San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-24
WIN FRIDAY
i WILL PLACE
BEARS THIRD
Eleven Wichita Falls Err
rors Give San Antonio
Thursday Game.
MARSHALL ON MOUND
Twirls starlight Ball Against
Spuds Until Last
Couple Of Innings.
MARSHALL ON MOUND

The Bears beat Wichita Falls We'd
nesday, the Spudders beat themselves
THURSDAY and now the San Antonio
club is confronted with the opportun-
ity of clambering over the erring
North Texans into third place If they
can triumph Friday.
Eleven errors. most of them of the
rankest sort. hauled Wichita Falls
down to within half game of the
locals Thursday afternoon, and also
served to keep the domestics within
striking distance of Dallas. only two
games away in second position.
The Spudders just bungled every
thing that came their way Thursday
and San Antonio, with five earned
runs and eight unearned tallies, tram
pied the foe, 13 to 6.
Rube Marshall allowed as many
earned runs as Bob Osborn, the young
Spudder twEler from the Paris, Tex,
club. but Rube twirled alright ball
until his team, assisted by eight err
rors in the first three innings, four
punched in the second frame, had ac-
cumulated enough runs as gifts to
make let-up safe. Marshall was
hammered hard in the last couple of
innings, especially in their ninth, when
the enemy made half their runs and
one less than half their hits.
Made Use of Hits.
Wichita Falls made good use of its
twelve hits, at that. Only one in
the ninth did not figure in the scor-
ing and that was because Pitcher Os-
Il tho hacaC
Denver Grigsby, who leaves Friday
night to rejoin the Chicago Cubs, ac'
cording to Acting Manager Joe Ber-
ger of the Spudders, made the Spud's
first hit; in fact, was the first Wis
itor to get on base, when he dumped
n dinky single over short with one
down in the fourth. An infield out
land Cotter's single brought him
around. .s
In the next frame. Barrett and Der
ger singled and Bischoff brought Bar
ret home from third with n sacrifice
fly.
Bischoff's double. on which Boone
took tumble, and Williams single
gave the Spudders their third run in
the eighth.
In the ninth, the enemy got gay
with the weary Marshall, who also
clutched now and then at his arm as
If it panied him. Cotter tripled, Weiss
drove out long sacrifice fly, Bar
rett singled, Bischoff doubled, Boone
made bad heave through the in
field that let in run, Osborn doubled,
Williams singled, Grigsby walked. A
couple of outs were mixed in and
the runs were held to three. Simon
threw out Coombs for the final out.
Missed But Two Innings.
Thanks to the all-thumbs perform
ance of the Spudders' defense, IL
which everybody but two oLtfielders,
Williams and Weiss, participated, col
lecting eleven errors, passed ball
and a wild pitch, San Antonio scored
in every inning but two. Those were
the two innings in which no hits were
made. 1t seemed that as soon as a
Bruin batsman reached fist, the Spud-
ders booted him around the paths.
Two errors were made in the first
inning, four in the second, two in the
third, one. in the seventh and two in
the eighth.
Everybody on the local team except
Marshall got a hit or more and every
body, including Marshall, scored a run
or more. Ike Boone came out Of his
hitting slump with two healthy wall
lops. one of them for three bases.
The Wichita Falls errors hat gave
the Bears two runs in the first, two
in the second, two in the third and
Two N the eighth included all the
known ways of making miscues, in
GLIDING wild throws, dropped Lalls and
kicked grounders.
Earned Five Runs.
The Bears first eorned run was
scored in the fifth when Simon sin
gled, stole second, took third on n
wild pitch and scored on one of Jim
Galloway's sacrifice flies. All four
tallies in the sixth were earned. Gross
singled and stole second and third.
Marshall walked. Fuller's hit brought
in Gross. Marshall took third after
Todt's long outfield fly. Boone tripled
TO the center field fence, scoring Mar
shall and Fuller. He Was held at
third, although Coombs couldn't hang
onto Simon's fiery smash. Simon stole
second. Meyers pass filled the bases.
Galloway lined sacrifice fly to Grigs-
by, scoring Boone. Meyers stole SEE
ond. Kohlbecker popped out.
The box score:
wichita Falls ABB. L. II. o. A. f.
Williams. II. .......... 3 0