San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-22

AT Galveston-Galveston 8, Dallas 0.
A few more drives like Big Bill KEN
mer's in the eighth yesterday would
drive Mike O'Connor to vichy for the
rest OF his days. and Mike is not so
very old yet. although he does own up
to thirty. And someone has been cru
ell enough to say that Mike has been |
playing ball the past thirty years.
Railroad mer-and they never lie-as-
sert that Mike highballed the first
freight that ever rolled into this glor-
ious old Loue Star state. All that
may be true, but there's one thing GER
tain-as long as O'Connor keeps that
Bronchorian herd in this hot land Of
the tamale he will never have to do
any more highballing, and il he stays
here long enough he'll go to Congress.
And what hot congressman he would
be. No fines here, and what pudding
for Mike With his finished style Of
kicking he could go up to the pie coun-
ter and make people believe he's being
rebber-oh, he woulsn't do a thing up
there.
But not to conjecture and resum-
| ing Bill Kemmer's drive. 1t was
vicious drive over the fence and two
Indians came in on it. But there were
not enough Of them to materially affect
our standing in the percentage table.
1t was a real baseball game all
through. Both sides were meeting the
ball. The infield was hard and fast
and the balls were hit to the fielders
like bullets against a steel armor.
| Fred valdois on third in particular
cut off several hits that were fast
enough to tear a mans hand off. But
this lad stopped them and threw the
runners out with ease. In the eighth
| inning, however, an accident happen
| ed to this popular player, which will
keep him out of the game for several
days, and he has the universal sympa-
thy of the rooters. Pierce Chiles hit
| a high ny, and Val got under it. The
| sky was clear and the sun was blind
ing. 1t was what ball players call
high sky" and is bad for the judgment
of fly balls. But Val stood under the
ball with his outstretched hands, mere
| ly guessing where the ball would drop.
The ball struck Valdois hand and fell
to the ground. Matt Stanley picked
| it up and threw to second, forcing out
Joe Dowie. Val held his right hand
and a stream Of blood flowed from 1t.
The hand was torn open between the
little and third fingers, where the ball
hit, the wound being about half an
inch long. Val, however, finished the
game. And then some Jimmie Fresh
yelled, Get cork finger" That real
| ly sounded nice.
There were a few double plays made
that must not be left unnoticed. In
the eighth, right after Kemmer's drive,
| that electric trio-Knau, Clark and
| O'Connor-doubled up Alexander and
Miller in lightning manner. In the
second inning fitzpatrick, Clark and
O'Connor put out Page and Bleecher
without the ball touching the ground,
and in the seventh O'Connor made
double play all by himself. Bam-
inert, Beecher and Kemmer also ex-
eiuted a double play in the seventh in
ming, retiring O'Connor and Stanley.
Umpire Phelan put up an errorless
game, with one possible exception. 1t
was in the visitors last inning and an
infield hit of George Page. The UNI
pire called it foul, while the Deni-
son players said it was fair. 1t was
the only doubtful decision and would
not have changed the score.
The Texas baseball solons met in
Galveston yesterday and agreed to di-
vide the championship season. The
first season closes June 81, which is
next Sunday, when Dallas closes her
series in San Antonio also closing the
series of twelve games at home. The
second season will begin June g. It
is expected that the present schedule
will be continued. and in that event,
the Bronchos will open in North Texas.
This is the schedule for June %, 20, so:
San Antonio at Fort Worth, Austin at
Dallas, Houston at Denison, Galveston
at Paris. The Bronchos play twelve
games in North Texas, closing at Par
is Jhly and opening in San
Antonio July 10 with Austin.
Mr.. Alex Easton, of Galveston, was
Unanimously elected sole arbitrator Of
the Texas association at yesterdays |
meeting. All disputes and conten-
tons will be referred to him for final |
adjustment. The selection will un-
doubtedly meet with universal endorse
ment from all over the state With |
such men as Messrs. Easton, Heuer-
mann and Dermody identified with the |
national game, baseball will continue |
to enjoy its present prosperity in this |
state for many years to come.