The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-25
Up TIE WRONG TREE.
Teddy Sullivan Says 1t Was Charles
ton That DiSbanded.

He Contradicts in Plain Terms the
Statement That Ris Team Had Left
the League and Says the Charleston
Players Have Left for Other Towns.
President Nicklin in Stew Over the
situation-Atlanta to Play savan-
nah To-day.
According to Teddy Sullivan, it is
Charleston's team that has disbanded
and dropped out of the Southern League,
and not Atlanta, as was reported Satur-
day.
At all events Sullivan's team is here in
force, and the ball boys will line up for
goo game with Atlanta this after.
noon at the Bolton street park. The
game will begin promptly at AIS O'Clock
this afternoon.
Teddy Sullivan and his men came over
yesterday morning in full season. He
has twenty-one men with him, and, to all
appearances, instead OF going under, he
seems 10 have one of the strongest clubs
in the league. He seemed much sur
prised and put out about the report sent
to President Nicklin that his team had
disbanded. and he repudiates the state
ment In no unmeaning terms.
SAYS 1T WAS Oh ARLESTON.
Sullivan asserts positively that the
Charleston team was disbanded Saturday
night after President Passailaigue had
paid the men.
the Charleston club quietly and sneak
If Fly disbanded," said Sullivan, land
then wanted to make it appear. for some
reason, that it was Atlanta that had dis.
banded. 1t was what call a mean, ma
licious piece of business. The team not
only disbanded, but most of the men had
other offers and left the city Saturday
| night. Ollie Beard and Mcfarland went
to Minneapolis, while Klopf and Fields
went to indianapolis and others to differ
ent destinations.
81 don't understand why II was they
wanted to put this thing off on Atlanta.
have no stock company behind the team,
but am running it myself, and / am in the
! league to stay just as long as ! can get the
| clubs to play After the three games
| with Savannah, If there is any other club
| to play, will certainly play it. The
| whole burden is on my shoulders, but
have come here to fill my honorable en-
! gagements, and if they all live
| up to contracts as well as
Teddy Sullivan the league would be all
| right.
II don't look upon the situation as
being so serious as it is made out. | be-
lieve the league could pull through all
right with six towns, but then, the thing
to do, is to bring in Montgomery and
! Chattanooga and play it out that way
They are both good towns and l would
like to see them back in the league"
NICKLIN IN STEW.
! From all accounts President Nicklin,
| of the league, is in a stew, and is lust
waiting for the Montgomery meeting to
! get out of the muddle The following dis
! patch received last night will give some
idea Of the situation:
! Chattanooga, Tenn, June 24-President
! N1cklin is more bothered and more at sea
! over the Southern League situation to-day
! than ever, because Of the receipt of the fol-
| lowing telegram from Ted sullivan this
morning: Charleston dishanded owing me
money. want you to understand that At
lanta is in the league" President Nicklin
| cannot see why Joe Oil sent him the first
| telegram Saturday, stating that Atlanta had
| gone under, any more than he can see WHY
| Sullivan wires as above. He is all the more
| surprised at Sullivan's statement to the
| effect that Charleston owes him money He
asserts that Passalaigue is not that kind of
man. butsayS with sigh that it will all be
settled Tuesday.
From all the conflicting accounts, it is a
hard matter to tell just where the league
| stands.
! 1T IS A FACT.
The following dispatch from Charles
ton last night fully confirms the report
brought over by Sullivan:
Charleston, S. c., June "a. - The
Charleston team was paid off and dis
| banded late last night