San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-21

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At San Antonio-San Antonio 6, DEM
ison 5. Twelve innings. 81
At Austin-Austin s, Paris /. a
At Houston-Houston q, Fort Worth
At Galveston--Galvest IL, Dallas Al
About twelve hundred lusty-lunged
rooters saw the Bronchos take the Sec
ond game from the Indians at San Pc
dro park yesterday afternoon, after
twelve long, interesting, exciting and
errorful innings. The game was inter-
Testing and exciting throughout. The
llengthiness OF the contest is attributed
to Denison, for with that Waterbury
movement Of McGinnis on the slab,
| 1t is a wonder that the game was fin
ished before the moon came up. That
man is actually as slow as an ox-cart
going through mud field. The error
full and terrible part Of the game be-
longs to San Antonio Errors-by the
| baskets-big, little, all sizes, shapes,
colors and forms-anything, anywhere
and everywhere-the errors were there
| all the time.
But we won.
Betcher basehit We won, and as fair
and square as any old game could be
won.
| Jack Phelan may not be the best
umpire that ever happened, but there
is one thing for dead certainty-he
| can give lot of the Texas league de-
| butants few valuable pointers on
the game. His judgment at TINS on
base plays and even on balls and
| strikes, seems to be far from perfect.
But we are not criticising umpires, for
they alone are in position where they
can see the best, and their decisions are
final. Granting that Phelan's judy
ment is poor, he gives 1t to one side as
bad as to the other. and of course
there are almost daily occurrences Of
kicking and wrangling on the field,
This becomes tiresome to the specta-
tors. 1t is the umpire's duty-+and in
| his powerful prevent any kicking and
wrangling on the ball field-tand Bresi-
dent Heuermann has issued special nj
| structions on this point. So follow in
| structions, Mr.. Umpire. 9.E-
The way the game started was evil
dence that there would be some sweat
ing before 1t was over. The first three
/ innings passed without a run or hit
| on either side. In the fdurthI Bailey
broke the spell by rapping out a double
| between right and centre field. Knau
| followed with hit and Bailey scored.
| Again the Indians were whitewashed,
| and in the fifth Red Herbert uppercut
one of McGinnis' choice drops for two
bases and scored on Willie Kohnle's
| hit to right field. The Denison players
| contended 1t was a foul and kicked,
but the bali hit fully foot within the
| line. The visitors had not yet scored
and the sixth inning arrived. Red
| Herbert then suffered the agonies of
/ hit, and Bill Kimmer touched him
| for two bases. Alexander followed
| with a single and Kimmer scored the
| first run for the visitors.
In the eighth our trouble broke out,
and they were as plentiful as water
| melons on the Nineteenth of June and
our chances were about as bright as
| ripe watermelon in front of a happy
| niger. Joe Dowie reached first on a
hit and was advanced on Chiles' hit,
Kimmer hit to Herbert, who in trying
| to catch Dowie at third, threw wild
and Joe scored. 1t was % and one
| out Alexander then hit to Herbert,
who threw to Stanley and Matt ran
| Chiles down to third, putting the sec
| ond hand out, With Buck Miller at the
bat, Kimmer on third and Alexander
on first, the latter went down to sec
ond. Stanley threw to the bag, but
Clark failed to cover it, and the ball
went out to centrefeld, while Kimmer
scored and Alexander came home all
the way from second. making the score
Az for Denison. While the runs were
scored on Clark's failure to cover Sec
ond base, Stanley gets the error on a
wild throw.
Confederate money could buy San
Antonjo's chances at this stage of the
game. A few Indians-not Of the Den
ison tribe-but in the grand stand
then proceeded to rake the Bronchos
over the Goals. Oh, yes. 1t happens
quite often that there are Indians in
the grand stand, and the savages on
the plains could teach them few les
sons in politeness-not ballroom man
ners, but baseball etiquette-common-
ly known as roofing for the home team