San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-03
YESTERDAYS RESULTS.

YESTERDAYS RESULTS.
At San Acknowledgements 5, San
| Antonio 3.
AT Austin-Houston 7, Austin 5.
At Dallas-Denison-S Sherman 4. Dali
las 3.
At Fort Worth-Fort Worth 6, Paris
2.
The seating capacity of San Pedro
Park was put to the test yesterday
| and was found wanting. There were
fully two thousand people on the
grounds and every available spot was
| occupied. These two thousand peo-
pie went out to witness the inaugural
| ceremonies of three-days' stay in
| San Antonio of the distinguished Sand
Crabs of Galveston as the guests of
Honorable Mike O'Connor and his en-
inent Bronchos of San Antonio. They
were rendered a reception as only San
Antonio can give visitors, and when
the Alpine figure of one Frank Parvin
| known in San Antonio as "Old Bones,
| of Old Mizzoura," STROBE along the way
| in measured manner deafening cheers
| arose from the multitude to greet the
greatest pitcher of baseball that ever
stood on a Texas diamond. He ac-
knowledged the compliment with a
pleasant smile and dotted his cap.
''Old Bones" looks well and when his
back was turned to the crowd one
would hardly believe it was the same
| Frank Parvin who, number of San
Antonio rooters were inclined to believe
last year ought to be in the hospital
instead of playing ball.
But "Old Bones" fooled 'em. 1t did
not take him long to show his San
| Antonio friends that he still can pitch
a few. 1t is due to his efforts alone
that the Bronchos' string of victories
is broken. He started in with all the
speed he had at his command and it
was chain lightning. Mike O'Connor
and his Bronchos sat around the water
key with a look of remorse on their
| countenances. Parvin's speed had ev-
erybody guessing-even the umpire
and he called Billie Kohnle out on
strikes before he could swallow his
adamsapple three times. The Bron-
/
Parvin, but he received such excellent
structed the right-of-wav of long
Beecher's pair of errors at short the
visitors played a magnificent game
No matter where we hit the hall there
was a fielder and he seemed to know
| what to do with it. Besides the visit
ors were nicely assisted from an out
side source. There is a telegraph pole
near the centre field fence of San Pc
dro park, which Parvin ought to es-
TEEN as memento. This pole OBJ
structed the right-of1way of a long
drive of George Keefe's bat in the sew
enth inning, which would have meant
home run. But the ball bounded
back into the park and Keefe only got
to second base while Billie Kohnle
went around to third from first. Then
came the mighty Mike and drove the
ball down the third base line for two
bags, while Kohnle and Keefe came
in.
Here's where we rooted.
Until that time the score was SO for
b. Galveston. Our first hopes were real
lied. 1t looked like a shut-out until
that time. and Mikes nit could not
have been more timely. Galveston
failed to score any more, while We
made another in the ninth by O'Connor
scoring.
What did we do in. the field? Well
we played our same old game. and ev-
eryone knows what that is. That boy
Looie Knau, outshines Galveston's
: electric" shortstop like an arc over a
: tallow candle. Everybody else played
: his same bang-up game. and we can
, only truthfully say that "Old Bones"
Parvin was the only obstacle in our
) way.
!, DIAMOND DUST.
The rooters played an errorless game
yesterday.
1t is evident that Umpire Clark is ex-
ercising a little too much authority.
+, Umpires ought to be instructed to use
better discretion on weaker teams.
:. weikeart's removal from the game at
Austin yesterday was a bad step.
: Because Mat Stanley called Umpire
, Clark's attention to a certain play our
= little catcher was fined S. That's
drawing it a little too fine.