San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-10-03
DIAMOND DOTS.

| Will we be in it?
How about that meeting?
Who holds the San Antonio fran
chise?
Amos Rusie stole one base this
season.
Billie Joyce leads the big league
in home-runs.
San Antonio doesn't want much
only good team.
Sam Thompson, of the Phillies,
has made Is home runs this sea-
son.
Tucker, Pfeffer, Nash and Davis
are spoken OF as New York's in
field for '96.
Billie Hughes has accepted po-
sition as assistant proof reader on
the Express.
"Buck" Ewing contemplates re-.
Stunning his old position behind the
bat next season.
Boston has supported a profess
sional baseball every season for
the past twenty-five years.
Pete Weckbecker wants to man.
age the San Antonio team. A bet
ter man 1t would be hard to find. :
A game was played at Philadel-
phia, October 3, between the Phila-
delphia and Newark police ball
teams.
1t is not too early for San Anto-
MO to engage a manager for next
season-that is, IL she wantsa re-
spectacle team in '96.
Jim Corbett has received an offer
to play on the Cincinnati team dur
ing October, but was compelled to
decline it, owing to his contract to
train in San Antonio.
| Grand Rapids, Wis.,, had apitch-
er named Reidy who was touched
up for not less than 6S hits with a
total of 10l bases the last three
games he pitched.
In a game on September 20 the
Indianapolis, Qnd,) team made
twenty-five base hits of George
Blackburn, who pitched for Min
neapolis. OF this number six were
home runs and five two-base hits.
| A theatrical manager with an
eye to business has corralled twen-
ty beautiful young ladies and is
springing them on the public at
tired in boomers, as the two cham
pion female baseball teams Of the
country.
| While in Boston, Manager Han
lon, of the Baltimores, received the
news of the arrival of a new
girl baby. His friends heard Of it
and presented him with a doll
carriage filled with flowers and
decorated with the Baltimore
colored ribbons. The carriage was
wheeled on the ground and Han
Ion called TO the plate, whence he
wheeled in to the bench.
The following are the pennant
winners for '95: National league,
Balti more, Nd; Western league,
Indianapolis, Ind. Eastern league,
Springfield, Mass; Southern
league, Nashville, Tenn; Virginia
league, Richmond, Va; Western
association, Lincoln, Neb.; Penn
sylvania league, HaZleton, Pa;
Texas-Southern league, Fort
Worth.
The first game OF the Temple
cup series between the Baltimore
and Cleveland baseball teams was
played at Cleveland yesterday and
was won by the home team by to
4. The series consists of six games,
three to be played in Cleveland
and three in Baltimore, and If the
teams break even, the deciding
game to be played on some neutral
ground, to- be agreed upon by the
two teams. This series is watched
with considerable interest by San
Antonio baseball patrons.
The Digby Bell Opera company
occupied three boxes at a ball
game in Baltimore just prior to
the coming of the champion sea-
son and sang popular songs during
the game. This novel entertain
ment was heartily enjoyed by the
| 5000 people who were present,
| and at times broke up the players
by attracting their attention.
| When they sang the "Old Ken
| lucky Home" with a full chorus
the crowd went wild. Primrose
and Vests brass band, composed
of little colored boys, was provided
with seats on the field. and played
"Dixie." A dyed-in-the-wool
, rooter improvised song, the bur-
den of which was: "The peDnant