San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-07
BASEBALL.
Houston Made it Three Straight For
San Antonio.

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San Antonio.
All Rooterdom was sad last
night, the reason Of which Is well
known. The Bronchos will have
to do some hard work to regain
their popularity. If they can take
three straight from Galveston
they will be forgiven. But to do
that they must hit better than
they have in the past series. Their
hitting yesterday was as weak as
grandstand lemonade. They APP
peared like lot of babies in the
hands of Pitcher Roach. The best
they could was to hit the ball in
the air to the fielders. They con-
nected safely with the Houston
southpaw only four times.
In the fourth inning, however, it
looked as il something was going
to happen. Miller sent a siz-
zling grounder to short, which
Clark failed to do business
with. Lawrence advanced him,
and Buck came in on Her.
bert's drive to center for
two bases. The balls chased past
the fielders like young cyclones,
and Roach was jumping sideways.
Something was to be done, for to
think was to act. Reed got the
first thought, and when Herman
was up, Reed was sitting on second
base with his shoe off, looking for
the stone that wasn't there. Um-
pire Clark looked into the matter,
but Roach had steadied down, Reed
readjusted his trilby and the
Bronchos were retired without
scoring another run. 1t was an
old trick, but Reed worked it at
the right time. After that the
Bronchos and Roach were stran-
gers. ..-.
Parvin's pitching far excelled
that of Roach. He struck out
every man on the Houston
team, excepting Slagle. Still
it was Parvin that gave
the visitors most of their runs.
The first run was scored on a base
on balls, a steal and a double in
the first inning. In the eighth
Parvin caught Clark between the
bases and should have retired the
side, but he let the runner get
away, and after that the visit
ors drove "Old Bones" to the
woods making six runs with the
stick.
Never mind the score.
San Antonio is now in fourth
place in the Texas league. There
are four clubs in the race.
Visiting ball players say that
the San Antonio diamond and out.
field are the worst in the state.
They say that a ball game here
depends solely upon luck-the
balls bound very untrue and the
players can't even guess which
way they may bound. This Is
noticed in every game, and
until the grounds are improved
clean fielding will be impossible.
All kinds of rumors are afiost
changes on the team. A
report was out last night that
Bammert, Issacs and Nance had
been secured.
The Galveston Sand Grabs will
open this afternoon at 4 as o'clock
for three games. This will be the
last serted here until August IA.
George Keefe arrived in the city
from Fort Worth this morning to
join the San Antonio ball team.
He is accompanied by his wife and
child.
There is a general desire among
the rooters to have the Napoleon,
John J. McCloskey, take hold Of
the Bronchos.
The Galveston baseball team
arrived in the city this morning,
and brought with them Shortstop
John Bammert, Outfielder Kid
Nance and Second Baseman Stein
field, who have been secured by Gal.
weston. Blakey, Gates and Cole
are not with the team.
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