The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-18
PITTSBURe HERE TWO WEEKS.
no PLAY THE BROOKLYNs A Sc
RIEs or THREE GAMES.

RIES OF THREE GAMES.
The opening Game TO-day-Mannger
Foutz Had as Hard Luck in
charleston With the weather as
He Did in Savannah a Week Ago.
The PIttsburg Players.
The Brooklyns have returned from
CHARLESTON, where they went to
NAV the Washington team three
-smes. without having crossed
hats with Schmelz's aggregation once.
Like the first three days Of the week in
-ais city. rain prevented them from play
ing.
Manager Foutz says his team will now
SCI TO work with a will to make up for
lost time and will get in all the practice
possible.
The Pittsburg team arrived in the city
Yesterday afternoon, and is CHARTERED
teen men. and is composed of the follow
ing players: Manager. Connie Mack; sug-
den and Kinslow.. catchers; Killen, Col
coIough. Hawley, Menafee. Hart, and
Jordan. pitchers; Beckley. Bierbauer,
cross. Niles, Cllngman and Gehins. in
ielders, and Smith, Donovan and Stencil
0utdelders.
Monte Cross, who played such a phenom-
email game at short stop for the Pirates,
AS the Pittsburgs are called. last season,
is with the team. Cross was a member
OF the Savannah team of 1885, and has
many friends and admirers here, who
will be glad to see him once more. Pitcher
Colcolough is Charleston boy, who has
well known in this city where
he played during the days when he was an
amateur. The Pittsburg team VITA remain
here about two weeks and will go into
practice at once.
This afternoon at the Bolton street
park the P.ttsburg and Brooklyn teams
viii cross bats for the first time this
season. Both teams win play hard to
win the first game and it will. no doubt,
be a good exhibition. The game will be-
gin promptly at o'clock With the teams
lined up as follows
Brooklyn. Positions. Pttsburg.
La Chance. first base. .Beckley
DAILY. second base........ Bierbauer
Shlndle. ......... third base. .Clingman
short stop. Cross
rus.............left Smith
Anderson. center Stencil
right 1eld..........D Donovan
Grimm. ......... catchers .............. Mack
Bufrell........... catchers .Sugden
Daub............ pitchers ....... .Colcolough
Gumbert.......... pitchers ..........M enefee
The irrepressible Teddie Sullivan has
hobbod up again. He is in Texas, and
will manage the Dallas team in the Texas
league the coming season. He had been
engaged to manage the Houston team
of the same league, but 1t seems that
Dallas wanted him, and as it is a well
known fact that Teddie is out for the
/. ar
fellow of his kind, but Of a very bad
kind.
This will be Dave Foutz's third season
as manager of the Brooklyn team. In
1893 the first year he took charge, he
brought the team under the wire sixth
in a field of twelve. Last year he went
up a peg and finished fifth. This year
he expects to do better, and promises
10 come out one, two three. He has
twenty players from whom to select
OF these twelve are old campagners,
three are newcomers, and five consti-
tute the infusion of new blood calculated
TO strengthen the old material Manager
Dave Foutz has this to say in the last
issue of the Sporting News Everybody
is in good shape, and we are hard at it,
Tom Burns has cut wide swath as a
pool player having defeated all the Sa-
vannah cracks to date. He has been la
beled a pool shark, and is being given
a wide berth, except when ne cOndescendS
to give an exhibition of fancy shots.
The Savannah fans know all the Brooklyn
players by reputation and have already
learned to address them by their nick
names. 1t is 'Stonewalr La Chance now,
and Roaring Bill Kennedy while Gums
bert is referred to by the colored con-
tingent as His Gumdrops.'"
An amusing error was discovered in the
code of playing rules recently, and recti-
fed at the last meeting of the National
League. There was a mandatory section
which, had it been obeyed, would have
prevented any games at all last season.
1t read: 1.-THE players of the competing
teams should be required to occupy their
respective benches during the game" The
absurdity is absent on its face. Base ball
cannot be played by two teams compelled
to occupy their benches. BY the addition
of the words, while not in active play"
it was made possible for the game to go
on without further fracture of the code.
Manager McCloskey with his team of
'Colonels," is down in Texas, getting in
some good hard practice. McCloskey says
he is going to surprise the talent this
season. Clarke, Jantzen and WEIGH Of Sa-
vannahs last years team is with Louis
vile this season.
Chippy Mclean will be with Cleveland
again this season. Mclean ranked second
in the list of third basemen last season,
and will no doubt do as good this year.
Stock YARDS FOR SAVANNAH.