San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-19
Giants and Sox to Play
Three Games in Row
Here on Weekend.
SOx BACK TO SEGUIN
viii Entertain New York
ers There Wednesday;
Baseball Gossip.

IBC IOIlutI ~
on Sundays New York Giant and
Chicago White Sox game at League
Park, and on just about every other
ball game and sporting event In the
South, San Antonio fans will have to
Ysht until Friday afternoon. when
the New York and Chicago teams will
resume. their struggle, started Satur-
day with a Sox victory. 1t was de-
cided Monday morning, after all hopes
Of staging the postponed Sunday game
on Monday afternoon had flown, that
the big league rivals will play three
games here in row on the weekend,
Friday at 4 o'clock, Saturday at 4
and Sunday at 3.
Tickets bought for Sundays game
will apply on next Sundays without
the trouble of changing but il they
are to be used Friday and Saturday
they must be exchanged.
The White Sox went back to Seguin
on the IL o'clock train Monday, leav-
ing Secretary Louis Barbour and
Treasurer Louis Comiskey here TO
Lundle all business pertaining 10 the
coming contests.
The Sox are scheduled to entertain
the Giants in a game at Seguin We'd
nesday afternoon, also one On Monday,
March 20.
Big Crowd on . Good Day.
Sunday would have been banner
day here had the weather been as far'
orable as it had been during the
Giants stay up to Saturday. Ticket
sales, telephone calls and even arrivals
at League Park convinced baseball
officials that an overflow. crewd
would have attended the game. Secre'
tary Tom Conner Of the San Antoine
baseball club answered more than SOC
calls regarding the game. and hun
dre6s of tickets were exchanged Sun
day and Monday, some by fans wht
had driven through the wind from
Austin, .Pearsall and other cities many
miles away. Scores of fans. men and
women, went to the ball park, though
the mercury was rapidly dropping to
ward the freezing mark.
The San Antonio Bears were bacl
in town Monday after their schedulet
Sunday game with the Galveston Sans
Crabs at Cuero, the Crabs. training
camp. had literally been "blown off.
Managr Bob Coleman said the Satur
day wind prevented the Bears from
Ls.yi2n;ng game which ended In 4-ai
A. ne, drive having been blown owe
lie Boone's head scoring the run tha
knotted the count. Bob also reporte'
that a marvellous one-h9nd catch b,
Munson robbed "Red' Mckee OF |
homer and the Bears Of decision.
Giants Limbered Up.
The Bears did no work at all Mon
day, and the Giants we've to merel!
run around the park between 1 ant
1 80, according to Assistant Manage
Hughey Jennings.
Sundays cold weather messed VI
an attractive amateur and semi-pr'
program in San Antonio, too. Th'
Joske team was prevented from open
ing the season at Van Daels stadium
against MACEDONIA. and the Alamo
Peck Indians could not play thei1
second game with Austin. The Aus
! tin players returned home and SO dit
| Pitcher "Lefty" Stair, whom the In
dams bror)it up from Luling t
twirl for them.
About the only local sporting event
which went through on schedule wer
a pistol match at the municipal range
won by the Goth Infantry over tn
Liberty Club. and a polo match "a
Hartford Field. Fort Sam Houston. i
which Kelly Field defeated the 15tl
FielS ARTILLERY, Z to O. on wind
swept field, wetted by the chilly tear
of ponies and players. The polo mattel
scheduled at Breckenridge Park be
tween the San Antonio Polo Club ant
the Second Division was postpone
until 8 o'clocN Wednesday.
Other placcS Felt II.
All exhibition games scheduled il
Texas and the Boston h ,ular- Yanni
gan game at Hot Springs. Ark. wer
postponed Sunday. Kansas City
American Association team and tn
Beaumont Texas Leaguers shivere'
through q game at Lake Charles, La