The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-05
M'CLOSKEY AND HIS TEAM.
They Will Play at Home This Month
Except Two Games.

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Strengthened and On the Winning
Road Again in a Few Days-MoClos-
keys Story of the Mobile Affair.
! The Changes in the Club Savannah
| Lost One Game Less On the Trip
Than Charleston Did.
The Savannah base ball team arrived
in the city last night by the Savannah,
Americas and Montgomery railroad,
after travelling twenty-four hours. The
team is somewhat disfgured from its
| recent defeats, but is as full of pluck as
| ever, and determined to redeem its record
/ at once.
| Manager McCloskey has already
/ strengthened his team. George Hill,
/ Macon's crack pitcher, has been secured.
and arrived yesterday. McCloskey paid
/ Macon $3.50 for him and threw Cain and
| Behne in in the bargain. Behne was
only secured temporarily, anyway, to fill
! Peoples place, and now that Peoples is
| ready to go to work again, he was not
needed. Cain was not an entire success
as pitcher, but he was a plucly young
| fellow and made many friends in Sayan-
nah, who regretted to see him leave the
| team.
Jantzen has about recovered from the
| cowardly assault made upon him by York
in Mobile, and will appear behind the bat
in to-morrow's game. WEIGH is expected
! back from st. Louis, where he was called
by the dangerous illness of his sister,
shortly. Manager McCloskey is cor
| responding with McCauley, a famous
western first basemen, whom he will
probably sign if there is no chance of
! Welch coming back soon. Pepper will
play first base until WEIGH or McCauley
arrives to take that position. II will be
great deal stronger team that will play
the second series on the home grounds
than the one which recently made the
circuit of the league.
THE TEAMS HARD LUCK.
Speaking of the team and its work since
| it left Savannah, Manager McCloskey
said last night: Savannah people who
have been so severely criticising US for
| our failure to win games abroad have not
stopped to consider the crippled condition
| the club was in. We left Savannah with
! out Peoples, one of our best men and one
of the best shortstOps to be found any
where. Behne was secured to take his
| place but was unequal to the task He
was succeeded by Geiss. who was no
better if as good. We lost WEIGH at
Nashville and everybody who knows the
/ Jodlu hnOHS Wudb Ludb mbhub. L 90 0Ob
| think l exaggerate in saying that in
losing WEIGH and Peoples the strength
Of the club was reduced fully one-third. I
think all fair-minded lovers of the game
who know the team will agree with me
in this estimate. Those who observed
the games closely while we were away
will remember that nearly all our costly
errors were made at these position, first
and short. If we could have had WEIGH
and Peoples with us l think we would
have had different tale to tell Hoover,
who played behind the bat several games,
did fair work, but was not equal to Jant-
! zen by any means
SAYS THE CRITICS ARE UNJUST.
81 see from some of the papers here"
said McCloskey, that the team has been
criticized numerically for its failure to
win more games. Now this is unfair
/ Considering the condition of the team the
work was all that could be expected We
| played twenty games, won SIX, lost thir-
teen, one tie with Charleston and one
/ postponed game with Nashville. Charles
ton, which certainly has one of the best
teams in the league, if not the best,
played twenty games and only won six,
losing fourteen, and Charleston had her
| full team all the time and was not Grip
! pied in any respect"
! McCloskey was evidently very sore over
the treatment of the club in other cities
of the league, though he did not want to
say very much about it.
Savannah is the only fair ball town in
| the league he said. "You NAV think
am grumbling because we got beat. but it
is fact. Why, here, when we made poor
plays the crowds Missed us, and when the
visitors made good plays they were ap-
| plauded. There was none of that in the
other towns, especially New Orleans
and Mobile. No matter how well
we played we never got a cheer,
but whenever our opponents did
anything at all the applause would be
tremendous. New Orleans and Mobile
were worse than anything had dreamed
of. The hOodlums were out in full force
at both towns, and everything possible
was done to browbeat and overawe us.
The assault of York upon Jantzen at
Mobile was most unprovoked outrage,
yet the crowd was ready to tear JantLen
to pieces if he had been able to do any
thing in his own defense.
FACTS OF THE MOBILE AFFAIR.
1.-THE facts about the matter are these:
| When York tried to come in from second
base on a hit he was caught at the home
plate by Jantzen and put out This made
him very mad and he cursed Jantzen in
the vilest language. Jantzen told him he
had better take his seat on the bench and
turned away from him. As he did so
York picked up bat and struck Jantzen
twice across the legs with it. Jantzen
caught hold of the bat and wrenched it
away from him and threw it down. He
did not attempt to strike York. the latter
being such little fellow and turned back
to his work. York seized the bat again
and while Jantzen's back was turned de-
hberately struck him two blows in the
head from behind, telling him like an OK
/ thought Jantzen was killed The blood
poured from his mouth and ears. The
physician said that if the blow had only
been half an inch higher it would have
killed him. had York arrested and pre-
ferred charges against him for assault
with intent 70 murder. He ought to GET
term in the pen for it.
ALL CLUBS LOSE.
1.-THE other cities were determined to
win all the games at home, if possible.
They said they had lost abroad, and thew
| were bound to have the games at home
ana their actions confirmed their words
The umpiring in some instances was fear
! full. Mclaughlin and Hogan were the
worst. We had four games called on ms
on account of darkness when we had
plenty Of time to play out the games. we
were ahead of course. Base ball has sim
ply been reduced to that point in the
southern league, where the teams must
win at home and lose abroad. II isn't tbe
! RIGHT ban