San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-18
Giants, Pirates and Reds
Win-Osborne's Pitching
Brings Joy to Cub Fans,
Though Hollocher's Abb
sence Costly.
BY JOHN b. FOSTER.

Copyright, by The San Antonio Light.
New York, April 1s.-The first day
in the National League season re-
suited in a sweeping victory for the
prophets.
Let them roar while they can.
New York, Pittsburg and Cincin-
natl won. Philadelphia and Brooklyn
played a fourteen-inning tie. Cincin-
natl had to go eleven innings 10 de-
feat st. Louis and Hickey stuck it out
with only two pitchers, one of whom
was Pfeffer.
There are other meters than defeat
and victory which are interesting in
this first real clash which is to set
tie the leadership in teams for another
year.
For instance, Osborne of the Cubs
pitched a three-hit game and his fell
low club members couldn't win for him
with a magnificent showing like that.
Osborne really repeated the kind of
pitching that he exhibited at times last
year. If he is up to the mark of 1922
with the added skill of years expert
ence which should come to a good per-
former, the Cubs have found the true
running mate TO Alexander. Chicago
has been looking for such a running
mate for long time.
Beaten Through Short.
Perhaps the Cubs would have won
if Hollocher had been playing because
the Pittsburgs were successful through
the gap at short. The result added
another bit of testimony to what may
befall team, any team, if it loses a
high-class ball player. The average
never quite comes up to that which is
super-average.
Hornsby never hit a lick for st.
Louis. Some of the other players
cracked the ball Justify. If HOrnsby
had got through with hit, the Cards
might have pulled out, for Donohue
was quite soundly thumped by the st.
Louis outfit. But Donohue is some
pitcher and he'll look better in time.
He hasn't come around as fast as was
expected.
Note that Freigau played short for
st. Louis. Hickey has been fooling
with that position a lot and it isn't
sure that Freigau will stay, but just
the same Hickey took the former bat
boy down to Florida and he got his
chance in the opening game. Lavan
wasn't up to a game and Freigau got
away with two hits and some fine
fielding.
The Giants Won the first game be-
cause McQuillan came out with four
hit affair against his former play
mates. New York got Mac from Bos-
ton when the trading was good. The
Giants didn't thump young Mcnamara
very hard, but Groh hit for long dis
tances and was responsible for three
Giant runs in one way or another.
Heine thought the world series was
still on.
Look Like Weak Hitters.
OF course, one game tells only that
much of what a club can or can't do,
but the Bostons look this early as if
they are not going to be a hard-hit-
ting team. They don't seem to be
able to muster that kind of strength.
Brooklyn, with defeat slapping them
in the face, finished the game at home
with a rally that tied the score and
kept it that way until the umpires
called it a day in the fourteenth. That
is typical of what Brooklyn has been
doing 30 far.
Ruether Pitched the Route.
Chicago had its best first day crowd
ever and q stand in which TO accom-
modate it. Both are records on the
north side. There was not a huge
attendance at Boston or Brooklyn, but
it was not expected. Cincinnati played
to a capacity house, but it always does
ON the first day.