San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-10
Baseball Briefs

AT Griffin, Ca: Boston Nationals
o.; Washington l.
At Tulsa :, Okla. Tulsa s.; st.
Louis Americans 4.
AT Galveston: st. Joseph 5; Gal
weston 4.
At Muskogee, Okla: Muskogee 6;
Denver ).
At Evansville, Ind: Chicago
Americans 5; New York Nationals
I At Wichita Falls: Wichita Falls
6; Minneapolis =.
At Kansas City: Chicago Nation
ais 6; Kansas City 3.
At Hutchinson, Kan: Wichita % |;
Hutchinson ).
At Greensboro, n. c.: New York
Americans IL; Brooklyn Nationals
At Atlanta: Atlanta o; st. Louis
| Nationals t.
| At New Orleans: New Orleans g.;
Cleveland 4.
At Chattanooga Cincinnati TO-;
Detroit /.
Results of opening games We'd
nesday in the Pacific Coast League
were: San Francisco II, Portland
4; Salt Lake City 16, Oakland q;
Vernon 6, Sacramento 4.
Cleveland, April 1O.-The Cleve-
land Indians take their final work
.! out in the South today, leaving New
I Orleans tonight for the North. They
will stop. at Tuscaloosa for a game
with the University of Alabama to-
morrow en- route to Cincinnati where
they play their final exhibition games
Saturday and Sunday with the Reds.
Coveleski pitched the full game
| against New Orleans yesterday and
was in good shape, despite his de-
feat.
Youngstown, Ohio, April 10:-The
| New York Yankees and st. Louis
Cardinals are after Jack Blot, Uni
versity of Michigan captain and
! catcher, after he graduates in June.
| according to word received from his
home in Girard today. He also is
reported to have received an offer
from Miami University to coach foot
ball.
Cincinnati. April 1O.-Rube Ben
| ton, who pitched against the Detroit
Tigers at Chattanooga yesterday, was
the first Red hurler to go the full
route of nine innings this season. Gin
cinnati won, IL to /. The two teams
are scheduled to meet again this at
ternoon at Cleveland. Tenn, in what
is said to be the first big league ball
game in that city. Donohue and
Mays are down to pitch for Cincin-
natl and johnson for Detroit.
st. Louis. April 1O.-After winning
seven straight games, five from Mill
waukee, one from Syracuse and one
from Rochester, the st. Louis Car
dinals were stopped short yesterday
by the Atlanta Crackers. who slam.
med their way into 81 victory al
Atlanta. Ga. The Cards couldn't hit
three of their four runs being due tc
Atlanta errors. Rain stopped the
game at the end of the seventh in
ming.
The Browns also dropped a game
Yesterday at Tulsa, Okla, to the
Tulsa Oilers. "a. Two Brownie Grip
pies returned to the game. Marty
McManus, former fence-buster for tho
Oilers, pinch hit for .Ellerbe in the
ninth inning. and lined out a homer
picking on the first ball pitched, II
was his first homer of the exhibition
season and his first appearance at thu
plate since he injured his foot a
Dallas. April 3. Herschel Bennett
suffering from n similar injury. alsC
entered the game, replacing Tobin IL
right field.
Chicago. ApriI 1O.-Three Chicago
National recruits were sent back T.
the minors yesterday. Collins, pitch
err. going to Bloomington, ILL.,, in TIL
Three-Eye League and Zip" Dunno
vich. pitcher, and Tony Murray. out
fielder, TO Peoria, Ill. The perform
ance of Vic Aldridge in the Cubs o.
defeat of Kansas City there yester
day was cheering. The Hoosier school
master generally reports high in flesl
and is Slow, rounding to form. H
hurled yesterday in mid-season fash
ION.
Joe Rabbit continued his bid TO
post in the Chicago Americans top
heavy outfield, being chiefly respon
sible for the Sox beating the New
York Nationals. "a at Evansville
Ind. The Sox have purchased, wal
ter Dashiell, shortstop FROM tn
Shreveport, Texas League club.
Boston, April 1O.-The Boston Ma
tionals turned the tables on the Wash
, ington Senator's and beat them, g {
/. at Griffin, Ca, yesterday. Ere
Red" Lucas, among ithe best of tn
Braves rookie pitchers. featured tn
contest by holding the Senators t
one run and six hits in seven innings
Jack Kelleher, playing at third
banged homer into deep left center
Five double plays by the two infield
added to yesterday performance
brought the double play record 70
the two games to eleven.
Wet grounds caused the cancella
ton of the Boston Americans gam
with the Louisville club of the Amer
lean Association at Louisville. Ky
yesterday but the teams will pla
today and tomorrow.
Philadelphia. April 10.-Rain tC
day again threatened to cause
postponement Of the third game G
the city baseball series between tn
Philadelphia National and America
League teams. Each has won on
game. Should the weather permi
Manager Fletcher planned to sen
Ring. who won the first contest fo
the Phillies, to the mound in an e
fort to annex the odd game. Mar
ager Mack said Naylor probabl
would start for the Athletics,
Baltimore. Md, April 1O.-Jam,
+. Macullar, go. member of Il
Baltimore baseball club in Il
eighties, and credited with having bee
the first leff-hnn ded nitcher TO thro