The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-07-06

Three times winner in the series
of three games with one of the finest
teams in Mexico, the Brownsville
baseball team may well feel proud
and more especially so as this was
the opening event at the new base
ball park in this city. That it was
brilliant success, the fans were
unanimous in declaring. The large
crowds and enthusiasm displayed at
each game of the series was crafty
ing indeed to the locals, and inspired
both teams to play their very best
Saturdays Game.
Saturday afternoon promptly at
the appointed hour the two teams
the Zaragoza Academy team from
Monterey and the Brownsville team,
appeared on the diamond ready for
the series of three games. The Mon
terey team felt confident of success
and the locals were equally as sure of
their side, and both began prancing
up and down the line eager for the
conflict to begin.
The grandstand and bleachers
were filled with about seven hundred
fans who were waiting with bated
breath for the game to- be called.
The interest of the fans was about
equally divided between the contest
ing teams, as there were present
many Mexicans who were anxious to
see the Zaragoza Academy team car
ry of the honors of the day by giving
the locals good drubbing.
The game was called about four
O'Clock, DIR. F. J. Combe, the mayor,
pitching the first ball on the new dia-
mond. He succeeded in striking out
the first man up, which brought
forth cheer after cheer. The first in
ming opened up rather cheer
less for the visitors, as they were
unable to :, find CobOlini's
curves and were closed out in the
one, two, three order But in
Brownsville's half of that inning
they rapidly connected up with two
hits and, coupled with several er-
rors on the part of the visitors, they
brought five men over the home
plate. In the third inning the ga
H." boys woke up, but they were I'M
able to bring in more than one run,
owing to the perfect fielding of the
locals. In this same inning, the To-
Gals brought two more runs in. At
ter this they made no more runs I'M
til the eighth inning, but meanwhile
the visiting team made four runs.
This aroused great interest on the
part of the fans, as it gave the visi-
tors splendid chance to catch up, if
not overtake their opponents. In
the beginning of the eighth, the first
man up for the Monterey team hit a
safe one to center and made first,
and it was not long before they had
the bases full with no one out. At
this juncture two of the visitors
famed out and the next man up
sent hot liner to short, who failed
to stop it, and they brought in a
run. The bases still being full they
had an excellent showing to score a
few more runs but the man at the bat
sent a fly to first-baseman, who
caught it and retired the side 1t was
in the last half of this inning that
the Monterey team went to pieces
and allowed the locals to swat the
ball all over the field. which result
ed in five more runs for the locals.
AS the visitors could do nothing in
their half of the ninth, the game was
won by the Brownsville team by the
score of II to 5.
Score by innings:
% 0 l 8 0 0 0 i
Br'nsyille - 5 0 2 0 0 0 0 5-12
Features of the game:
Two base hits, Vann. Struck out,
Cobolini Z, Fernandez s. Base on
balls, Cobolini 2, Fernandez 3. Hit
by pitched ball, Fernandez. Passed
balls, vann 1, Morales 2. Double
play, McClintock to Rorke.
Umpire. Moore
Second Local Triumph.
The game Sunday was replete with
interesting plays by both teams and
was heartily cheered time and again
by the many fans present. The game
was noted chiefly for wrangling on
both sides. About half of the time
was taken up in wrangling over the
decisions of the umpire.
The game was called about ten
o'clock, with Brownsville in the field
and the visitors at the bat AS in
the preceding game, the visitors were
put out in one, two three order in 1
the first inning, owing to the inabili
ity of the batters to find the "pillf