The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-28
BATTLES on THE DIAMOND.
The New YOrks Field Like a Lot of
school Boys.


Washington, April 27.-Baltimore played
| superior ball to-day and but for Bower
mans wild throw would have shut Wash
| ington out. Brown was hurt in the third
| inning attempting TO steal second; Lush
| taking his place. The weather was chilly
\ and not the kind for ideal base ball play
| ing. Attendance, 5000. Score:
Washington I 0 0 0 % 0 OIL 5
| Baltimore g.. l 0 X4 l
Observation-Disclosures and McAuley; HOf-
/ fer and Bowerman.
Philadelphia, April 27.-Brooklyn defeat
| ed Philadelphia to-day by punching their
| hits in the last three innings of the
game. Weather cloudy and cool. Attend
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Overwhelmingly, Abbey and Burrell;
Taylor and Clements.
Cincinnati. O.. April 27.-Friend was
| called back from Chillicothe TO pitch to-
days game but was batted out OF the
box in the fourth inning. Red" Ehret
pitched a great game for the locals, only
allowing eight hits and three of them
| scratches. and not a base on balls. At
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Cincinnati =. 0-9lSS 4
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Batteries-Ehret and PETIT; Friend,
Briggs, Donahue and Arson.
ST. Louis. No, April 27.-By losing
again to-day. the Colonies dropped into the
| lowest place ever held by a League team.
McDermott started to pitch. but drove in
two runs by gifts of bases and was re-
| leved by Frazer. The fielding OF the
| Colonies was wretched. After the game
was safe Messenger relieved Breitenstein
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Batteries-Kissenger, Breitenstein and
Mcfarland; Frazer, McDermott and War
ner.
New York. April 27.-Meekin pitched
winning ball against the Boston to-day.
but the New Yorks played in the field
like school boys. Manager Irwin put on
uniform and went to the coaching lines,
but in spite of his exhortations his men
/ played about the worst game to date.
| Weather cold and clear. Attendance 900.
Score:
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Batteries-Meekin and Farrell; Nichols
and Ryan.
Pittsburg. Pa. April 27.-The Cleveland
Pittsburg game was postponed on account
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Atlanta. Ga. April 27-Before 5000 peo-
pie this afternoon. Atlanta easily defeat
| ed the boys from Mobile, The playing of
the visitors generally was ragged. The
/ score:
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Batteries-Norton and Fields; Schmidt
and Fisher and Wright
Columbus. Ga. April 27.-Birmingham
remains the tail ender of the Southern
League, her team suffering another de-
| feat here to-day. The locals appeared to
better advantage to-day than at any time
during the season. ON account of Memo
rial exercises the game was not com
| menced until late, and but eight innings
were played. The score:
columbus -. $99 IA ls
Batteries-Miller and Williamson and
| Hunt; Adams and Rappold
Montgomery. Ala, April H.-Montgom-
cry completely showed New Orleans un-
der this afternoon. 1t would have been a
| shut out but for Kellum, who hit two
men in the seventh, and this with a
scratch hit gave New Orleans their only
run. The score:
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Batteries-Kellum and Kehoe; Seachrist,
Hodge and Gonding.
Augusta, Ga. April 27.-Taking advant-
age of the holiday, the Y. NJ c. A. and c.
L. A. ball teams had, the opening game in
their championship series The c. L. A.
We're the favortes, but the Y NJ c. A.
won by to 4. The batteries were Hank
insOn and Norren for the Y. NJ. c. A.
and Pedigo and Allen contra.