Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-21
Short stops.

Augusta seems TO have fallen In love
with Atlanta.
Phelan plays second base for Memphis
for all 1t is worth.
Andrews, Memphis long-legged first
baseman, is the growler of the team.
The new blackboard at the ball grounds
will be ready for use in a day or two.
Anson's nine defeated Pfeffer's at Co.
lumbus yesterday by a score of 6 to 3.
Hamburg has signed with Bridgeport,
Conn.,, and leaves for that place to-day.
Holy Week and the passover season
keep the ladies' from the games this
week.
Nashville, Memphis and Savannah have
the only left-handed boXman in the
league.
The Savannah's new uniforms have ar
rived and will be worn for the first time
in tO-day's game.
Memphis team is made up Of good
base Sharp base running would
have won more runs for Savannah yester-
day than were scored.
The Chicagos will leave Columbus the
latter part of this week and will play in
LeayenwOrtb, Kan, on April 26 and st.
Joseph, No., on April 81.
The second base playing Will be very
pretty and exciting this season. The
race between Bittman, Strict and Stricken
Will make these parties show up in fine
form.
Cline. the coach of the Atlanta team, is
facetiOusly called by the crowd on the
citizens stand 1.-The Dancer a sObri-
quet which he has earned by his active
coaching.
The directors at Charleston have de-
cided TO exclude all carriages from the
grounds in the future, as they obstruct
the field and the occupants are liable to
be struck by the ball.
An exit way from the grand stands other
than the entrance is needed. The crush
at the close OF games from the two stands
to get through the narrow entrance way
renders it unsafe for ladies'.
The game at the Whitaker street
grounds yesterday between the Athletics
(colored J, of Philadelphia, and the Breads,
Of Savannah, resulted in a victory for the
visitors by a score Of "a to 4.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
sends out the score of each game by
innings to sixteen different towns along
the Central railroad and the Savannah,
Florida and Western railway.
Joe Hart, of the Louisville club, saws
Savannah has the best club of the South
err League. The Chattanooga Times re-
MARKS JnaJ JneTe is a small crumD OF
comfort for Chattanooga in this.
The pool room in Memphis took yester-
days game in detail as it progressed.
Every ball pitched was accounted. If a
foul went into the grand stand the ope-
ratOr on the grounds wired Memphis,
"FOul in grand stand" or lover
fence" etc. Every ball that was
called and every strike was reported.
The men when they got on the bases were
followed around until they got home or
got out. The report went by a single wire
from the ball grounds TO the Western I'm
ion office in this city. From Savannah to
Augusta a duplex was worked, from Au-
gusta to Atlanta a quadrupleX, from At
lanta to Nashville a single wire. and from
Nashville to Memphis a~''quad."
The New York Herd}d, in figuring OF the
first weeks Southern League games, says
the Southern League championship sea-
son was opened Thursday last in games at
Charleston, Macon, Augusta and Savan-
nah. At the close of the week the At
lantas headed the list with three victO-
ries and no defeats. Savannah follows,
with two victories and no defeats. Macon
comes next, with two victories and one
defeat. The Augusta and Nashville clubs
have each won one and lost one game.
Memphis has won one ant lost two, while
Chattanooga and Charleston have not
won any, and the former has met with
two and the latter three defeats. The
Herald is off ia it's calculations. 1t evil
IDENTIFY got its information from Atlanta.
Savannah has not been second yet in the
league.