El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-29

san Antonio, 1e2aSs June 19.---A44 VI
der to make the series in the Texas
league more interesting the managers
lave practically decided to cut the Sc
ries half in two and have play OIL
games for the pennanL Houston II
This is done, is assured of winning
the first series and with fine chance
for the pennant.
Seven eager clubs are gazing upward
with dripping jaws at the pinnacle oc-
cupied Dy the festive Houston team
For four weary weeks now the same
raVenous seven have licked their chops
In savory anticipation of the time
when the patatable morsel above them
should fail back into their hands BUT
Houston is as wise as Brer OK ana IN
stead of falling back has persistently
climbed higher to the topmost branches,
to heights too dizzy Tor the less agile
crow below him TO reach.
In San Antonio they are hoping that
the Houston team viii not prove as
good road club as the BrOnchos. Vain
hone! The Houston team this year
has demonstrated that II Is easily
the class OF the league on the tran.
There is not a single team, north or
south, that has put as successful a
campaign on alien loan as has FIJI
mans charge. The Bluffs are playing
well over 500 percent on the trip ana
only on one occasion have fallen be-
low the mark.
tionably the best road club of the sea
Antonio is to outrank Houston on the
journey, it has TO prove it.
san Antonio, Beaumont. Dallas and
Waco occupy the four positions after
Houston. Beaumont could pass the
BroncOs and Dallas tie them in two
games. Waco requires three to get Dy.
Consequently, while there is an un-
doubted first place, second Is disputed
property
4 little further back, Austin. Calves
ton and Fort Worth have indisputably
I.rtyed than tdsE lack first division
class In all three towns hope Is yet
entertained that the three VIII work
up, but it looks as If 1t viii take
AIalOney more than one year 10 get
Galveston into the first division and
that Morris is due for year further
down than his Panthers have finished
in weary days. Austin is but repeat
ing history; In 1922 the Senators won
last. They captured the gonfalccn in
1911. Where are they going to stop
this year?
ton or Fort Worth, can finish last.
Austin Lacks Team Work
1t is hard 10 see Just what is the
natter with Austin unless it is lack Of
team work, that happy combination
Hill was expected to give them
Austin in 1908 undoubtedly had a sor-
ry club. 1t has several first class jokes
with points to them 1t had Brooks
Gordon ready to go back and display
ing no leadership. 1t let Wilson Mat
thews try an Ineffective hand at man
agement and a few other people Who
couldn't manage a street fight 1t
tried amateurs and old hasbeens and
everything else And il failed. 1t is
true that it gave many promising
youngsters to the league and the Sen
ators OF 1905 might almost be said TO
have won the 1909 flag for Houston,
since Sens and Roberts gained from
their ranks Rose, Killifer. Gordon and
Short, whose trade to Waco brought
Hub Northen here. Cy Watson, TOO.
was with that old Austin club. But
the 1908 Statesmen failed and with
good reason
far from formed from the same COM
bination. Downey has bunch Of
good ball players. 1t will be a long
George Smith. lille, Downey himself
Hinninger and quite a few others are
not first rate men. But there is some
thing wrong.
its present position to utter failure to
hit and Wretchedly ineffective pitching
at the start. Galveston's standing is
due TO the failure Of good tWirlerS 10
deliver in critical moments. But Aus
tin has hit and pitched well ana still
loses. II must be the inside game.
Along about August !, the reports Of
sale of players will begin to roll
around. II memory serves US Alright,
RUDE Ra0insOn was sold sfore that
time last year and so was McAdams.
But IL Is Senerdlly between the llISl
days of August and September that this
leagues youngsters go up
There is a big delegation of men IN
the circuit this year whose showing so
far merits trial above for their abil
ity shown on the field. In this list,
which is culled from the younger. tai
ent of the league and omits the vet
Grams, not in criticism of their work,
but because of the well known big
league antipathy to men who have
gone UP and come back again or whose
age initiates against their success. we
offer a bunch of men that we believe
teams in the big show or class IA or
A would profit themselves in trying
out.
Those Who Went Up.
Two men who have gone up are in
cluded because in changed circum-
stances they are in every way deserv-
ing of a new trial Pitchers-Noore
Rose, Edmundson, Foster, Helm, EY
ans. Bader, Perritt, Miller, Jost, Brandt,
Corbett.
Catchers-Allen. Gibson. Harry VIII
liams- Smith
MISUNDERSTANDING, Britton, Wolfe
ben, Midkiff Ems, Kellern,an.
Outfielders - McLaurin, Rennard
Downey, Dali.
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