Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-23
Snort stops.

Short stops.
1t was Tennessee's day yesterday. All
the Tennessee clubs won.
They have bird cages and baskets of
flowers decorating the grand stand in
Cincinnati.
Hecker, Browning, Kerins, and Ramsey
have been dubbed the "Big Four" OF the
Louisville club.
Pittsburg has placed Barley again at
second. huehne goes to first base, smith at
short stop, and Whitney to taird.
Advice to Savannah: Play ball. Ad-
vice to Memphis: Don't attempt any
Mississippi river business on Savannah.
Crowley, Charleston's new rig BIT
fielder, has arrived in Charleston and
PLAYED in yesterdays game against
Chattanooga.
Umpire Brennan's grand stand popu-
larity was short lived. The umpire's lot
IS not happy one, and Umpire Brennan's
path is not likely TO be strewn with roses.
Charleston attributes her defeat on
Wednesday to She absence from the scores
box OF black MascOtte, which the team
believes won Tuesdays game. Charles
ton has got the Mascotte business bad.
The Atlanta Capitol has been heard
from: "Shaffer has 80 far pitched the best
Holi VI du1 BAJCueE III Tue lehG ues III thi tG
games he has struck out % men and Onlv
had ID hits made Off him. This is great
work"
Morris is probably tho most attractive
pitcher 10 the box of any in the profession il.
His movements are lively and at the same
time graceful. He differs so much from
the customary delivery Of tWirlers that 1T
is treat to watch him.
The Atlanta capitol man don't know
what sis talking about. chattanooga,
he SAYS, lacks man at the head OF her
team. In Tuesdays game Mansell and
Mathews, the two best men, were left
OUT" Lewis is as good man as any club
In the league has got at its head.
The Atlanta Capitol man thinks the At
lanta team is playing better ball than any
team ia the league, and says that SaVan-
nah is at home and has only won one more
game, and is playing the two weakest in
the league; while Atlanta is away and
has played two very strong clubs. When
Atlanta gets in shape, look out.
The Memphis AcdlQnche says that the
result of Tuesdays game In Savannah
was anticipated after it became known
that Fusselbach would have to catch
again. The Bluff City bows are in a very
bad fix, but what would they have done
had 1t not been for Eddie Fusselbach
The Memphis club should reward him
suitably for his faitnfulness."
The Philadelphia Press man knows
what he is talking about when he points
to hecKer as good example for pitchers
and saws: "a good pitcher Will not send
many men to bases on balls. He should
bear in mind that nine cut of ten men
presented with base score a run. There
are nine chances against a batsman all
the time, and good twirler will take
these chances and make man hit the
ball.'
Erastus Wiman, before sailing for
Italy, purchased a silver trophy worth
$1,000, which he donated as the champion.
ship emblem OF the American Associa-
ton. The trophy consists Of a silver
figure OF q batsman in a batting position
| 1t is mounted upon a pedestal and in
closed in a glass case. IT is now il
charge Of the Metropolitan Club and will
be carried around the country with them
! and placed upon exhibition.
! Smith, Memphis new catcher, whC
was to have joined the club il
Macon, having been forwarded $40,
advance money, has telegraph
ed President Carnes at Memphit
! from Canandaigus, N. Y: Il am very
sorry to disappoint you. Have written
! A Memphis paper says: al am SORRY il
4 very good excuse for small boy bu
| not for a professional base ballist, an(
Mr.. Smith should be made 10 pay for hi
dishonesty. as he is responsible for al
least one or two Of the defeats sustained
by the Memphis club"