The Mercedes News (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 84, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 11, 1928 Page: 2 of 8
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Rules Of High
School Athletics
Are Made Public
Public Asked To Aid
In Clean Sports-
manship
In order that the public at large
may have a better understanding of
the interscholastic league rules gov-
erning all athletic games played by
high schools in the Rio Grande Val-
ley and thereby make it possible for
them to aid good sportsmanship in
this section Thomas J. Yoe, secre-
tary of the Valley district executive
committee, and superintendent of
schools at San Benito, has given out
a comprehensive statement on the
subject. The committee is made up
of Superintendent E. H. Poteet of
Mercedes, chairman; E. E. Chamness
of Weslaco; W. B. Denman of La
Feria and Secretary Thomas J.
Yoe.
Member schools of this district
of the interscholastic league are
Mercedes, Weslaco, San Benito, Ray-
mondville, Pharr, Mission, McAllen,
Edinburg, Harlingen, Brownsville
and Donna.
The statement issued by the com-
mittee through Mr. Yoe as follows:
“It was the sense of the commit-
tee at a recent meeting that if the
public at large knew something of
the rules governing the operation
and organization of the league that
it would insist on fair play.
“The football code means to play
the game in the spirit of fairness
and cleansportsmanship; to observe
all rules and not attempt to ‘beat
the ball/ or coach from the sid<?
lines because it can be done without
the knowledge of the referee, or to
■ resort to trickery in equipping or
preparing players. It means to ac-
cept decisions of officials without
protest; to treat your opponents as
your guests, and to put clean play
and real sportsmanship above vic-
tories. It means the ability to win
without boasting and to lose with-
out grudge. Victory is no great
matter. The important thing in
sport is the manly striving to excel
and the good feeling it fosters be-
tween those who play fair and have
.no excuse when they lose.”
The statement contains the fol-
lowing on regulations governing
football contestants.
“Besides being subject to the pro-
visions of Article VIII, Section 13,
of the constitution and rules, a con-
testant in football who has changed
school system during the past year
is not eligible if he was ineligible
when he withdrew from the former
school. In addition, the contestant
does not become eligible in the new
school until he files, in duplicate,
in the state office, a transfer’s cer-
tificate from the superintendent or
principal of his former school con-
taining the following information
date of birth; date of withdrawal;
date of enrollment his last semes-
ter; date of enrollment the semester
attended preceding his last semester;
participation in athletics; duration
of enrollment the semester attend-
ed preceding his last semester;
courses passed at the close of the
semester attended preceding his
transfer. He must have passed in
three out of the four courses being
pursued and no make-up examina-
tions or summer school grades are
allowed to count for work done in
regular session. Furthermore, this
certificate shall state that, in the
opinion of the signatory, the con-
testant’s parents or guardian were
not inducted to make the move by
payment direct or indirect of any
valuable consideration for the ath-
letic services of said contestant.
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BOGEY MAN IN EASTERN FOOTBALL
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Here’s “T. N. T.” Lassman, captain of New York University football team,
juggling two of his squad, “Soapy” Shapiro and Henry Hornell, just, to
show how easy it is. Wurra, wurra! what a headache he is* going to be
for opposing linesmen.
“Each player shall fill out an
elegibility blank in duplicate fur-
nished by the league, these blanks
to be signed by superintendent or
principal, one mailed to the state
office, and one filed with the chair-
man of the district executive com-
mittee, before the contestant is al-
lowed to take part in any game. At
the end of the season the superin-
tendent or principal of each school
shall send to the state office a list
of all players who have participated
in football during the season as rep-
resentatives of the school.”
“All officials must be satisfac-
tory to both parties and agreed upon
in advance. Teams are urged al-
ways to secure outside officials.
Beginning a game with an official
constitutes agreement.”
“All protests must be made to the
proper committee within twenty-
four hours after the game is play-
ed, except that a protest based on
the alleged ineligibility of a player
may be made at any time during the
season; provided it is made imme-
diately upon the discovery of the
facts on which the protest is based.
Frotests must be made in writing
and signed by superintendent or
principal. A protest based upon an
official’s decision will not be consid-
ered.
“The responsibility for the eligi-
bility of contestants shall rest with
the superintendent of schools. He is
the responsible officer in the system
to whom the league looks for eligi-
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cedes. Phone 309.
Arctic Expedition
Finds New Mascot
In Cub Polar Bear
Washington—(INS)—The coast
guard expedition which is chart-
ing icebergs in the North Atlan-
tic and Arctic waters has a new
mascot.
It is a cub polar bear which
was captured by a foraging party
in search of food. The cub is to
be brought to the National Zoo
here.
Members of the expedition
have been augmenting their diet
of canned food with bear and
walrus tidbits, according to a
radio dispatch received at coast
guard headquarters. The party
is now in the Davis Straits.
Valuable scientific information
on the formation and movement
| of icebergs has been gathered.
She’s Slender Now
Mopac Offers Low
Rates To Houston
For Baseball Games
Houston, Sept. 10.—A popular
rate excursion from all stations on
the Missouri Pacific Lines south of
Houston and in the Rio Grande Val-
ley will be available to baseball
fans wishing to attend the Texas
League play-off series between
Houston and Wichita Falls, accord-
ing to C. W. Strain, passenger traf-
fic manager.
The Missouri Pacific Lines has es-
tablished a rate of $10 for the round
trip from all Valley points and pro-
portionate low fares have been made
from stations between Houston and
the Valley.
Tickets will be sold for trains
leaving Valley stations Friday night,
September 14, and all trains leaving
those stations Saturday, September
15, with final return limit good leav-
ing Houston up to and including
southbound trains on the night of
September 17.
The Buffs have a large following
in the Rio Grande Valley and it is
expected that many fans will take
advantage of the low fares to see
one or all of the Houston games.
San Benito Hi Has
Completed Football
Schedule For Year
With confirmation received for a
football game between Donna and
San Benito October 12, W. E. Mor-
rison, coach of the San Benito High
school Greyhounds, announces that
the schedule for his club is complete
for this season. Nine games are on
the schedule planned.
The club will open the season Sep-
tember 28 with Raymondville and
will be followed by the following
games:
Weslaco—October 5.
Donna—October 12.
Mercedes—October 19.
Harlingen—October 26.
Robstown—November 2.
Mission—November 9.
Brownsville—November 16.
Mission—November 23.
McAllen—November 29.
bility of all contestants in his sys-
tem of schools.”
All eligibility rules are going to
be rigidly enforced.
Four dollars per school was set as
the fee necessary to carry on the
work of the committee, this to be in
excess of the state fee.
All eligibility blanks must be in
the office of the chairman of the
committee, Supt. E. H. Poteet, Mer-
cedes, by Friday, September 21. The
committee will meet Saturday fol-
lowing for the purpose of passing
on the candidates.
The superintendents association of
the Valley went on record last
spring as being absolutely opposed
to the practice of betting on all In-
terscholastic League games and ask-
ed that every citizen discourage the
same.
Only those schools that have paid
the league membership fee and have
accepted the plan by October 1 shall
be allowed to participate.
Pretty Molly O’Day, movie actress,
who, despairing of losing superflu-
ous fat by dieting, allowed a Los
Angeles surgeon to trim away five
pounds of flesh from hips and legs.
Her contract provides that she shall
not exceed 118 pounds.
A Georgia postmistress says her
contributions to the state political
machine were voluntary. So was the
descent of the treed coon that told
Davey not to shoot.
Correct this sentence: “Post cards
addressed to a neighbor were placed
in our box by mistake,” said she,
“but I didn’t read them.”
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Cures Chills and Fever, Intermit-
tent, Remittent and Bilious Fever
due to Malaria.
It kills the Germs.
525 Students Enroll
Tuesday For Opening
Of La Feria Schools
The Lh Feria public schools open-
ed the 1928-1929 school year last
Tuesday with an enrollment of 525
pupils and many more coming in
each day since then. Everything
points to a very successful school
year.
Holmes, star guard on the 1927
Texas Aggie championship team, is
coach at La Feria this year and call-
ed his squad of about 35 men out for
practice on Wednesday of last week.
He expects to have a very strong
team this year as he has eight letter
men from the team of last year.
Charter Commission
At Mission Approves
New Instrument
After several weeks of inspection
and changes by various sub-comnpt-
tees, the new city charter recently
drawn up for Mission by a charter
commission appointed by the city,
has been approved and will be pre-
sented to Mayor Dohrn in the very
near future.
The charter will be published and
voted on by the citizens of the city,
following its publication.
$40,000 Electric
Plant Being Built
West of Mission
A new electric power plant costing
approximately $40,000 will be built
nine miles west of Mission to take
care of the developments of that
section, chief of which is the Good-
win tract of land consisting of 25,-
000 acres.
All pumps of the Goodwin com-
pany will be electrically operated
and the Central Power & Light com-
pany have already installed service
to three of the pumps.
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ARTISTS’ MODELS UP IN ARMS
OVER DIGNITY OF POSING
Serious Minded Beau-
ties Now Take Their
Jobs As A Business
Miller Huggins, peppery manager of New York Yankees, and Connie
Mack, gray-headed pilot of Philadelphia Athletics, are fighting it out for
first place m the American league, with the odds slightly in favor of
the oldster.
Newspaperman’s Bride
3,500 Bales Cotton
Predicted For McAllen
The three gins in McAllen had
turned out 3,249 bales of cotton
Thursday of last week and cotton
men predicted that the season’s to-
tal would probably exceed 3,500
bales.
Practically all of the picking has
been completed with the exception
of several fields of very late cotton
and some top crop. This season the
cotton crop here has been the best
in the history of this territory.
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Americanism: Yearning to speak
some other language; making very
little effort to speak your own.
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Sufficient description: She’s the
kind of woman that doesn’t make
you conscious of needing a shave.
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The usual reward for careful
driving is that some fool bumps
you from behind.
The former Jean Conrad, daughter
of Fred N. Conrad, Florida banker,
who became the bride of James C.
Hanrahan, of Des Moines, la., Regis-
ter, in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New
York city. She is 22 and a gradu-
ate of Syracuse University.
The reason a man gives $10,000
to the party and drops only 10 cents
in the collection plate is because the
party doesn’t make him wait so long
for his reward.
Hypocrite: Somebody who pre-
tends to be what he isn’t. Not, as
commonly supposed, who doesn’t
agree with you and yet has the gall
to call himself decent.
Correct this sentence: “I asked to
see something cheaper,” said he,
“and the clerk didn’t seem offended
or scornful.”
Soft foods require no chewing and
some day Nature will dispense with
teeth. And how will the doctor
diagnose then, poor thing?
Mercedes Scouts Win
Honors at Encampment
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Three of the Mercedes boy scouts,
Glenn Commons, Lenard Van Berg
and Price Fittz, received honorable
mention- as being outstanding boys
while attending the Boy Scout
Camp at Rio Hondo recently.
All of the Mercedes boys attend-
ing the camp passed some test on
second class and first class merits.
As soon as the records are com-
pleted a Court of Honor will be held
here in Mercedes to award the
badges won.
The following Mercedes boys at-
tended the camp which closed last
week: Glen Commons, Leonard Van
Berg, Price Fittz, Dick and Thomas
Phelan, Roger Terry, Roger Scot-
ten, Walter Hoekstra, Roger Con-
ant, Emil Fossler, George Colley,
John Ortmeyer, George Strunk, Hoyt
Hager, Randolph Anderson, John A.
Barry, Monroe Hausman, Harry
Bowman, Aaron Hessel, Orin John-
son, Albert Seymore, Truitt Blan-
kenship, Carl Patrick, Hoglan Thom-
as, Myron Potts, and Phillip Lentz.
The scout master, Ray Schmitter,
and assistant scout master, Ed Per-
ry, accompanied the boys.
The Mercedes scouts wish to thank
O. E. Van Berg and Dave Campbell
for the trucks which those two fur-
nished to take the boys to and from
the camp.
We invite all of you
To come to this station;
Our gas and oil, too,
Is the best in the nation.
Service. De Zjj?ce
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MERCEDES, TEXAS
On the Highway
$10.00 to Houston and Return
Account Baseball Series — Tickets will be on sale for night trains leaving Valley
Stations, September 14th, and for all night trains of September 15th.
AH tickets good for return to leave Houston as late as Monday night, September
17, 1928.
THREE DAILY TRAINS
G. K. RIESS, Agent
“A Service Institution”'
Radio Parlor Now
A Part of Mercedes
Company’s Business
Occupying new and enlarged quar-
ters on Ohio Avenue, the McCon-
nell Tire and Electrical Company
now invites the public to visit the
new place, especially its radio par-
lor. This department of the busi-
ness has been given special atten-
tion in the equipping and arrange-
ment of the new; place, a«d Mr. and
Mrs. McConnell will be glad to have
the people of Mercedes and trade
territory visit them and enjoy the
comfort and beauty of the i-adio
department.
A new electrical test bench of the
latest design has also been installed
for the better servicing of auto
starting and lighting. This bench
is one of the most elaborate in the
entire Valley, and enables the me-
chanics to render a better service to
auto owners. Mr. McConnell be-
lieves that being properly equipped
for the work he proposes to do is
half the battle, and to the unitiated
it certainly appears that he is now
in position to live up to his repu-
tation as an electrician.
Tires form another very import-
ant part of this business, and Mr.
McConnell makes the claim that he
carries the most complete stock of
sizes of any tire store in the Val-
ley. It certainly looks as if he
might have every size and type that
could be demanded by trade in this
section of the sfate.
Visitors will be welcomed at any
time. Drop in and spend a while
in the newly fitted up radio par-
lor; you’ll enjoy it.
NEW YORK. — Those beautiful
girls you see shelling peas on the
back porches of the magazine cov-
ers—inspiration for great and lesser
works of art—are up in arms. They
are in revolt against what they de-
scribe as the “degradation of the
dignified art of posing.”
As a result the type of feminine
model has completely changed. The
1928 girl who poses looks upon her
profession a good deal like the sten-
ographer looks at hers; no longer
is she willing to work for a few
cents an hour and the doubtful honor
of being associated with the glamor
of studio life.
Models today usually obtain a
three-dollar guarantee for each call.
They are intelligent, frequently
gifted young persons, who make of
their profession an art in itself.
They hail from all parts of the
country, many from families highly
placed socially.
Models for Hands
Where many an obscure model’s
physical attributes are now glorified
is in portraits of society women. A
fashionable woman may be very
lovely and the artist may not have
to flatter her on the canvas. But
she may have ugly hands. So the
painter leaves out the hands and
sends later for a model with beauti-
ful hands. It is these hands that will
appear upon the portrait of Mms.
Such a model, in great demand
because of the beauty of her hands,
is Germaine Bajot, shown above.
She is a student of interior decor-
ating while on call for artists and
advertising firms. Her hands adorn
innumerable ads showing them fin-
gering pearls, putting on gloves, or
using somebody’s particular mani-
cure.
Billie Ford, a New York girl, who
has modelled for a number of years,
is “on call for head and shoulders.”
Many would not think Billie beauti-
ful. But she has a personality that
glows on canvas. Meanwhile she
studies to be an artist herself.
Path to Fame
“Magazine cover” girls frequently
seek the model’s profession as an
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Ask your druggist.—Adv.
Orators are born, but it takes
practice to learn that trick of toss-
ing a forelock out of your eyes.
President Cosgrave of
says each United States
owes $160.
Ireland
citizen
He’d be surprised.
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entering wedge to the stage or
screen. Once her face is glorified
in the artists’ pictures she is sought
by theatrical producers. She leaves
the artist for greater fame on the
stage and he begins the old search
for another model.
Norman-Bel Geddes, famous paint-
er and scenic artist, has this to
say about alleged pitfalls for mod-
els:
“There is no more stigma at-
tached to modeling, and all the pit-
falls supposed to lie in an artist’s
studio are bunk. He works as hard
and impersonally as a plumber.”
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San Benito Boy
Made Eagle Scout
John Oliver Butler, Jr., member of
Boy Scout Troop No. 1 was the first-
boy in San Benito -to be made an
Eagle Scout. He was made an Eagle
last week and as a reward won a
prize offered by Scoutmaster John
O. Prentiss.
To become an Eagle Scout a boy
must earn 21 merit badges, each
representing the successful comple-
tion of a course followed by a stiff
examination.
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