San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-01

NplonS out, and the Bears now
intend to clout the Dallas
Steers and put a quietus on
their pennant hopes when they get
here Wednesday.
The Bears play no favorites. They
lay down for and to nobody. The
standing of the clubs is nothing in
their young lives. If they can't cop
the pennant themselves, may the team
that can battle them hardest and
most successfully win out.
Take it from Skipper Bob Coleman
himself.
Il don't want it even whispered
that we're going TO let down to any
body the pilot said today. I'VE
battled Fort Worth. didn't we? And
we'll battle Dallas. You can bet on it.
USE WINNING HURLERS
an fact, I intend to pitch my two
best bets against the Steers. Bob
Couchman, Wednesday and Frank
Watt, Thursday. If we knock Dallas
out of a pennant, that's their tough
luck. We're going TO keep right Oh
making ourselves hard TO get along
with, no matter who's playing here
After humping the Spudders in the
first game of the series, the Bears
tried to make it two straight Monday
by sending to the hill Buck Winters,
who has been travelling at a great clip
lately. But the game was delayed by
a shower of rain. the players had TO
take to their dugouts and Winters
arm grew cold. When he took the
hill he had nothing and the Spudders
swatted him to the clubhouse before
the first inning was up.
This shower and subsequent precip-
itation, which fell at regular intervals,
keeping the exposed box and reserved
seat holders in almost constant mo-
ton running TO and from shelter,
spoiled the first free day in the his
tory of the Texas League.
ALMOST 5000 FANS
The fact that Wichita Falls, get
ting off TO that firSt-inning start Of
five runs, finally won by a score Of
1870 (seven innings on account OF |
rain) assisted in running what might |
have been a gala occasion.
At that, 5964 people walked past |
locked ticket windows and took adj |
vantage Of the hospitality Of the new |
Bear club owners, who instituted the |
free day idea as a mark OF apprecia- |
ton of excellent attendance on days |
when the ticket windows are open.
There's no good reason for going |
into details on the sad baseball do |
ings. The Bears, able TO get but five |
singles off an old friend. Jim Roberts, |
were all wet, both literally and figura-
lively. after the first inning.
Kelsey Jennings relieved Winters in
the first and got the Spudders out
in order in the next three frames. then
weakened and, after a shaky fifth and
a bad sixth. was removed. and Hol-
mig, big youngster from Eredericks-
burg. chunked the last inning. Holmig
was nervous and misplaced a grounder
BY Longnecker he should have handled
o start the inning, then walked Query.
A hit BY Roberts, a wild pitch, and.
after a couple of outs, Howard FltZ-
yerald's third twO-baggcr Of the after
noon produced a pair Of runs. Bodic
popped to Clark.
EXTRA-BASE HITS
This Fitzgerald boy, with four hits,
.hree Of them doubles-besideS some
fancy neutrality-suspicious., with
2race of triples, and Metzler, with a
triple and a double, did lots Of dam
lge. The Spudders hit for distance.
They made 13 hits go for "a bases.
The Bears had only one satisfac-
ion: they barkcd Roberts Shins twice
with hot smashes, one off Meyers
BAT, the other off Gonzales, so that
lin was standing around on one leg,
then on the other, good deal Of the
time
Joe Longnecker. the lad whom Bob
TOuchman dug up in Ohio and brought
South 70 the Bears in 1924, played
third base for the Spuddcrs. Long
Hecker has been with Tyler in the
East Texas League. While a light
hitter. he ranks with the best firlders
in the game. and showed it Monday.