The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-26
wO'E By GOOD PLArnG.
savanna IN c. l. As Defeat The Caro-
Iinians 10 ?

II wa a disappointed lot Of Charleston
ians WHO saw the red. white and blrle tran
IN the. dust at c. l. A. park YESTERDAY,
aIteiE oon, but they could not have been
better humored- They came over TO ven
Tor { harleston, first. last and all the time
out when their team was beaten they
chef red Savannah and took defeat phflo-
sop hically.
The score was to ,. and the game 7y,s
U Re closest and prettiest Of the season
7 5oth teams played with unusual .srsn
and ginger. 1t was nip and tuck an rb.
way through, with 10 certainty as TO the
result until the last man was our. In the
ninth inning.
1t was an ideal day for base oau that
Is from the onlOOkers point o.. view. b,lt
the poor players caught it gmmercifullv
from old Sol. The attendance was larae
and the grand stand presented a nrett,
appearance with its rows of pretty girls
and everybody wearing tn colors. OF their
team.
kicking, there was noTle. In fact it was
regular love feast. 1t appears both
teams wanted to show just how nice they
could behave, and il a prize had been I'M
for the best behaved they would have had
to draw stTaws. Ell Gross umpired and
gave entire satisfaction.
H1pkins pitched an excellent game FOR
Savannah. His speed was good and he
had splendid control OF the sphere The
fielding o. Savannah was of the piIt edpa
order. Three errors were made but none
CT them Wers costly. In the sixth inning
Harper made beautiful double pIaV
unassisted- HaLsey was on second when
Irwin hit a not liner to Harper who
fla q ha la-a.
before Halsey RneW where he was at and
made a double. Hennessy pitched a good
game for the visitors and was Well sup
ported though TWO costly errors in the
seventh inning helped to win the game
for Savannah Neither team batted
heaviS and Hennessy was the only man
who hit the pigskin for anything over
one base.
Charlest on%scored one run in the second
inning on Irwin hitting safe to right,
stealing second and scoring on a passed
ball. The Fucky seventh was where Saw
annah made her strike. O'COnnOr was
first up and got his base on being hit by
Hennessy. Brady famed out and Hip
kins flied out TO short stop. This made
two outs and man on first Harper was
running for O'COnnOr and went down TO
second; Jarvis threw wild and Harper
went to third. Outten got his base on
balls and Coney cracked a safe one out
to right, Harper scoring for O'Connor and
Outten going 70 third. LeClaire was next
up and he didn't do a thing but hit safe
to left bringing in Outten and Coney,
while the crowd yelled itself black in the
face. LeClaire stole third, Jarvis throw
ing wild and LeClaire scoring. Murray
flied out to left
In CharlestOn's seventh Dotterer went
out at first and Matthews hit to Gar
rett who fumbled, Matthews being safe
at first Matthews stole second and Fur
man struck out, but Ham Hennessy
drove the ball to center for two bases ana
Matthews scored. Taylor fouled out to
Murray and poor Hennessy died on sec
ond. This ended the scoring, though
Charleston had a man on first base in the
las inning, after two men were out, ana
the Savannah fans were little anxious
until Hennessy hit TO pitcher, and out at
first.