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Today’s Game Was Postponed—Rampant Indians Come Tomorrow
FIRESTEIN ORIGINAL
GLOOM DISPELLER
Swept Away Gathering Clouds
With One Healthy Poke at
a High Inshoot.
Where They Play Today.
Shreveport at Houston.
Oklahoma City at Waeo.
Fort Worth at Galveston.
Standing of the Clubs.
Ply’d. Won. Lost P. C.
Ahreveport 56 32 24 .571
Houston 59 33 26 .559
Oklahoma City ..56 31 25 .554
San Antonio 56 30 26 526
Dallas ... .. 61 32 29 .525
Fort Worth ......58 26 32 .448
Galveston .. ....60 25 35 .417
Waco .. ........62 25 37 .403
BY HARRY BOONE.
RE STEIN yester-
Ri’ day won himself
IT 'h® being
f * M the original gloom
K dispeller. With*just
one long, healthy,
solemn, swat of the
ball he cleared off
one of the darkest
J skies that ever gath-
ered over the ball
a yard in Pennant-
town, and ehanged
VQ|B up a howling band
of knocking demons
into as happy a
bunch of boosters
as ever shoved the victory wagon down
a pike. To be a real champeen spot
lighter, a fellow has to do something
really unexpected, absolutely unlooked
for a thriller from Thrillersville. Fire
stein did all of these with one swipe.
A Pretty Story.
The story 1 ’Tia a pretty one.
The Bronchos broke loose in the first
inning yesterday in a way that made
me feel like apologizing for all I had
ever said about their lacking ginger.
After Stark had gone out, Leidy drew
a walk. Mclver then bunted-one real
hard. It means something when Mac
does this. Yesterday it meant a three
bagger to deep center. Stinson eased
one of his pretty singles over second
end Mac came home. Walsh forced
Stinson at second, but broke up a dou
ble by a hard sprint. Bastian then hit
a beauty to center for two bases, scor
ing Walsh. The three runs injected a
world of ginger into the home boys and
they worked mighty pretty. A couple
of hits, a batter hit and Stark’s sacri
fice fly in the fourth brought in an
other run.
Game Looked Sweet.
With four to the good and young
Mitchell working like a veteran, the
game looked as sweet as an iced water
melon and people were just waiting for
the finish, not even a little cloud on
their horizon of joy. So, when, in the
- seventh Mclver walked and scored a
funny run, people thought it was a
great joke—we didn’t need it, but it
was fine to watch the big fellow sprint
around the bases.
Tunny, Oh Yes.
After Mac had walked, he took a
good Itad-off first and Moore flashed
the ball like a bullet to catch him. The
heave was wide and the ball took a
couple of *erooked bounces, struck a
blade of grass or something and slipped
through the wire of the grandstand into
Cascade
PURE WHISKY
Double Distilled
Cascade is distilled and distilled again.
Every step in its production is just as
perfect as the best grain, science and
honest purpose can make it.
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6a Nashville. TenacMee
PALMER & FINDLEY.
Waco. Texas. State Agents
SATURDAY,
one of the boxes. If the box bad been
occupied by a buneh of Dallas rooters,
a different tale might have been told.
But it wasn't. So, when the Dalias
fielders implored that the pill might be
poked back through the wire, the ap
peal fell on deaf care, the ball reposed
safely behind the wires and Mclver
made a great attempt to break the rec
ord from second base to the plate. After
lie bad registered the ball was returned
to the diamond. It was sure funny.
In the eighth the youngster, who had
been pitching fine ball, slowed up per
ceptibly, but at that, with sharper sup
port, he shouldn’t have been in trouble.
McAvoy and Tullos started the inning
with clean hits to right. Jackson binged
a stinger down to Firestein which that
gentlemanly third baseman succeeded
in knocking out of Stark’s way, and
McAvoy scored. Connaway walked, fill
ing the bases. Maloney flew out to
Leidy. Storch hit one at Alexander,
who had replaced Walsh, that got away
from him and Miller hit safe, the whole
of which netted four runs, and left
Storch at third.
O. Drucke was then sent in to bat
for Moore and hit a fly to center. It
looked like suicide for Storch to try
to score on the chance, but he did, and,
although Cap made a fair throw to the
plate, Schan handled the ball back of
the counting station and the riwier
was called safe for tho tying run. It all
happened so quick that everybody was
stunned.
Good Old Big Harry.
Big Harry tßen took the rubber,
the nifty fashion in which he wheezed
j three of the Giants—the very three who
had started the finish in the previous
inning— went a long ways toward
cheering the crowd up. It was fairly
estimated that out of the nine swings
allowed McAvoy, Tullos and Jackson
in this inning, none of the batters came
within three feet of the ball.
In San Antonio’s half of the eighth
Schan caused a momentary flutter with
a nice two-bagger, but Miller, who bat
ted for Mitchell, couldn’t quite get
enough steam on his wallop and Storch
I caught it up against the fence. It was a
' good try and a close call.
Peters, who had replaced Moore, re
tired the Brones in quick order in the
ninth, but in the tenth, after Alexander
had gone out, Bastian drew a walk and
Firestein walloped his pretty one over
the fence.
j The eighth inning gloom that settled
over the fans extended to the skies,
which began to weep, seemingly in sym
pathy. When Firestein came to tho res
cue, however, the rain stopped and it
cleared up in all quarters.
The Score.
San Antonio— AB. R. H. O. A. E.
Stark, ss 4 0 0 4 0 1
Leidy, cf 4 1 0 *3 0 0
Mclver, If 4 2 1 2 0 0
Stinson, rf 4 o'2 2 0 0
Walsh. 2b ....3 1 0 2 4 0
Bastian, lb 4 1 2 6 0 0
Firestein, 3b ...... 3 2 1 1 1 0
Schan, c 3 0 2 10 2 0
Mitchell, p 1 0 0 0 1 0
Alexander, 2b 1 0 0 0 0 0
•Miller 1 0 0 0 0 0
Ables, p 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 7 8 30 8 1
• Batted for Mitchell in eighth.
Dallas— AB. R. H. O. A. E.
Truesdale, 2b 4 0 0 5 2 0
McAtoy. ss 5 1 2 1 4 0
Tulks, 3b 4 1 1 0 2 0
Connaway, lb 4 1 1 10 1 0
Jackson, If 5 1 1 1 0 0
Malonev, cf 4 0 0 3 0 0
Storeh,'rf 5 1 2 1 0 0
Onslow, c .. • 0 0 0 0 0 0
Miller, c 4 0 2 6 3 0
Moore, p 3 0 1 1 3 1
!O. Drueke 0 0 0 0 0 0
Peters, p .. 0 0 0 0 1 0
'. 38 5 10"28 16 1
! Batted for Moore in eighth.
• One out. on winning rnn.
Score by Innings.
San Antonio 800 100 110 2— 7
flits 300 200 110 1— 8
Dallas 000 000 050 0— 5
Hits 011 010 150 I—lo
Summary
Innings pitched: By Moore, 7; by
Peters, 3; by Mitchell, 8; by Ables, 2.
Runs made: Off Moore, 5; off Mitch
ell, 5.
Hits apportioned: Off Moore, 6; off
Peters, 2; off Mitchell, 9; off Ables, 1.
Two base hits: Bastian, Stinson,
Schan.
Three base hits: Mclver.
Home run: Firestein.
Sacrifice hits: Mitchell.
Sacrifice fly-outs: Stark, Maloney, O.
Drucke.
Struck out: By Mitchell, 7; by Moore
3; by Ables, 4: by Peters. 2.
Bases on balls: Off Mitchell, 3; off
Moore, 6; off Peters, 1.
Batters hit: By Moore, 2.
Left on bases: San Antonio, 7; Dal
las. 8.
Stolen base: Walsh.
Time of game: 2:15.
Umpire: Wincott.
PAT NEWNAM SEWS UP
GAME FOR BUFFALOES.
Houston, June 19.—First Baseman
Pat Newnam put yesterday’s game with
the Pirates on iee, when, in the eighth
inning, he walloped out a three-bagger
with the bases full. The leaders could
Mitchell Weakens.
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZETTE
THIS MOB DUE TO SCRAP IN SUNSET LAND
San Franeisco will be the battle
ground of many important ring engage
ments within the next few months, and
four championships are scheduled to be
settled on the western slope.
BASEBALL MAN
DIES ON TRAIN
Associated Press.
Xenia, 0., June 19.—President Geo.
Dovey, Boston National league baseball
club, died on a Pennsylvania train be
tween Cedarville and Xenia this morn
ing at 4:10 o’clock. He was on his way
to Cincinnati unaccompanied. He was
stricken with a hemorrhage of the
lungs.
DOVEY’S DEATH WAS
SURPRISE TO FRIENDS
Associated Preet.
Pittsburg, June 19.—Mr. Dovey’■
death was a great surprise here. He
left here late yesterday for Steuben
ville, Ohio, to look over some promis
ing baseball players and then intended
to go to Cincinnati. He was apparently
in the best of health.
do nothing with Rose, and he mowed
them down with unerring precision.
Score— R. H. E.
Shreveport ....000 000 000—0 6 3
Houston 100 000 04*—5 7 0
Batteries: Bauer and Garvin; Rose
and Gordon.
A close shave.
Today’s rest is needed.
I like Bill—but oh, you Big Harry.
Maloney Btood on the coach line and
smiled a sickly smile as the big boy
mowed ’em down.
Quoth Curly, quoth he, as Jackson
came up, after McAvoy and Tullos had
wheezed: “Here’s the big boy who’ll
smack it over the fence—then it’ll be
all off!”
He smacked it over the fence, did. he
not J Oh, yes, he did —not. He broke
his back in three different places, on
as many drops in succession. Yes be
smacked it over the fence.
Walsh drew an injury in the seventh
that may be a pretty bad one. Moore
broke a fast curve straight at the
husky little second baseman, and it hit
him 8n the first finger of his left hand,
fairly tearing the nail off.
A good deal of discussion was caused
by the home-run that broke up the
game, lots of fans contending that as
only one run was needed the hit should
only go for a three-bagger. It’s hard
to figure how anybody could dope it
out that way. There’s no rule that
could possibly beat a man out of a
home run that is made over the fence.
It might be possible that a player
could lose a home run hit inside the
lot, as the game would be over when the
first man crossed the plate, and the
fielders consequently would not try to
return the ball quickly. But when the
ball is put over the fence it constitutes
a home run—and the fairness of base
ball rules would not seek to beat a bat
ter out of his earned glory.
INDIANS MAKE IT THREE
STRAIGHT FROM WACO.
Waco, June 19. —The Navigators at
last hit the bottom, the rampant In
dians being largely responsible. The
final blow came yesterday, when a shut
out was administered.
Score— ’ R. H. E.
Oklahoma City.olo 001 000 —2 6 0
Waco 000 000 000—0 5 1
Batteries: Drohan and Kelsey; Bar
enkamp and Powell.
SAND CRABS TURN AND
BITE THE PANTHERS.
Galveston, June 19.—Just to make
the race for the bottom as fast as the
one for the top, the Sand Craps took a
fall out of the Panthers yesterday to
the tune of 11 toj. Bobby Gilks ar
rived on the job yesterday, and a cou
ple of hours of morning practice seem
ed to be about the proper stuff.
Score — R. H. E.
Fort Worth ..100 000 000— 1 6 6
Galveston ....001 100 73»—11 15 1
Batteries: Sorrels, Northern and
‘Green; Johnson and Quicssar
Beginning with the Monte Attell-
Frankie Neil go June 19, big matches
will be pulled off at intervals until
Ketchell and Johnson make the big
noise late in October.
I DON'T CARE!
This happy fan don’t give a cuss wh ether it was a single, a triple or a
homer—it was enough. Likewise he isn’t caring whether the score was 6 to
5 or 7 to s—we won.
AMATEUR BASE
BALL DOINGS
“Peck’s Bad Boys,” a strong ama
teur team, organized recently to fly the
colors of the Peck furniture store, will
break out tomorrow in its first game,
the Jok’rs being the try-out team. The
game will be played on the Jones ave
nue diamond. H. S. Bennett, the man
ager, says the elub will take the road
as soon as a route is made up for an
extended trip. The team, which is
looked on as a fast one, will probably
line up in the initial game as follows:
C. Morales or J. O'Toole, catchers;
Flaig or Jones, pitchers; Hildebrand,
first base; Buechler, second base; Onion,
third base; Slimp, shortstop; Harris,
left field; Eggleston, center field; Mc-
Fall, right field.
Owing to a misunderstanding between
the captain and manager of the Wash
er Bros. Co. team, the game with New
Braunfels has been postponed. This
leaves the New Braunfels team without
an opponent for Sunday, and any team
in the eity who wfshes e to cross bats
with them can get busy and ring up
Ed. Staats at that town.
Sporting Editor: After repeated ef
forts we have so far failed to arrange
a game with the Jokers, and would
thank you to challenge them for us
through the sporting columns of your
paper, and oblige. Government Hill
Tigers, by Otto Hummel, captain, old
phone 2006.
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4- NO GAME TODAY. +
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+ Nothing doing at the ball lot 4
« terday—but there will be plenty ♦
4- action tomorrow with the com- 4-
4- ing .of the Indians. These ♦
4 scoundrels have been going so 4
4- fast nobody has been able to 4
4- head them. Aside from this fact, 4
4- they are the toughest proposi- 4
4- tion the Brones have tackled 4
4 this season. Three tied games 4
4- and four extra-inning sessions is 4
4- the history on the three series' 4
4- the clubs have played. They are 4
4- about the most evenly matched 4
4- proposition in the baseball W( dd 4
4- and every time they have played 4
4- it has resulted in a real base- 4
4 ball battle. There will be no 4
4- double-header tomorrow. 4
4- The game today was postpon- 4
4- ed because of the death of .To- 4
4- seph Gardner’s sister. Mr. 4
♦ Gardner left last night for Dal- 4
4- las, but the team will not go to 4
4- Waco until tonight. The game 4
4- today was called off by mutual 4
4- consent. 4
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I Nelson and Johnny Thompson travel
145 rounds July 9. Papke and Ketchell
I may go it again July 5; Johnson and
: ; Kaufman are billed Tor the latter part
lof July or Labor day; Nelson and
JIMMY CLABBY
WINS ANOTHER
Associated Press.
Hammond, Ind., June 19.—“ Jimmy”
Clabby knocked out “Dick” Fitz
patrick in the eighth round of their
scheduled ten-round bout here last
night. The fight was a good one, Clabby
knocking Fitzpatrick down twice in
the third round, but Fitzpatrick came
back strong after that aud they did
good work until the eighth.
When Fitzpatrick was knocked down
in the eighth his seconds threw up the
sponge before Referee Malachi Hogan
could start to count him out.
JIMMY CLABBY
Clabby is touted as the next world’s
champion welterweight. Although but
19, Clabby has fought some of the best
men of his weight in the business, and
has a fine record, most of his tights end
ing in knockouts.
Jack Johnson declares that he will
finish Stanley during the third
rush of the “Michigan Kid*'
j Freddy Welsh msy be hooked up if
Coffroth can arrange it, and Cross
wants a crack at the Dane over a 45-
| round route. Every" one of the crowd
j will get into a fight ere the suow flics.
RESULTS IN
BIG LEAGUES
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Detroit, 1.
Cleveland, 10; New York, 1.
Washington, 5; St. Louis, 0.
Standing of the Clubs.
Ply’d. Won. Lost. P.C.
Detroit 50 31 19 . 620
Philadelphia .. ..48 28 20 .583
Cleveland 48 25 23 . 521
Boston 50 26 24 .520
New York 46 23 23 .500
Chicago . .46 22 24 .478
St. Louis 48 19 29 .396
Washington .. ..46 17 29 .370
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Pittsburg, 8; New York, 2.
Cincinnati, 4; Philadelphia, 1.
Standing of the Clubs.
Plyd. Won. Lost. P.C.
Pittsburg 49 36 13 .735
Chicago 51 33 18 .647
Cincinnati 52 28 24 .538
New York 45 24 21 .533
Philadelphia .. ..46 22 24 .478
St. Louis .......51 21 30 .404
Brooklyn ..48 17 31 .354
Boston ..... 46 13 S 3 .283
1 SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
Memphis, 2; Atlanta, 0.
Nashville, 3; Little Rock, 2.
Mobile, 1; Montgomery, 0.
New Orleans, 3; Birmingham, 2.
Standing of the Clubs.
Ply’d. Won. Lost. P.C.
Atlanta ....53 31 22 .585
Mobile [phone]
New Orleans ....54 31 23 .574
.Nashville 49 28 21 .571
Little Rock 51 27 24 .529
Montgomery .. ..51 24 27 .471
Birmingham .. ..55 24 31 .436
Memphis 54 14 40 .259
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4- day, the sporting editor could 4
4 not decide this morning on the 4
4 best kid story, and held the fea- +
4 ture for the Sunday morning pa- 4
4- per, as there was no game 4
4- scheduled for this afternoon. The 4
4- winner today will see his story 4>
4- in the paper in the morning. 4
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BASEBALL AT NIGHT
SAID TO BE SUCCESS
Associated Press.
Cincinnati, 0., June 19.—Baseball by
electric light put on as an experiment
at the Cincinnati National league
grounds last night was pronounced a
great success by President Herrmann of
the National baseball commission. Man
ager Clark Griffith and other authori
ties. Forty-five hundred persons saw
the game and the batting, base running
and throwing, they declared, was equal
to the daylight game. It was admitted
that more’ light was necessary to add
to the perfection of the team work, in
the outfield.
Tho teams that lined up were picked
nines from Cincinnati Lodge No. 5, B.
P. O. E., and a similar nine from New
port. Ky., Lodge No. 273, Cincinnati
winning, 8 to 5.
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FUNNY AS EVER 4
WAS A. LATHAM. 4
4
When Arlie Latham, former 4
great third baseman and come- 4
dian of the diamond, was urn- 4
piring in the O. and P. league, 4
he was accompanied by an old 4
friend to a game one day. +
“You are not as funny as 4
you used to bo,” the friend re- 4
marked to Latham, who was 4
rather quiet. 4
“Not as funny?” said La- 4
thnm. “Wait until you sec my 4
judgment on balls and strikes 4
,and you’ll say I’m funnier than 4
* ever before. ” 4
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JUNE 19, 1909-
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What Was the Score? Is
Firestein Entitled to a Homer,;
or Just a Three-Bagger, j
<
How old is Ann and who hit BiHj|
Patterson, both old-timers, have bee*
laid in the shade. The great query i*
San Antonio last night was on a simpl*
point of baseball, and many’s the ar*
gument and bet that arose from tht
question.
Old-timers like Maloney, Fred Mosw
bach, as well as a majority of ball play*
ers, argue that the score of yesterday’4
game was 6to 6; that Firestein’s ball 4
which was hit over the fence was ai
triple. They say only one run waa
needed, and when that scored the game
terminated. The rules seem to beat
them out. Under the heading, “Extra-
Inning Games,” it states that in atiy in.
ning after the ninth the game shall ter
minate when the winning run scores.
In the rule defining the bating oG
the ball over the fence, it says the bat
ter shall be entitle dto a home run.
There are no unlesses or ifs about it. Il
he is given a home run then his score
must be counted.
However, there are hundreds of playa
in baseball that are not covered by tha
rules. This is one of them, and tha
fact that old-timers are almosf
unanimous in declaring the hit a
three-bagger and the score 6 to 5, will
probably be borne out when the mattes
is finally decided.
In the meantime, what difference
does it make?
BOWLING
TURNER BOWLING LEAGUE. 1
Standing of the Clubs.
Plyd. Won Lost P. O
Tolle 14 10 4 .714
Koch 16 11 5 -693
Langbein 14 9 5 .639
Riedner 16 9 7 .5,8
Haueisen 16 8 8 .500
Fritze 16 7 9 .444
Zizelman 16 7 9 .444
Fueß 14 6 8 . 429
Lassner .*..14 5 9 .360
Grasso 16 4 12 .25a
Before one of the largest crowds that
ever assembled to see a nine-pin con
test in this city, Tolle’s Zebras and
Koch’s Lulus last night broke even on
the Turner alleys. While the first game
was very one-sided, the second was z a
hair-raiser, the Lulus, after being hope
lessly beaten, making a sensational gar
rison finish and dragging a victory by;
four pins.
Tolle, Koch. Fritze, Hebgen, FroebeJ.
Bosshardt and Judmaier were the lads
that succeeded in clearing y»e alleys
the most.
Scores:
First Game.
Tolle 40 60 54 53 54 33—294
Koch 43 36 36 53 36 46—250
Second Game.
Koch 48 50 43 43 60 54—298
Tolle 50 65 44 54 36 47—298
Line-up.
Lulus: Gus Koch, captain; Ling, Con
ring, Hauboldt, Judmaier, Bosshardt,
Schendel, Geyer, Heubaum and Neu
man.
Zebras: O. Tolle, captain; L. Fritze,
L. Gutzeit, Hebgen, Froebel, Gerloff,
O. Grasso, Reyman, A, Riedner.
Umpire: T. Waters. 1 My
Scorer: G. Lowther.
MISSIONS CLEAN BEETHOVEN. ’
The Mission Bowling association
trimmed up the Beethoven lads in both
games last night on the Mission Garden
alleys. The Missions showed up very
strong, while the Beethovens were shy
their leader and two of their best man.
The scores were not up to the average.
Scores:
First Game.
Missions .. ..42 60 71 34 35 24—3*3
Beethovens . ..53 44 53 33 38 43 —264
Second Game.
Missions .. ..49 36 30 44 69 44—2861
Beethovens . ..55 9 42 48 37 37—228
CITY TENPIN LEAGUE. JT
Standing of the Clubs.
Ply’d. Won. Lost. P.C.
Roach 9 9 1 -6®®
Schmitt 6 3 3 .500
Geyer .... ...... 6 3 3 .500
Ziegler - 9 4 5 .444
Emerson 6 1 5 .117
Schmitt's Alamos were handicapped
last night by having Schraeder out of
the game and as a result dropped all
three games to Geyer's Stars on Emer
son’s alley*. Freemeyer captured all
high score honors with 220 and grand
total with 514.
Scores:
Alamos.
12 3 Total.
Schmitt (Capt.) .. 149 143 148 440
Wagcnfehr 152 195 154 501
Sheppard 120 119 115 454
Morris ..... .... 136 111 155 402
Totals 557 568 573 1697
Stars.
12 3 Total
Gever (Capt.) ... 134 171 157 463
Howard 119 121 173 413
McCknahan .. ..156 144 131 431
Freemeyer 220 146 149 514
Totals ... 629 531 610 U 39
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