San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-13

ing Of the championship season of
the Texas-Southern League Of Base
ball clubs. The clubs that will
open at home are San Antonio,
Houston, Dallas and Sherman.
Schachern's Senators, OF Austin,
will play the first series with
Clare's Missionaries, Galveston
plays at Houston, on that day,
Shreveport at Dallas and Fort
Worth at Sherman.
The San Antonio team is going
in to win two games of the series,
and will try to make it three.
The opening Of the season will
take place under impressive cere-
monies. The Missionaries and the
Senators will parade the streets in
carriages, In uniform, headed by a
brass band, in which manner they
will proceed out to San Pedro park,
where a concert will take place,
after which the game will COM
mence. One of San Antonio's lead
ing citizens will deliver an ad-
dress, and Mayor Elmendorf will
be prevailed upon to throw the
first ball over the home plate.
Every club has already claimed
the championship flag, but OF
course this will not be awarded
until the end of the season, when
it will be easier to determine which
club is really entitled to it. The
Missionaries are not going to lose
any sleep about the rag, but are
going in to win every game, or at
least make it interesting for their
opponents.
AS hitting team it seems that
Clare's men will occupy promi-
rent place, and will cause many a
pitcher to wish that San Antonio
had never been taken into the
leagr g.
When Old Man Arson and his
team were here Jimmie Ryan said
that Galveston has good team,
but the Sand Crabs will have a
strong rival in the Missionaries,
who will cause Galveston a great
deal OF trouble before the season is
over. Arson said that the San An
tonic team was off in fielding and
attributed the cause OF it to the
fact that the players were more or
less strange to each others
methods.
NIoparor C1nra hos arroppo6 q
code OF signals which the team will
use, and he will have the men
down to team work in very short
while. These signals will not be
known to anyone else but the play
erS.
The climate OF San Antonio cap
tured Uncle Arson, and he would
have remained here for another
game, but had to fill an engage
ment at Austin and other places
while en- route to st. Louis, where
he will have to be with his team
on April Is TO open the National
| League season with the St. Louis
Browns. Arson was more pleased
with San Antonio than Calves
ton and said that when be comes
to Texas again, which will he next
winter, he will make it a point
to come to San Antonio earlier and
stay here a few days with his men
He said the New York team made
big mistake by not coming to
| San Antonio, as Manager Davis at
first intended, and that the Giants
would have been in much better
condition now had they come here
This was Pitcher Grittith's sec.
ond visit to San Antonio, also
Catcher Mike Kittredge's. Both
were here with the Boston team a
little over a year ago.
\ FEW RULES EXPLAINED.
At a recent ball game at San
Pedro park an argument arose re.
garding the required distance from
home plate to the left, center OF
right field fence. The distance
from the home plate to the fence
at San Pedro park has been ques
toned in more than one instance
1t seems that the fence is too close
to the home plate and that batter
should not be allowed more thar
two bases on a hit over the fence
The players, however, differ in this
respect, and say that the fence il
far enough from the plate and tina
it takes good hit to lift fly oveI
het fence.
For those who may have occasion
to question the distance, the fol
lowing may not be amiss: