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Senators Took Game - June 20, 1906

Bronchos Ridden Fast and Hard
In the Fatal Eighth Spasm

Gill and Bradley Swat

Genuine Two-Baggers In This Session,
Which Scored Two Runs for Senators.

Standing of the Clubs --

	Played	Won	Lost	Pct.
Houston	50	36	14	.720
Austin	49	28	21	.571
Beaumont	49	25	24	.510
San Antonio	50	25	24	.510
Galveston	51	22	29	.431
Lake Charles	51	14	37	.275

It's a painful story, people, to tell what the Senators did to the Bronchos, not because the local talent sawed off a victory, but because of the timely swatting of the local squad at a critical moment. What the "Champs" did to Block's beauteous collection of frapped baseball artists yesterday, while not exactly an overwhelming superfluity, was still an ample sufficiency.

A. Gabbart, a prominent citizen of San Antonion, was sent to the mound, and he and his pals were forced to ring for an ambulance in the ninth stanza, which found a score of 7 to 5 tellling a tale of woe. However, Gabbart proved to be a pretty good ringmaster, and was all to the cookies in his delviery. Gabbart is a wise guy when it comes to playing baseball, and he knows how to hand it to the batter. He held the local talent bankrupted with six pale mildewed swats, most of them being paling, simple, onetime swats, although quite a number of them managed to blossom out into pedal concussions which permitted the originators thereof to pedal the cushions plentily.

However, Parson McGill must not be overlooked. A gent named McGill, one-time hypnotizer of the Bronchos' sturdy sons of swatzen-jammer, was sent to the slab for the Senators, and he made good, living up to his reputation fine and dandy. When the Tamale Masticators had some shucks on the bases to be cleaned up he threw out the grapnels and the visiting bludgeon wielders were unable to connect at the right time.

Gordon played his usual swell game behind the hickory. He was the bingo boy of the matinee. Although he didn't spank his usual nectarines to the tips of the palisades, he made up for any lack of swat work by clever base throwing when the opposition's slap artists had gone to the initial sack. Carter in center field caressed the pellet once, twice, yea, thrice, allowing Synsobys to flash across the pan with unfalling regularity. The invading squad made several runs on his ping pong playing and star marble playing. Big Jeff in the right daisy patch must needs wake up also, for 'tis time we were winning a game just for a change.

Bradley was the Candy Kid on third, although he played the entire melee with a badly sprained leg. He was also a little nervous, sick, tired., indigestive, and a few other similar diseases which put ball palyers to the bum so quick. Hutchcroft was sick and consequently could't be enrolled in the cast of characters of the drama, or rather tragedy, as it will be called in the San Antonio papers.

The combat was another of those nerve racking, see-saw games, guaranteed to give the average baseball fan-atic the heart disease in a jiffy. The locals made a run and three runs again in the first and second spasms respectively. Right here perhaps not a one of the vast crowd of spectators imagined that the Bronchs had a look-in or a ghost of a show to win the game, and a majority of them thought that the local squad had the game placed away in a bag with moth balls. But even the worm or the meek and lowly barret hoop will turn when trod upon, and the Bronchos surprised the home talent and everybody else by refusing to be sent to the pickled lime vat. By hard work they managed to raise the score and when Tony Thebo ripped out a home run which massaged a bruise on a six-inch scantling on the right field fence, the score was tied, there having been a man on base, who came near being run over as Tony sped around the corners. However, in the fatal eighth, a free pass to Carter, a sacrifice by Gardner and two-baggers by Gill and Bradley in rapid fire succession placed the Senators two runs to the good and cinched the score.

The Tabulated Score Tells the Tale:

San Antonio	AB	R	H	PO	A	E
Thebo, lf	4	2	2	2	0	0
Haidt, 2b	4	0	0	0	0	2
Alexander, ss	4	1	1	1	3	0
Jehl, 1b	4	0	2	10	0	0
Kaphan, rf	4	0	1	2	1	0
Pendleton, cf	4	0	0	3	0	0
Osgood, 3b	3	1	1	0	3	0
Page, c	4	1	0	4	0	1
Gabbert, p	4	0	1	0	3	0
TOTAL	35	5	8	24	10	3

Austin	AB	R	H	PO	A	E
Short, ss	3	1	2	3	6	0
Carter, cf	2	1	0	1	0	1
Gardner, 2b	3	0	0	1	2	1
Gill, 1b	4	1	1	15	1	1
Bradley, 3b	4	0	1	2	3	0
Cermak, lf	4	2	1	1	0	0
Jeffries, rf	2	1	0	0	0	0
Gordon, c	3	0	0	3	4	0
McGill, p	3	1	1	1	3	0
TOTAL	28	7	6	27	19	3

Score By Innings:

San Antonio ---
Runs.............................000 111 200 --- 5
Hits..............................000 122 120 --- 8

Austin ---
Runs.............................130 100 02* --- 7
Hits..............................120 100 02* --- 6

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