San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-14
MO SHUT0UTS .
| As AMATEUR
| LEAGUE OPENS
lblic Service, Pastirne
Club and Sacred Heart
Teams Win.
MALL In FINE FORM
tanks Light Team With
Four Hits-Two Teams
Are Idle.
NALL in FINE FORM

Two shutouts and a runaway
rked the opening of the City Base
League season Sunday afternoon.
{st years champions. the Public
rvice Company team. defeated tho
N Antonio Light. z to O.: Sacred
art Parish defeated the Pittsburg
tter Heaters. 3 to 0. and the Pas
be Club downed the Texas Steam
|undry. IL to 4.
The Utilities wasted little time in
Ting their wrecking crew to work
hinst The Light battery in the
ne played at Schwab Field. follow
the Alamo-Peck game with the
{nedy White Sox, and scored two
lbs in the first inning. ''Irvy'
rsch was responsible for the first
res, his single in the opening frame
wing in Walls and Gouger. For two
BE innings the Utilities were held
reless and in the fourth they re-
{ their first stanza stunt and ran
two more scores. Heye and Huff
fr scored in this inning on Smalrs
gle TO center field. Three more
Is By the Utilities completed their
TX for the day. The first run in this
nza came in when Walls scored
Riley Harris single to left field.
Itch Heye drove in Gouger and Har-
with a double to center field.
The game went seven innings by
Feement.
Small in Top Form.
While the Public Service Company
m was gathering total of nine
i. Augustus Small was holding The
kit boys to four well-scattcred
MS. He tanned eight of the remain
batters. He was well supported.
Williams. Kleeman. Tolle and IT.
got the four Light blows.
Che score by innings: II. II. Z.
bsco :, 200 go x-7 o .
hit D. 600 600 90 4 )
Batteries Small and Huffaker,
iris; Tolle and Irwin.
Sacred Heart Parish defeated the
tsburg Water Heaters, 3 to 0, in
well and closely played game on
Sacred Heart diamond.
he parishioncrs opened with run
the first inning but did not score
In until the third. The score stood
% O until the seventh when Sacred
art made its final tally.
Sacred Heart was never out OF
hger, however. for the Heaters
eatened to score in two different
ings when they filled the bases but
ked the final punch. A. Maspero
G. Santa Cruz made the only
tred Heart errors in the third
me and allowed the bases to be
I'D with only one man down.
wager popped out to shortstop and
ssel went out at first without
hging. in a man. No one was down
the fifth when the bases became
I'D with Pittsburg runners through
hits and a walk. Leslie Neckcr
xed Stahl off third base with a
from back of the plate, Hassell
ned and Reed went out at first
e. s
Case Hors de Combat.
I'm accident married the first frame
which Case sprained an ankle.
eiaspero, McBrearty and Necker
lied off a double play. while Louis
escb played a good fielding game
shortstop.
.eo Salizar pitched a good game
the Parish team allowing only six
filtered safeties. He famed eight
tiers and worked steadily.
,rving Necker got three hits out of
times up for Sacred Heart and
Maspero ''batted a thousand" get
two hits in two times at bat. Ii.
eller garnered the only two-bagger
the day.
DELL Gotten umpired. /.
'he score by innings: II. II. L.
liter Heats 600 600 000-0 O 1
fred Heart. 101 900 10x-3 s =
Batteries White, Lindsey and
be, Corley; Salizar, Vollmer and
lie Necker.
rhe Pastimc Club trounced the
kas Steam Laundry team, IL to 4,
the Public Service Company dia-
ld.
FASTENERS Slam the Ball.
NE FASTENERS garncred fifteen hits
the deliveries of Sasser and Mey-
a couple of errors also counted
the scoring for the ,Pastime Club.
heavy hitters were Weikel. Cass,
Chittenden. Talbert. Whitledge aud
stern who got two hits each out of
re times up. Whitledge, Cass, :.
ttcnden and l.. Chittenden each
one for two bags.
.ockman got two hits out of three
es up for the Laundry and Meyers
out of four times at bat.
these teams tied in a nine-inning
ctice game played before the sea-
opened.
!. c. st. Johns umpired Sunday
he Nel-Stone and the Union Bus
es teams had an off day.
l meeting of all the managers of
CITY League will be held a. Z.
ock Wednesday night at the Tray-
IS Hotel for the purpose of finish
I'M league business and getting inc