San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-28
Record Crowd of g, 500 Sees
Keenan, Shut Out Exporters
Midget Pitcher and His
Success-inspired Support
Hold Beauomnt While Big
Bob Coleman Supplies
Winning Punch With Line
drive Over Left Field
Fence.

With the largest crowd that ever
oyerflowed the League Park stands
looking on, estimated By Owner II. j.
Benson of the Bears today at $500
Midget Jim Keenan, and big Bob
Coleman Sunday afternoon decorated
the record books with another San
Antonio victory. glorious 30 shut
out at the expense of the Beaumont
Exporters. And up went the Bears
effulgent top-of-the-league average
nine points more TO Il dizzy .903.
After it was over. all agreed, from
the fan who hurried Sunday dinner
| and was able 10 park his car on Gar
den street fairly close TO the park to
the late arrival whose chariot had to
be left somewhere near the first mis-
sion. that Jim Keenan,. like most lit
tie half-pints these days. permits few
liberties with what he offers. The
| SOuthpaw with the curve and the
| speed all out Of proportion TO his size
allowed Dutch Bernsen's Exporters,
fresh from twice clouting the highly
touted Houston Bluffs, just six singles.
support as nearly perfect as possible,
both mechanically and mentally. did
the rest 70 keep the visitors 1t of the
run column
Not little share did big Bob Cole
man. the Bruin skipper. have in that
classy backing accorded the mighty
mite. but Bob'S defensive efforts which
helped stem Il Beaumont rally in the
ninth and were in evidence through
out in his handling Of keenan's slants,
paled into comparative insignifieance
beside what he did on the offense. He
produced the runs that won the ball
game, With Gross on first by virtue
Of the first of two hits the Grizzlies
skipper pasted one Of Staurt Jacobus'
tantalizing slow hooks in the second
inning over the left field fence for a
hOme-run.
Propped All Mouths Open.
That opened $500 mouths and the
recording angel, or anybody else with
a bird s-eye view, could have counted
$4,000 tonsils from then until AZ,
when George Brovold scooped Wirts'
grounder and threw to Fuller at sec
ord, forcing out Huber and ending an
enemy rally and the game.
1t was the open-mouth kind of
understanding to holler about or
breathe hard about all the time.
The veteran Jacobus twirlGd a
brand of ball that ordinarily would
have been good enough to beat some
of those-er-persons down below us
in the ruok of the percentage table.
In his seven innings of endeavor, he
| permitted seven hits, scattered over
five frames. If Coleman had not
lined his four-bagger across the
palings, there is no telling TO what
new record for long games the teams
might have Travelled. Jacobus passed
from the picture in the eighth when
Cotton" knapp, new Beaumont in
| fielder, who is San Antonio born and
bred by the way, struck out for him.
Lefty" Sigman pitched to the Bears
in the eighth, their last turn at lat,
without incident
Tense Moments Galore.
There were tense moments galore,
| but the story of how the game was
won is wrapped up in that second
frame. Huber had batted down Mey-
ers' hopper in front of him and pegged
Moke out. He rushed in for BrovOld's
roller, but blew it. Gross cracked
low swift one over the second sack.
Shortstop DeviverOs. who looks like n
wonder as an infielder. made q dive
and stopped it. Brovold, racing from
first. overran second base and then
slipped down trying to get back. On
very close play he was called out.
The skipper chose this opportune
juncture to sock the ball on a line,
into the wind, over the left field fence.
The fans all stood up-they were so
closely packed one couldn't rise with
out taking his neighbors with him-
and gave correct limitations of poor
folks receiving notice miollion-dol-
lar legacies.
The Exporters had men on the sacks
in the third. fourth. fifth. sixth. sew.
enth and ninth innings. In the third
and ninth, they scared the home root
ers into silence temporarily. Taylor
and Deviveros started the third with
singles. Jacobus tried to bunt. pop
ped to Keenan, and a rifle throw 10
Gross. ready on second base. doubled
off Taylor. Joe Rabbit whitfield for
the third out. =.
Meyers Almost "iomes."
Rosenthal reached third with two
out on scratch hit and Galloway's
single to right in the Bruins half.
Taylor caught Meyers high fly a
couple of feet from the left field
fence. In the fourth, Gross stun2
line double to left-center with one
down and Coleman walked but the
next two were infield outs.
Gross error in the sixth was I'M
fortunate. The Bear shortstop, who
is playing better ball now than he ever
did in his life. was hustling peg
TO first for n double play when h.
and Ostergood collided AMI the ball
went into the overflow crowd. per
hitting OsteTgood to reach third.
Nothing harmful happened.
Coleman made two bases on Oster-
CARDS muff of his fly in the seventh
but Keenan, and Najo were called out
on strikes and. after Fuller singled,
Rosenthal famed.
Disregard was hit by a pitched ball.
first up, in the ninth. and Huber
drove a single to center. To the rescue
of the beleaguered ball game came
Sir Gross of Mesquite. Texas. and
that good knight. Sir Coleman Of
Granite City, ILL.,, just across the rivcr
from st. Louis, and neatly picked
Ostergard off second base. Manager
Bernsen of the Exuorters was so flab-
bergasted he struck out. and then Bro
void and Fuller took take Of Wirts