The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-09
M'CLOSKY ON A STILL HUNT
He is Already Signing Players for the
Savannah Team.

He VIII Report Here Within the Next
Week-The Outlook for the Entire
Southern League Better Than It Has
Been at Any Time Yet-Macon Max
ing a Hard Fight for Augustus
Place - Charleston Wide Awake
Stories on McClosky.
There is spirit Of activity in all the
Southern League cities and now that Nc
Closkey has been signed as player-man-
ager for Savannah the local club and team
will be organized at once. McCloskey is
expected to report for duty within the
next five days, and will commence sign
ing his players Immediately.
McCloskey has the reputation of being
capable manager and can play ball to
win. A large number of applications from
players has already been received, among
which are several good men, and it will
not be difficult for McCloskey to build
team from the good timber
1t is understood that the new schedule
OF games will have one long season with
no lay-offs. The two-season plan of last
year hurt the game in many ways.
Another evil, that Of selling players, will
be done away with and with a continu-
Gus season and the same players the in
terest in the game will be better kept
than ever before.
ON A STILL HUNT.
McCloskey will not make public as vet
the names of the men he is figuring on as
he fnds it to be to his benefit until final
arrangements have been made and their
contracts formally signed. He has init
mated that the team he will have TO rep
resent Savannah will all be hard working,
conscientious ball players and the fans
- fha
be played to win or for place.
Doubt and uncertainty may have pre-
vailed among some of the chronic croak-
ers as to the organization of club here,
but this has all been blown away. They
have fallen in line with the enthusiastic
lovers Of the game, and when play is
called there is every reason to believe
that the sport will be literally patronized.
AFTER AUGUsTA's PLACE.
Macon and Montgomery are still fight
ing for the franchise that Augusta has
surrendered, and this matter will be
definitely decided at the meeting of the
southern league next week. Macon is a
good ball town, and it is generally con-
coded in base ball circles that the fran
chise will go there.
The business men in Charleston have
gone into the base> ball club with heart
and soul, and have subscribed for the
stock with readiness that surprised the
canvassing committee. Aside from their
local interest in the welfare of the club
they consider that a good ball team in the
league is the best kind of advertisement
for city.
New Orleans, Memphis and Atlanta
have their teams selected, and the other
cities are completing arrangements with
their players, in order that there will be
no delay when the league season opens.
ha VNrsa Ir.lr H.. /,
son is especially good. All financial ar
rangements for the club have been per-
fected, and it will be but few weeks be-
fore the fans will see the Savannah team
hard at work and playing exhibition
games with the visiting league teams
from Baltimore and New York.
STORY ON M'CLosKY.
The following story was told last week
about the Savannah clubs new manager
by one of the players on the Montgomery
team last year:
I've met some odd characters in nv
time" said he, "but one of the funniest
was director of the Montgomery Club
named Ross, where played last summer.
He was Hebrew and the proprietor of a
big clothing house there. He looked af-
ter the financial affairs of the club, aud
as he kept handouts on the treasury there
were continual sparring matches between
away from home Mac would get a dis
patch from him Immediately after the
game, asking what the days gate re-
ceipts were. After l got there I
persuaded Mac to try Dick Cooley
NOW with the Browns) and he laid
the matter before Ross, and asked to be
allowed to get him. He showed Ross the
Western League batting averages from
the Sporting News, in which Cooley's
name read: Cooley, Top, .393' Top
standing for the Topeka Club. Ross
studied it over and then asked: How is
dis, Misder Mc(Iluskey? You gay dis
mans name was Tick Cooley, und here it
gay Cooley, Top Maybe he isn't de
same man und We don't want him den.
hey}' All McCloskey's explanations
couldn't convince the astute director
that he was wrong, and the deal fell
through. McCloskey was red-headed,
and whenever the boys wanted to get him
started thereafte all they had to do was
to call him Top"
ANOTHER ONE ON HIM.
Another member OF the MONTGOMERY
team, in speaking Of McCloskey, has this
TO say: 'McCloskey furnished the money
to take the team to New Orleans when
there was not enough money in the
treasury to stop bread wagon. Where
is the man that will do that for a town.
Show him TO mel l do hope we will be
able to keep him, Some say he is too big
a kicker. Now, if one had not kicked
last season against the umpires then they
would be hung without a murmur."
Southern League msgnates are clamo-
rous for a rule which will prevent the big
leagues from taking all their good players
from them. They claim that their cir
cult was ruined last year by the depreda-
tions committee of the league.