The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-04
WON IN THENINTH[NNlNG
CLEVELAND DOWNS SAVANNAH
AGAIN BY A SCORE CT 5 TO 4.

AGAIN BY SCORE CT 5 TO 4.
The Gsme an Exceptionally Brillient
One-Savannah Outplsyed Gnd Out
bstted the Westerners, but Lost the
Game Through Errors Of hurley.
Meakim at Critical Points - The
Locals Played Bal With q Snap
Surprising to tbs Big League Club.
Savsnnah's ball club was again defeated
Yesterday by Clevelsnd's team after the
liveliest game played this season on the
home groundL The score was to 4. Up
to the eighth inning the game was a tie, but
Cleveland got her winning run in the ninth.
Savannah's team outplayed and outbatted
the visitors, but lost the game through the
unfortunate errors OF Hurley and Meakim
at critical periods.
| As predicted by the MORNING NEWS
those who missed seeing the game lost a
base ball treat. The locals were in great
batting shape and they played tall in
| splendid style. There was no listlessness
about their work and every man handled
himself to pluck victory from defeat il pos
sitle. The National League champions were,
to say the least, surprised at having to work
so hard to win. Some OF the westerners
SAID afterward that they had to play as
lively as if bucking against big league
| club.
About 900 people attended, and every
body was enthusiastic in pronouncing it the
| best game SO far played by the Savannahs.
| Manager Manning put Meakim in the box
| for the first inning, but his arm gave out
and Jamison took his piece The latter
pitched splendidly and held down the
| heavy hit ing westernars in q way which
| startled them.
| KNOCKED CLEvELAND's PITCHER OUT.
Shellerman was put in thelbox first By
Cleveland, but the SavannRhs knocked him
out of the b. K They tatted nearly every
| ball he pitched. In the fifth inning Tebeau
| made change to Hastings, but he did nos
| have much better luck Our boys got on TO
| his delivery after three balls had been sent
across the plate, and they hammered him IN
a lively manner. thinner caught greas
| game or Cleveland
The features of the game we're Savannah's
heavy hitting, Blusman's playing at first,
| Nichols fielding and hcGarr's work at
| short.
The first two innings were blanks for
| both teams but in the third Hurley made
wild throw to second, which gave Cleve-
| land a run. The SavannshS got in their
work in the fourth and fifth innings. In
| the fourth Manning was given his base on
| balls. Klusman next hit for two bags; fol-
| lowed by Connnughton with single, which
Childs fumbled, allowing both Manning
and klusman to score. Nobody was out
and Counaughton was on first when Schaf-
fer came to the bat. He hit safe and the
crowd almost went wild.
A LITTLE LACK OF JUDGMENT.
Meakim stepped up to the plate AMI sent
| the first hall sDinuiup aS n liner Claye-
| lands short stop. C0nneughton srppOsing
| the ball would be caught did not start at
| once for third. The Cleveaudite however,
muflied ana then Connaughton started, but
| the visitor recovered in time to make a
\ double play for second and third. While
| the play could not be exactly put down as
an error for Connaugbton, yet it was dis
| play of bad judgment, for il he had run one
man would most likely have been saved.
In the fifth Jamisoa went to first on
| balls, and g momeat later kiohoN seGt him
| to second with a good single. McGarr
| sacrificed, advancing the men base each,
| and Manning brought both home on good
| safe hit. The score was now 4 to = in Sa-
| vannGh's ia or, and the spectators yelled
| themselves hoarse Manning was compelled
| to dof mis- hat several times to the
| audience.
| Cleveland scored one run In her half of
| the fifth, and neither side got another run
until the seventh, when Meskim's error in
| muffing a fly to right field after two Glove
landites we're out net ted the wesJerners two
runs, tying the score.
THE RUN WHICH NEVER CAME.
| In the ninth inning Savannah's first two
| men went ont on short hits Then Jamison
dropped the tall into left field and made
| first. Nichols followed with two-bagger,
| and the audience went into ecstaces in an
adaptation of Savannah breaking the tie and
getting another run. McGarr came to the
bat. Lime Ler cut" cried the men. Put
her over the fence, Mac" shouted the boys.
| McGarr was as eager as the crowd and he
hit tue ball hard for the left field. 1t was
u fly, however, and although Virtue had TO
made a long run he gathered IL in.
Hold 'em down, boys, aud give us ten
| innings vas the cry to the Savannahs
when the Clevelands started in for their
half OF the ninth, but 1t was not to be.
| Virtue hit safe and stole second. The next
two men went out at the plate, and then
| Fatty Childs wshbled up. You can't do
anything. sausage" yelled small boy, but
sausage did something. He hit safe into
right field. scored Virtue, and
| threw down the bat. Cleveland
! had won the game in the ninth inning by l
run, and MGnning's men we're disappointed
1t was a fine game, however, and the
! spectators we're more than satisfied. Ii the
| locals do a. we'll to-day, nobody can COM
plain. II will be the last game here until
| the opening of the regular Southern League
season next Monday with Atlanta, and the
lovers of the sport ought 70 turn out in
large numbers TO encourage the boys. They
have played we'll, but luck has been agalnst
them.
Here is the SCORE of yesterdays game:
CIE-ELAND,