Mcallen Daily Monitor

Sports Mirror
By James W. Glasscock.

One of McAllen's baseball fans who keeps in touch with doings of the major and minor league baseball clubs, furnishes the following information concerning several of the Kansas City Blues players:

"Dale Alexander, the big first baseman, led the American league in batting a few seasons back as a member of the Boston Red Sox.

" 'Ham' Schulte, dynamic second baseman, covers the territory between first and shortstop in great style. Only a few days ago, he fielded a grounder the first baseman missed and threw the runner out at first. Keen observers call Ham the class of the minors.

"Third base is covered by Marty (Sis) Hopkins, last year with the Chicago White Sox.

"Whitlow Wyatt, speed ball pitcher of the Detroit Tigers and White Sox, is with the Blues on option by the White Sox, as are outfielders Bill McCullough, with Dallas, last year, and George Stumpf, with the White Sox in 1935-36.

"Ed Majeski, catcher, is a former Philadelphia Athletics and White Sox performer."

From this report by a man who knows his team, interested baseball fans in this vicinity can see that the American association club has a group of top-notch ball players.

And interest is definitely increasing in the project for the Blues to establish a spring training camp here next February and March, using Legion park, on South Main street, for their playing field.

A news story originating at Kansas City the past week unfortunately gave erroneous information concerning the Blues and a contract with San Benito.

Johnny Kling, president of the Blues was quoted as saying that his club had signed a contract to train next spring at San Benito. On the advice of a Lower Valley sports writer, the news organization handling the story made a re-check, and discovered that Kling was in error, although he meant well.

It developed that Haney, manager of the Toledo Mudhens, is handling most of the arrangements for the four American association teams (Kansas City, Toledo, Milwaukee and Minneapolis) which have sought to train in the Rio Grande Valley.

And Kling, for some reason or other, misconstrued information handed to him. A subsequent story was released by the news organization correcting the details.

Rio Grande Valley cities realize that what helps one city will, in turn, help another. That's why the entire section is working together to obtain at least two of the clubs.

With Toledo at Harlingen, Kansas City at McAllen, and possibly a third club at San Benito or Brownsville, baseball fans will see great games next year—in just about six more months.

But ticket sales have to be pushed now so club managers can determine whether or not good attendance can be expected at the exhibition games.

As you know, a guarantee of $1500 is asked by each of the teams from each city where clubs will train. This $1500 is being raised by advance ticket sales for exhibition games, four of which will be played in McAllen. No donations are asked. The whole proposition as has been stated before, rests entirely with baseball fans.

Incidentally, the Toledo Mudhens were mentioned in a baseball fiction story by Heywood Broun in a recent issue of a popular five-cent slick magazine. The point being made here is that names of the American association clubs break into print in publications with circulations of 1,000,000 and upward.

Add the names of Valley cities to the names of the clubs and you have what can't be bought—unsolicited publicity.

That's pretty obvious, but the possibilities should not be overlooked.

The St. Louis Browns, by the way, have announced their intention of training at San Antonio next season, ending a 12-year stay in Florida. The Browns are far down in American league standings at present (seventh to be exact), but they are still big league performers.

The Valley has a special interest in the Browns because Earl Caldwell, who generally spends his winters here, is on the pitching staff.

George Strohmeyer, smiling Rifle hurler, earns the plaudits of fans and scribes for his neat 6-0 shutout against Taft Sunday at Mission.

Yesterday's Results
Washington 13, New York 4
only games scheduled

Games Today
Washington at New York
Philadelphia at Boston
St. Louis at Chicago
Detroit at Cleveland

NATIONAL LEAGUE
Standings
Yesterday's Results
Boston 9, Philadelphia 7
Brooklyn 6 New York 5
St Louis 7, Chicago 3
Only games scheduled

Games Today
Cincinnati at Pittsburgh (2)
Chicago at St Louis
New York at Brooklyn
Boston at Philadelphia