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”—■ , - Rounding-Up The Sports*By FRED MOSEBACHAS a fitting tribute to the mem-4 4 ory oC the late Lou is Keae r-mann, foremost in San Antonio sports for a period of nearly 40 years, b!a friends have placed a bronze tablet on a large boulder: at Bear Creek on the Loxtort; Kanch in Frio County*It tras back in ISS3 Sn a. barnat the old ileucrmann homesteadon Barrera Street on a cokl Sun-day afternoon in February that aset of boxing gloves was put to Iuse for a friendly bout betweenPete Heh/i and Charlie Boehmerfor one of the first stunts that led to the organization of the Mission Athletic Club, of which Louis Heu-ermann was the president and. Frank G. Huntress, now head of the San Antonio Express was one of the mainsprings.Whether It was boxing, baseball or whatever sport Louie, as he wag known among his friends, was interested, and always with a desire to bring sport tip to the highest standard of excellence. The Mission Athletic Club was an organization of young men who gloried In the successful manner in which Jt was managed and it was one of the leading bodies of this kind inthe State.Later Louis Heuermann became president of the Texas Baseball League, serving not for a salary but rather for the love of the game, and was probably the most capable executive the league has ever had. lie would make trips over the circuit at his rrrsonal expense for the welfare of the league, which was then struggling for existence with $150 a month a princely salary for a hall player.i %I UST what success Ferry Winkle ** (Ray McCarley) Is having on his hockey tour has not yet been learned. He left here around Christmas for Los Angeles. CaL, on what was to have been the first leg of a 2n,(J00-mflQ tour along the Pacific Slope, up to Vancouver, and then down through the Middle Western States back to San Antonio by the middle of March.He picked his team among . players, some of whom had been -with local teams, while others were , to join hlm«from points in Canada, 'Whether ho is being rewarded with financial success—and his many ft lends here hope that he is ‘—Ferry visualized tho biggest ‘proposition of the hindMhat hasever been attempted, and regard- ] less of what fate or fortune may lr have in store for him he will have • seen a large part of the country in ; pne of the severest winters in 30 J years and will have acquired a fund of experience that will be 1 worth to him all the money he 1 could expect to make. T* * * lt;
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San Antonio Express
San Antonio, Texas, US
Mon, Jan 20, 1930
Page 9
Full Page
Clipped by
Mike M.
NA, 14 Nov 2021
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