The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-11

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The reserved seat diagram for the grand
stand opera chairs will open at o'clock
this morning, and will be open on the
playing days from o'clock in the morn
ing to 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Tickets
will be sold at the Pulaski house, Screyen
house, Fernandez's cigar store and Gard
ner & Einstein's. Great interest is felt in
the opening game Both teams will show
what they are made of.
Did you ever notice the average base
ball fan about 3 O'Clock the day on which
a championship game is to be played? ~
asked an observer yesterday. "If Won
have never, then stand at the corner of
some street and / am sure you will be
both surprised and amused Surprised.
because you will see quiet, methodical
business men and accountants, who, ordi-
narily, are cool, deliberate and unruf1ed.
professional men, bookkeepers, clerks,
and men in every walk and calling in life
hurrying past with heads erect and with
quick, elastic step. as though ON some i'm
portant mission. Stop one for moment
and ne becomes restless and impatient
and gets away from you as soon as he can
and HES to the ball park as quickly
as electricity can get him there
Tomorrow will be an excellent day to
watch the fans and you will agree with
me that the picture is not over-drawn."
The opening day of the championship
games is always very attractive one
Everybody, that is somebody, wants to
see the team that will represent their
city in a regular game. They then have
the opportunity of judging of the playing
ability of the team as whole and each
player. Then too, the opening game is all
wavS q holiday occasion, made attractive
by music, new uniforms, new surround
ings and new faces. Further than this,
Savannah's bitterest base ball rival,
Charleston, will be here to defeat Savan-
nah, if they can. Pres. Pasaileague, of
the Earthquake club, has written to Pres.
Nicklin that it is the purpose of his team
to win the pennant this season at
all haardZs and he proposes
to 'beat out" Savannah. Manager
McCloskey would say, We'll, what do YOU
think of that nowl" Charleston has prac-
tically thrown down the gauntlet, and all
that now remains is for Savannah is to go
in and win
II have heard it said that the spring
games are rarely ever particularly inter
esting; that the players are not hmbered
up enough. They have not had sufficient
practice in warm weather, and are conse-
quently stiff and slow. l do not deny
this if applied to more
northerly climate 1t is for this very
reason that the clubs of the National
League come south IN the spring TO lin Der
up. Our players have been hard at work
for nearly four weeks and are in splendid
condition, and fully capable of playing a
stiff, snappy game, full of ginger and
brilliant plays. / have seen just as inter
esting games in April as | have ever seen
in June or July. The southern climate
enables an athlete to get into perfect con-
dition in from four to six weeks earlier than
it would even in city as far south as
Baltimore. Think of the Bostons play
ing the Yale team and New Yorks, the
reorganized Metropolitans, both in a
snow storm, and only few days ago,
while our men have been practising twice
each day-morning and afternoon-and
are now as hard as nails.
All the games in the Southern League
will be reported by innings during the
game here.
President Nicklin announces the fol-
lowing order of umpires IN the opening
games of the season; Nashville, Nc
Laughlin; Atlanta, Morgan; New Or
leans, Sylvester; Savannah, McDermott.