The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-24
The teams will appear as follows:

r o. o
Weddege f.......... Connaughton
Hess. Hurley
Abbey ............. Meakim
Savannah is in a badly crippled condi-
ton, Meakim being the only available
pitcher. Petty has badly swollen arm,
and Jameson has a felOn on the thumb of
his pitching hand.
Meakim and Hurley will be the battery
for Savannah to-day, and a good game
may be looked for.
There are only six more games at home
and then the boys are gone till June Ia,
when they return and play Mobile
Quarles, the pitcher whom Savannah
was after, says he has decided not to play
in the Southern League this year, as he
is afraid of the climate. He will play
here or nowhere as Savannah accepted
his terms, which is equivalent to signing
contract.
"Chippy'' McGarr has been appointed
captain, thus relieving Manning of good
deal of work. McGarr used to captain
the st. Joe Reds.
Burns has got his eye on the ball and
will keep the bleachers bowling with his
timely two-baggers
CCross will probably pitch one of the
games against Macon.
Manning has his eye on two Of the best
twlrlerS in the country, and will land
them in time for the next trip.
The Sporting News says: Billy Klus-
man is twirling the ball at Savannah.
Those who remember Klusman will be
rrIa Il 70 lvor,x l.. fr.g l,f,1 Ill
The Sporting News says: Manning has
certainly drawn prize in Monte Cross,
the brilliant little shortstop.
Dick Phelan is doing fine work at
second for Memphis.
Bill Hassamer, Danny Minnehan and
Billy George are rated as the three heavy
hitters of the Montgomery team.
Chattanooga is going to strengthen her
team regardless of the salary limit.
The base ball man on the News and
Courier calls the Savannahs the Hood
lums." People in glass houses better
not throw stones"
The Pittsburg team has returned home
time, says the Pittsburg correspondent of
Sporting Life, since team went south
for five or six weeks and returned with a
balance on the right side of the ledger,
Manager Buckenberger and his bows did
1t, however. On April Manager Buck
enberger divided 500 among the players
and then their salaries commenced. Since
then the team has cleared money for the
club and the manager came home with
balance of $780, When the team reached
Atlanta the manager had $1,000, but it
soon began to disappear, as one day the
Pittsburg teams share of the receipts of
game with the Chicagos was S. So
Buckenberger then arranged to come
home. He denies that there is any trouble
with Arson about the matter, and that
the story about threatened lawsuit is
false.
The MORNING News Little Casino
Base Ball Schedules contain more actual
information than all the cumbersome
guides combined. 1t is the only vest
pocket schedule published.
In dallying with the pool room evil the
legislature of New York state has found
1T necessary to make any form of pool
selling outside Of race tracks a felony
This will effectually throttle the pool
rooms, and correspondingly increase the
profits of the New York and Brooklyn
clubs in particular, and all ball clubs in
New York state.
The salary list of the old Cincinnati
Red Stockings, who went from one end of
the country to the other without meeting
defeat, back in 1862 was $4,000
Capt. Ward has been drilling the New
York team on a new code of signals that
is said to be the best that any team ever
played ball with