The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-03
SAVANNAH D0WNED vALDoSTA.
THE WIREGRAss TEAM PLAYED
WELL BUT WAS UNLUCKY.

savannah's Hits Bunched and VAL
dOsta's Errors COstIy-HIpI5ins and
ConniR Both Pitched weII-BnI-
Iantyne's Bat Had Hole In 1t.
The Teams to Play Again To-day.
With a somewhat weakened team, caus-
ed by the absence Of Ed Brady, which ne
cessitated the shuffiiug Of some of the play
ers, Savannah took a fairly well played
game from Valdosta yesterday by a score
of 7 to T.
Counting those who saw the game from
nearby housetops and fences, several
thousand spectators witnessed the game.
There was not the enthusiasm manifested
that there is in the games with Augusta,
but the crowd seemed to thoroughly enjoy
the sport The presence of three Savan-
nah boys on the visiting team gave it many
followers and valdosta's. good plays were
applauded as loudly as those of Savannah.
The Library boys put up good game,
but not what they are capable of doing.
The team work was a little off and the
coaching at several times was very bad.
A little more attention to this particular
would not be amiss.
Valdosta was supposed to be a team of
heavy hitters, but they could not do much
with Hopkins. For the first few innings
they hit him pretty lively but he settled
down after that, and they could do nothing
with him. Jarvis caught a beautiful
game. Bob Brady was a stranger at sec
ond base, and his errors are excusable.
McIntire had an off day, OByrne and
Hopkins had the batting honors.
Valdosta had good, strong team, and
the boys put up stiff game. Commit, the
left-handed twirler, is good, heady
pitcher, with lots of speed. Clements
played a great game at short, as did Har-
per at second, but the latter did not have
his old batting eye.
The two sorest men in Savannah last
night were Jim Ballantyne and the exub-
Grant rooter who sat in the grand stand
and every time Ballantyne came to the
bat yelled "Hit it out Spit" This oar
ticular rooter evidently went to the game
with the sole purpose of roofing for Bal
lantyne. For him there was no other
player in the game. Judging from his
remarks he expected great things of the
disgusting disappointment. Ballantyne
struck out four time, and the fifth knock
ed little grounder to short STOP Every
time he went to the bat he gritted his
teeth and planted his feet firmly in the
ground with the determination to knock
the pigskin into the middle of next week.
His efforts to hit the ball were frantic
fa Int bo
Savannah commenced the good work in
the first inning. Brady the first man up,
went out but Jarvis followed with a hit
He advanced to third on an error and a
stolen base and scored on O'Connor's hit
Naldosta did not score in this inning
Eight men went to bat for Savannah i'm
the second inning and four runs were piled
up. Brown flied out to center field and
Founder struck out, but Ballantyne let
the ball go by and Founder reached first
He got to second on Ballantyne's error
and scored on O'Byrne's hit. Hipkins
struck out and Schley was hit by pitcher
Brady got his base on an error Of Nally's
and Jarvis got his base on balls Schley
and Brady scored, and O'Byrne struck out
BY punching hits in the second inning
Valdosta got two runs. Stinson started
off with hit and Clements followed with
a single. Stinson was put out at third
a
and stole third scoring on Cawthorn's
sacrifice. Cawthorn was caught at second
Johns got his base on an error and scored
on Conniffs hit and Nallys sacrifice
Valdosta got one more in the third in
ming. Harper hit 10 short and was out at
first and Ballantyne famed the wind
Short hit safe and scored on hits by Stin-
son and Clements, who both died on base
Savannah scored again in the sixth
Founder went out, but O'Byrne singled
He went to second on a passed ball and
scored on Hopkins hit.
In the seventh for Savannah. Brady
flied out to second. Jarvis followed with
grounder to Short, who threw wild to
first, and Jarvis made the circuit of the
bases. O'Connor got his base on balls
but McIntire and Brown retired the side
Valdosta scored again in the ninth in
ming. Commit reached first on Brady's
error. Nally flied out to O'Connor and
Harper hit Commit in. Ballantyne struck
out for the fourth time, and Short closed
the game with foul fly to Jarvis.
Mr. Jack Horrigan umpired the game to
the entire satisfaction Of both sides and
the spectators:
The score follows.