San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-24

Last IHurSuay Light COnldllleu IliS
names of players selected for the San
Antonio team for the ensuing season.
That is about the way the team will
line up. There may, however, be a
few changes, and if any, they will be
for the best. OF the players mention
ed the new faces will be Fred Raymer,
shortstop, and the pitchers, which may
be Ed Kagey and Savers. These are
all youngsters, but they have been rec
commended by men who have played
with them and who OConnor knows
to be all right. Raymer has played
with Stanley and Herbert and they
both speak very highly of his work.
Although the cranks will regret to lose
Percy Griffin, who was undoubtedly
one of the finest shoTtstOps ever in
Texas, young Raymer will be equally
as popular if he can play the game
Griffin did last year, and he is said to
be better all round man than Griffin.
The pitchers have never been in the
south. Kagey was given a trial by
New York for the big league hast
spring, and ought to be good enough
for the Texas association this summer.
Sayers has pitched for a number of
semi-professional teams of Ohio the
past three seasons Billy Kohnle, who
is to play left field for the Bronchos,
played that position for DenisOn last
season and led off at the bat for the
Indians. He is well remembered and
the cranks are glad to have him. For
center field Hennecke or Bailey will
|. I'M,
the Blue Lick Independent team of
Cincinnati last season and is a first
class man. Bailey played with Deni-
son and also with Austin last year and
is a good hitter as we'll as fielder.
The uniform for the San Antonio
team willmost likely be gray shirts
and pants, black stockings and belts,
gray caps, and the name San Anto-
Mo" in full, in black letters across the
shirt front.
The park question is yet unsettled.
President Weiss of the San Antonio
street car line, says he is ready to do
business as soon as the local asoCia-
ton can show UP something. The
association is constantly increasing in
membership, and there need be no fear
that it will not be a success. The
members are pleased with the outlook
and are confident that team can cas-
lily be made self-sustaining in San An
tonic if properly managed. Mr..
Weiss was seen during the week by
a Light reporter in regard to a bicycle
track and baseball park he contempla-
al -
said that Mr.. McAdams, of Dallas had
called on him regarding the building
Of board bicycle track, and that he is
now considering the feasibility of cree
ting such, which is also to answer the
purposes of a baseball park.
About five years ago, when John ia
cob McCloskey was managing the
Houston team, he CAME to San Antonio
to play series of games with the tail
enders. which were then under the
guidance of Lou Sylvester. The writ
er asked Napoleon Mack how it is
that his men always play such good
ball for him. McCloskey always lends
an ear to anyone seeking information
and this partly accounts for his popu-
larity Now, I'll tell you,' he replied,
what did with Jim Flynn. Jim can
play ball if he wants to, and would
have made enc of the best third base
men in the business had he taken care
of himself. Jim played for me at
Houston and he went to his old tricks
of drinking. We had to play at Gal
weston one afternoon and everybody
was on hand but Mikado Flynn. I
found him later in the dressing room,
xunder the shower bath, trying to So
Der up. What / called him can't re-
member, but know they We're all kinds
of pet names. Jim came out to play.
He got on third and was knocked down
by liner that struck him in the chest.
When he went to bat he fell on his
face and skinned his nose while run
ming to first base. The crowd yelled
and / tore out my hair by the bunch.
/ put Flynn out of the game and took
in an amateur. Flynn was going to
quit the team and go on the police
pfSrce. and begged him to go, but then
he rsfpsed, and begged me to take him
hack on the team. He promised to
quit drinking and put him on third.
He did quit drinking and played the
game Oh Ills llle. kept HlHl ABOUT
three weeks. during which time he
played the bag out of sight and hit
we'll l then transferred him to San
Antonio and later heard that he had
been drinking again. The only way
TO handle some ball players is to let
them know you can get along without
them. OF course, 1 don't mean all bal
players"
II will be a source of pleasure to see
the elongated figure of Frank Parvir
strutting on the diamond next sum
mer. He is reported having signed
with Galveston. All San Antonio i:
sorry to lose him, for "Old Bones" wa'
considered one of the best twirler!
that ever stood on Texas diamond
The only drawback was that he cOulC
not run or field, but as a pitcher, he il
second to none outside of the biz
league. He has made a study Of tn,
art of pitching, and there is not a bats
man that he faced last season that h.