The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-14

" when the Southwestern
League disbanded, it was thought that
Manager Selee had abandoned the idea.
AS soon as it was known that the league
had gone through the Catholic Library AS
ISOLATION, through it's representative, be-
gan correspondence with Manager Selee
looking to his club coming here for its
spring practice. For the last week the
wires have been kept hot, and yesterday
the details were arranged and a satisfac-
tory agreement was arrived at between
the association, which controls the park,
and the manager of the Bostons.
The Beaneaters will leave Boston on the
Nacoochee next Thursday, and will ar
rive in Savannah Sunday. They will
start work Monday, and will remain in
Savannah until April 8, when the team
will begin working it's way north, playing
games on the way with local or other
| clubs. The team will number between If
teen and twenty men.
Manager Selee is now endeavorlng to
| arrange games with Philadelphia, Balti-
more, Pittsburg and all national league
clubs which will train in this section.
| There Is hardly doubt that the admirers
of base ball in Savannah will see games
! between such clubs as the champions
Baltimores and the Phillies. Besides
| these games viii be played with the reg
| ular team Of the Bostons and the Colts,
or young players, with few local players
| picked in to fill up.
Boston is one of the fastest teams in
| the big league Until Baltimore snatched
| the pennant away from 1t three years ago,
| the team had won the pennant three
| years in succession and were considered
| invincible. Since then many of the old
| players of the famous Hub team have dis
| appeared from it's roster, but 1t is still
composed of some of the strongest men
in the league.
The Philadelphia ball club passed
! through Savannah on it's way to Augusta
yesterday morning, where it will do its
! training. The team came in on the City of
| Macon from Philadelphia, and left over
| the Central railroad for the Fountain City.
| There were seventeen men in the party,
| including Manager Stallings. Thompson
| and Boyle, two of the team, will join it
| in Augusta. The team included Manager
Stallings, pitchers, Taylor, Carsey, Ortiz
| Wheeler, Brandt and Johnson; catchers
| Clements, Cross, Geler and Grady; first
baseman, LaJoie; second baseman, Hall
man; third baseman, Nash; short stop,
Gillen; and outf1elders, Delehanty and
| Harley.
Manager George Stallings is probably
| as well known in Savannah as any base
| ball man who has ever visited here, and
| being a Georgia boy, the people of this
| city take an especial interest in him.
George Stallings' rise in the profession
which he has chosen, If profession it can
| be called, has been almost phenomenal
He is barely 80 years of age, yet he is
| managing one of the biggest teams in the
| National League. He was born in Au-
gusta, which accounts for his preference
to that city as a training ground for his
team. He is a college-bred man and
from his boyhood always eXcelled in attn
letics. He first became prominently con-
| nected with professional base ball in 1893,
which year he managed the Augusta team
in the Southern League. This was the
| year that Jimmie Manning had his team
| of pennant winners in Savannah. The
| Southern League disbanded that year,
and in 1894 Stallings piloted the Nashville
| team to a prominent place, when the
league again went to pieces. In 1895
| Stallings again managed Nashville, Dut
| in 1896 he went to Detroit, where he was
considered one of the best managers in
| the Western League
When the Phillies were looking around
| for a manager last fall they chose Stall
ings out of the many good men who
| would have taken the position. Manager
| Stallings, in talking of the prospects of
his team, this year. does not claim the
earth, as most base ball managers do, but
he says his team will be in the hunt, and
If they do not come out one, two, three,
il will surprise him.
| Manager Stallings says he expects TO
bring the Phillies to Savannah during the
latter part of this month or early next
month for a series of games with Boston.
II he does his team will be warmly re-
ceved by the Savannah people. and they
will turn out in large crowds to greet the
boys from the Quaker City.
A tri-club league, comprising Savannah,
Augusta and Charleston, such as was
formed and most successfully carried
through last season, will again be or
ganized by the Catholic Library associa-
lions of the three cities. AS soon as the
Southeastern League fell through. CORE
spondence was begun with this view, and
both Charleston and Augusta say they
will gladly enter such league. In fact
they say they are glad the Southeastern
was not success, as the people OF those
cities would prefer the amateur games
seen there last season TO professional ball,
A meeting TO arrange the final details
| and schedule will be called very shortly,
and everything will be put In readiness
for the opening of the league season,
which will be about May 1 or Is. Each
club will probably play sixteen games,
eight at home and eight abroad.
| A base ball committee has been APP
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