Butch,
Sorry for the delay getting back with you...lots going on right now.
Thanks so much for the links to those 2 articles. Mine were from the SF Call newspaper and LA Herald. Correction, the shooting was actually on Sunday, March 12, 1911.
Searching a bit more, turns out this Flo Israel, the shooter of Bill Tozer and a reporter was not only an umpire for the day, but a bookmaker at the local race track.
Shooting happened outdoors after he and a group of friends had a party at the hotel everyone was staying. And somehow, he got a .22 caliber rifle from one of these party friends and his story goes that it was an accident because he was just joking because of comments made by some of the players earlier for "kidding him." The police arrested Israel,, but released him after booking him. Bill Tozer disagreed with the reason and hired a lawyer. Can't find how that turned out.
Regardless, the bullets stayed in Bill Tozer and he recovered, pitching a shutout to Oakland in Sep, 1911 (sot in March 1911). He stayed with LA until 1914, then went to Spokane and SF Seals in that same year.
Interesting enough, one of the answers to what do old BB Players do...Well, looks like at least in 1916, he became an ice skating teacher in LA! Ha!
The first link below is a great Calif Digital Newspaper Collection home page link (it's free); need to register (free) if you want to save articles as pdf's, jpgs, etc.
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=...R+shot-------1
The second link is that to the Bill Tozer skating article.
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=...achers-------1
Bill Tozer