The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-06
THELEACUEALLRlCHT YET.
All Of The Eastern Clubs Say They
Are in 10 STAY.

Augusta to Play Here Tomorrow
Manning Says He VIII Play as Long
as There are Any Clubs Left Macon
is Solid and Atlanta and Charleston
Holding out--The League Funds In
tact.
It may be that after all the Southern
League will not go to pieces. In fact, ev-
erything points now TO a completion of
the season. The fans are anxiously
watching every turn of the tide.
Manager Manning says Savannah can
| be depended on to stick to the last. Not
one of his men has any idea ofleaving. Sa-
vannah, he says, is the crack city of the
league, and if the other cities will do half
as well everything will go along smoothly
till the end of the season. As the eastern di-
vision is now arranged, the jumps are short
and the clubs are kept on the move. With
the assurance that the league is solid. the
| patronage will increase and there will be
! plain sailing
MACON WILL STICK.
Manager Beard is even more anxious
! to stick. He thinks he has the pennant
| team, and wants to demonstrate that
! fact. Possibly he has not, but it is a fact
| that Macon will remain as long as the
rest of the clubs hold out. Macon, Man
ager Beard says, is just now the most en-
thusiastic base ball city in the south.
| The other day the ladies and gentle
men of the Central City presented Abbey
| with a silver-headed umbrella, and now
! they are having a gold medal prepared
] for 1ygrifphpl IQpapd
Macon club is all right financially, and
! every man on the team is paid up ahead
/ of his salary The MacOnS will leave for
! Charleston this morning, where they will
| play three games with the Sea Gulls.
President Passalaigne, of the Charleston
! club, says that Charleston is a good
| slayer, and that she will be there as long
as any other club.
A dispatch from Atlanta last night
stated that the Gate City men are still
| in the race, and will stay there if theirs
is the last club in the league.
AUGUSTA WILL STAY TO THE LAST.
Augusta, Ca, Aug. 5.-A meeting of
the Augusta base ball club was held to-
! night, and it was decided that the team
| should go to Savannah and play the three
| scheduled games in that city. II was
also decided that the club should remain
in the league as long as there was any
club to play with Capt. Jerry Denny,
| who was sold to Barnie yesterday, left
for the north tonight Spies, Bali, and
| three sharp new players from Frisco are
expected here the first of the week.
THE FUNDS ARE ALL RIGHT.
Macon, Ga, Aug. Sam Altmayer,
chairman of the sinking fund committee
of the southern league, made a statement
to-day as to the publication of dispatches
SEM out from Atlanta yesterday that
the sinking fund was unavailable and
that the presidents drafts had not been
honored yesterday and to-day. Mr.. Alt
mayer says that drafts to the amount of
! $40 have been hOnored. One
Small draft of S64 was returned unpaid
last week in his absence, and Mr. Alt
meyer declines to pay out any more
money from the sinking fund, because
81 900 put out on interest early in the
season is unavailable for two months. He
does not believe that the Southern league
will go to pieces Macon will most
certainly play in Charleston Monday
| Tuesday and Wednesday. She will pay
of players and will be ready to meet At
lanta or any other club in the eastern
division in Macon or elsewhere.
MOTT Is MISTAKEN.
Frank Motz first baseman of theAtlanta
club, has been sold to Cincinnati for $500
He passed through here from Augusta
enroute to Cincinnati to-day. Motz says
he believes the jig is up with the Southern
League. Directors 0 the local clup arc
also convinced that the league is about
done for. 1t is predicted that Chatta-
nooga, which is due to play here Monday,
will not show up. The Atlanta directors
will not be much disappointed to see the
league 60 under.
OIL SAYS ATLANTA WILL STICK.
Atlanta, Aug. 81. K. Oil, president
| of the Atlanta club, says tonight that
| there is not the least probability of the
! Atlantas going to pieces as long as the
! league lasts. He claims that the effort to
break the league of is being made by
other cities, principally Savannah and
! Charleston.