Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-19

Atlanta WIN Not Give it Up nor Play tho
Deferred Game with Augusta.

Deferred Game with Augusta.
Atlanta is determined tc hold the pen
nart of the Southern base til league in
spite Of the directors decision that she
must play the deferred game with
Augusta. Atlanta says she will no play
the game for the following reasons:
First. Augusta has no right to claim IT.,
because Augusta herself voted TO close
tn season on the 18th, and under this re-
solution Atlanta has already released six
OF her players, who lave made engage
ments elsewhere.
Second. The. g is no necessity for her
playing 1t, because there is no tie be-
tween herseh and Augusta for first place.
With tie season closed she stands G59 and
Augusta 653. If Augusta had tied her
she would have been bound under the
rules TO play The deferred game. AS she
has beaten Augusta six points she can
not be called upon 20 play for tic when
no tie exists.
So much iOr the law in the matter. AS
to the equity, it was charged, ills claimed,
at the meeting on Friday in the presence
OF Mr.. Mayberry, manager OF the Nash
Yllles, that he announced his purpose 70
throw four games TO Augusta, and thus
help her to beat Atlanta.
There is no precedent anywhere OF
u
the close of the season, unless, as the
rules state, cit is necessary to decide the
championship" This is the rule that At
lanta stands on. There is clearly no ne
cessity, she claims, OF playing game to
decide the championship, because IL
is already decided by score
Of $50 to 653. Consequently At
lanta would not play the deferred game
il she could, and the directors can no
aTnp hFra h. b nit f,a.fs-
nant than they could by a vote award it
to Birmingham. They had already passed
a resolution ending the championship Sc
Ties on Sept. n. on this resolution Attain
to claims to haYe won the pennant and to
attempt TO take II from her by this resOlu-
ton she regards as unjust and as iueffec-
tive az II they were % try by a vote to de-
clare the Birmingham club the cham
plons.
Mr.. Schmelz said in reply TO a question:
"Certainly we are not gong to play the
deferred game. We could nOtifwe wanted
to. McVey has already left for New York,
where he plays with the BrOOklyns.
Mappes, Cahill, GOdsby, Bittman, and
OBrien leave to-ngbt, having made
other engagements. released them sew
eral days ago, under the resolution offered
at the last meeting, Which closed the sea-
son on Sept. II. Had it been possible for
AuEuSId 10 Tie us WOulQ nave
held them together, because, If there
bad been tie we should have
been obliged to play Off our deferred
game. But after seeing that it was i'm
possible for there to be a tie | let the men
20. say now, and it can't be contra
dicted, that never in the history of base
bali anywhere has a club been forced to
play IL deferred game at the end of the
season when there was no tie between It.
self and the club with whom the game
was deferred. 1t never has been done,
and it never will be done. No league in
the country would sustain such action.
Every base ball authority would be against
it. 1t IS not right nor just. Augusta her
self voted to close the season on the 18th,
and now that we have beat her six points
she wants to force US to give her a
chance to reverse our victory. | charge
it, that Mayberry did say he would throw
the four games to Augusta. and he has
not denied it. And he told q crowd this
morning in detail how Wednesdays game
was thrown to Augusta after Nashville
had it won. And, in the face of this, Au-
gusta asks, in violation OF every base ball
precedent and authority, that we be
forced TO play deferred game with her
when she has not tied Us and when our
club has disbanded."