San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-27
Win and Lose With Shreve.
port as Wichita Falls
Drops Two.
TODT BANGS THE BALL
Gets Seven Hits, One
Triple-Couchman
Winning Pitcher.


Sundays double-header with Shreve-
port, played before a big crowd ut
League Park, they gained on Wichita
Falls and Dallas, whose places in the
standing the local players covet. Wich-
ita Falls lost couple TO Beaumont
and the Bears cut the Spudders' lead
10 half a game. Dallas lost one and
the C0lemanese are now only two and
a half games out of second place.
Dallas opens a three-game series here
Tuesday-there is no game Monday
which affords the Bears a chance
to do some climbing if they get the
breaks and do the proper thing.
San Antonio corraled the first Sun
day game, 5 to 4, winning in the
ninth inning. The second game went
to Shreveport in seven innings, 3 to l.
The Bears missed entirely too many
opportunities in both games. They
left ten on bases in the abbreviated
second game, getting hits off Bean
pole" Brewer in every inning but one,
yet failing to score until the ninth
when Todt got his fourth hit of the
contest, atriple TO right, and came
home on a single by Boone. Shreve-
port, meanwhile, took advantage of
four San Antonio misplays in the
first inning for four unearned runs,
enough to win off Morrison, tnen
pushed another run across in the sixth
with young Milber Porter in the box.
Lefty" Lybrand pitched the last in
ming in good style.
Couchman Tightens Up.
Old Bob Couchman won the first
Af%axs .,asUhsu Str uuU1a with
a young seven-footer named Harris,
whose chief claim to fame before this
season has been that he is brother
of Bryan Harris, the Philadelphia
Athletics twirler.
Coucbman allowed eleven hits in
the first five innings and only one
,Ineasly single in the last four, which
tells the tale. The Bears, on the
other hand, hit Harris rather, often
but didn't make the best use of their
safeties and passed up many chances
to stow the game away before they
did.
As it turned out, Harris wasn't to-
tally to blame for the loss OF the.
game. Carelessness did it. Outfield-
or Donaldson, playing the sun field
in right, neglected to put his dark
glasses on at the start of the ninth
inning and lost Fuller's fly in the sun,
Frankie getting two bases on the for
innate wallop. Donaldson hastily
donned his specs but the damage had
been doue, for Todt sizzled single
past the second baseman. bringing
Fuller home with the winning run.
Manager Ira Thomas jerked Donald
son for that oversight, putting Pitcher
Jolley in right field for the second
game.
Todt Has n Big Day.
Todts hitting was feature for the
Bears. He made seven hits in nine
times at bat, all of them good, solid,
clean smashes, except one scratch in
the first game. His hit in the ninth
inning Of the first affair and his four
hits in the second game gave him five
clean smacks in succession.
Boone got two hits, running his sea-
sons total TO 21J, ten short of the
league record, TO better which he has
II games.
Among the fielding features, the last
catch of the day was most spectacular,
Simmons of the Gassers leaping
against the left field fence to grab
Meyers drive TO cut short Il Bruin
rally.
The Gassers were battered about
somewhat in their efforts TO win. Sim
mons got one of Bob Couchman's
pitches in the small of the back and
srent down for couple Of minutes
but wasn't seriously hurt. In the nth
inning of the second game, Pitcher
Brewer was struck violently on the
right leg with a smash off Simmons
bat and took a tumble. Treatment
kept him in the game but he limped
the rest of the route. In this inning
the Bears filled the bases but couldn't |
score. Then, in the sixth. Catcher
McDade--a youngster who shows
promise, by the way--hit himself in
the side of the head with foul off |
his own bat and saw several stars |
but recovered sufficiently TO single and |
drive in the fifth Shreveport run.
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