TEXAS LEAGUERS GETTING BALL EYE ON AFTER MANY The Farmer’s Friend I i be iSays PRACTICE GAMES PLAYED I (By the Associated Press') a game comeback of the visitors to - FOR In the heat of exhibition battles win. 8 to 2. DETROIT Routine oth- ~ practice occupied the rfS-ssMaaeafaiaag and routine practice games, Texas er league club*. league players in training are de- I ««b,vSta?^5Ksxats?ei" Some New Players Are veloping bitting eyes that for sev- On Roster But All eral weeks have seemed dimmed. Walrus at Zoo Ate ». bSSsWaa;tSSKSsS Casting aside the jinx which the Are tossers held over Himself to Death Past Youth, Ac- apparently them, TO- I the hitters of several clubs yester- 3r0U d° DOt have an account here STAKT cording to Bell day clouted balls to all corners of LONDON, OP)—“Old Bill," a wal- I DAYIf several lota and gave the pitchers a rus at the Loudon Zoo, ate himself hectic day. By BRIAN BELL to death. He had the moat ravenous No account too large, Pret* Manager Snyder’s Houston Buffs I Sport* Writer) of animal ever known None to° small for us to handle. SAN acquired 15 safe blows in a con- appetite any i ANTONIO, Tex., M*r. 22- here, and consumed more food than Detroit will test with the Teias Aggies at Col- depend on *th« old guard three tce lege Station, and tucked away a 12 ordinary elephants. 1 I®. •PProaching pennant race. The to 1 “Old Bill’s favorite relish was I Interest Compounded Semi-Annually, wi*l mike places for some victory. 4% At Wichita fish. It cost the zoo authorities more Players whose services were Falls, the Spudders I gained a a on Time »n trades hammered the of three Chi- pound sterling (about $5) I Paid and Savings Deposits during the winter, but none offerings thaf cago White Sox hurlers 11 day to keep the wolf of hunger f-om *? young baseball players go, so for hits, Old Bill’s tank, while an elephant *?• ^e called on to bear but were outslugged by the Amer- tn* w*mor* ican may be fed for less than a third of brunt while the younger learuers and beaten 11 to 9. genera- that amount. tion stands and waits. At Lake .Charles, the Beaumont It Is the fish cetera at the zoo Hope of the club for better Exporters chalked up eight husky posi- that run the cost of the com- tion at the close than the fourth safe swats in a game with the Kan- up Sea place occupied last the sas City Blues, but likewise were missary department. Liona, too, Bank year lies in First National same cost more to feed than elephants. pitchers with better arms. Earl outhit and lost by a IS to 4 score. I The bill for a sea lion’s fish is about W lute hill, a lefthander with a mar- In a squad game at Dallas, the I 1180 a while an Brownsville, Texas velous curre ball, and Sam Gibson, Steer regulars clouted two veteran year, elephant may I • be kept fat and sassy for about 120 righthander with a world of stuff, pitchers, Schuman and MeCell. for 13 were pounds a year. I in and out in the last cam- safeties and a 6 to 3 win, while the “THE FRIENDLY BANK” Meat for the too land paign. In the spring yannigans registered eight hits. liona costs tuning up they less than 2 ***ve definitely returned. San Antonio batsmen did not fare shillings, or about five cents a | Addition of Elam Van Gilder, for- so well in a tilt with the Detroit day per head. m*«V the Browns, to> relief Tigers at Fredericksburg that foT calls will release IJ1 Stoner for seven innings was a pitchers* bat- starting duty from Kenneth Hollo- tle. They could get but six Kits, way, George Smith and Haskell Bil- while the Tigers broke loose in the Prnmn<. lings, the collegian who la up and eight, drove out several home runs Dependable coming. Owen Carroll, another col- and more safeties of a less damag- itte BROWNSVILLE TITLE COMPANY lpg contribution, may team up ing type, and copped the contest, 10 V'an Gilder m the reserves. to I. Brownsville Jjtt . a This array of pitching talent leaves At Shreveport the Sports got n abstractst of title to lands in Cameron little room for additions from the away to a six run lead in the first Complete 192H crop. Vic Sorrel comes from frame of a game with the House Toronto with a good chance to stay i o’ David nine, and held it despite ^^County^Texas^^ ®®“ Hubbell, a lefthander from Oklahoma, may crowd in. Recast Infield The infield will be made up of -:- —'"491Q the same men who played in 1927 ! but By NORMAN E. BROWN cd to start in the outfield. And ! of the season. The they will be recast. Johnny greater part Neun will play first base on a whole ST. PETERSBURG, hla., Mar. 19.— Denny Williams, from the Mobile third will go to the Sox's Pittsfield time instead of a part time basis Aa far as Manager Bill Carrigan is club of the Southern association, farm. « and Marty McManus will be assigned concerned the baseball careers of and Douglas Tait and Arlie Tarbert, Pitchers Young to third his Red Sox former Ohio state will it base. Charley Uehringer players, uniimbering star, fight Carrigan's pitching statf is young, will take eare of second and Jackie here for the coming season, and out for the other berth. and the fellows who showed up so Tavener, completely recovered from whatever it holds for them, began Hofmann First Catcher will have the call this bis injuries, will play abort and ahow the day they arrived in camp. Freddy Hofmann, mainstay behind well last year There are Danny how bard a little fellow can hit. This despite the fact that the the plate last season, will probably year. MacFayden, Haiold Wiltse, The infield reserve question pre- ages of his hopefuls range from the get the call although John Heving, Charley Ruffing, Jack Russell, blim Harriss, lanky sents a problem Manager Moriarty modest 17 years of Joe Cicero to tried out once before and star with seemed to find himseli baa not yet solved. Detroit has the 34 summers admitted by Ken Toledo last year, is set, accordirg ex-Athletic, under last season and ii accustomed to having two first Williams and Ira Flagstead, and to A. A. fans, to carry his part of Carrigan after his in the scheme ol Gownsemen with Neun and Blue avail- their baseball experiences are of the burden. place this in earnest. able and now that Blue has gone to about a proportionate variance. Phil Todt is the only man that things year Harriss hns lost his St. Louis, it is possible that Bill Carrigan, today, was discussing Carrigan will “place" in the infield inferiority One hears him speak Sweeney, purchased from Fort baseball in general, and Carrigan’s at this time. He loomed up last complex. righl will out about a rival in no un- Worth, be kept as Neun’a under- team in particular, when mention year as one of the game’s coming pitcher certain terms. A study. Warner, last year's third was made that Denny Williams, an- greats at first base. It’s considered year ago they were all better than Slim—to Slim saeker, may be traded for a pitcher. other outfielder added to the roster probable, however, that Bill Reagan Jack Wilson of the Chick Galloway, formerly of the the last winter, had been with the i will be at second. Jack Rrthrock at Waterbury Francis Bennett from Portland Athletics, who came to the Tigers Red Sox under Frank Chance and short and Bill Rogell at third. These club, in a trade via the is Herb from Browns regarded then dropped by Lee Fohl. men were all that could be asked Me., Bradley Waterbury as a certain choice as he Bob Cremins, who had a brief trial utility “I don’t know anything about any of youngsters last season under takes his infield as ne finds ! last Morris and Meric positions of these ball players previous to the Carrigan’s tutelage. season; Eddy them and can them one at Settlemire from Mobile, and Pat play all, time they came to me,” said Carri- This chap, Rothrock. is one of a time. This lineup leaves Nolen Simmons from Salem, comprise the gan. And the tone of his voice the most impressive ball players to Richardson and Frank Emmer un- list of those who will get what made it quite clear that, further- be seen in some springs. Well built, they placed but presenting impressive deserve in the mound more, he didn’t eare. taller than the average infielder, and tryouts. bids for consideration. The club is Must Play Ball fast! Moves with amazing in a bit overstocked on infielders. speed * "All I want is who will beating out bunts and Rice In Ontet players stepping play the kind of ball we want on around the bases. Handles himself and Harry Riee, who came from the Tigers Harlingen the Red Sox this eear.” gracefully at short, ail the while Browns, will play center field and Proceeding on that basis Carrigan covering a whale of a lot of To Here show a fast pair of heels on the ground. Play Sunday is no as to how Outfield Prohitm bases. He will be flanked by slower making predictions of performers but hard hitters in Harry his team will line up when the bell Buddy Myer, Philadelphia Ath- The Brownsville Tigers, Mexican letics, and other Heilmnnn and Bob Fothergill.