San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-27
COLLINS, NAJO
AND MEYERS
IN L|MEL|CHT
Their Work in Wednesday
Game Cause for Cheers
Locally.
SOX COP THE CONTEST
Beat Out Bears, 8 to 6,
+ Despite Homers by
Meyers and Najo.
SOX COP THE CONTEST

Three features of the Wednesday
exhibition game the Boston Red Sox
took from the San Antonio Bears by
an SO score stand out, in a review
of the contest, as likely to have most
influence on the future of the 1924
Bruin team-the pitching of Mike
Collins, the fact that Center Fielder
Moke Meyers is back in form and
the continued hitting of that mighty
mite, Leonardo Najo. one and only
Mexican outfielder on Texas League
Polls.
Collins worked the last four in
nings of the game, Milber Porter
starting it off. In, the fifth frame,
Collins first on the slab, slugging
Joe Harris popped to the catcher.
when Boone singled. Mcmillan tripled
and Lee singled, scoring two runs.
Followed a double play to retire the
side. After that Mike, with his
change of pace and his cross-fire de-
livery had the big leaguers actually
baffled. Flagstead. WambSganss,
John Collins, Mcmillan and Lee
struck out. One clean hit, beaten
bunt and two terrible flukes. ground
balls straight at Gross that took
wierd hops off the rough infield over
the shortstop's head, were all that
Fohl's men could get the rest of the
way. A doubtful decision at first
base followed By Babe Herman's
lapse of memory when he tossed the
ball unthinkingly into the middle of
the diamond and let runner race
home permitted the only score after
Mike settled down to business. And
the gratifying part Of it all was that
Collins control was almost perfect.
He walked nobody and seemed to be
able to do with the contrary spherold
as he pleased. Boy, reserve a lower
berth for Mr.. Collins among the regu-
larsi
Meyers Poles One.
Meyers hit homerun. The fact
that two were on and that for a
while it seemed the drive might take
the game from the BOstonians are
comparatively unimportant in the
light of the final result; the big
thing is that Moke is hitting homers
again. He also made single and he
gathered in two fly balls in center
field, looking the sun fearlessly in
his fiery face as he ran them down.
Najo also hit a home-run. The
wallop was a long, high one over the
left field palings. Furthermore, NajO
got two singles, scored a couple OF
runs, took one of Frank Ulrich's fast
balls i'll the ribs and stood up under
1t, wrapped his lunch-hooks around
bali hoisted to the outfield and other
wise cut w in a fashion that con-
vinces the fans they were right the
first time when they ventured that
Nsjo might be find" and was worth
hanging on to.
There were other points OF interest,
of course, such as 81 ROsenthafs
further tendencies TO kill off opposi-
ton employees with line-driyes, Bob
Colemans return 20 active service be-
hind the bat amid applause from the
stands and the reawakening of life
in Turkey" Gross slow-tO-respond
throwing arm.
Having won the game, the Boston
club is entitled to a little space.
Fohl's hitters again lowered forth
under a sun that shot the mercury
up to Sc in the shade Of the grand
stand, and aggregated IL hits. Some
were the kind that prompt the
bleacherite TO spit tobacco juice on
the man two rows down and calculate
"the lucky stiff" Others were de-
cidedly hits; for instance, the three
baggers manufactured by Harris, Nc
MILAN and Lee. Ike Boone before
the game knocked a bucket Of yellow
paint out Of a sign artists hand,
splattering il over the center field
fence, then made two hits in the
game.
Everybody was a little reckless on
the bases, too. Boston worked a
double steal and a couple OF times
extra bases were pilfered on unsus-
pecting Bruins in possession of the
ball. The Bears did a little of this
themselves. Gross, in the locals big
fourth inning, made clean steal of
third base.
Double Plays Save Porter.
-Four double plays, three of them
by the local team-cOunting the two
players borrowed from the Sox, Her.
man and Clark-helped keep the
score down. Especially was this the
case with Porter on the hill in the
second and third. In the second,
Boope's clean single and Lees triple
were separated by twin killing and,
therefore, no run resulted. 4 single
and a double were wasted in the third
in the same way.
San Antonio scored first. finding
Oscar Ruffing of a sudden in the
fourth frame after three futile in.
nings. Najo dumped hit into cen.
ter. Rosenthal sent a mile-a-minutC
liner to right that seemed waist-higl
all the way out, and perforce, hand
cuffed Ike Boone, who made a valiant
attempt to grab it. Rosey was helC
to o single. Herman forced Najo al
third but Meyers lifted his homer
over the left field fence, coming three
scores.
Boston came back with a vengeance
piling up five runs in their half Of
the fourth. Harris got three base:
on a smash that hoped against tn,
clubhouse. Boone grounded to Her
man, Porter was slow TO cover III,
bag, then muffed the throw. Harri,
scoring. Mcmillan and Lee walked
filling the bases. Heving's sacrifice
fly 10 Rosenthal brought Boone home
Mcmillan and Lee moved up on
double steal. Todt, batting for Ruff
ing, scored both runners with hi