Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-13
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA SPORTS.
Good Rifle Shooting At Green Cove
Dust from the Diamond.

Good Rifle Shooting At Green Cove
Dust from the Diamond.
Macon plays Chicago on April Is.
Chicago and Atlanta will cross bats to-
day.
Chicago defeated Chattanooga by a
score of 10 to Saturday.
The firemens' parade and tournament
of Macon will occur on April 10.
At Nashville, Friday, CHICAGO defeated
the home team by a score of to-
Wednesday the schedule games of the
Southern league begin, the Northern
clubs going into the Southern tier.
The pitcher of the Macon nine knocked
Spencer, of the L0uisvilles, senseless in
Macon few days agOin practice game.
The visiting clubs praise the umpiring
of Burke, Of Macon, thft' say she Al ahphis
and Nashville umpires are intolerably par
tiel.
Kn0uff, the pitcher of the MaeODs, is
said to be one of the best muscled men in
America. he holds the ball TO his breast.
and from there delivers it with fearful
force to the bat.
Will Knight, OF Cedartown, is the vic
tim of the first serious accident on the
Georgia ball field this season. A collision
with another player resulted in one of
his legs being broken.
The Column us team is making active
! preparations for the league games.
| Nashville is the first club they meet
| Pechiney and Fitzgerald will 60 in the
box, and Green will umpire.
The base ball craze in the State is
! spreading with Incompatible rapidty.
and nearly every town is or soon will be
represented by an amateur nine. The
inter-city games will be legion this year.
Manager Lawrence, of the Clevelanls,
says Parsons, Of the Birminghams, Is ny
odds the best pitcher he has met in the
! Southern League, and he thinks the Biz
| min9hams the strongest team. Mana9er
Hart, of the LOulsviles, says Kilroy. Of
the Augustus, puzzled his men more than
any other.
Entries are now open to the go-as-yOu-
| please match for tue championship OF the
South, TO take place at the Kelly a 6osser
rink, at Atlanta, on or about May l. The
race is to be thirty-siX hours, twelve hours
daily, for three days, under the auspices
Of the Gate City Athletic Club. Entries
are only open to the Southern States.
Polhill, of Macon, who is practieing tor
the great race with Prince, was at the
park Friday afternoon attempting To
| lower the Southern record for a half mile
The following is the results OF bis efforts ::
First trial, in IN. 81 % sec second trial,
l m. 3615 sec; third trial, l m. 3534 sec.
The half mile record is held by Frank
Mudd, Of Montgomery, and is ! II. 30 sec.
The Memphis Cycle Club has just
finished building a quarter mile hard
| clay track, in its park, and as ii will be
one of the fastest In the country, wheel
men every where, and in the South especi-
| ally, will he given brilliant opportunity
to break records and to win some Of the
handsOmest prizes ever offered for ,imi-
lar events, at their spring meeting which
takes place April 30, Nay l and ,. En-
tries will close April %.
Green Cove (Fla.) Spring: A rife
match at the Clarendon range closed last
Monday, Mr.. New, Of New York, being in
the lead with 90 out Of a possible 100. and
Mr.. Richards, of New York, with 81. AS
the ladies who we're in tue IN 4tch had COM
peted very closely with the gentlemen,
the latter waived their claim to the gold
and silver badge, and it was presented to
Miss Genevieve Benn.tt. OF New York,
who had made score of 81.
The SpOTt~men's Association of the
Carollnas Will have p'lz shooting tout
nament at Charleston on MAY 10, IA and
10. Team matches aud sweepst kes viii
ne shot. Glass balls, composition pigeons
and blackhirds will be used. The puz S
will be valuable and handsome. Tnis, in
connection with the Mutual Aid AssOci-
alton picnic and the trOlting races, will
bring a large number of visitors t. that
city. The railroads will be applied to for
reduced rates.
In the race between Prince, the cham
pion bicyciIst, and Minnie Irwin, the fast
estpacer at Columbus, Friday, Minnie
Irwin won by length. in II :5l. 1t was a
tye-mile heat. Morgan, the champion of
! Canada, went two half mile heats against
three-minute colt, and was beaten in
both. The best time was SO. The anna
teur race, half-mile heats, was won by T..
l.. Ingram. His best time WAS AS. Tue
track was a little heavy for bicycle rae
ing. Prince and Morgan expect to return
! to Columbus about May |.