San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-11-10
BASEBALL.


been formed in California consist
ing o. San Francisco, Oakland, San
Jose and Los Angeles. w. L. Rock
we'll is the president and secretary
of the league and Charlie Comis-
key treasurer. The season began
October 10 and ends Decem Der II.
Among the players in this league
three are known to San Antonio
fans, They are: Catcher Stanley,
of the Fort Worth team, who is
playing with San Francisco. Left
Fielder Algie Mcbride, of Austin,
playing with San Jose, and "Buck"
Weaver, who played in San An
tonic in 'SS, alec playing with San
Jose. An effort was made last sum-
mer to secure President Rockwell
as manager Of the San Antonio
team.
Loud and noisy coaching will no
doubt come up for some sort Of
legislation by the magnates at the
next league meeting. 1t should be
handled daintily, tenderly in fact.
Coaching is something that the
game cannot do without. 1t Is a
peculiar thing spectators should
demand that players Of their own
team shall get up on the lines and
make hideous noises in the en-
deavor to rattle the opposing
pitcher. If, however, one Of the
visiting players does the same
thing, a howl arises, and "Get in
your box" "Fine him." "Send him
to the BENCH" and other similar
cries can be heard on all sides.
But this is a popularity, and one
OF the peTquisites OF a baseball
crank. His right to kick at any
and everything is acknowledged.
He wouldn't be a crank IL he
didn't.
Coaching should not be abolish.
ed. 1 hardly think it needs any
legislation against it. In this city
the enthusiasts have never been
used to boisterous coaching by
their own players, and the vigor-
Gus and aggressive work of the
coachers of other clubs came first
as sort Of shock. 1t was some
thing so entirely different from
what we have been accustomed to
that at first it was not taken any
too graciously. At last it was
seen that those teams who had the
the loudest coacherS seemed to
play the best ball, and then they
grasped the idea that they must
have some Of it. To abolish loud
coaching entirely would seriously
hurt the game in some cities. Ger
tain cities demant it. A game of
ball isn't a game Of lawn tennis,
and one wants it to go through
with a certain amount Of dash and
vigor. Lively coaching Las often
saved what would otherwise have
been most uninteresting contest.
There is a ROBUSTNESS to base ball
that will prevent it from becoming
parlor game, and coaching is
part Of its strength and life.--NeW
York Advertiser.
This is what Cap Arson says of
the great game:
"The average old-time ball crank
is apt to think-or, at least, to say
that the games of the present
time are not as exciting or
as skillful as those he used to see
when the Chicagos We're champions
and played on the lake front, or
when the st. Louis Browns were
in their prime. He thinks there
are no sluggers such as Dan Brouth-
ers and Tip O'Neill, and Roger Con-
nor and Dave Orr, and Peter Brown
ing used to be. He thinks the
pitchers are but feeble and I'M
skilled beside Corcoran and Keefe,
and Clarkson, and Mccormick, and
Radbourn. He cannot see catcher
anywhere as good as Silver Flint,
and the old stone-wall was far bet
ter than any quartet Of the kind he
sees today.
"That is how the old-time pail
crank talks, and people expect me,
as l have seen and been a part OF
both those times and the present
day, to chime in with that opinion
and agree that the players OF 1895
are inferior to those of 1885 in every
way.
81 am sorry to differ, but don't
think so. l think the game has
steadily improved since ten years,
and is improving right along.
There are better players, better
fielders and when you consider the
disadvantage against which they
have to labor, better pitchers than
there were in those heroic times.
The old-time sluggers Orr,
Brouthers and the rest-seem so
conspicuous now because they were
then in a class by themselves. The
pitchers, only so feet away FROM
the plate, had tho great majority
OF the soatters unGT their thumbs.
led to get BIN 10 to II strike
100 lie now they are