San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-06-25
BASEBALL GOSSIP.
Close of the First Championship
Season-Other Topics.

Season-Other Topics.
The second series of the Texas
Southern League championship
season opens this afternoon. An
entirely new schedule has been
arranged and all clubs OF the league
start out with an even percentage.
According to the new schedule San
Antonio opens at Houston today
for three games and Austin at Gal
weston. The Missionaries will not
return to San Antonio until July
4, when they play Austin here for
three days.
The Missionaries will have a
number Of new players by the time
they reach home. Negotiations
have been closed for new battery
from the Memphis team Of the
Southern league. The battery re.
ferred to is composed of Fred.
Schmidt, a pitcher, better known
as Crazy" Schmidt, and Gus.
Land, a well-known minor league
backstop. They are expected to
join the team at Houston. Schmidt
played with the Baltimore Nation
al league team two seasons ago,
and also with the New York Giants
at one time. He opened the
present season with Atlanta,
Ga, and pitched for that team,
while "Red" Armstrong caught for
him. Gus. Land is an experienced
catcher and the pair ought to prove
a valuable acquisition to the team.
Garcia and Miller are booked for
release and will be let out when the
team returns home.
Abbott came home from Austin
last night with an injured finger.
He expects to be able to play again
next week.
Austin didn't do thing but take
three straights from the Mis-
sionaries, much to the sur
prise Of everybody who saw the
two teams play here. The Mission
aries seemed to entirely outclass
the Damtown aggregation and be-
fore leaving here the boys were
confident Of making it "three
straight" from those Austin stiffs.
Yesterdays score was II to 3, and
although Outfielder Lewis pitched
for Austin, the Missionaries failed
to make more than six hits of him.
The Missionaries have got to
learn how to hit the ball, and not
until they can do this will they
have any show whatever, in the
race. The truth is not a bit
strained when it is said that the
Missionaries are the weakest hit
ting team in the league. Their field
ing also needs improvement, and a
great deal Of it. Eight and nine
errors are too much for a profess
sional team to be charged with In
a game.
1t seems that Captain Sherry is
not strict enough with his men.
He allows them too much rope,
and being inclined to "treat the
boys right" they take advantage
OF his good fellowship. For field
captain no better selection could
be made than Sherry. He under
stands the game thoroughly and Is
up to all the latest wrinkles. But
he fails to exercise the authority
vested in him. He should enforce
more discipline in the ranks.
1t is claimed that the Austin
spectators "hurrahed" the San
Antonio team so that the Mission
aries just couldn't play ball. It's
a mighty flimsy excuse, but it will
have to 60. However, it is hoped
that in the future those timid
players who can't Withstand the
roars OF the rooters in the grand
stand will be accustomed to it, IL
not the team will have to be taken
to boiler yard for practice.
Since the opening OF the season
. April 20, the San Antonio team
has had twenty-eight players I'M
der contract, and all Of them have
worn the San Antonio uni
form. Some OF these players
only took part in three or four
games and had to be let go, after
the club went to the expense in
bringing them here. The club has
3 had two managers in that time,
and about eight or ten captains.
J All this is due to San Antonio's
hardness last winter, before the
opening of the season. While the
other cities had their teams COM
= plete, as early as last January and
y February, San Antonio didn't be-
!, gin to sign her players until the
middle OF April.
Although Willie Clare has proved
q failure as manager, he had a
= good team picked out for San An.
y tonio ahout last March Among