Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-19
SHUT OUT IN ATLANTA.
THE HOME CLUB DEFEATED IN
SIXTNNINGS.

MCQuade Fails to Show Up and GunS0T,
of the Atlanta, Umpires the Game
ShaGer ProVea AN Enigma for the so
vaunxh Bat-men-The Game Called
IN the Seventh Inning on Account OF
Hain--The season Probably E"ded.
Six hundred people were at the Theatre
yesterday afternoon to witness the detail
ell telegraph report OF the opening game
OF the SaYannah-Atlanta series. Mercury
was among the high nineties, but the
crowd did not mind the heat. 1t was
there to see the game. The front rows OF
the dress circle were filed with ladies,
many of whom wore the SaYannahs'
colOrs.
There was some delay in starting the
game and il was nearly 4:30 O'clock
before the little instrument on the
operators table CLICKED out: Purcell at
the bat" There was considerable stir
when it was announced that McQuade,
who was to have umpired the game, had
failed to show up and that a local umpire
would have to be selected. Manager
Hotaliug at once objected and refused to
play without a league umpire. 1t was
finally agreed that Atlanta should select
the umpire for two games and that Sayan-
nah should have the cbOIce for the other
two. With this understanding the
Atlanta manager selected Gunson,
of the Atlantas, to umpire the
opening game. There is no explanation
OF McQuade's failure to appear.
1t is believed by some that he was kept
out OF the way by friends of the Atlanta
club.
STARTING THE GAME.
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the bat. The opposing batteries were
O'Dsy and uilieu and Sbatfer ana Mappes.
The weather was threatening when the
game began. In the fifth inning II began
To rain, and in tue seventh inning, with
Savannah at the bat the game was called.
the telegraph report showed that the
home club was outplayed. O'Day was
hit seven times sale, while savannah
failed to get single hit off
Shalier. 1t was evident, however, from
| the manner in which strikes were called
that the home batsmen were compelled to
| hit AT almost every kind Of "A ball. The
significant remark OF Purcell, when in
Savannah during the last games here,
| that the umpire that did not win the pres
ent series for Atlanta would be buried
there seems to have had fuller meaning
than was attached to it at the time. At
| lanta does not intend that Savannah shall
win game there and boasts that any
means will be taken TO "dOwn" the club.
HOW THE GAME WAS WON.
Whatever means may be adopt
ed in the succeeding games,
Atlanta seems, from the detailed report,
10 have won Yesterdays game on its mer-
its. Smaller was an enigma for the Savan-
nah players. The fielding on both sides
was rather loose. At the end OF the sixth
inning the score stood to 0 in Atlanta's
fov In, hn a 20
scored two more runs, but the inning was
not finished and the score counts only to
the end Of the sixth.
Although savannah did not make a hit
! she bad five men ON bases. MOriaritv
passed third base IN the fourth inning, but
was caught at the home plate. In the
! third inning Miller was left on third ana
! ODay on second. Strict was LETT on first
! in the fourth inning.
Atlanta's runs were made in the fifth
aud seventh innings. In the fifth Lyons.
! after two stTikes, was gwen his base on
balls and stole second. Stricken followed
with a safe hit to lett field. Sutclitfe let
the ball pass and Lyons scored.
| Stricken went 10 third. Shatfer went out
| on a foul tip. Mappes hit to Miller, who
| fumbled the ball and Stricken scored. The
next three men went out in one, two,
! three order.
RUNS THAT DID NOT COUNT.
! In the seventh inning, with one man
! out, Stricken was given his base on balls.
! With Shatfer at the bat O'Day threw to
first to catch StricEer. Field let the ball
| pass and Stricken went TO third. Shafer
| put hot liner to Strict, who made "A slow
| pick up, and Stricken scored. ShafIer was
caught mapping at first. MaPpes
got in safe hit to left
reid and Williams followed with hit TO
second. Collins threw low to first, and
| Mappes, who was on second, scored. The
last two runs, being in an uneven in
nIng, do not count. Miller would have
scored in the third except by a ruling OF
the umpire, who ordered him back from
third to second base after be had reached
third on a wild pitch The decision was
bas ed on ground rule that only one base
can be taken on wild pitch. After be-
ing ordered back to second he reached
third on n hit which would have taken
/ hird