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Gooch Gets Good was drawing the daily catching of Gooch was on the bench. to arrive the latter part ._ signment. pected Break He had gotten away to a bad start January for experimental work on and seemed destined to repose in the Only Minor in “tight” land in the El Jardin section. Changes Bv Norman E. Brown dug-out at Pittsburgh for some time. be drawn went out of class The machine, which will Lineup That Johnny Bassler, top catcher of the Then Smith Swept to on Dave Bancroft. two- a 40- or tractor, for seven years, will pick by 60-h.p. caterpillar to his size. Bancroft went down 4 Championship In- start the 1928 campaign in the thirds penetrates the soil to a depth of for the count and Smith went on minors—as a member of the Holly- back of the 4-inch point for several weeks. feet, drawing dicated in Trades wood team of the Pacific Coast the suspended list the a “mole” 7 inches in diameter which He has been It was right in the heat of pen- League. just bought, the into a solid (This Is the first of a nant fight and the loss of Smith was compresses clay aeries of by that club from Toronto, which drain Stories on 1928 to check the Pirates' earthen pipe which carries the prospects of major club had owned him for a few expected be league dabs.) chances. Johnny Gooch was called on waters. These “pipe lines” may weeks. and to fill Earl’a shoes—but not his spaced according to the texture The neatest compliment that can N- J*n- engagements-—and perform- contoura of the soil, a sufficient dis- t *?^,Y0RK> Y- WV-It be paid Bassler as he steps into the speaking was tance to assure drainage. The IS?,** **" * prosperous niw year for minors is the tribute that “He ed so nobly that Smith’s absence apart are to an drain the Mi Miller Huggin a hired bands and a caught 'em all." forgotten by many. lines carried open one the world’s same as tile drains. tough for the rest of the Am- As main backstop for the much Gooch’s work in was as Considerable interest wns aroused erican league. managed Tigers, Bassler probably satisfactory well, despite hit Since the the recent announcement that the Yankees awept the Amer- caught more , numerically failure to leap high enough to by ican to rpear wild in district was contemplating making league championship list fall speaking, and more uncertain pitch- Johnny Miljus’ pitch •nd then the ninth inning of that final game. tests with the machine, and if the dusted off the Pittsburgh ing than any backstop in the game Pirates of Karl's have laid tests the effectiveness of the in four straight games to for the same of time. That sock may prove t length prove their Bancroft low. but it slammed method for draining and aerating rights to top baseball Ty Cobb's reign as of Davey Gooch Into a front land, a large acreage in the ranking, Huggins* negotiations have the Tigers, in particular, was marked Johnny right “tight” been met with a stern and rock-bound his seat. Brownsville section will be drained make for the Fort Brawn hoy* in the *econd gerae of the an- by valiant, though hopeless, The Yellow Jacket* will thing* interesting The Beds would Kke in this manner. silence on the part of the rival man- efforts to build a Cine! Johnny, which at the local Thursday. They are scheduled to up winning pitch- agers. nual mid-winter polo tournament, begins post and a trade sending him to Tinci The machines are manufactured In Fort t larks ing staff. He hired and fired them meet the locals on in the second game of the open tournament, on the day following winter mentioned. I.os and the district Except for a shake-up In his pitch- Friday, by the car load. Bassler labored is one of the deals Angeles, accept- a sister team of the Yellow Jacket*. The Yellow Jackets and the Huisaches. ed an offer of the manufacturers to ing corps, Huggins hasn’t done much clash with tho Huisaches, diligently and earnestly with what- Good are scheduled to reach Brownsville Tuesday or a machine for the test If the with his championship machine. Re- each representing th# Houston Tolo and Riding club, ever was sent into the box. Coldest Weather tn Years—There provide in are are and all horses, which will play the tourney is of severe winter in disirict would guarantee the freight ports that the Yanks have ob- Wednesday. The Fort Clark players already here, Johnny ranks as one of the game's lots yet sight. tained The above, from left to right Be a warm re- charges. The offer was accepted by title, under cover, to the crack are now nibbling oats in the Fort Brown stables. players pictured reading headiest . He can size up a prepared with suit, combination 20 in Bollack's Janu- telegraph, and shipment of the ma- keystone of tha Oakland are, W. B. Pjron, L. G. Manford, George T. Broun and Deke Randolph. readily and handle him ef- duced per cent News club of chine will he made thia week. the , Lyn ficiently. He can read hatters quick- ary Men's Clearance. Lary and Andy Reese. If have ly and ferret out they their weakness. -,~iTiSir.~ ... iw ... been purchased it is for fu- He has probably the proper perspective an i_r ture The Yankees are delivery pret- things, lie works well with any for ty well fortified around the middle BRIEFS pitcher. now CITY bag with Lazzeri and Koenig. NEW WHIPPET I 1 MALES IN IRAK In addition to this Bassler always Gets Ooveieskie hits well—above .300 as a rule. Lack The Want To Refinance the loan on only major addition to the club of speed in getting to first probably or business Good residence proper* A tinea the season your his He’s closed in Stanley held batting average down con- We make monthly loans to Coveleskie, veteran twirler. ty? ; siderably every vear. or refinance who was let out last buy, build, improve TRIBE SLAIN is a by Washington BE Johnny sort of * TO SHOWN philosopher, or business Season. residence property. } too. Prompt service. Todd 4 Under- Man— Dressers Huggins has disposed of three Discussing some young plavers dur- wood, Insurance-Loans-Bonds. Spi- pitchers, Bob Sha*key, a ing a training season in the Dealers Are Called To Building, 407 Eleventh Sheik Leaves Few south snd Joe Girard, besides Ray Moore- vey-Kowalski one spring I remarked to Bassler street. Adv. tf. Who His Car With i hart, infielder. and a utility Shawkey Factory to Hear Women to Starve that player in question had a Equips || Buether were handed their uncon- world of but didn’t seem to Schools Functioning -AH schools speed ditional releases. Girard and Moore- After Raid know what it was all about. Prices Set in the Brownsville Independent dis- bart went to St. Paul of the American there aren’t t "Well, very many who trict were beginning to settle down Association. Rumor, busy as ever, Jan. have it in the legs and head, too.” TOLEDO. O., 3.—Following the to a normal state Tuesday, follow- BAGDAD. Irak, Jan 3, GP)—Every baa slated , another replied John. "That’s too much to statement by John N. Willys, the opening Monday after a male member of one of the Irak Veteran for a new berth next summer. presi- ing expect." Christmas holiday. Most of the time tribes, including even male babies, Without these Huggins still has a dent of Wjllys Overlaid, Inc., that John had it—and still has it—in [Lucky Monday was taken up by teachers has been slain by Shick Fcisal Ed ?fre$to»e The release car the head. pitching staff of parts. the perfected Whippet, a quality each other what of and pupils telling Dowish and his raiders, advice* • • • Ruether and Giard leaves Herb in the car would be an- light field, a fine time was had during the short reaching here state. Thousands of Pennock as the sole left hander If someone walks up to you. drops GUM-DIPPED TIRES Right nounced this week at the lowest vacation. cattle were carried off. A miserable Among the moundsmen. but at S3, the you with a well-timed sock on the ; women was to starve prices ever made on any Over- remnant of left willowy southpaw still ranks among Willy* at Pena’s j He'll be lucky because he’ll be free from the worries and 4 For Better Signs call Fcisal Ed Dowish was one of the land product, a meeting of branch From the game's greatest pitchers. come from the use of tires— Court House on of Ibn of He anxiety that always ordinary Remain managers, distributors and dealers Sign shop opposite chieftains Saoud. king lf|] |§ Many Regulars Tires arc for extra endurance Monroe street.—1-10. now is revolt Firestone Gum*Dipped strength, Tha right handers include Wiley for this organization has been called. jat. but apparently in g| against the king. and flexibility. More, sensation of the 1927 season, This meeting will open in Toledo. He-Men’s New Bridge Progressing.—Work on News caused intense You should have this same feeling of confidence in your Waite Walter 0., on Tuesday evening, January 3, of the, raid f| , ■ Hoyt, new now under now and Mr. will an- the Gateway bridge, indignation. Baby car—equip with Firestone Gum-Dipped Tires and forget Beall and . Will>s personally Four- |g construction, at the foot of tire worries. The rest of the club has a perma- nounce the new prices at that time. teenth street, is progressing in fine SELL FISH SCALE ESSENCE nent aspect. The infield combination More than 1,000 dealer?, distributors Style style, those in charge of operations g‘ Of Lazzeri, Koenig and ’‘Jump- and branch managers of the Willys Gehrig, — Chicks a I say. Already line of temporary LEIPZIG Manufacturers of ar Joe” is expected to start Overland organization will be present ing Dugan rails has been laid to a point far tifirial pearls who formerly obtain- the 1928 race although Dugan's aging from all important trade centers of Headquarters along-on the south bank of the river, ed the fish scale essence from which make necessary a change the United States and Canada, legs may and tools and pieces of ma- their is manufactured from Denison Service Station many product 1 at tha hot corner, and It is already known that the Whip- % have been moved over. fish of the Baltic sea, now arc chinery buy- eggs — Wera are the reservists. pet will be the only light car on the CUSTOM HATCHING; bring Successors to Scott's Service Station Phone €72 ing it from foreign sources through With Ruth* Meusel and Combs as market which will be priced at a for hatching every Monday. Baby ; Call l'a and Count the Minutea Mocha and Java, the finest of Hamburg importers. They pay $13 | |d regulars and and Cedric figure close enough to the lowest now Brownsville's Tire Store coffees, at the Coffee Shop on a pound, but are dissatisfied with Chicks for sale, every Wednesday. Quality Durst for the out- made on any car. to place it in a di- t ready emergency, are seek- Twelfth Street—T. F. the present product and San are taken care rectly competitive position. Roy E. Clark Seed Co., Benito, field posts adequaely ing to find an American source of • of. Details of the improved Whippet Texas. ‘KdMi*—ti il i, 1 .'iiiiiihili.liliii,...^l;.^...ii..:i.uuill \ iii..,;iLliinili.,ililll!il!tliiliiiliiiiililHiiiiillllljiililtIHliiilulillffri; Rahy Better—Olive Lindsay, 4, ac- supply. The to which were made public today reveal catching, aceording present cidentally shot Thursday at her home indications, again will be in the hands new body types, added equipment and in FI Jardin when a gun in the of . and a wider range of colors. The added Hart, Benny Bengough, hands of her father was John Grabowski. equipment will include an automatic discharged.] I-—- was to be released the hos- j Schaffner windshield wiper, rear vision mirror frqm pital Tuesday. She was much better and a combination rear driving light to Dr. B. C. Works, at- & Marx and stop light which will make this according tending physician. It was at first car the most fully equipped light car feared her injuries were serious. FLASHES OF LIFE now built. Suits & The factory Is now in to position The Hoover Potato Planters are (By The Associated Press) build 2,000 chassis a day at peak Overcoats one display at Clay 4 McDavitt’s, capacity. i , Brownsville.—Adv. 6. Shipments on the Whippet have been WILMINGTON. Del.—Miss Mary under way for several days and cars Dobbs Hats Berlin DuPont found romance where Dr. W. II. Dear, Dentist, has mov- will he available for delivery on Janu- the a career. The daughter ed his office from the Combe build- sought ary 6. Florsheim Shoes of the of E. I. DuPont ing to the State Kaitona! Bank president Employment at the factory is stead- de Nemours and company a year ago building, room 208.—Adv. 1-24. ily on the increase as the various entered Johns Hopkins to study manufacturing departments are put nursing. Now she is engaged to Dr. Dickey'# Old Reliable Eye Water to NOW on to the scnedules called James Morrison Faulkner of Boston. production Red folding box. All druggists.— you for by the plans of the company for Adv. (6) this year. NEW YORK.—The winner of a Commenting on the new prices. Mr. at contest which many assumed was for Pleating. Buttons button- Willys says, “manufacturing econ- covered, hot dog stands never has sold a noi omies which have been worked out holes, hemstitching. pirot-edging, dog and does not intend to. Miss metal rhinestones, in the Willys Overland plant have put trimming, pink- Norma Ranunon won the $1,000 first Mail orders atten- the in a to meet ing. given prompt Sharp company position any in a competition sponsored by tion. Mrs. E. C. Bowen, 416 Peoples price move which may be made by {riieIrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., for the Christ!, Texas.—Adv. any manufacturer. There can be no Street, Corpus most attractive wayside refreshment lie monopoly in the light car field. Our Savings stand. A hot dog manufacturer had costs for labor offered supplementary awards. materials, productive and our manufacturing overhead are CHANNEL SWIMMER FAILS ns as — Trans- low those of any manufacturer FRIEBURG, Germany TANGIER. Morocco, Jan. 2.—Un- of glands from monkeys in the Industry. The quality of the plantation will be maintained in Miss Mercedes Gleitz, London typist, Is ineffective as a means of rejuve- Whippet every who set out on her second of German detail of material, design and work- attempt f nation, in the opinion be to swim the strait of Gibraltar early ecientists. Experiments have manship and it will even better con- better than in this morning, abandoned the 27 mile vinced the authorities of the univer- equipped and looking the attempt late today. sity hospital that in some cases there past. “The new which will he is temporary rejuvenation but it is price* rut I on these cars will he followed decay or the com- n«t dependent In by rapid ■Our on the plete cessation of vitality. any increase in present pro- duction. Increased sales as a result new serve PHILADELPHIA. — The flapper of the prices will material- ly to increase the earnings of the •hall flap without being lampooned ffeefGoodMost ailments start from poor elimination Semi-Annual by male New Year merrymakers. company.” (constipation or semi-constipation). Intes- Seven young men were arrested for tins) poiaiona sap vitality, undermine health MAROONED SNOW and make life miserable. Tonight try W — too scanty SCOUTS IN attempting impersonations NATURE’S RENEDY—all-vegetable cor- : the MODESTO. Calif.. Dec. 31.—(JF>- In the Mummers’ parade. Perhaps receive—not an ordinary laxative. See bow Freshly falling snow today hindered police were taking pity on them on N| will aid in restoring your appetite and Clearance a rescue that it* way a cold day. party pushed rid you of that heavy. loggy.pepleMfesling. over a snow choked mountain trail Mild, aaft, |H»r«ly***«taWe—25c — of toward a of 25 Scouts and NEW YORK.—Leap year makes no party Boy the Sierras difference in Peggy Joyce’s life, and their lenders marooned in Men’* she thinks it won’t in $he life of 32 miles above here. be anybody else. “Being feminine, we May Smart Colder Weather In ad- many women,’’ she said, “will keep within Sight—Take your pleasures of our 20 cent reduction bounds in spite of leap year. I don't vantage per commended and Sold by Duds on men’s and suits ard hats think a woman would do such a thing boys’ in Pollack's January Clearance. Cisneros Drug Store as propose to a man." Store-wide . . . NEW YORK.—There’a to be a new and for king in Paderewski’s traveling kit- 1928 1 golden chen. James Cooper, who hat cooked for the for 25 -c" en trains pianist Scope years, and once repelled hohoes with B A Lot of a rolling pin and frying pan, is re- Help tiring. having reached the pullman | What doc* Sew Year" throat-scratch and the Starting a roval “Happy tongue- age limit. Exercising pre- GOOD rogative. he has appointed his suc- banking connection, !| mean? Just this: Getting rid of burn. Thursday cessor—James Davia of Chicago. A where the officers are interest- J discomforts and finding new , bound will be a new measure of MIAMI BEACH—Gene Tunnev will cd in the welfare of their deposit- j bsve his gloves or when Father pleasures. ors, is invaluable to the business cigarette enjoyment. Time decreee that his career as a J “Spenda boxer shall end. *T will retire only matter that man. In the of cigarettes, \ he can smoke in any when I’m unconscious." he says. i cigarette - “Show me another trade or profes- job is easy for the man who makes w We try to make a con- « number, day and night ith maxi- Little sion where I could make a million banking nection here a valuable to ev- ! his first discovery of Old Golds. mum no a year." thing pleasure and penalty. ery one of our depositors. When- a Lot” CHICAGO.—Only the handsome For an investment of 15c, he’ll to switch to this ever we can in any ! By resolving need for jobs. The Association help possible apnly out the and in the of Ice Industries proposes to have way. by advice or in a more tangi- J ring old, ring new-type cigarette, he’ll turn over peatlv uniformed delivery men with ble way, we are to do so. Watch glad new. a new leaf. • • pleasing looks and charming man- ners. Gone will be the old throat dis- ... by turning up the best leaf Wednesday’* Mass.—The fifth wife NAHANT. comfort from his smoking the that ever went into a cigarette. Paper inf Eugene H. Brann. 7P, hotel owner. was from MERCHANTS’] Is hi* first. He separated For two by divorce and was a widower twice. The first Mrs. Brann was Full the fifth. a widow when she became She is 75 year* old. Particulars JACKSONVILLE.—Tf allegation* on file in court ar*. eorr-ct. there’s a fuel, a .erret about a wonderful new !!!!!!!!! BROWNSVILLE. T E/.A5 YOUR FRIENDS

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