San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-02
HERO
Of 3-TO-2 WIN
0VERPANTHER
Pitches Phenomenal Bail,
Banking Cats After
Replacing Adams.
SIMON BREAKS 1T UP.
Singles in Tenth After
Boone's Third Hit, a
Healthy Triple.

The Bears out gained the leading
Fort Worth Panthers at League Park
Saturday and made it two in row
from them. further trimming a lead
that a half week ago was twelve
games and is now down to eight and
half.
The battle waged for ten innings
uphill for the home gang as the Cats
did all their scoring in the first
frame. Scrapping finally told and
the run needed TO win was pushed
across in the tenth, the winning
score being 8 to ..
There were several heroes. but the
laurel wreath with the pink bow-knot
rests upon the flaming locks of
Lefty" Lybrand, rookie pitcher.
Lefty" went into the game with
the bases full, one out and one across
in the first inning. Karl Adams.
who started. was wild. After one
down, he passed Sears. allowed
Ellington to hit. passed Kraft and
hit Hoffman on the leg with a pitched
ball, forcing in a run.
This was the pickle Lybrand found
himself in when he strutted out from !,
the bull-pen as relief pitcher. Moore
lifted a fly TO Boone and Ellington
scored. Fuller threw out Rapp.
Some Battery Work This.
From then on, Lybrand showed the
fans some of the most brilliant mound
work of the season. With Catcher
Kohlbecker handling him TO a IT,
the young southpaw, recently recalled
from the East Texas League, ex-
hibited fine control. lots of stuff, and,
above all, the nerve of a kluxer try
ing TO put on parade in Pennsyl-
yania.
Only three hits, all singles, were
made of Lybrand in his nine spdx
two-thirds innings of effort, and be-
actually seemed 10 be getting strong
err as the game advanced. He vast
whizzing the ball past the Cats air1
the tenth, and three measly infieid
grounders, one of which he handled
himself, retired the enemy in their
last time at bat.
Lefty" not only pitched well, but
he fielded his position remarkably.
lie had one putout, made in covering
first to take a throw from Galloway
on a sharp play, and three OF his
four assists were on balls he knocked
down and hastily recovered in time
to throw to first ahead of the bait
tiers.
Lybrand also got a hit, it might
be mentioned. and waited for two
walks. \ pretty fair day, all around.
for rookie doing relief work.
lipplauding the Heroes.
We now come to Ike Boone, Syl
Simon and others in the bouquet die
tribution.
Simon it was who knocked the A;c
that won the game. Boone It was
who scored the winning run. Here's
how il came about.
Joe Pate, the left-handed veteran.
was pitching for the Cats. He had
relieved Lii Stoner in the seventh
when Lii became unsteady under the
strain. That made two afternoons in
succession the Bears forced the Cat.'
ace out of the box.
Anyway. Pate breezed into the
tenth inning, after getting out of a
hole or two before. He seemed to
be in complete control Of the situa-
ton, striking out Todt, first up.
Now Pate is considered heady
pitcher. He doesn't usually 60 fool
ish things. But he fed Ike Boone
4 slow ball. When Right-fielder
Ellington got 10 the ball and relsyed
it in from the center field fence.
Ike was on third base and the fans
were on their feet tearing IN straw
hats and pounding each other on
the back. Simon didn't wait long
TO look at what Pate would offer
him. He hauled off after a couple
of pitches and shot a single between
Rapp at third and Tavener at short.
Boone scurried home and the game
was won.
The folks got more kick out OF
that contest than little bit.
Thrills BY the Gross.
Once it had dawned upon the crowd
that Lybrand was right If q pitcher
inning By inning until thrills weren't
worth any more than German marss-
The Bears had a chance to Sip
a run across in the second inning.
but failed, Galloway. who had walk
ed, being thrown out at third -by
Sears after Kohlbecker's douSls
against the left field wall.
Singles by Ellington and Kraft
in the third came with only one ont.
but Lybrand put something on the
pill and two pop flies, one to short
center and the other to Fuller. pc
tired the side.
Fuller. who drove in the flrst
two Bruin runs singled over H6if-
man in the fifth with Gross on sec
ond BY virtue Of being grased VIII
pitch and advancing ON LybraRss
walk. Two were out when the raliy
started. Gross hustled home wfth
run number one on Fuller'S drive
Tight pitching prevailed until the
Bears seventh, when the score VAS
tied. Galloway grounded out. ksti-
becker rammed q hot single 10 Hcff-
mans right. Gross got in the way
Of a pitched ball agaiF, catching y
on one hand as De ATTEMPTED q
dodge. and two were on, LybriEd
CONTINUED on next Pase)