San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-16

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top of the opening game in the Satur.
day League with the strong 'Elks; the
club will go to Fredericksburg tc
tackle the Giants Sunday. The play
ers will practice at Van Dazzle stadium
Friday afternoon. Business Manager
Virgil Winters Wednesday reported
the signing of Pitchers Bill Eberhardt
and Francis Mosel and Catcher Mike
Kelly, which provides the team with
some Of the choicest ba .terymen in the
city.
The FL Ftnix semi-pro baseball club
has arranged a three-game series to be
played with the Fire Department Sat
urday aud Sunday and a series with
the All Gold Coffee Giants May 81
and June /. Hurlers for Ell Fenix in
the weekend contests will be Rodri-
guez, Perez, Chic and Mueller. Gal
van and Garcia will catch. Graef and
Haas are the Fire Department pitch
ers and Captain Hakelberg is the
catcher.
A couple of practice games will be
played this week by the Dibble Com
pany team which meets Sayers at Say
ers Saturday and .Ioske's on the
Broadway Athletic Field Sunday. The
Dibble team is member of the Com
mercial League which meets next
Tuesday night to decide on a sched-
ule.
Gene Seng has called a meeting Of
the Junior League for 9 o'clock We'd
nesday evening at Moore's sporting
goods store. This is the first meeting
of the loop to be held for some time
and lot of business must be disposed
Of.
The Lone Star Bakery team is open
for game Sunday at Breckenridge
Park. This diamond has been re-
served from to o'clock. Call Wood
lawn 1916 for the game.
At meeting of the Kerrville Ath-
letics, Eddie Karger, former major
league player, was elected captain of
the team for the season. He will also
act as coach. Karger is former ma
lor league hurler, retiring from pro-
fessional baseball in 1920, although he
has played internationally since then.
He has seen service with the st. Louis
Browns, the Boston Red Sox, Pitts
burg Pirates, Cincinnati Reds and st.
Paul. Eddie is home product, hav-
ing been born and reared in the hill
country near Kerrville. It is prob
able that later in the season Karger
will take the mound for the locals
and help the regular hurting staff,
composed of Bob Barry, Joe Hum
phries and f. F.. Allen. His regular
position will be at first base.
The City League will have import
ant business to dispose of when it
meets at o'clock Wednesday at the
Travellers Hotel. Individual player
contracts must be in by that time for
the approval of the board of managers,
which will meet but twice month
hereafter except in called meetings.
Each team entered in the league must
present enough player contrasts to
play next Sunday. The Union Bus
Line team has dropped out of the
league and the question. of q revised
schedule probably also will be taken
up. The league may hold an election
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The addition of another church
team, the sAlamo Methodists, to the
Saturday intermediate League gives
that fOur-team loop the appearance of
Sunday School league but for the
presence of the DeMolays. ID. NJ.
Massic added the Alamo Methodists
to the league Tuesday. Other teams
in, tho IoAt, H. IN A..
South Side Christians and Mckinley
Avenue Mcthodists. An important
meeting of the team managers will be
held Thursday night at the Broadway
sporting goods store, President Massie
announces. The league probably will
open Saturday, April 20.
The Chic Chic baseball team will
meet at the company's offices on
broadway at o'clock Thursday night
for business session. Afterwards. the
players, their families and friends
will enjoy swim in the River
Avenue Natatorium.
The Aztecs have arranged Saturday
and Sunday games with the strong
Cotulla club to be played at Van
iSoNAt toAdhiuhis anu
noon contests will be played Sunday.
Breckenridge High School defeated
the Elks, TO >, Tuesday afternoon
in practice game played on the
Blumberg diamond. Breckenridge
High meets Main Avenue High in the
first clash of the season between these
two teams at Schwab Field Thursday.
The Richbook Veterans play the
Second Engineers of Fort Sam Hous-
ton at West End Mt 4 o'clock We'd
i nesday afternoon. The Vets have two
more games for the weekend. one
Friday with the Doth Squadron, Kelly
Field. and another with Hondo Sun
day at Hondo.
Kelly Field met defeat at the hands
of the strong Fredericksburg Giants
at Fredericksburg Tuesday. The score
was 10 to 2.
LEW TENDLER WINS