The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-08
LOST BY BAD BLUNDERS.
SAVANNAH C. l.. AS NOT LIKELY
TO PLAY AUGUSTA AGAIN.

Tenn Denr-BiE League Clubs to
change Territory This Week.
eastern Clubs to Entertain the
MISREPRESENTATION Still Leading
with baltimore SccOnd-The Y. NJ.
G. AS Games.
The C. L. A. ball team returned from
Augusta early yesterday morning. tired
ap5 disappointed. What the noodoo that
oizers Savannah base ball club up in
Sand Hills is. no one seems to know, but
that the boys have some Jonah lying
around the canal banks no one will doubt.
The c. L. A. has found 1t impossible to
win a game in Augusta. This time it was
no. the umpire Mr.. Asbury Hull prom
nent business man, acted as judge of
NAV and every decision was fair and sat
isfactory 10 the Savannahians.
There are some ball players who get
oyer-anxious to win and do more to lose
Il than eight don't care" players, and
this seems to have been the trouble with
lin Ballantyne in Augusta. Ballantyne
Is charged with five erorrs, with not the
slightest excuse for one of them The
only explanation that can be offered is
3 lack of Judgment. Ballantyne attempted
time and again to field slow balls hit to
short stop. They were all easy hits and
Harper could have got them and made
assists every time, but running from third
81 and trying to make a pickup on the run
is what caused Ballantyne to tumble the
ball so often. The Savannah boys did not
find any trouble hitting the Augusta
twirler though they did not land safe as
often as they would have had not the Au-
gusta field put up a great game.
It took eleven innings to decide the
game. At the end of the ninth Savannah
II had tied the score, though when the visit
ors went to bat for the ninth the score
"a was to 3. Two men were out, and not
81 a man on base, and there was not the
slightest hope in the hearts of the forty
cranks who had gone up to see the game.
When the next four batters were raced
across the plate by the hardest kind of
smuggling and the very fastest base run
ming the handful of rooters went wild with
delight,
1t is not probable that Savannah will
meet the Augusta team on the diamond
again. Matters have not drifted along as
smoothly as they should have and from
the first game, up to date, the Augusta
management the Savannahians claim,
has disregarded all agreements made with
the Library committee. The people of Au-
81 gusta have given the Savannah excur-
sionsts a royal reception on all occasions,
but the parties at the head of the Augusta
team have tired the Savannah manage
ment, which has about decided that the
series should not be finished.
In the big league last week the eastern
"a clubs ended their series in the west and
will now receive the western clubs on the
home grounds Boston still holds first
place but its lead is not nearly so great as
IL it was Baltimore is holding on to second
place with Cincinnati, New York, Cleve-
land and Philadelphia following closely in
. the order named. Down the second divis-
ion Pttsburg, Chicago, Louisville, Brook
Ign, Washington and st. Louis hold the
positions given them here.
Commencing this week the fight on the
home stretch promises to be an exciting
and interesting one. The sports tip Boston,
New York and Baltimore for one, two,
three but there are a great many who
ind place in the Temple cup series for
Cincinnati.
The defeat the Young Mems Christian
Association ball team met with in the
hands Of their Charleston friends in the
game last Thursday has had the effect
OF making the association boys more than
eyer determined to win game from the
city by the Sea"
Manager Hall expects to carry over to
'hdrleSton next Saturday the strongest
aggregation of ball players that can be
tolten together who will be able to leave
t'eH work. Every weak point in the team
Is TO be strengthened and they will go
over to win.
II The association also expects to run a
large excursion over the Charleston and
savannah railroad, leaving here Saturday
morning and returning al night, special,
arriving here before midnight The rate
VIII be $50 for the round trip.
A game with the Macon Young Mems
Dhrislan Association team will very
slEely be arranged for some day this week
we'll "''' A'"0'S
an effort is being made to arrange
talne between the Young Mems Christian
i1lsSSoclauon's No. and the Young Mems
Heorew Association to take place at the
week '0 i"''ei part VI '"e
f, rae associations will probably have the
io1o"lng Well-known players:
~ H. A. Positions. Y. NJ. c. A.
r." '''''''....... pitcher .............. King
49," ,'''.'.'..,. catcher ......... Charlton
~. ira .'.'.... first base ........... Brown
,'.N .'''...... second base ....... Eng.erth
WI '''....... third base .......... Mccall
gtsr, ''''''''.. short stop ........ Thomas
~ :" -...'........ left field ......... Purse
-" ,''''.... center field ..... Rowland
loaum right field ..........Loveu
.rt1 1e friends Of both associations would
tn tssr1 ,ns such game and apparently
ans are very evenly matched.
l.. a. Jr.'s defeated the c. 4.
n y IN cam Yesterday by a score Of %
.a.g ne c. l.. A. Jr.'s team is as fol-
1,, ~ Is, own, c.; f. McDermott. p. Ra-
lia|ras hyrnes, 2b.; Reynolds. 8b:
~. |. - j. McDermolt g 4. En-