Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-02

Manager Lewis is down on Umpire

Manager Lewis is down on Umpire
Brennan.
The st. Louis Browns have white
/ washed more CLUBS this season than any
nine in the association.
! The Charleston team is playing great
! ball The bulldozers won a game from
them Yesterday by pure luck.
! Stemmeyer, the Boston pitcher, is a
giant in build. He stands feet inches
in his shoes aud weighs 1870 pounds.
Mike Walsh has been appointed reg
ular umpire in the American Association
by President WikOG. He viii take the
place of Morton, who resigned.
''Tug' Arundel is without a doubt the
hardest working player in the league He
has caught more games than any other
backstop, and never grumbies about
being Overworked.
Macon has sold Smith to Detroit and
claims TO have gotten $1,000 for him.
Smith and Decker will form the Detroits'
new battery. Macon has sIsEfd Luden-
burg, pitcher OF the keOkuks. rdG Man
ming, middle fielder OF the DetrOlts. Both
are expected to arrive in few days.
The Nashville American gives warning
that ''in Billy Tavlor ana Billy O. BrIeu the
Nashyiles will have pair of Bibles that
can't be eQualled. The Southern League
viii hear lots more of them before the sea-
son closes" Southern League audlences
have already heard enough Of O'Brien to
sicken them.
Billy Taylor, OF last years Nashyilles
and this season with Baltimore, has re-
Gently been released, and has again been
signed by Nashville to finish out the sea-
son. The American says: sit has not
yet been decided where Taylor will be
played. lie has been catching Henderson.
] ar RQitlmnrpg a N i'll frnha Y ~ n tNb
smith. When he pitches Hellman will be
his catcher. At present, as Hlllery is
suffering with sore arm, he will likely
play first, while Billy O'Brien goes to
third. The management desire TO give
Baker a temporary rest, as his health is
not good, and Taylor will do his share OF
the pitching"
The Nashville Union says: "CharlestOn
is the best ball town in the South. Great
crowds attend all the games, but such rot
ten work as that of Saturday will soon xii!
the goose that lays the golden egg. II the
savannah team cannot pull through the
| season without Charleston and other
clubs throwing games to her, she had
better disband. The lovers of the game
will stand great deal. but the questiona-
| be policy of selling games and throwing
of they Will not stand" This sort of ia
is too absurd to take notice OF. Nobody
in Charleston or anywhere else believes
that Savannah ever got a game in any
way exc pit through square playing.
Jim White, the veteran third baseman
! Of the Detroit club, made his first slide
since he began to play bali in the Chicago
| Detroit game last Monday. The Chicago
! Herald gives the following graphic story
OF The event: "A passed ball by Flint
then gave the deacon an opportunity to
! loosen his joints. With stride like that
Of camel and hop good deal like that
! OF a grasshOppcr the venerable tarantula
| oegGn TO make the circuit of the bases.
| rhe crowd yelled, and the good deacon
| kept on running until he got within fifteen
feet of third base. Then his attenuated
| frame assumed horizontal position,
| cloud of DIRT flew into the air, and a pale,
| perspiring face looked admirably over the
base line at the umpire. The deacon was
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