Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-06-26
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When O'Day hit Gilman on the arm
with the ball in Thursdays Charleston
game, wag on the grand stand called out
Oh day!
The directors will decide to-day whether
the Savannah club diSbands or not. III
the public comes up and says go ahead
they will 90 ahead. Ii 1t does not the
club will 90 to pieces.
The Charleston News and Courier man
says O'Day has the reputation of being
one of the most effective pitchers in the
Southern League. He is certainly neat
and swift in his delivery.
At the meeting of the directors Of the
Charleston club on Wednesday night
Manager Cushman and all the team were
invited into the room. The manager was
told that better discipline must be pre-
served, and the players were told in plain
terms that they were expected in future
to play ball.
The directors OF the Charleston club
have decided that there shall be no
moro collections in the park tor home
runs, ana, what is better, that there
shall be no more presentation of bouquets
TO the players on the grounds. These
things have contributed to give some Of
the team the disease known as ''swell
head"
The Charlestons are pleased with their
new pitcher Sullivan. The News and
Courier says that his work in the box
Thursday was generally conceded to be
perfect, his victims numbering five men,
one more than the number of hits he
yielded. 1t was, however, in the delicate
and deceptive delivery of his curves that
his best work was done.
The Savannah club is not the only club
in the league that is in a bad way inan-
cially. Macon, Augusta aud Chatta-
nooga have mad to ask for assistance. 10
every case they have got 1t. The people
in Chattanooga, Augusta and Macon
stand by their teams though they are
down in the race. With the home club
next TO first place it is likely to disband
for want OF money
The Nashville Banner says: There are
all manner of rumOrs afioat just now re-
garding the Nashvilles. One man will
tell you that it was a "cut-and .dried''
scheme to allow the Chattanooga to win
three straights; that the Chattanooga
people had given it out that unless their
team won some games they would stop
patronlzlng the game. The next man
you meet will tell you the boys were all
drunk and in no condition to play ball. Still
another will declare they are throwing
of, selling, etc. What is wrong with tire
team we cannot say, but it is evident
sit was in the seventh inning that
Charleston scored on Thursday" says
the News and Courier, ''and only through
Gilman's prOverbial good luck. McVey,
who went first to the bat, was put out.
Gilman, who followed him, batted a short
grOunder in the direction OF the third base,
which was held by one of the most reliable
men on the Savannah team. Strict, how
ever, by accident, made wild throw to
first. The ball went by the baseman's
hand, and before it could be fielded Gill
man, who runs like a greyhound, had
pushed his way around to third base. Nc
Aleer, who followed him at the bat, hit a
short grounder, which was promptly
ielded, the effort of the flelders being, of
course, to get Gilman at the home plate
and prevent him from scoring. Here,
however, Gilman's good luck again
served him, The catcher got the ball al
most before 'Gillie' had reached within
ten feet of the home plate, but failed to
touch him, and Charleston had won the
victory"