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Show EX-TEXAS LEAGUERS GAINING PROMINENCE Former Players From Lone Star State Are Active. Former Texas league baseball players play-ers are rapidly coming to the front in the major circuits. Just the other day several ex-Texas leaguers figured prominently in the final scores of different dif-ferent games. Iiay Blades, former Houston outfielder, out-fielder, smacked out' a home run, put his team, the Cardinals, out in front, and then in the ninth inning, in tlie midst of a Cub rally, dropped an easy fly that let in the winning run. Lil Stoner pitched and won his second sec-ond game of the season for, Detroit. Cleveland was the victim on this occasion. oc-casion. Topper Kigney, also a former Panther, played what is believed to be a record game at short for the Tigers. He played up to the ninth inning without with-out a fielding chance. Then Homer Summa, a former Wichita Falls outfielder, out-fielder, now playing for Tris Speaker, hit the only ball of the day that went to short and Eigney muffed it. Glenn Myatt, former Buff, caught the game for Cleveland and knicked Stoner for ; , three hits. Ike Boone hit another home run ' for the Boston Red Sox and maintained main-tained his place at the top of the batting bat-ting average list. Ike weighted down right field for San Antonio last year. Dutch Sperber, who played in a Houston Hous-ton uniform last season, played a less prominent part in the Phillies-Braves contest. r Joe Martina, Texas league veteran, twirled his second victory of , the season sea-son for the Washington Senators. He subdued Connie Mack's Athletics, 4 to 3. Lester Bell hit a double that figured fig-ured in the St. Louis scoring, although the game was dropped to the Cubs as aforementioned on Blades' untimely error. Adams, former Spudder, played at short for the Cubs, made two hits and scored one run. Jim Bottomley went hitless and Gene Bailey played a few uneventful innings for the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers. |