San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-12

ter relieved Cuppy in the fourth in
ming and New York got only one hit
off him, and he pitched all of the sec
Ond game, in which he let "Scrappy"
Joyce's men down with seven hits.
! This may have the effect of turning
McAllister into a regular pitcher for
! Cleveland.
Jack Brennan is catching for Nc
ClOskey's ex-Dallas team at Joplin,
Mo. Brennan caught for the old Ath-
letics in 1887. lie will very likely be
one of the umpires in the big league
next season. Anyway, he's good
enough TO hold his own up there.
Earl Wagner will introduce reso-
luton at the fall meeting of the Ma
tional league to abolish bunting"
He believes that if this style of adj
vancing baserunners is done away
with. the batting, fielding and abes-
running will be improved.
Substitute umpires in the National
league are paid $3.50 a game for
their services.
| Other Bronchos who are occasion
ally heard from are Kohnle, Weber,
Valdois and BUSY Kleeman, of the '96
| herd. They are all in Cincinnati
playing semi-professional ball and
seem to be doing well. In a game
last Sunday between the Bond Hills
and the Shamrocks at League park
there were 1000 people present.
Weber pitched for the Shamrocks and
had to quit in the third inning on ac-
! count of a sore arm. 1t was a rot
ten game and the ShamrOcks were
beaten by a score of Is to IL. The
Shamrocks play again today Sunday
and eX-Champion pugilist Jim Cor
bett will play first base for them.
The many friends of La LoOie Knau
the popular little shortstop of the late
BronchOs, are glad to see him doing
so well with Indianapolis, the leaders
of the Western association. Knau is
| playing shortstop for that team and
his work is every bit as good as it
was down here, and that's saying
| great deal. He is also hitting regu-
lar. which indicates that the league is
not too fast for him.
Charley Bailey was seen on the
street yesterday. He is looking fine
as silk and said he could go in today
and play as good a game as ever. 81
| tell you. there are some people draw
! ing salaries in the big league that
would be too slow for the company
that played in Texas this year." said
he. "People have no idea what fast
league this was. Just look at Gett-
man and Nance; they haven't got
bit of trouble to hold their own"
George Dermody, of Galveston, is
after the Philadelphia club for the
extent of about five hundred bucks,
which has been paid John Ward, of
| the Fort Worth club, for Pitcher
| Sparks. 1t appears that Dermody
| loaned Sparks to Ward to play in the
| series with Dallas, and that Ward ne
gotiated with Philadelphia for
the sale of Sparks, which
was consummated and that the Phil
adelphia club, paid Ward $500 for the
twirler. Now comes Dermody and
asks what right had Ward to sell the
player. Dermody has referred the
matter to President Heuermann, who
has notified the Philadelphia club of
Galyeston's claim on the player.
Catcher Shriver. of the Cincinnatis
contends that the catcher never lived
who could throw ball from the plate
to second base on a line, so that the
ball would not rise more than six feet
during any part of the journey, and so
that it can be handled by the fielder.
He is willing to bet $25 to this, and so
far no one has taken it up. Shriver is
the only player living that has ever
accomplished the feat of catching a
baseball dropped from lie top of the
Washington monument. and he says
he has tried to throw to second base
on a line lower than six feet and has
never been able to do it.