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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1927
Page
13
Afes Charles Hunter won the Women s weekly golf tournament held at Brackenridge Park on Thursday afternoon with a net score of ST bole round. Ilza won the special prize for the most pars. Pwenty Te participated in the event. The series continues next Wednesday at the park course.
San Antonio coach Ben L. Brite of Harlendale high school starts training for Olympic tests as he targets the national AAU championship and Southern AAU meet. Brite, former Southwest Texas State Teachers standout, seeks to be one of four quarter mile qualifiers for the Amsterdam team, aiming to bolster Texas representation.
Floresville will send a squad to face the champion endeng team at Bleck stadium Sunday afternoon. The guards are the two Sun Jas brothers, each near 300 pounds. The backfield features Simson Ford Harper and Towel with ends Rueder Schmidt and tackles Hort A Hoit and center Butler. Substitutes include Jimmertes Sermon Ware Davis and Hartley.
Texas Christian University’s Raymond Matthews and Southern Methodist University’s Gerald Mann have been selected for the all West squad to face the all East at San Francisco December 26. They will depart around December 15. Joel Hunt of Texas A&M may be chosen, pending Aggies post season plans.
Veteran star Tom Gish scored 16 as the St Mark Lions beat the Tongue Diks to stay atop the City Basketball League standings. Whitner and Porter contributed 10 and 6 respectively while Flores led the Diks with 9.
Davenport Iowa will be forced to jump from a government bridge into the Mississippi if he loses a ten round bout to Wooleoit Langford of Chicago. Willan Walsh, Walsh’s manager, sails after Langford boasted the bout would be easy. Years ago Walsh made a similar threat when Malone was to meet Wilson in Boston. Wilson defeated Malone and observers saw a man dive from the highest bridge into the Charles River.
Dee 2 Berlenbach and Jack Delaney have signed for an eight event stand at the Coliseum Der. 9 quarter mile race where Phillips of Butler led the field in world record time of 48.5 seconds. Brite ran 48.8 and was two steps behind the winner. In the AAU meet at Linenin he ran 440 yards and finished sixth after leading for 400 yards. He expects to be among four men chosen for the Olympic team in the 440 event and has beaten Daniels Lov great eras crimer three times. He will register from the Harlandale Athletic Club at the AAU team trials.
Charles O. Pfeil, recently nominated for president of the United States Golf Association, fell unconscious after weeks in a hospital from septicaemia. Kent Pfeil, 86, elder of Pfut and Awsumb Architects, hails from Jacksonville.
College Station Texas Sec 2 PJ The question who are the outstanding backfield players you have coached is answered by Bible. He lists ten grid performers he coached at A and M Mississippi and LSU. The names include Anderson Flanagan Higginbotham Mohan Colling Laniers Wilson Berry Hunt, with years 1917 1922 1920 1924 1926 1925 1927 and 1810. Bible notes Knickerbocker as the outstanding quarter back he has coached at Texas A and M.
Chicago reports Ray Schalk will again manage the White Sox next year with a Dallas minor league convention trip planned. President Charles A. Comiskey offered no definite announcement, saying there is no incumbent Sox manager. Schalk has not been connected with another major league club.
Grigsby, center for George Town University, accepted an invitation to join the Eastern squad in the East-West game in San Francisco on Dec 46. Washington and Jefferson’s Coach Kerr sponsors the Eastern team and expects Grigsby to meet the squad at Chi e xe o.
Berlin December report says Bud Gorman of Wisconsin has accepted a challenge from German heavyweight Ludwig Baumann for a January match in Munich. Gorman arrived in Europe last summer and sustained a knee sprain in a four bout with Harry Pessaross champion, before an exhibition last night.
Former major league shortstop George J Germany Smith died from injuries after a motorcycle automobile crash late Thursday. He played for Pittsburgh, Brooklyn and Cincinnati and was 69.
A scoreless high school game between Twain and Page in Lubbock Texas ends in a protest filed with the Class 3 interscholastic league. Officials say players not living in the district attended the match.
The San Antonio Amateur Baseball commission plans a meeting and banquet at the MI C A next Wednesday night to award trophies to champion San Antonio athletic teams. A Majestic theater party will follow, tied with the Roemers after recent straight victories.
Longhorns coach Fred Walker conducts closed door sessions as he shapes a Thirty man squad for the 1928 season. Key players include Estes Hrack Wray Eng Bokdvin Looney and Ives as the new system emphasizes five defenses and fast dribbling. Texas schedule lists January to March games against Arkansas Rice Southwestern Baylor and others with cities Austin Fayetville Fort Worth Dallas and College Station. George Courmers to meet Jack in a ten round bout in New York scheduled for Thursday night.
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