Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-04
CHILDISH VACILLATI0N.
MACON TRIES TO JUMP BACK
INTO THE LEAGUE.

Stanu-SaVAnnA to Play Two O8LneH
with Charleston To- Dsy-The PROPOSE
ton to Play FOR Purse.
Savannah viii play two games with
Charleston to-day, one beginning at 1880
O'Clock this morning and the other at 4:30
O'Clock this afternoon. These will be the
asst regular games OF the season in Sa-
vannah. Tomorrow the same clubs cross
bats at Charleston, which marks the com
mencement Of the closing trip Of the
season.
Harbrldge is playing first base for Syr-
acuse, n. y.
Manager Sneed was fined $l25 during
Fridays game by Umpire Merritt.
strauss, OF Louisville, 1t Is said is the
only Hebrew playing ball professionally.
smith, of Nashville, Is to be released at
his own request at once. He will 20 nome
to Pittsburg.
The New York Mail and Express is
authority for the statement that the At
lanta club is about to disDand.
Bakers finger is in such a condition
that it is very doubtful whether he will
be able TO pitch another game this season.
Nashville Union: Sneed is a good ball
| player, but he has about as much bust
ness managing ball team as 2year-old
child.
Gardner. formerly of the Charestons,
says the Sporting Life, has been filing
third base for the Brocktons and batting
heavily.
After the regular season closes it is pro-
posed TO nave q series of games between
Memphis and Nashville for the champion
ship Of Tennessee.
Wick Miller has returned to Columbus
from Louisville. Miller was the great
short stop of Columbus when Hub Col
Inns played first base.
This season has been a veritable boom
tor the American Association financially.
Not single club has lost money, and
most Of them will quit big winners on the
seasons work.
A wealthy Charleston base ball enthu-
siast suggests that the cities in the South
! ern League could get up less expensive
| and more reliable ball playing by training
colOred men for the work.
The International League has player
called Hub Collins. IL goes without say
ing, however, that he can't hold a candle
to the Savannah Hub. The Northerner
has recently been released.
The Memphis Avalanche remarks:
There are only few points difference
in the standing Of Savannah and Atlanta.
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of Arundel and the war OF Purcell"
Memphis Avalanche: "If Savannah and
Atlanta should have to play the best two
| out OF three games to decide the champion
ship, it is our humble opinion that Savan-
nah will win IL a competent and honest
man umpires."
A remarkable feat was accomplished
by Harding and Smith, the catcher and
first Daseman of the st. Joseph, Mo, club.
They retired the entire Leayenworth team
! in recent game. the former had eleven
put outs and the latter sixteen.
Neither of the railroads have yet de-
cided to give an excursion rate to At
lanta for the Savannah series. The base
ball enthusiasts VIII have to take action
promptly il they want 10 secure the con-
cession. Many people say they will 90.
The following indicates that Atlanta
must be on the point of disbanding: ''ln
a conversation the other dav between
Cline, Stricken, Purcell aud George
Shafer, all of them said that Atlanta
would not lose more than two more games
this season"
The Western League is having more
trouble, and it is now expected that one
or more of its clubs will be obliged to sue
cumb before the season is over. An eff
fort will be made to ill the vacancies by
other cities, but just how they will sue
coed is hard to tell.
A prominent business man offers to bet
$500 that savannah can beat Atlanta
the most games out of a series sufficiently
long to make it a contest Of skill rather
than luck. The members of the club.
however, think that to cover expenses
ana leave profit $4,000 should be the
amount ofthe purse.
The Macon correspondent of the Sport
| OF "a
rather have Atlanta win the pennant
than Savannah. In view of the good
treatment accorded the Macon PLAYERS
by Savannah spectators, and Savannah s.
sympathy with Macon in her ii ght for the
pennant last year, the statement is not be-
lieved to be truthful representation of
MaC0n's feeling in the matter.
Misses Pearl Emerson and May Hamil-
ton, the battery of the wandering female
base bail club, while leaving the base ball
park at Evansville, Ind, July d, after a
game, in buggy, met with an accident.
The horses became frightened and ran
away, throwing both women out. Miss
Emerson was slightly bruised about the
head, but Miss Hamilton sustained trac-
ture OF the skull aud internal injuries
which will undoubtedly result fatally.
Charles Sweeney has been released by
Syracuse after pitching TWO losing games.
In 'S4 considered the finest of them all
On Tuesday last he pitched tor the Con-
stableyille club against the LowVilles. in
the deciding contest for the championship
OF Lewis county, n. y. Divine and
Householder, of the Syracuse Stars, were
the imported battery of the Lowyilles.
Sweeney's club, COnstableville, was
beaten by to 0.
TImlin, the Northwestern League UNI
pire, was cowardly assaulted in Oshkosh
on july %. At the close OF the game be-
tween the home nine and Minneapolis, a
buriy lumberman stepped up behind Tim
lin and dealt him a terrible blow behind
the ear, telling HIM to the ground. The
cowardly brute then seized hat and
would have struck Timlin with it but for
the timeiy interference OF the crowd
When arrested he excused himselfby say
ing That one of Timlin's rulings during
the game was Unfair.
Atlanta will rob a club OF money as
we'll as of games II given a shadow OF a
chance TO 30 50. At Mondays game with
Macon the crowd was 80 small that the
receipts would not pay the $50 guarantee.
Atlanta refused 10 pay Manager Peltz
any guarantee whatever on the ground
That Macon would owe them 5000 for
failure To play tue two games still 10 be
played wuen Macon disbanded. After
this attempt at downright robbery