San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-03
THE LOCAL BALL CLUB.
Players Should be Instructed to
Play Only Clean Bail.

Play Only Clean Ball.
Captain Allison Jackie with z
figure as short as his name, and his
band of warriors from the home OF
Ben. Thompson, arrived in Tamale
: vile yesterday morning and were
determined to carry the town by
storm. Their object in coming tC
San Antonio was to give the locals
few pointers in the national
game, and show to a San An
tonic audience how the game is
played in the city with the state
| building. All these efforts how.
ever proved fruitless.
| There is one thing San Antonio
needs badly to arouse more inter.
est in the game, and that is gen.
eral revival of the rules and regu-
lations of baseball that the club
needs an umpire has long been felt
in this city, and one who will
closely observe the many attempts
at "dirty" ball playing and put
such offenders out of the game
every time they are caught trying
ito convert baseball, the only out
door sport that has the reputation
of being clean and honest, into an
illegitimate pastime. The San An
tonic amateur" team should al
ways remember that the rules of
the guide state that there
are four bases in number
first, second, third and home
bases, and that in order to score a
run the runner is required to
touch each respective base in the
order named; otherwise the run
is scored illegally and the runner
should be declared "out." The
play of cutting off bases when the
umpire is not looking was intro
duced by Michael j. Kelley, now of
the New York Giants, over twelve
years ago, and it is considered
very rotten play by any intelligent
audience. AT the park yesterday
similar play was not met with APP
proval. If such a play
was attempted and successfully
made on a Gaffney or Emslie,
or one of their class, it might have
deserved favorable mention, but
to play it on boy with the score
8 to 6 for the home team on the
home grounds, and with every
thing in favor of the home team, it
is simply absurd. Try to play
clean, honest ball, We knight of
the diamond, at least at the open
ing of the season. San Antonio
has had enough of dirty ball play
ing, now give it some of Cne gilt
edge understanding that the
many. cranks of San Antonio so
often read about.
The score of yesterdays game
was II to for the home team.
NOTES.
"Pop" Martin made an excellent
catch in center field.
The locals made fifteen hits and
the visitors only five.
Charles Van Ripper pitched for
the locals yesterday, and did ex-
cellently.
The home team will practice
every afternoon to get in shape for
the other clubs that will come to
San Antonio this year.
1t were advisable for those who
deem it policy to keep their right
names out of print, in connection
with baseball, to keep out of the
diamond. 1t is no disgrace to don
a uniform and play an honest
game Of ball, and some of the
greatest men of the country are
patrons of the game and have even
played the game themselves.
President Cleveland, on the depart
ure of the Chicago and All-Ameri-
can teams for trip around the
world, several years ago bid each
player goodbye and wished each
the best of luck. He is also great
lover of the game, as is also Uncle
Jerry Risk