The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-24
THE WEEKS BALL PROGRAMME.
The Schwarz Club to Tackle the Giants
To-day-Brotherhoo Gossip.

The Schwarz Club to Tackle the Giants
To-day-Brotherhoo Gossip.
The New York brotherhood club will be-
gin the week this morning with practice at
the Bolton street ball park. and this after
neon win play the Schxarz club. which is
considered by local ball players to be a
strong team, and the friends of the home club
think that the New Workers had better not
fool with the amateurs or they will lose a
game TO Savannah.
Manager W. f. Reid says that the city
league will be kept up this season, and it
viii be fully as strong, if not stronger, than
it was last year.
The Brooklyns are expected here next
wednesday night for a game with the New
y orks Thursday. The boys have had con-
siderable practice on their southern tour
and will play better game than they did
on their sea legs when they came south and
went to the bat here for the first game of
the season and without any preliminary
practice.
There is the deepest interest felt in the
success of the Players League. and this was
manifested at the games last week, when
General Dixwell, the retired Boston cap
italist. and Jake Morse, the Boston Herald
reporter. were not too proud to peddle score
cards before the games were called to help
the boys along.
Wards suit comes up in New York to-
day, and the deepest interest is felt in the
result. The Players league won in the
suit against it in The Philadelphia courts,
and the boys feel confident that the courts
Will be with them everywhere, as they say
the issue is whether ball players are slaves
to be bought and sold by syndicates. The
people are with them, they claim, aud they
point TO the crowds which flock TO their
games as true index Of public sentiment.
"Buck" Ewing, captain of the New York
team, was offered $33, 900 for three years to
desert the brotherhood, but he SAID he pro-
posed to stand or fall with the boys
Some idea of the strength of the brother
hood teams may be gathered from review
OF the players who faced each other here
last week. There are $4,000 worth OF
ball players on the Savannah ball ground"
SAID lin Murnane, as he opened his score
book and prepared to score the first game
OF the season on Wednesday last.
"Yes,all OF that, said Jake Morse approx
ingly. and the closely contested games,
although purely exhibition games, showed
that none of them were open to the suspicion
of hippodroming.
.&Sald Boston gentleman, when the first
game was called: "Your people will not
soon have chance to see such an array of
valuable bali men on the field
In Savannah. The games are to
Ue eXnlDltlon games, 1t is true, but
they will be played just as if they were
to be counted for the pennant Each team
has just as much pride in winning game
as school boys who choose up have to see
their side win. That's the way the boys
will play ball." The prediction was verified
to the last in the tsn-inning tie'score, played
as if the pennant depended on a winning
run.
The visits of the professional ball players
has created a base ball enthusiasm in Sa-
vannah, and balls are being pitched and
caught in every street and lane in the city
from 6-year-old up to a full grown man,
while every vacant lot and common has its
players, and the youthful base ball enthu-
siasts are getting onto kid Madden's
curves" and Daly's lightning "down shoots"
and putting the ball to first, expecting to
be Kellys and Buck Ewings in the near
future.
There were several amateur games in the
suburbs yesterday between picked mines,
probably the most exciting being that of
the Troup square CLUB and the Forest Citys.
1t was witnessed by large crowd of base
ball enthusiasts of all ages, and Yves re-
markably well played and the score kept
well down, the Troups winning by score
of to ?.