The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-26
THE DAY NOT LONG ENOUGH.
Darkness Called the Guards HuSSaTS
Game After Four Innings.

The Score Then Stood Guards Al,
Hussars 13-An Acrobatic Contest
of Majors, Captains, Lieutenants,
Sergeants and Corporals With
Few Privates Thrown ina Game
That Stands Without a Rival-The
Guards an Hour at the Bat in One
Inning-The Game to be Finished
After the Summer Solstice.
The ball game between the second mines
of the Guards and Hussars yesterday
afternoon for the benefit of the Episcopal
Orphans Home, was without doubt the
greatest" game ever seen on Savannah's
diamond. 1t started at o'clock and was
called by Umpire "Petty" West at Z
O'Clock last night on the Guards half of
the fifth inning, after the battalion boys
had been at the bat continuously for half
an hour, and had only one man out. The
score then stood Al to ID in favor of the
Guards.
AS darkness settled over the park
and there was no immediate prospect of the
Hussars retiring the other necessary two
men of the opposing nine, the remnant of
the audience, consisting of ten young men
and few small boys, kindly gave its con-
sent to allow the performance to con-
clude.
SHOULD HAVE BEGUN IN THE MORNING.
The error made by the clubs was in not
commencing the game at { o'clock in the
morning. If the players had been en-
dOwed with sufficient foresight to have
done this the nine innings might have
been concluded within twelve hours, pro
vided no adjournment was taken for
dinner
1t was a contest between majors, cap
tains, lieutenants, sergeants, cOrporals
and privates, and was an acrobatic, catch
as-catch can combination of base ball,
foot ball, foot racing and cOntOrtion acts.
The audience consisted of about $50 peo-
pie, and while they might have been dis
appointed as to seeing ball game they
were amply recompeused with the mill
tary comedy which afforded ample oppor-
tunity for mirth
SOME OF THE FEATURES
The features of the game were too
many and varied to be mentioned at
length. Those of the Hussars worthy of
note were an absolute failure to field any
kind of a hit, either in the air or on the
ground, and the changing of the players
in each inning. The pitchers were Da-
want, Schley, bearing and McAlpin, and
the catchers Bond and Wylly. Bond
stopped about one ball out of twenty, but
Mai Wylly made a little better record.
Tom Morgan and Capt. Tom Screven
were the features of the Guards club
The former covered third in McGarr
style, and some of the boys on the
bleachers volunteered the compliment to
Tom that the only thing which he needed
to make him a counterpart of Savannah's
professional third baseman was
a mustache. Capt. Screven dis
tinguished himself by knocking two
three-baggers and several singles. He
made half dozen runs.
KICK AT THE TROOPERS.
The only kick of the event was that of
the Guards in the Hussars' half of the
first inning, when Capt. Beirne Gordon
wanted somebody to run for him. The
Guards objected and insisted that every
man would have to make his own runs
and the umpire, who was shading himself
with an notwithstanding unique for
a ball game-sustained the kick
Every time Il ball was knocked into the
field by the Guards an average of three
Hussars would try to get it, with the re-
treated to series of field-tumbling
acts in which the ball was generally
kicked into the weeds or thrown wild to
some unprotected portion of the diamond
The Hussars' second nine evidently knows
very little about modern base ball, but
has fine material for the old-time town
ball game or an ordinary foot ball match
LONG INNING.
The Guards played low middling as a
whole but extra fine as far as the Hus-
sars were concerned. They were an hour
at the bat in their half of the second
and probably would have been there yet
if the players had not received instruc-
tiOns to get out and relieve the troopers
from the sun baking they were
receiving Here is the score by innings
an attempt to keep anything like an Of
fetal record having been impracticable:
> 3
Guards. ....................,..2 10 9-41
Hussars ........N ............. 3 x--13
TIE MEN WHO PLAYED.
The teams were as follows, the positions
being those at the commencement of the