Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-08
HOME RUNS AND BASE HITS.
Items Gathered in the diamond"
Fields.


Louisville may have Kilroy next year.
Pete Browning has just been reinstated
by Louisville.
Nashville viii have to play better ball
or she will not finish third.
The new Philadelphia ground will be
fitted up at a cost of 800, 900.
Ex-Manager Of the Nets Clifford is in
charge OF the Syracuse club.
Savannah has won sixteen games out
of the last seventeen played.
Out OF the seventeen games which the
Atlantas have played they have lost but
one.
Most OF the Louisville players are mar
ried, and their wives are regular attend
ants at the games.
triple play was the feature of the
game at Boston Thursday. Richardson
and Bennett made it.
The forty games played at SpOrtsman's
Park, st. Louis, this season have yielded
something over $4,000 to the manage
ment.
HOtf0rd and Ringo, the Pittsburg bat
terry which was released a few days
since, will probably be signed by the Ath-
letlcs.
Atlanta will return home after playing
the Nashville games, and will open in
Atlanta next Wednesday with the
Charleston club.
Jack Gleason, OF the Athletics, is fine
batter, but rather weak in fielding, and
the Athletics are on the hunt for a man
to take his place.
Nashville says the Atlantas have i'm
proved wonderfully since there first visit
there. The visitors are declared the
greatest base-runner5 seen there this sea-
son.
BIZ Arp has perpetrated another al
legged joke. He saws: at Is stated that
the Savannah and Charleston clubs are
owned and operated by the same persons.
Can this be true?"
Caruthers, OF st. Louis Association
team, did great act IN the fourth inning
of Tuesdays game by striking out two
men in succession while the bases were
filled from three good hits.
Atlanta admits the superiority OF Sa-
vannah when she says: ''rhere can be no
doubt of the fact that the finest ball play
ing ever witnessed in the South will be
seen when the Atlanta champions and the
famous Savannah Club meet in Atlanta
August Is, 10, 81 and %. The Atlanta
grounds will hardly hold tue crowd"
No more manly action than that OF
Charleston in causing the reinstatement
club since the organization of the South.
ern League. Charleston gracefully re-
tracts the charge that Umpire HengIe
was bribed and, while still claiming that
the decision was erroneous, adj
mits that the mistake was one Of the
head and not of the heart. The
news of Charleston's chivalrous course
will nowhere be received with more sat-
istactl0n than In savannah. If the fight
TO- no L..
cities it would be one of good fellowship
as far as Savannah could make it 80.
Haverhill CMass. people are informed
that Conley's feat Of allowing but twenty
seven men to go the bat, and of the team
making no errors, has not only been
equalled but eXcelled. On June - 1880.
Richmond. the left-handed pitcher of the
Worcesters, retired the CIeYelands in or
der. They did not see first base on a hit
or an error. Ward. then pitcher of the
Providences. accomplished this feat as
well, June II, 1880, only five days after
the above, when the Buffaloes went out
in one, two, three order. Calvin accom-
plished it in 1915, and Ed. Kent in 1871 d.
Valentine accomplished the feat attribu-
ted to Conley in 1872, while pitching for
the MetrOpolitans.
Ramsev's magnificent work on Satur-
day against the BaltimOres stamps him
king of the twirlers this season. But one
hit was made OFF hit in twelve-inning
| game. lie struck out seventeen men.
| And still some authorities say strike.out
| pitchers are no good. Ramsey's record
! for this game was never before euualed
| in the history of base BALL Terry is now
! Br0oklyn's winning pitcher. His recent
feat OF retiring the st. Louis club without
| a hit was remarkable. The Mssourians
! were never before treated in that manner.
| Other pitchers have not allowed an op-
! posing side single hit, but It was
| always against a weak nine. 1t has
been done by association pitchers only
seven times: Hecker, twice against the
! Alleghanies and Baltimores; Atkisson,
twice against the Metropolitans and AL
| leghauies; Morris, once against the Ale
! ghaues; Ramsey, once against the BaltI-
| mOres, and Terry, against st. LOUIS. OF
| the league pitchers, the superannuated
! Tommy Bond has done the same thing, as
! has also Calvin while with Buffalo. Larry
! Corc0ran, Fred Goldsmith, Radbourne.
! Butlnton, Clarkson, Jim Whitney and