San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-01
Baseball Briefs

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pair of home-runs Sunday in Brook
iyn. taking q lead cf two ever Babe
Ruth in the -homing" race, and win
ming for the Philadelphia Nctionals.
6 10 4. in the twelfth inning. Cy
now has forty circuit clouts 10 his
credit for the season. The Phi.lies
tied the scor. in the seventh and
made away w.si the gamc by taking
three runs in the twelfth. Two OF
these were due TO Williams second
homer.
Nose Solomon. 100000 recruit won
for the New York Giants against
Boston in the tenth inning with
two-base hit which drove in the final
run for a score OF 4 10 3. Catcher
SNYDER suffered slightly injured
hand.
The National Lea"ue second and
third place teams both lost, Cinc!n,
natl going down before st. LOUIS. 5
to ). and Pitisburr losing to Chicago,
= to 4. In the Cincinnati game. st.
Louis took five runs in the third in
ming and held the lead throughout.
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Cleveland advanced it's second place
lead full game in the American
League by defeating Detroit, { to >.
The White So4 beat st. Louis, 10
to y. n Washington the Senators
trimmed Philadelphia.
"HacL" Miller OF the Chicago Ma
tionals smashed out homer on
Johnny Morrison with man on base
and enabled Chicago TO close its sea-
son ut home with victory over
Pitisburg.
Kansas City. b. winning a game
from Columbus, 81. while Indian
apolis trimmed st. Paul. SO, went
into first place in the hot American
Association pennalt race b. point.
The standing is now: Kansas City.
won 104. lost 80; st. Paul, won
105, lost ii.
Jess Haines Of the ST. Louis Ma
sionnls won bis twenty-first game
of the season when his mates hit
three young Cincinnati pitchers for
fourteen niis.
"Zack" Wheat. CAPTAIN of the
Brooklyn Nationals. was presented
with an automobile. awarded him in
a popular voting contest. He got
two hits Sunday.
The Chicago Americans went on a
Stating rampage against st. Louis
and. with the aid OF half dozen
errors BY the Browns, closed their
series at st. Louis with 10-to-2
victory.
Oklahoma City. Okla. Oct t.
Oklahoma City won its first Western
L-aguc pennant Sunday when the
Tulsa Oilers dropped doubleheader
to Omaha while the Oklahoma City
team was idle because OF wet
grounds. Oklahoma City's margin of
victory is two full games. Wichita.
peccemaker the greater part OF the
season, wound un in third place with
Omaha. considered one Of the danger
Gus contenders from the start, com
pletin: the first division. leader
ship of the second division goes TO
Des N0ines. ST. Joseph, Sioux City
and Denver finished in the order
named. Des Moincs. with com
paratively weak pitching staff. was
credited with being a much stronger
club than the other three members
OF the second division.
| st. Louis, Oct. f.-Branch Hickey,
manager of the St. Louis Nationals.
in formal statement issued today in
reply to q recent declaration made
public by Rogers HornSby. star sec
ond-baseman, declared that the fine
and suspension imposed on Hornsby
was absolutely unavoidable" Refer
ring 10 fist fight between the play
or and manager alleged TO have taken
place, in New York, Hickey said IL
ain not sorry that resented the
vile and unspeakable language used
by Hornsby in New York. He knows
and most everyone knows that ]
should not have shown resentment
without an unusual cause" Hornsby.
hickey said. "simply persisted in