San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-03-14

Montgomery, third base; J. d. Rey
nOldS, shortstOp; j. Gettleman, left
field; Eddie Ashenback, centertield
Buck Miller, right field. WOlover is to
captain the team. He played third
base for Fort Worth last season.
BY the Goth, all of the San Antonio
players will be here. Railroad trans
portation was sent to Matt Stanley at
San Francisco yesterday. Tickets
will be forwarded to the balance next
Tuesday. Charley Weber and George
| Fitzpatrick come from Hot Springs,
Ark, Billy KOhnle and Louis Knau
from Cincinnati, o., Tom Hayes and
| Con Harlow from st. Louis. The to-
| tai amount required for railroad fare
will be about $3.50. Bropheys trans
pOrtatiOn for his players last year vas
S2S4, being a saving of over 500 on
this item alone this year.
Up to this day the record of long
distance throwing of baseball made
by John Hatfield at Brooklyn in Oc-
tOber, 1872, is unbroken. The record
made on that occasion is here append
ed: Hatfield, of the Mutual club, 1873
yards. l foot. ~ inches: Andy Leon
ard, Boston. 119 yards, 1 foot, 10 in
cheS; George Wright. Boston, III
yards, l foot, inches; w. Fisher. Ath-
letic, 112 yards, 6 inches; A. c.. An
son, Athletic, 40 yards, 6 inches. AL
though claims have been made that
Hatfield's record has since been sur
passed. one being that Ed Crane, the
old New York pitcher, had thrown 1874
yards, there are no official records to
show it. and Hatfield's record is con-
sidered the best vet attained in that
line
There are some who fear that Paris
and DeniSOn and Sherman have been
Handicapped owing to their late admiS-
sion to the Texas association, mas
much that they will not be able to get
good players. 1t is Il mistaken idea
Both these teams will be in the hands
of good men. Duke JantZen will han
die the Paris team and Pete Week
becker will be at the head of the
DenisOn-Sherman team, and the team
that wins the pennant will have to
hustle to beat them. Don't be worried
about these teams. They will make
some of those champion clubs on pa
per wish they had never been admit
ed before the season is over.
Don't you know | am kind of afraid
of that Fort Worth gang?" remark
ed Bill Mcbride the other day. and he
seldom fails to call the turn. That
fellow, Ward, is a shrewd guy, and lie
is going to spring a lot of youngsters
that we have never heard of that will
surprise us. He is getting them from
the Kansas and Nebraska district,
just where he got some of his last
years wonders from Some say that
Ward has been lucky the past two
years in getting such wonders, and
that it was merely an accident. | be-
lieve he has an agent over there, for
you never hear of him letting play
er 90 after he signs him and they all
prove good men. Now who ever heard
of Stanley before he played with Fort
Worth. | don't think he ever played
in any league before" 1t seems that
Mcbride has it sized up about correct
ly. There are evidently n few peO-
pie in Texas who know more about
baseball than some who pose as au-
thOrities, but they don't go around,
telling everybody about it.
This is one George Keefe tells on
Pitcher Fred Schmidt, who was in the
Missionary fold of 90: 1T was dur
ing the Brotherhood year, when
Schmidt was with Pittsburg. The
team was playing New York one after
noon and Mike Herman was at the
bat Schmidt, who was in the box,
pulled out his little book lit is a well
known fact that Schmidt always kept
tab on the players weakness at the
bat.) He had never faced Tiernan be-
fore, and consequently did not know
his weakness, and he soon found that
Tiernan had no weakness. First he
gave him high ball, which Herman
put over the right field fence. The next
time he gave him low one and it
went over the left field fence. The
next ball he put around his waist,and
| it nearly tore one of Schmidts legs
off. When Schmidt came in from the
field he said: No more high balls, no
more low balls, base on balls al
ways, Gus Land then told how
Schmidt once tried to find Pop An
sons weakness. Is it necessary to
add that every time the odd man
stepped to the plate Schmidt would
not put the balls over?
Those holding old tickets are re-
quested to turn them over to George
Eichlitz in the Kampmann building
and receive upon presentation thereof
Il coupon ticket. emitting them tC
admission as well as to grand stand
The old tickets will not be recognized
at the gate.