30, group three cornea
on at 3 in the afternoon, group four
plays at 3:34 Winners in group
one and two play off at 7 that
night, and winner in three and.four
at 8:10.
Saturday morning the champs of
group one tie up with champs of
group two at 10. and champ* of
three and four play at 11.
Spiawn to Speak.
At 7:30 Saturday night, the cham-
pionship of the state will be decid-
ed when the two survivors of the
tourney step into the final*.
The morning of the initial con-
teat*. Dr. W. M. W Spiawn will
make an address "A Word of Wel-
come." This will take place abort-
" Coilins for Second Sack
CHICAGO—Retention of Eddie
4 ‘ollins by the Chicago Whit* Sox
does not mean that the veteran is
sure of his job at aedond baae.
Ray Woodworth, the Bloomington.
Ill. infielder, la a great fielder and
hitter and expect* to make Collins
fight. Woodworth and Collins are
about the same size.
Pioneer AC on Warpath
For Lab Firpo Battle
NEW YORK. Feb. 25.-otticers
of the Pioneer A. C., threatened to-
day to go to court if the New York
State Athletic commission did not
sustain them in their effort to
force Lula Firpo, Argentine heavy-
weight, to fight at their elub be-
fore meeting Bill Brennan at Madi-
son Square Garden on March 12.
Firpo was under contract to appear
at the Pioneer club last year when
he was forced to return to South
America owing to the illness of his
father.
Farrell and Barnet Beat
Saracen and Hutchison
MIAMI. Fla. F,b J«—Jim
Barnes, former national open golf
champion, and Johnny Farrell of
the Quaker Ridge golf club, New
York, defeated Gene Sarazen, pres-
ent national open champion and
Jock Hutchison, former British
open titleholder, on the 38th Hole
in their match on the Hollywoo
links today. At the end of the
morning's 18-holes, Barnes and
Farrell had Sarazen and Hutchison
3 down Gene and Jock by con-
•latent playing evened things in
th* afternoon round and th*
match was a tie at the 36t4. Th*
•7th wes halve-
The match was for a purse of
$1100,
Carp and Beckett June 14 322
LONDOK—A return match be. 6 1
tween Jon Beckett and Georges K 5
Carpentier has been definitely fiked I S E
for June 14 in London T*e match • ■
for 2 I
ly after 8 o’clock. AN t
ments relative to the t<
will be made, teams will
places, and a picture of __
peting clubs will be taken.
The night of the champion*
contest, Ideu tenant Governor T.
Davidson wili award tournam
medals and present the champk
ehip cups.
Each team is coming to Aus
highly enthusiastic over the m
The fact is, according to heads
the league, every club due to co
pete comes here with the firm '
Heve that it is scheduled to w
two first string forwards, a center,
and a guard. The rest are one
substitute forward and two sub-
stitute centers
The Longhorns will return im-
mediately followig the game, and
I expect to practice for the Wildcat
| engagements Saturday and Sunday.
Mehihorn in More
Hard Luck; Hagen
And Kirkwood Win
SHREVEPORT. L«. Feb. 28—
With one up and two to play,
William Mehihorn, local pro golfer,
paired with Charles Manning. Tex-
arkana pro. missed a 3-foot putt
on the 17th hole of their afternoon
man yesterday lining up hl* pro-jernoon unlens it rain* todav The
teges for the coming season I House park was too muddy fur
The league will be formally or-play Wednesday.
ganized Friday night when team: High school hot stove leagues
managers and captain* meet at the have not yet developed any aston-
chamber of commerce at 7:30 Of- ishing material for the keystone i lads, via the padded mitt route."
Ticers will be elected, and initial ’ sack or backstop yonitfon. the only "
businezs matter* of the association real worries the coach has at pres-
will be taken up. —“ “ " -
veraity of Iowa shortstop, is loom-
ing up as a strong contender for
the position of short fielder on the
RI Louis Cardinals, according to
advices received here today from
the Cardinal training camp at
Bradentown, Fla The recruit
•hortstop is showing much ability
in fieldin*, throwing and batting
in the practice sessions, the ad-
vices staled. Manager Branch
Rickey who declared that the Car-
dinal hopes to win the pennant
rest largely upon development of
a shortstop was en route to Braden-
town to join his team after re-
covering from an operation for
appeodlcitls
-:dt “.-5 M* > “ - iu n .
rlosity and had the tongues wag- ? Becker
ging Then the bubble burst One A manne
of the players overheard Meusel in
zn20ananeenee‘ 31
“AUSTIN AMERICAN. AUSTIN. TEXAS. THURSDAY MORNING. MARCH 1, ISSA
Longhorn basketeers lease tonight
for Dallas to tie up with Freeland’s
SMU quintet Friday in what la the
I third from the last conflict for
Varsity at the cage game tnis sea-
•on
Romney put the squad through
a hard drill Wednesday afernoon
and intends to complete prepara-
tions for the game thia afternoon
with another stiff workout.
The coach could not give out a
probable Mneup last night for the
contest, IlIness and injuries have
so torn up the squad that it is-a
hazard to pick a team more than a
few hours before a context.
In all probability Bobby Robert-
son, guard, will not go to Dallas,
but will be held in reserve for the
Aggie conflicts at the Longhorn
gym Monday and Tuesday nights.
Ragland and Swenson, Peyton
and probably Barrett will make the
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