The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-21
sAvANNAa's TIME is now.
If Base Ball Will Pay at All it Ger
rainIv VIII the Coming Season.

tainly vii the Coming Season.
The announcement by Mr.. D. A Long
of the engagement of Jimmie Manning as
manager Of the Savannah league team next
season has aroused lively interest in base
ball circles. Manning is a hustler. A great
deal Of the success of the team will depend
on the interest taken in IL, and that de-
ponds on the men who are back OF it and
the confidence Savannah people have in
them.
1t is not many months before the team
will have to be selected. Before that is done,
however, grounds will have to be provided
and the backing of the team in Savannah
arranged. IL is six years since Savannah
had one OF the best teams in the country
and ought to have been q winner In the old
Southern League.
1t seems by this time Savannah can af-
ford to put winning team in the field
The expediency Of 12-club league, how
ever is doubted by many people, and its
success remains to be seen.
Buc k Ewing is investing his money in
real estate in the East End of Cincinnati.
Beside owning three or four nice dwelling
houses, he now has a force of workmen en-
gagged in putting the finishing touches on a
4-stOry building. There will be three
store rooms on the ground floor and fats in
the upper stories. 1t will cost from $4,000
to $4,000.
The New York Base Ball Club has made
an appeal to its stockholders for money.
Accompanying the appeal is statement of
the clubs financial condition on the past
season. 1t shows a deficit of $32, $50 81.
Clarence Childs. the second baseman OF
the Cleveland club. was obliged to
push James Brown about In a barrow for
about three miles and pay SIS forfeit be-
side. Brown, who il a fellow molder,
weighs EOS pounds, and the arrangement
was that the loser OF the bet should pay So
forfeit for every time he sec down the bar
row TO rest. Childs, who felt sure that
Harrison was going to be elected, had to
stop three times at So rest.
The supreme court of Nebraska has held
that base ball playing comes under the head
of sporting, and that playing the game on
Sunday renders the players liable to a line
or imprisonment in the county jail. The
decision is on a case where the members OF
the Lincoln and Denver clubs Of the west
ern association we're arrested for playing at
Lincoln eight months ago.
It is a well-known fact that left-handed
pitchers never last so long as those who use
the right hand in delivering the ball. 1t is
rarely south-paw lasts over three seasons
In ANYTHING like a speedy company, while
the rignt-handers 60 on, year in and year
out. 1t is hard to recall any left-hander
who has kept himself before the public.
while the right-handers are numerous.
Like everything else, there is a scientific
reason. In conversation with DIR. Burton,
recognized authority, the latter gave as a
reason the fact that man is naturally right
handed; that the right side Of the body ia
always more fully developed and better able
to stand a Consta 1t strain than the left side
Again. a left-handed man may be regarded
somewhat in the light OF freak, az un-
usual thing in nature. Then again. the
swing of the left Is more likely to affect the
heart than similar motions made with the
right. These facts may or may not ex-
plain why left-handed pitcher does not
last so long In the business.
Base ball news is a pretty scarce article
nowadays and it Is pretty hard to keep IL
before the public in the of season as the
counter attraction to it is foot ball Foot
pall has the call by mile or more at pres
ent.
1t is reasonably certain that the Boston
team of 1898 will be practically the same az
{ at OF 1892. Quinn may be replaced at
second, ana Kelly will 90 away from Boston.
but there will be no other changes in the
Boston team.
very peculiar thing connected with
base bali Is the superstition which cIinRs 10
majority Of the players. Each man has
his own peculiar ideas Of this matter, but
they oil diverge toward one end-that every
day incidents and experiences have a great
bearing on the result Of game Funerals
are regarded by some as lucky, aud more
than one player will purp osely go out of his
way In order to meet one. Colored people
are lucky, according to this belief IL they
have no constitutional defect, but let a ball
player meet one whose eyes are trying TO
look over the opposite shoulder Of the owner