San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-28

Antonio 7, Dallas 4. Second game:
San Antonio s, Dallas l.
At Houston-First game: Houston
6, Denison 5. Second game: Houston
IL, Denison6.
At Galveston-Galveston 6, Paris 8.
At Austin-Austin 8, Fort Worth Z.
Tho thousand men, women and chill
dren saw O'Connor's Bronchos throw
down McCloskey's Defenders at San
Pedro park yesterday afternoon. 1t
was double event and snappy af-
fair. Three hours of solid fun, recrea-
ton, excitement and pleasure was de-
rived by those who witnessed the
games. 1t was a good investment for
an afternoons pastime, and every
body left the ball park highly pleased
with what they saw.
They saw the score 80 for Dallas at
one time; they saw the Bronchos do a
little stickwork; they saw Clark steal
six bases; Matt Stanley put six fouls
over left field fence and five double
plays. They also saw young San An
tonian in the role of pitcher, and al
so saw new umpire.
All this for two-bits.
There were two games. Red Her
bert pitched the first and the Defend
ers started right at him. A base on
balls and three hits gave them three
runs in the first inning. Red then let
out another link in his arm and had
the Defenders at his mercy for the ball
ance of the game. Kid Beckwith, who
performed for the visitors, gave the
Champs trouble for the first three in
nings, and in that time only one hit
had been made In the fourth, howev-
er, a warm acquaintance cropped out
between the leaders and the kid and
pair of runs resulted. The acquaint-
ance gradually grew, while Red Her
bert kept the Defenders at a polite
distance.
In the second game McCloskey show
ed up Jake Volz, young San Anton
ian, whose ambition is to become a ia
nous twirler. Volz had been promised
trial by Mike O'Connor at the first
opportunity, but as the Bronchos are
now engaged in winning baseball
championships for San Antonio,
O'Connor could not afford to jeopar-
die our chances by experimenting
with phenoms. Volz had been given
one trial and showed that he has the
qualifications of pitcher, and so Mike
O'Connor recommended him to Nc
Closkey, who is in search of another
twirler since Blackburn has gone to
Baltimore McCloskey put in Volz yes
terday for the second game. The
youngster was evidently little nerv-
Gus at going against such hardhitting
gang as the Bronchos and started in
wild. Five bases on balls and 6 hits was
the harvest of the first two innings,
and these yielded the Bronchos eight
| runs. There was also a base stealing
seance in these two innings and no
| less than seven bags were purloined
| by our daring baserunners. After that
Volz steadied down and held
the Bronchos down to four hits and
| without run for the balance of the
| game. fitzpatrick pitched for the To-
Gals. He was steady and had good
| speed and curves and kept the WIS.,
tors hits scattered.
| Yesterday also closed the first cham
| pionship series with San Antonio in
the lead by a big margin. The second
series begins this afternoon with
Houston at San Antonio, Galveston al
| Austin, Denison at Fort Worth and
Paris at Dallas.
BILLY Mason, formerly umpire in the
Western association" handled the indi
Gator yesterday, and with the exception
of a few ridiculous kicks from tn,
grandstandites, gave satisfaction. Hi
decision of Knau's home run hit owe
right field fence in the second inning
of the second game was disputed b.
Catcher Menafee, and seemed to be
foul ball. Jack Brennan will officiat
in the new series in San Antonio an,
!, some good Empirical work can b
looked for. =
. Charley Weber met the ball wit
striking regularity. Out of ten time
up he got six hits.
: Looie Knau and Charley Weber ha
terrible collision in the eighth innin
of the second game. Volz hit a ba
between third and short and both wen
after it. Weber's knee struck Knau
the stomach and Knau's neck wa
twisted by Weber's arm. For a Will
! it was feared that the little shortsto
was seriously hurt, but he finished tn
game, although the severe shaking-u
resulted in a terrible headache for hin
The error goes to Knau, as the coll
sion occurred after the shortstop ha
fumbled the ball.
A few alleged rooters made specia
/. ty Of roasting some of the home pla.
" ers. Isn't it about time that Messr
O'Connor and Weber ought to ha,
: the unanimous support of the Peep
of San Antonio?
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