The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-07
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Put Up q Miserable Fxhfbitfon.

Put Up Miserable Exhibition
A more disguised set of people than the
fifty who went out 90 the base bah mark
yesterday 10 sec tho game between the
Republican Blues and Pooler Light 1p-
fantry would have been hard to find
They had expected TO see an ATTEMPT az
ball playing, but instead were regulcd
with an exhibition not worthy even of a
crowd of children.
When the people left the grounds M
the end OF the sixth inning the score
stood 10 TO in favor of the Blues. but
only the players and q few small bows re-
manned to see the end of the miserable
burlesque,
The Poolerites, with the exception of
McEvady and McEvoy, know as little
about bail playing as is possible for al
legged players TO know. They need long
and hard training to become acquainted
even with the first rudiments The
visitors were attired in every kind Of
costumes. Some wore base ball clothes of
rs many cOlOrs as the rainbow aud others
rugged themselves mp in the old cast-off
suits of che Savannah team. Joe Symons
was the feature Of the PO0erites on ac-
count of wearing Klusman's old trousers.
Three men of his size could have fitted
into them comfortably, and Joe was too
buSg u luS W KEEP them connected
around his waist to do any ball playing.
The Blues can play fairly good game
but they did not try to do anything after
finding out the poor material of the op-
position. They moved around with a lazy
gait which gave the few spectators very
bad case of ''blues.D Thomas. their
pitcher, has the appearance of having
been born tired and failed to become
rested yet. He prefers walking around
bases to running. The features of the
game were general bad and loose PLAYING
on the part of the Blues and inability to
play at all on the part of the POolerites.
The comments of the New Orleans
papers on SaVannah's team aud the game
which it put up with the Pelicans last
Saturday are complimentary and inter
esting Here is what the Picayune had
to say:
From the sixth inning the superior
team work of the Georgia woodsmcn
told on them, and POwell's tribe of idols,
or oilers, began to make error after error,
and soon all visions of victory faded like
the setting sun. Savannah has no right
to be in the rear of the procession. She
has some of the finest players of the
Southern League, and proved herself bet
ter in every way than Augusta Petty,
who at one time pitched for New Orleans,
was welcomed by the fans yesterday. He
wore the same bland smile of years ago,
and itworried the hard battcrs of Powell's
team. His speed is great and he has the
prettiest kind of drop balls He is also a
good fielder and a hard hitter, and did
excellent service yesterday Klusman,
at first, is hard worker, fields well, and
pounds the bali as hard as any man in the
team. Cross, the short stop, viii hold
anything, from a hot grass mower TO
liner five feet over his head. MeGarr did
some fine playing yesterday and is
splendid intieldcr. Manning is a fair
second baseman, but cannot equal Roat of
New Orleans. Meakin, in right field,
fields ball as well as he can pitch. Burns
had little chance TO show what he was
made Of, Nicholl, in center, played a fine
game COnnaughton had no trouble in
stopping the drops and curves Of big Petty.
He works hard, catches pluckily. and
says little; an example which Baldwin
might copy with profit
The Times-DemOcrat has great opin-
ion of Petty and the balance of our boys.
Its reference was as follows: Charley
Petty was in the box for the visitors. In
citizens dress Petty reminds one of a
Wall street banker, with his expansive
stomach and general dignified bearing. On
the ball field, however, he handles his 2l5
pounds of flesh as spry and clipper as d
2-Year-Old. Petty had both his speed and
his quiet, deceptive curves with him yes
terday, and it was next to impossible for
the locals to hit him at critical junctures.
The other members of the Savannah team,
who are as gentlemanly lot as ever APP
peared here, handled the sphere with
readiness and dispatch, and as a result
were easy victOrS. The locals also tielded
well except in the sixth and seventh in
nings, when they went to pieces and were
crushed and obliterated The visitors
won by frequent and opportune hitting,
touching his .'nibs," King Bailey, for
fourteen hits, including two two-baggers
and a three-bagger. The King was mo
shucks" at all. He ''lobbedn them over
the plate in an easy fashion and they
were likewise easily bounced out by the
South GeOrgians, NichOll, the confer
fielder, was particularly destructive, he
appearing at the plate five times and MAX
ing four safe hits and a sacrifice. How
ever, the locals did little hitting on
their own account Jantzen and Campau
located two OF Pcttys curves and put
them in the seats, and Bailey found them
several times. Unfortunately the home
runs came when the bases were empty"
After roasting the Pelicans in fear
full manner the base ball editor of the
States makes the following allusion to
Manning'S men: $50 far as Savannah is
concerned it has good team but not a
star team. Petty with several pounds of
flesh on him in excess of the load he was
carrying before is still a good pitcher. He
has curve that reaches around the neck
of the batter and then falls tantalizingly
over the plate. 1t isn't ball that timid
batter wants 10 fool with. and the Reds
yesterday were all timid batters. Little
COnnaughton is fine catcher and a hard
worker. KluSman makes fine first base
man, Cross is beautiful in his picl1ups and
has great throwing arm, and Meakim,
Nichols and Burns are fine folders jim
mic Manning devoted the evening to pill
ing up errors. There was Iink il his
arm that wouldn't mtwist. New Or
leans played well enough until the cliti-
cal stage of the game trOtted along. Tncn
she meekly lay down, like h tired cl lid,
and Savannah cruelty stamped the life
out of her. 1t would weary the reader to
tell how the runs were made, The story
is too sad record of chrCmo errors TO
bear print. Conuaughton is one of the
cleVeFest catchcrs that have been here
He plays ball right up to the handle, and
has not been long enough in the business
to have acquired the peacock strut Of
many of his colleagues.
The Chathams of this city and the Fear
Nots of Charleston, two well-known
cOlOred ball clubs, will play a series of
three games at the Bolton street park
to-day, tomorrow and Friday.