showing hi9 heels to the base stealers SANANTONIO 12; SHREVEPORT 11 WACO »; DALLAS 7 THEY CARRY U. S. with 16 thefts, a gain of one ever last SAN ANTONIO. Tex., June 27.—Wild WACO, Tex., June 27.—Curley Brown HOPES week. neituer could pitching and hard hitting ran up the could not stop Waco today, SECOND Other batters are: while Lyle HALF leading score to double Jack Dewey stopped HITTERS PASS figures in the final Tesar, J. Wilson, Philadelphia. .404; Barn game with Shreveport Saturday, which Dallas after Bill Gould and Joe Gleason a result Waco hart, Pittsburgh. .383; Bottomley. St was won by the Bears 12 to 11 when a had failed to do so. As Louis, .377; Carey, Pittsburgh, .373; Spoit rally was checked in the closing won the slugfest by a score of 9 to 7. j both starred at the , OF SEASON TO CENTURY MARK Stock. Brooklyn, .371; Hawkes. Philadel- round. Six pitchers wtie used in the Gould and Brown phia, .368; Burius. Boston, .364; Blacf?'*, game. >■ bat. A 9 n St. Louis, .364; Bancroft, Boston, .364; Ran Antonio .12 15 4 Waco .. 14 ; CHICAGO, 111., June i.7.—George Sis- Eurl ^ 12 ~ Smith. Pittsburgh, .363; Fournier, Shreveport 11 17 1 Dallas . ler. of the St. Louis pilot Ameiicans, rcoklyn. .358; Grantham. Pittsburgh. Col lard. Winters, Watt and Warwick; Gould, Gleason. Lyle and Morrow; START TODAY and A1 Simmons of the are Athletics. .358; Cuyler, Pittsburgh, .352; Harper, Brewer, Thompson, McCall and Rowland. BroXvn. Tesar and Hungling. the first major league! s .to pass the Philadelphia, .351. 1 century mark in hitting for the 1923 -rr * « Will Pitch in season. ^mmmm—x Arguijo Sisler has collected 103 hits and Sim- Exhibition Game Here nn ns lnl. 'lhe figures include games of

Wednesday. m * • With San Benito Tues- Tfce batting leaders of the American league are in the same position they day Afternoon were a week ago, with. Sammy Hale of the Athletics topping the list with .421. Red Wingo of the Tigers is second Lefty Webb, Austin product and on *ith .419,’ followed by Rice of the of the fastest ama OUR« port-side hurlers in Browns with .410. Then comes Ty Cobb tear baseball circles in this wil ) / section, with .401. be aeen on the mound in the opening Ken Williams, St. Louis slugger, and •me of the second half of the seasor Bob Meusel of the Yankees failed to in- this afternoon ngsinst San Benito, in crease their home lun the that city. totals. jankee still being in front with 16 with Arguijo, who arrived in Brownsvill .villiams one behind. Williams, how- Branch Friday, will be given a good rest un- ever, increased his total base mark to % til Tuesday of this week, when he wilt Valley 175. His hits include 24 doubles, 6 be seen in action for the first time, ii triples and 15 homers. an exhibition game arranged with tha Is a few hours from of the Valley. Jn base stealing, Johnny Mostil of only any part Magic team. This contest promises to be one the White Sox continues to lead with a of the features of the opening of the comfortable margin, his latest figure i »«nson. The new players will also be his total to 22. *~en bringing in action here. , , We Serve Better and Other leading batters: Quicker, Cheaper. The team which trots out on the Heilmann, Detroit, .399; Simmons % ball field this afternoon represent- Philadelphia, .388; Lamar, Philadelphia. ing Brownsille will be comvopsed ol .384; Fothergill, Detroit, Speakei, youngsters from college and university .384; Cleveland, .373; Combs, New Yoik, .372; teams, and from city teams in league K. Williams, St. Louis, .364; Sisler. St other parts of the state. Wholesale Louis, .363; Boone, Boston, .360, Pratt, who has been elected captain Paschal, Neto York. .360. of the Univeisity of Texus Longhorn Here are the two Max Carey and Clyde Barnhart of team next year, has arrived in the city, players who shortly. England, Raymond Pittsburgh have made an unannounced HEAVY HARDWARE MACHINERY and will hold down the center garden represented the United States Casey, Pacific Coast marvel, appearance among the leading batters For the past two years Pratt has been in the international tennis is shown on th<> with John of the National League. Most of th known as the surest fielder in the left, tournament at Pirates have been whaling the ball vi- MILL SUPPLIES IRON AND STEEL Southwest conference, and as one ot Wimbledon, Hennessey, Indianapolis star. ciously, but none as hard as an the most dependable hitters. He is a Carey his team mate. Barnhart from member of the all-conference team. He jumped fifth to third with an <*i will play center field for the Browns- Rallies Result in place average .393. and from twelfth to sixth ville team. Carey of with .373. of is another LEAGUE Defeat Robins Lefty Webb Austin slug- RACE There has been no stopping of Rogets ging outfielder, and also a pitcher. Webb Hoinsb.% of the Cardinals, who remains pitched for the Austin high school, ana PROG >LYN. X. Y., Jure 27. The safely in the lead with .427. eleven for a time in the Texas Association, and Fhillies turned back the to Robine lay. points more than he had a week ago. li*s a mean hook his side deliv- on port TO 10 to BE 6, rallies in the sixth CLOSE batting and collected 14 hits in his last eries’ He is also a hitter. Hornsby good seventh bri all the vis't- ALAMO innings IRON ging seven games and four were homers, Kozieski, who has arrived here from ors’ tuns. In Tie sixth, Philadelphia which has given him undisputed lead, Yorktown. Leissner’s home, promises to overcame a there run lhome run by Corsica. Hnen Cuyler, another Pilate, con- and with Cuero, Victoria and Del Rio, tied count in Biooklyn the the same in- tinues to hold the honors as the best run and is a crack first baseman, and a Stiff ning, but in the next inning the Phillies with 68. “Sparky” Adams, dimin- WORKS Competition getter sure outfielder, in addition to being a ma !p five more runs off Grimes. utive second sacker of the Cubs, is safe hitter. Score— R H E SAN' Fred Rusteberg has anothei BENITO, June 26.—All the Val a BROWNSVILLE Manager Philndelph 000 005 .500—10 13 i ■% hails from ball Lose good pitcher in Pyle, who ley league teams will be greatly Brooklyn 100 202 100— G 11 2 Cubs Again ball Karnes City, and who pitched good strengthened for the last half of the Batteries: Philadelphia, Ring and Louis Nine Phone 200 Phone 786 season to St. Dav Night there. which starts today, according to Wilson; Biooklyn, Grimes, Hubbell and Other new players are Hines of San Guy Trent, president of the league. Taylor. ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 27.—'The Card- Antonio, a short stop of no mean ability McAllen has re-organized and will put inals tightened their hold on fifth place at fielding, hitting and base running a winning club in the field in an ef- by defeat ing the Cubs again to lay. The apd Clark. Austin boy who is expected to fort to win the last half of the season’s Houston out San Antonio Mr. HOW STAND score was 5 to 0. Jones was batted a games. THEY be here in few days. Mabiy has been*elected man- after five Blades’ two ager and lias innings. triples The lineup which goes on the field already $1000 per month TEXAS and Bottomley’s three ba|- hit fig- will be made mostly subscribed to the securing of first class I.EAGCE this afternoon up ured largely in the Cardinal victory. ball Wires are Won Lost P< t of young bal players, but all experi- players. being sent out Fort Worth Score— R H E and to available material to report and have 50 20 .714 enced, heavy hitters, dependable Chicago 000 000 000—0 7 2 them out. Houston .. 41 2d .GO I Ml-—I— !!■ ■■■ I ——— fielders. Leissner behind the bat has try I San St. Louis 100 0.11 OOx—5 10 0 the A catcher has ben here from Antoniq 40 29 .58,5 demonstrated what he can do in brought Batteries: Busli and Falls Chicago, Jones, and hit- the Spudders of Wichita Fdlls and sev- Wichita ,1b .*;> 526 way’ of holding the hot ones, Hartnett, St. Louis, Reinhart and O’Far- eral other good men have been wired 33 38 .4G0 ting. Peacock, formerly of San Benito, Dallas.^. rell. their Waco 32 40 .448 and who came to the Valley from tiansportation. Harlingen is also a Shreveport .. 20 43 .398 Runge, will probably start at first base, going through when several of Beaumont 21 51 .291 with Camp, another Austin boy, at sec- shake-up the old timers Braves Cop First will be let out and new Resrlts ond. Rodriguez, formerly of Laredo at replaced by ma- Yc-sferr’ny’s terial.. San Benito wil two or Waco 0; Dallas 7. Game With Giants third, and Devereaux. who came to the replace For You men Beaumont Fort Make It three and when the teams 11-4; Woith 3-4. We Valley recently from Victoria, at short. get'undei Easy fans will see a real Houston Wichita Falls 7. NEW YORK, N. Jure 27.-The In the outfield will be three heavy way fight for first 3; Y„ in the second of the season S.ai Antonio 12; 11. Braves opened a four game series / hitters, which will be one of the strong- place part Shreveport states th't he is with the C,iants with an 8 to 8 est of the local club. Holland, Manager Brady glad today points * to see all of the teams victory. With score deadlocked in the Pratt and Kozieski or Webb will hold strengthening n| AMERICAN LEAGUE In O'Neill a A Home 9th, smashed run which Build so that the last of the season wil hon>e To part down the gardens. Won Lost Pet. hastened the retirement of season to not be won so decisively by any one Bentley The largest crowd of the Philadelphia 41 20 ,G»I9 the team. from the box. date is expected to turn out for Washington 42 23 .646 Score— R H E second half of the season of, the .. 35 29 game Chicago .547 Boston 000 012 005—8 15 0 a real ball and watch Brownsville, with Detroit 32 33 .>NS.. .491 New York 100 002 00 8 Brownsville White Sox Winners —3 3 the invincibli club, tackle apparently St. Louis .. 30 36 .454 Batteries: Boston, Barnes and O’Neill; who waded through the first New Yoi k Saints, In Double-Header 28 37 .428 New undefeated York, Bentley, Wisner and Snyder. half of the season in almost Cleveland 27 30 .419 \ Boston 23 style. / 39 .367 BEAUMONT 11-1; CATS 3-4 CHICAGO, 111... June 27. rficago took Yesterday's Results BEAUMONT, Tex., June 27.— Beau- both games of a double header with At Detroit 5; St. Louis 4. Beat Browns mont's cellarites captured one game and Cleveland 2 to and 3 to re To Finance Tiger* today, 1, 1. Chicago Cleveland I 1. We Are 2.-3; tied the other of a fast played double Prepared spectively and ran their winning streak For Ninth Victory Philadelphia 3; Washington 1. header with the champion Cats here to six games. Hooper’s home run in the Boston New York 5-1; 10-5. Saturday afternoon, winning the first seventh inning scored the winning run The Of A New Home 11 to 3, and knotting the count in the Building DETROIT, Mich., June 27.—Detrofit of the first game which wTas a pitchers' NATIONAL LEAGUE second four all, the last game going stretched their winning streak to nine battle between Lynns and SmVu. The Won Lost Pci nine innings, when it was called so that St. Louis here to- second game was also a pitchers’ duel You On Terms games by defeating New York 39 25 .699 the Cats could catch their train. The For Easy 5 to 4. With the score tied at 4 in which Edwards weakened in the eighth day, Pittsburgh 37 24 .604 Exporters pounded Head and Kemer all in the ninth Blue duplicated his feat inning and Falk crashed a single to Cincinnati 32 31 .509 hard in the first fray. of scoring Burke on a single right which scored two luns and victory. yesterday Brooklyn 32 32 .500 First game— to win the game, Williams was put out First game— St. Louis 31 34 .478 Beaumont 11 14 0 ofthe in the 9th for disputing a Cleveland 000 001 000—1 7 1 game Philadelphia 29 34 .461 Ft. Worth 3 8 5 decision of Umpire Hildebrand. The Chicago 000 100 lOx—2 6 1 Chicago 29 36 .442 Jacobus and Head, Kemnet — Bernsen; is the third consecutive victory Batteiies: Cleveland Smith and * * game Boston ..:. 25 38 .398 and Smith for the Tigers over the Browns in as Myatt; Chicago—Lyons an| Schalk. Yesterday’s Results Second game— starts in the present series. Second game— many At St. Louis 5; Chicago 0. Beaumont 4 10 0 Score— R H E Cleveland 000 010 000—3 9 0 Whether you are forward to Pittsburgh 3-2; Cincinnati 2*-6. Ft. Worth 4 8 3 looking St. Louis 200 020 000—4 11 1 Chicago 0 »0 001 0‘2x—3 9 0 i Brooklyn 6; 10. 121 -6 12 2 Philadelphia O’Neal. Foreman and Hale, Bersen; Detroit 001 000 Batteries: Cleveland—Edwards and 1 New York 3; Boston 8. Pate. Walkup, and Moore. a cottage, or Batteries: St. Louis, Wingard and Myatt; Chicago—Robertson and Grabpw- bungalow house—you Dixon; Detroit, Wells, Collins, Dauss ski. an and Bassler. can easily realize your desire. It’s

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PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 27.—Pitts- THURSDAY 1 A small down followed t BOSTON. Mass.. June 27.—The Yanks burgh landed within two points of the payment by took both ends of a doubleheader with National leag'e leaded lip today by the Red Sox today winning the opener, splitting a doubieheadar w.t’.i Cincinnati, EGG BEATER monthly installments no larger than 10 to 5, and the second fray. 5 to 1 wh le Boston was defeat;:ig New York. Two home luns by Bob Meuscl. which The Piiates, wijh the veteran Adams the rent have been will were re- you brings his season’s total to 18, opposing Luque won the first game 3 paying sponsible for al the New York, runs in to 2. Donohue held Pittsburgh in AND BOWL th« final contest, one coming in the check during She s.*cond contest, the place you in a home you can rightfully on base and 6 2. opening inning with two Reds winning, to Twelve inches white en- with one on. Bos- First Game high, the other in the sixth call own. we mature Ruth H E # your May help ton has lost nine straight. Babe Score— R ded handle—on sale Thursday _ 010 12 2 sat on the bench barring a few innings Cincinnati 010 000—2 ' 010 9 0 vour the first Pittsburgh _ 100 Olx—3 plans?1 — work in game. only * ♦ First game— Batteiies: Luque, and Hargrave; New York. 000 OlO 054—10 11 0 Pittsburgh* Adams and Gooth. 000 020 300— 5 13 2 Second Game Boston. V I Batteries: New York—Hoyt. Ferguson. Score R H E __ 11 2 Jones and Schang; Boston—Zahniser, Cincinnati 201 000 300—<5 98c _ 100—2 8 1 Quinn, Ross and Picinich. Pittsburgh 100 000 Batteries: Cin^nnati, Donohue and Mor- Second game— Kreuger; Pittsburgh: Aldridge, 5 0 ard Earl Eniith. New York 300 002 000— 5 rison, Sheenan 000 000 100—1 10 0 Boston .. and BI FFS LOSE. 7 TO 2 Batteries: New York—Shocker Hev- HOUSTON. Tex., June 27.—Bob Os> Bengough; Boston—Ruffing an.d borne pitched well for the Spudders to- H. H. HARDIN LUM I COMPANY ing- _ day and the Buffs lost the second j of the series 7 to 2. Turgeon hit TWO WHITE SOX RELEASED game mem- a homer. Considerable squabbling re- CHICAGO, 111., June 27.—Two Tenth Street Phone 880 sulted from the Buff’s contention th.t bers of the Chicago Sox were turned Mack Osborne was doctoring the ball. loose tonight. Pitcher "Stubby" 7 2 Milwaukee Amer- Houston . 2 was released to the at Levee . BROWNSVILLE E. Fall* 7 11 0 ican association club, and A. Speer, Wichita to the Burns and Os- rookie infiel.ler, was released Goodwin, McCurdy; and Shreveport Texas league club, borne Query. A

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