The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-21
QUIT AFTER FIVE INNINGS.
THE sAVANNAH-AUGTsTA GAME
WOUND TIP N A sET-TO OF
WORDS.

The Umpire the Casus BeIIt-The
Visitors Objected 10 His Decisions
and He Was ChanEed-Another
Dfdn't suit Any Better. and the
Fountain city Players Left the
FieId-The score > 10 . When the
Game Ended.
The game OF ball between Augusta and
Savannah al the Catholic Library As
ISOLATION park yesterday afternoon
had a most unfortunate ending. AT he
close Of the NTH inning. after a good deaf
OF kicking and wrangiing on the part OF
Augusta. that team withdrew from the
neld and refused to finish the game. Ths
score then stood TO IN savannah's
favor. and the Indications were anything
but bright for Augusta 70 catch Up.
Robbed by de empire" was the slogan
OF the Augusta crowd, and that poor in
dividual was the cause of the bolt. The
umpire who was engaged TO ofiiciate for
some reason was unable 10 attend. and SIR
r. A. Alorrisey was asked 20 umpire. Air
Morrisey S. a well known c. L. a. man.
and what he don't know about base BAN
is hardly worth knowing.
The game started off nicely Savannah
was Ia the hunt from the jump and piled
up three runs in the first inning and
landed two more in the second, which
made the score TO 0. These were the
only runs scored In the game. Then the
kicking began. Augusta said that the UNI
pire was incapable. and asked to have him
removed. Capt O'Connor Of the savan-
nah team said that the umpire's decisions
were all right, and refused to allow him
to be removed. Augusta made no special
kick as to Mr.. Morrisey's decisions, but
commended that they were unfair on
whole
About the third or fourth inning the Au-
gusta boys whispered threats of retiring
from the game If the umpire were not re-
moved, and IN the interest OF harmony Mr..
Morrsey retired at the end Of the fourth
inning. Ed Gross, a Well-knOWn player
was then installed as umpire. Mr.. Gross
term OF Office, while very brief. was most
OnerOus. IL was plainly seen that II was
no particular umpire that Augusta kicked
on. Gross proved most unsatisfactory TO
the visitors, and after a consultation of
the various captains, managers and ct
ceteras of that team, Manager Stub
stepped before the grandstand and an
nounced to the spectators that his team
could not continue TO play and he would
take them from the field.
Manager Stub had hardly concluded the
announcement when he was greeted by
a storm of Kisses and catcalls that was
almost deafening. Mingled with this was
a rousing cheer sent up by the Augusta
rooters and ladies', who approved the
stand taken by their team, while crowd
Of Savannah rOOters in the grandstand
called them babies and sang the little re-
frain from Wang"
Baby, baby dance, my darling baby.
Up she goes, down she goes,
Ninety miles higher than the MOON" ETC.
or course, there are two sides. as there
are TO all stories, but to an unbiased, I'M
preJudiced person, the action OF Augusta
was anything but sportsman-like Au-
gusta Is a hard loser and after Savannah
scored the hve runs the visitors We're
afraid of losing and kicked on the umpire
as pretense of stopping the game. This
Is the concensus of opinion of the SaVan-
nah boys, and is shared in by the home
people who attended the game.
The position of umpire Is a hard one
He cannot always please both sides but
the decisions of both umpires were fair
and impartial and Augusta had seemingly
no cause TO kick.
Capt. Mulherin of the Augusta team
stated that his men did not question the
honesty of either umpire, but contended
that they were incapable and that Au-
gusta got the worst Of the decisions He
regretted the unpleasantness very much,
and so did all Of the players and their
friends.
The game itself was quite an interest
ing exhibition. Savannah played an ex-
an Augusta man as umpire. The boys
were in the game from the jump and
played all around the Fountain City team.
krenson pitched an excellent game and
for the five innings allowed the visitors
but three hits, while he made six of their
batsmen fan the zephyrs. Every man
played bang up and Krenson was given
excellent support. In the second inning
Harper made one of the prettiest catches
that Savannah base bah crowd has ever
seen. He jumped about four feet in the
air and cabbaged a hot liner from Biers'
bat which looked as II it were on its wav
out to the fence, and good for a two bag
ger 1t was a beautiful play and was
roundly cheered. Krenson was present.
ed floral bouquet by some unknown ad-
mirer presumably n female one from the
arrangement of the tribute.
Sanford, the young college boy pitched
good ball for Augusta, but he was given
very poor support. He struck out eight
of the Library boys and gave five hits
The fielding of Augusta was altogether
ragged, they making five errors in the
five innings played
1t is hard to say what the outcome of
the game will have on the league. but
II Is more than probable that il will
disband. Next Saturdays game between
savannah and Charleston will be play
ed, however, but it is not likely that
savannah and Augusta viii meet again
this season.
The official score follows: