Baseball

Baseball


Semi-pro baseball coming to Seguin!
    A semi professional baseball circuit composed of cities within 100 mile radius of San Antonio is the plan of George Huntress jr.  The Circuit is to include the Fredericksburg Giants, Seguin White Sox,  Boerne White Sox, New Braunfels Tigers, Kenedy White Sox, Yoakum Sunsets, Cuero Troters, Beeville Bees, Lockhart Oilers, Austin and a team from San Antonio.
    The ground work prior to organizing the league and for the playing of a 1929 Schedule has already begun, and three home series at home and abroad is the plan on the Schedule.
    To prevent conflicting with the San Antonio Bears playing dates at home, the San Antonio semi-pro team will be aboard playing in some other city, while the home games will be played when the Bears are on the road.
    With all the teams being located within a 100 mile radius the problem of transportation fades, with the flivver handy to hustle over to Seguin or New Braunfels in a couple of hours, meet the rival nine and return home in time to go back to work Monday mornings.
    The games would be played on Saturday afternoons when possible and on Sundays and holidays, and then another week would lapse before the players would have to toss the ball around again.
    The new baseball circuit is to be know as the South Texas Simi Professional League.
    Huntress will visit Seguin and confer with manager Russell Stein, and swing around to the other cities to line up Jack Tolar in Austin, Slim McGrew of Yoakum, Manager Dugosh of Boerne, Bose of New Braunfels, Reid of the Lockhart Oilers, Red Holchak of Kenedy, Fredericksburg, Cuero, Beesville and the San Antonio teams to start play in April.
    The officers of the league will be elected at a later date, after Huntress has put the organization on its feet.
    Every city which is looked upon as a logical member of the new league has an enclosed park, and thus another problem vanishes so that nothing is left to do but sign the managers on the dotted line, announce the season's schedule and toss out the first ball.
The Seguin Enterprise, January 11, 1929

New Braunfels-Seguin Baseball
    Overlooking fast Sundays hectic diamond battle of Seguin rookies with sore and errorful regulars, the fans are anxious for next Sunday to roll around, when our ancient baseball enemies, the NewBraunsfels Tigers, will cross Bauer Creek and invade White Sox park at the Fair Grounds.
    With Ed Williams out with a bad shoulder, Joe Dobbs, down with a case of mumps, new faces will be seen in the next lineup, these being two new pitchers as good as simi pro ball clubs can hire, they are, Danny Perez, formerly with the Aztecs, Air Depot, Bert Glaesers All Stars, Zip Myler, well known hurler of San Antonio, a rookie of Tom Conners, and formerly with Conners, and formerly with our neighbors the New Braunsfels Tigers and the Ft.Sam Houston All Star Team.
    The directors promis a better team in the near future, as many are being  tried and not hired, and every one knows a good team cannot be built in a hurry.
    A record breaking crowd is expected for Sundays game, as New Braunfels always brings their share.
Seguin Enterprise, April 26, 1929

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