San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-09
BOONE GOES
To RED SOX
THIS SEASON.
Fuller, Gross, Todt and
Marshall Report to Bos-
ton in Spring.
DETROIT GETS MEYERS
"Ball-hawk" Reports Next
Year-Cash and Play
ers in Exchange.

Announcement of the sale of six.
San Antonio Bears 10 major league
clubs was made Saturday in mes
sage from II. ]. Benson. president OF
the local team, now in New YORK
City.
Left Fielder Ike Boone will report,
to the Boston Americans at the end
of the Texas League season.
Center Fielder Leslie (MoSel
Meyers goes to Detroit in the spring.
Second-baseman frankie Fuller.
Shortstop Ewell Gross. Pitcher Dewey
Marshall and Right Fielder Phil
Todt will report 10 the Boston
Americans next spring.
Cash and players will come to the
San Antonio club in return for the
half dozen men.
Boone's great hitting. which en-,
abled him to lead the league virtually
throughout the season and establish :.
4 new record for total hits before the
last month of the season was half
over. won him another major league
trial. Boone received a trial with
the New York Giants in the spring
of 1922 after leading the Southern
Association in batting the year before
Meyers Ripe" For Majors.
Detroit has had strings on Meyers
for some time. Moke was uncertain
with the bat in 1922, although a
powerful Swinger and home-run hit
ter. but this year. he has improved
in dependability, is hitting 300 or SO
and is rated ms the greatest ball
hawk in any Texas League outfield.
His fielding has been one. of the fea-
lures of the Bears play. He appears
to be ripe" for big league trial,
and Detroit has grabbed him.
Phil Todt didn't get his chance
early in the session. because he didn't
have a regular job. Everett ffiooe
holding down the right field petition.
But Todt got on q batting rampage
while cavorting at first base for IN
jured Jim Galloway in midseason and
Manager Coleman Just couldn't keep
his bat out of the lineup. When
Galloway went back to first base.-
Todt replaced Booe in right field
and banged his way TO the attention
of the big leaguers rs well as the
fans of the Texas League. His out
fielding became sensational with
regular work and he developed into
one of the stars Of the league. Todt
is a great handy man TO have on a
team. He started his career as
pitcher and can still take his turn
in the box. San Antonio fans were
treated to some remarkable we'll
remembered exhibitions of the strength
Of his good left arm in throwing. He
can play the infield and the outfield,
a true all-around ball player
Fuller and Gross have formed the
snappest keystone combination in the
Texas League for several seasons.
Both have had brief trials in the
majors before. Fuller topped the
regular second-basemen in fielding
again this year, while Gross is finish
ing in a blaze Of defensive glory and
is hitting in timelier fashion than
in many season. Either is liable
TO fit into some. infield combination
the Boston Red Sox work out next
spring. There's many a big league
regular Fuller and Gross can give
cards and spades to in the fielding
end of the game.
MarshalPs History Peculiar.
Dewey Marshall's history this year
the Bears in an even swap for
SdNCutL DAVNhs WIZ wa VII
the suspended list and was simply
excess baggage. Marshall was with
a losing club in the Southern last
season and had a bad year, losing
about three times as many games as
he won. He had trouble with his
arm in the spring here and it ia
said the Bears were on the verge OF
letting him go. Finally, he became
convinced that troublesome tonsils
were poisoning his system and ruin
ing the effectiveness of his arm. He
had them removed. He won the
first game he pitched in impressive
style after leaving the hospital and
has been one of the clubs best twirl-
ers ever since. A big fellow. he has
all the natural assets Of big league
hurler.
What players the Bears will re-
ceive for their graduated stars Mr..
Benson cannot say; probably he viii
not know until spring. The Red
Sox, however. can be counted on 10
return the San Antonio players they
do not use and 10 give the Bears
first choice of available talent in
1924, for the relations between the
boss of the Bruins and Bob Quinn.
formerly of the ST. Louis Browns.
the new president of the Boston
American League club. are the clos
est. Manager Bob Coleman OF the
Bears is also close friend OF
Quinn's.
What Bear players Of 1922 are to
return here next year is question.
Bob Couchman and Jim Galloway
probably are as near certain 70 re-
turn as any.
Would Like kohlbecker.
Mr.. Benson has expressed a desire
10 brv Catcher Kohlbecker from
Memphis snd has taken steps in that .
direction, IL is understood. but Mem
phis may have need % this snappy .
receiver next year. Catcher Schultz
probably win be recalled for another