San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-10
BEARS RETURN
HOME FIFTH IN
j SPITE Of WIN
Couchman Beats Houston
but Galveston Wins
Double-header.
NO BOOTS THIS TIME
Couchman Well Sup
ported-Fuller Continues
His Hitting Streak.

The San Antonio Bears are home
again. They went away in the mid
die of July a couple of games out
of first place and they get back IN
early August after visiting every
other city in the circuit except Gal
weston down in fifth place. They
won six games out of eighteen on
their road trip, reaction from their
great winning streak at home IN
which no visiting team was able 10
take q series and most were set down
in successive games.
The drop TO the second division oe-
CURED Thursday despite the Bears
rather remarkable victory at Hous-
ton BY a score of 6 TO >. victory
achieved when Couchman. though
touched for sixteen hits, pitched un--
canny ball in the pinches and received
absolutely flawless support, something
the Bear pitchers haven't been get
ting lately. Galreston's winning OF
two games from Beaumont put them
a point ahead of the Bears.
The team. like all Others in or
ganized baseball. rested Friday with
all games postponed out of respect
10 the memory of President Harding.
whose funeral takes place Friday
afternoon. Beaumont will open a
series Saturday with single game
and continue with double-header at
League Park Sunday. Galveston will
follow for five days, then the Bears
will jump over to Houston for four
day stand. returning here August -
to begin their last home stay of the
season in which Wichita Falls,
Shreveport. Dallas and Fort Worth
will appear in the order named. The
Bears take the road Labor Day,
September 8, starting at Galveston,
to finish the season. They go to
Fort Worth after the Galveston visit,
then 10 Wichita Falls, then Dallas
and finally to Shreveport, where the
curtain will be rung down September
10.
Hits But No Runs.
The victory at Houston Thursday
was something Of freak in that the
Bluffs got more than one hit in six
innings, one hit in each of two other
frames and failed TO get on base via
the swat route in only one inning.
the fifth, when they went out in or
der. And yet, only two runs did
they get.
Houston had seventeen runners left
on bases. Vow
In the meantime. the Bears used
eight of their nine hits in the run
making and all five of Houston's
errors. four of them in the third
inning, helped along.
The Bears batted out young Berry
in the first inning. scoring three
runs on four hits. Sell finished the
game in very good style, although
his support was punk.
frankie Fuller was the Bears hit
ting star, getting n triple-he's max
ing almost daily habit of that triple
and three singles. He beat out an
lnfield hit 10 open the game. Rooe
beat a bunt. Boone walked. TOdt
singled over second and two runs
scored. Schultz doubled to left and
Boone chased across the plate. Out
went Berry. Sell walked Simon. but
Meyers famed, Gross popped out and
Couchman grounded to the first base
man.
Houston got only one run in the
first when Sperber beat a bunt,
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bled.
TOdt Drives Three In.
The Bears made this back in the
second on Fuller's triple and Todts
double. Todt thus drove in a total
of three runs with n continuation of
his hard and timely swatting.
Meyers was safe in the third on an
eror by StanSbury. Sells wild peg
TO first put Meyers on second. Gross
grounded 10 Bell who tried for Mey-
ers at third and made a wild throw,
permitting Meyers TO score and Gross
10 take second. Gross was caught off
second. Couchman grounded out.
Fuller singled and went 10 second
on Sells wild throw, but Booze was
retired by Fortier.
Houston scored its second run in
the third inning on Stansbury's in
field hit and a double by Schultz.
A tumble by Bell that pue Meyers
on first, Gross sacrifice, and Fuller's
single after Couchman had famed
provided the last run of the game in
the eighth inning.
The box-score: