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

| tnlnS crush likes more luiu duOluel
in the athletic line it is n good base
ball game. Yes, there is Waddy Tate
and Barney Fegan and a few others,
but none of them have got the edge on
w. q. He was here during the stock
mems convention, and Crush is every
where where there is anything. The
conversation drifted to the national
pastime. Il hope that Texas will
have good season this year." said he.
And we surely will" put in Mike o.
Conner. "All the cities have good
clubs and they are all in good hands,
and they ought to give some exciting
games" Exciting gamesE replied
Crush. That's what we want. We
want a close race, so that there is not
much margin between the leaders and
tailenderS. Nobody wants to see one
club get TO the top and stay there,
nor do we want TO see one club have
n Walk-Over with another. The teams
must be equal in strength, and unless
they are baseball will not be Il sue
cess"
Advices from Richmond, Va. say
that Charley Elsey is to play first
| base and Outfield for that cam.
If you should see the earth rocking
don't be afraid Its no earthquake. 1t
is only Charley Bailey'S 200 avOrdu-
pois in motion. That boy is going out
TO center field, where old Mike Law
renee used to live. Bailey will have to
get n wiggle on him to cover the
| ground that little Mike used to get
over. but just look at the difference at
the bat. Here's where Bailey will be
at home. and he is no novice on the
bases. either. Bailey has played pro
fessiOnal ball for the past five years.
He started in with independent teams
around Blair, Neb., where he was
born March ., 1868. In 1892 he play
ed with Blair, of the Nebraska state
league. and also with Fremont In '93
and "a he was with Lead City of the
Black Hills league. and in 80 with
Cedar Rapids of the Eastern Iowa
| league Last year he opened with
Sherman. then went to DeniSOn and
closed with Austin. Bailey will also
be used as change catcher in case
Stanley should meet with an accident.
Pitcher Ed. Kagey, whom OCOnnOr
was after. is to play with MinneapO-
/ lis this season. SO is Partridge. whom
Austin tried to get.
| Ted Sullivan, who learned how to
pull off a badger fight in San AntO-
Mo two years ago, is going to tour
Mexico with two professional base
ball teams next fall. 1t will be the
first tour of that kind ever attempt
ed, and there is no reason why it
should not be success. MeXicanS like
to see baseball and delight in playing
| the game, and there are some very
good players among them. Sullivan
| intends to take the Baltimore team
and another team composed of play
ers picked from the various league
| teams. There will be twenty-five
ball players in the party and probably
several others who will make the
| trip, among those expected being
General Hi Hi Dixwell, who has be-
come famous as baseball rOoter and
is known wherever the game is play
ed. The party will travel in a private
car and the expenses are to be about
$50 day. They expect to play game
in Baltimore; then follow with games
at Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Cincinna-
ii, Chicago, ST. Louis. Omaha, Kansas
City and Denver. and then play about
a week in San Francisco. They will
return by the Southern Pacific route,
playing Los Angeles, Ell PaSo and San
| Antonio. From the last-named city
they will jump into Mexico. They will
stay in the City of Mexico about two
weeks. With an expense of $40 or
$50 a day, a game nearly every day,
the party ought to quit big winner on
the trip.
The uniform of the Houston team
will be blue with white trimmings
Those were the Fort Worth cOlOrs Of
'SS.
All arrangements for the DeniSOn
Sherman team have been completed
, and Pete Weckbecker has begun sign
ing his players. He is after the fol
. lowing men: BriStOw, with Calves
| ton in 90: Sparks, with Mobile las
season. and Murray,a young left har
= der. pitchers; Billy Kimmer, with Ga
weston last season, first base; Payntel
with Mobile last season, second base
l Joe DOwie of New Orleans, third base
l ! Johnnie Bammert, with Fort Wort
= last season, shOrtstop. He is also al
' ter Pitcher McGinnis, of the SOuther
league, and George Page, of Calves
ton. He has not announced his Ou
field. Weckbecker will do the catcf
ing for the team. Pete is a gentle
manly little ball player and his Sa
Antonio friends are glad to see hiI
getting a good team.
+ "A ROOter" writes to the Light SUI
q costing the formation of a ROOtel
y club. His idea is good one and wi
: undoubtedly meet the approval of a
i who have the interest of the game Z
n heart The Light will have more
+ say on this subject next Sunday.
f \ force of men under the supervi'
e ion of f. n. Sanchez, was put to wOr
4 on the San Pedro ball park last Tues
b day. 1t is hoped that the work wi
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