The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-28
WILL PROBABLY BE m'oLosKEY.
The Manager for Savannah's Team
About SettIed Upon.

ADO0b 0GLLA5A OPOAs
The baseball situation in Savannah is
practically the same as it has been since
the franchise was purchased McCloskey,
the manager Mr.. JeH Miller has his eye
on, Is anxious TO come here, and just as
soon as the terms of contract can be
mutually agreed upon the papers will be
sent on for his signature
MeCloskey is capable manager, and
knows how to play ball to the queens
taste. AS soon as the contract is signed
he will hustle after some rafting good
men for the club
The prospects for ball games this summer
are especially good. and tits not necessary
70 ask the local fans for support. This
Will come OF itself. They are only too
anxious to settle in their minds if ball
games are assured them and when the final
button IS pressed they will do the rest.
With club that can win a good proper
tlon OF the games at home and strike
decent average when they are awayl Sa-
Vannah will 40 doubt sustain its reputa-
ton in the base ball line of being the
best city in the league. A pleasing fea-
ture OF the games last season
was the large attendance of Ia
dies. This gives the game what
all legitimate sports should have-a
thing that is Objectionable impossible.
In the early spring, when business is
about over and it is too early to go away
for the summer the grand stand is
crowded to its utmost capacity with the
talr sex, who, although they are not all
up in the game, applaud most vigorously
the men and their good plays.
1t IS none too early to start organizing
the club, and Mr.. Miller has taken steps
to get together club that will represent
Savannah and will work hard to reach
out for the pennant.
NOTES.
The Yale alumni in Savannah will be
interested to learn that William H.
Murphy, the brilliant short stop of the
Yale Varsity nine, has signed to play
with the New York club this year His con-
tract calls for oneyear's salary, no matter
whether he plays the entire season or not.
In signing Murphy the New York club is
trying an experiment He will report for
duty when the championship season be-
gins Murphy is even smaller than Kid
Gleason or Shorty Fuller, whom he may
displace. He was born in Southville,
Mass, just "A years ago. He is IT., 81
in tall, and weighs l25 pounds stripped.
A correspondent of the Sporting Life,
in speaking of the base ball outlook for
y
temporary antidote for business distem-
pers and its concomitant, the blues Men
who are not already cracked in the man
sard know they must get relief occasion
ally from the awful gloom of business
cares, and that relief aust come from
something breeding an excitement that
will make them forget for time every
thing. No, sir; let the magnates provide
a good rafting game Of base ball-one ex-
citing and noisy enough TO rouse the peo-
pie, and they will rush out to see it to get
away from themselves. Try it and see if
it don't"
Jimmie Manning has signed the follow
ing players for his Kansas City club:
Klusman, first base; Manning, second
base; Sharp, shortstop; Niles, third base;
Ulrick, right fielder; Nicholl, center
fielder; Donahue, catcher; Darby and
Daniels, pitchers.
Klusman, Manning, Niles and Ulrick
played together in Birmingham when
they won the Southern League pennant
in 1872. Manning, Klusman and Nicholl
played on the Savannah team last season.
At Princeton, general athletic treas
urer, who is not student of the college,
is to be appointed to take charge of all
accounts and money. This will relieve
| the undergraduates of considerable detail
work. The new officer is to be salaried,
and perform his duties under a bond of
| $4,000. Another new departure is the
appointment of j. B. Fine, 'S2, as head
coacher in football for next season.
| The following good story is told on a
well known ball player, who has been
acting as head porter in a hotel The
other day man with two wooden legs
entered one of those little rooms, and
took seat. The head porter came along
From under the door he could Just see
the wooden pins. who in the blazes
| put that wheelbarrow in there" he
| howled. Next moment he grabbed the
pins, and gave vigorous yank. The rest
| can be guessed.
| 1t is a foregone conclusion that Augusta
will not be in the Southern League this
| year and great many of the magnates
are crying for President Nicklin to take
| Macon into the ranks.