The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-05-21
CLEAR THE TRACK.
MEMPHIS is MAWING A BEE-LINE
FOR THE PENNANT,
Aud Clubs That Don't Like knoutf's
speed Must Get out OF
the Way.


home nine, and those who a'e IN
clined to specializing. upon the result
in substantial way lost no time IN
seeking the Turf Exchange, where the
betting was $40 to $40 sgainst Mem
phis, and only 81 to so against Sa-
yannah. Fortified by the APPEALS
tin, the boys began to plunge heavily
ON the home nine, and filled the books
so full that the gentlemanly
proprietot concluded he had
enough and lowered his odds
to IS to $40 against Memphis,
and raised them to IS to $40 against
Savannah. The hest part of the day !
was spent by the average citizen in
forecasting the result of the game,
the drift of public opinion being that
the Browns would win. 1t was Doubt
less with that conviction strong upon
them that the largest audience OF the
season had gathered at the ball park
long before the hour announced for
p ay to begin, the ladies stand being
part cularly overcrowded and necessi'
tating the pacing of benches in the
field to the left of the home plate in
order to accommodate the fair parti-
sans who had come to see the home
nine win. Aud so it was. Knout
pitched in excellent form, and but for
TWO wild throws to second base by
Broughton, assisted by l'ck OF Wig
lance and ale tness on Manse,fs part,
the visitors would have been in
eloriou,ly shut out. Try as they
would, the approved sluggers OF the
Savannah nine were unable
to find the ball, and only
: two OF them managed to send
it outside the diamond. Thirteen men
famed the air wildly in the desperate
4 and sometimes con ical effort to hit
something, but the deceptive sphere
acted as ii it were alive and had eyes
and lodged the bat every time, and
d thus it happened that ano her well
nj we'd game fell to Memphis against
70 players who in some respects are UNI
n eorialed in tue League. We took oc
l. cas- on to say yesterday that the "a
vannah team was greatly. overra'edi
70 and owed its lead to combination o.
e fortuitous circumstances. That opin
n ion was based upon what the club haC
done elsewhere. Judged, however
!; nv their performance under our owl
eyss, we must do them the justice I
. say ttat they are formidable bal
y PLAYERS. There are very few club
/. that will not go all to pieces whel
their pitcher is hit as freely as Nolal
!, wasin the fourth inning, but no on
50 became "rattled," and throughout tn
n game but one error was made in tn
field and one behind the bat. This
tn a rec I'd that any club may justly {
'pi nroud of. and for il the Savannahs al
entitled to their full need
.Ss. nrajse. It was anybody's game unit
ms the last man had been put out in ID
I" last inning, aud IL WIS not until tn
desirable consummstion was reache
Tor that the friends of the home nine te
~ ea,v and gave vent 10 their f.eung5l
long and iubilant sh us, all the me
rier for having been so long repreesf
NE The game throughout was an exh
nd ton Of as god bal play,ng az can
!: seen anywhere in the United S5att
'n' end KnouAf's pitching was simp
matchless. Rameey and h'lrt
di must look to their lauTeIs, for We
81, Of got a phenomenon here to
promises to more than eqr
~, them, The "0nly Nolan" NJ
ny itehed a good game, and some OF q
est surest bstters frequently hit at t
he'd balls in blind impotence. In the ii
inuing Seed, Mansell and Andre
It. were all retired on hits inside tho d
nice mopd. For the viitoTs, CclliIs,
ree1pd hewlett better in the Nil
led struck ont; Morisrtv got base on tel
rec hit by pitcher, and scored on Brou,
ling TOMS wild throw m second, baC
y ~ 6elded by Mansell. Three little go
eggs for either nire were the OF
y fruit gathered in the second inni
In the third, WIFI ehead, who is
enn. cal uing his batting folm with surp
by ing rapidity, got to second on {
Ala: hi3 10 right fie d, made third on s
ST., I va sacrifice, aud scored on kuC u
pay ay to left field. SIe-d
at. safely for one base, bu; got an out
- an attempt to seal teCond. The
'-' itors were retired in numerical orc
20. and the inuing ended with the &C
Ne TO 1fIto l. In the fourth inning Man
hit s,fely FIR one base, but was on
u a,teloud on Andrews's hit. Andre
stel4 secood, and sc0r d on Brou
ill toms safe hit to center fed the Id
5NEs- making third on wild throw in
rem Hotsling. When Andrews eros
n re- the home p'aue the audience Iosc,
or TO male pert, be it always unoerstt
and chtered with a vigor and '
,st Western unanimity that must ;
been welcome music to tho BroN
Is Ior When, two minutas stterw
Large Broughton scored on Phelan's hi
' pro- shortstop, Fl, lded 10 first, there
g sac al another exhiDltit n Of baE and
- enthusiasm, and then the exbau
bi ;,Ss, crowd SAT down and settled itseii
$50. "more" with anaDx oUsgreed that
office OlverTwist'slecorda wsvin the sh
in But Il was not to be. Phelau q
Co, tecond on a hit to left field, ri d :
. third very clever V, but was left I
Is, 5o nv Whitehead's strike.out. Tbs
n 'u" tors again did the numsrit al act,
Nd. the inning ended, leaving the Brc
TEs- very &C mtortably in the lead with
70 tho score 8 to /. They failed to do n
,nn with Mr.. Moan after that, and
A wholesale business in gco.e EGG
- the game ended. The visitors
or box Likewise except in the eighth inl
MISE, when Nolan got htss on balls
III hP'I be Gillen, who was allowed to run
South Nolan, made third on another
. throw of catcher to second, and e
snds: on Miller's hit to right field.
ing at ended the run getting. Durni
- last half Of the ninth inning the
GUS tension Of the audience wa
- tense. Thies Of the best bate
Otb in the Savannah Club were dus o.
oqMjo l, liar, and as the score was only 3
be re. the situation wa, T0m baseball
OF view, critical. But Knouf,
COW; lug caunted, be1t up his speed
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