The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-16
GUARDS KNOCKED OUT.
THE CADETS WALK AWAY WITH
THEM SEVENTEEN TO THREE.

| The Davis Monument Fund Gets $50
Out o. the Match B stwesn the Two
Military Ball Teams-Ths Spectators
Rave a Time Waiting for the Game
To End-Some OF the Features.
The game of ball between the Guards and
the Cadets yesterday afternoon for the
benefit Of the Davis monument fund was 6
great game in many respects. The score
was great-17 to 3, in favor OF the Cadets.
The playing was also great. being remarka-
Bile for the number of errors and poor
plays.
The game was attended by large crowd
the grandstand and the bleaching boards
both being filed. The grandstand was well
filed with ladies.
Umpire Scanlon called the game shortly
after O'Clock, with the Cadets at the bat.
The Cadets got on to Mercer, the Guards
pitcher, right away.
The first two men to the bat, Jones and
Geudry, scored.
The Guards got In one run their first
inning by Capt. Ferris Cam.
Fair playing was done by both sides in
the second inning, and neither made q ruu.
The Cadets team was easily seen to be- the
superior, the men being in good trim and
pldyluk WSi LORoEnoT. mO5b Oh bHeHl uhNe
played ball with one or the other of the city
team this year. Jones and Coney made a
splendid battery for the Cadets.
Mercer and Drane did some very good
battery work for the Guards, con-
siderlng they were not in prac-
tice. The Guards had few
good players and some that were not so
good. The team evidently was not used to
playing together. Few if any of them have
done any playing this year.
There was a smuggling match on the part
of the Cadets in the third inning, and four
runs were scored. The Guards made poor
out of getting the ball, though Charley
Hunter made good first baseman. They
came in after awhile and went out in one,
two. three order. They managed to
shut the Cadets out In the next
inning, however, and got in two runs This
revived tine hopes Of the crowd that there
would be something like baseball played
after all. but it was doomed to disappoint-
ment- The rest of tho game was smuggling
match, the Cadets doing the slugging. They
got In four runs In the fifth inning, the
same number in the sixth and one each in
the eighth and ninth.
The Guards, poor fellows, got in mary"
another run. Mercer, though tired, came
up smiling and saw himself batted all over
the field Now and then a
Guard forgot himself and caught
ball, and then the young ladies in the
grand stand cheered, but then when the
baseman failed TO get it, the small boys
screamed with delight.
Lamar relieved Mercer in the seventh
inning, and succeeded in holding the Cadets
down to one run each in the seventh and
eighth innings. Cam occupied the box in
the ninth inning, in which the Cadets were
shut out for the second time.
Tie spectators were relieved when the
game ended. They hadn't seen much ball,
but they had the satisfaction Of knowing
they had contributed to the Davis monu-
ment fund.
Seventeen TO 8 was the score as an
nounced. The Guards took their fortune
good-naturedly. 1t was only what they
had expected, they said The team is a
good one, and with little more practice
together would play ball. The game was a
success in one direction. The receipts were
over $50,