The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-02
FIRST GAME THIS WEEK.
c. l.. A. AND Y. VI. II. A. TEAMS TO
OPEN THE SERIES.

Ample Accommodations Have Been
Made TO seat 500 People in the Y.
VI. c. A. observation-disclosures
Seats a New FeatuFe-AII of the
Teams Stronger Than Last Season.
Must Keep Down the NOise-Every-
thing in Readiness for the Open
ing Game.
The first game of the Indoor Base Bah
League, which is composed of the teams
of the c. L. A., the Y. NJ c. A. and the
Y. NJ. H. A, Will be played Thursday night
in the gymnasium of the Young Mems
Christian Association. The contesting
teams will be the Catholic Library Assoc
citation and the Young Mems Hebrew As
ISOLATION.
The following is the makeup of the c.
L. A. team: Horrigan, pitch; Sullivan,
catch, Golden. first base; Charlton, second
base; Brady, E, third base; Brady, r.,
right short stop; Winters left short stop;
Downey right field; Mccarthy or Hogan,
D., left field.
The Y. NJ. H. A. team has not yet been
selected, but it will be made up of most
of last seasons players. Belsinger and
Kayton viii most likely be the battery
The game viii be called at O'Clock The
following gentlemen have been selected
to umpire the league series, and two Of
the number will umpire Thursday nights
game: Gordon Saussy, Mariana Papy,
Harkley Germany and Bailey Hipkins. Joe
Heffernan has been made official scorer.
The general admission to the games with
be 10 cents; reserved seats will be 10 cents
extra.
The new uniforms of the c. L. AS have
been ordered and they are expected to
be ready for the first game. The pants
and shirt will be white, with maroon
stockings, belt and cap, and the letters
&C. L. A." in maroon across the front
of the shirt.
The Y. NJ. H. a. suits will be dark blue
pants, white shirt, black stockings and
belt.
The Y. VI. c. A. team will be attired in
pretty new uniforms, the predominating
colors being blue and gold. The pants and
shirts will be of blue with blue and gold
striped stockings and belt The triangular
emblem of the association in gold will dec
crate the shirt front.
All of the teams are stronger this sea-
SON than they were last, and the league
race promises to be interesting. The play
ers of the different teams have been put
ting in any amount of practice for several
months. The c. L. A. team is in excellent
condition and its team work is very good.
Jack Harrigan is captain and to his adj
mirable coaching and direction is account
able in a large part the splendid work of
the Library boys Harrigan's pitching
last season was one of the features of the
league games and his work this season
promises to be equally as good.
The fTi-Aub lea oI1o bicr c11o0acc
last season. 1t was impossible to accom-
modate all who wished to see the games at
the latter part of the season, so great was
the interest fe,t in the pennant race. This
season promises to be even more success
full than last, for indoor base ball has
become to be one of the most popular of
sports with Savannahians.
Remembering the difficulty experienced
IN providing seats for the crowds which
attended the games last season, the direc-
tors of the league have made preparations
for seating comfortably over 500 people.
All of the games will be played in the
Y NJ. c. A. hall and the gallery overlook
ing the gymnasium has been fitted Up es-
peclally with view to giving the specta-
tors as good a view of the floor as posi-
bic. Three tiers of seats running the
length of the hall have been Placed on the
eastern and western sides of the hall
Around the railing there will be 10 chairs.
Il,
course, be the most choice seats in the
house. On the northern and southern SIDES
of the hall there will be standing room
for about 100 people. This is where the
rooters and the small boys will come in;
they don't mind standing.
On the subject of roofing, however, the
directors have a word to say. Last year
there was displayed on one side of the
hall large sign which read something
like this please Applaud With the
Hands Only" 1t was given just about
as much heed as are the signs in some of
the squares which say: twenty-five Dol
lars Penalty for Crossing Plats.'
The noise at all of the games last year
was great and at some of them, during the
close of the series when the race was
warm, it was something awful. The spec
tators would become so interested in the
game that they would forget being in
hall and that even then some of the neigh
bcrs were singing luilabes in an endeavor
to, lure to sleep some "enfant terrible"
The league officers do not care to have
any complaints about the noise from the
residents in the section of the hall and
they request that the spectators will con-
fine their approval to mild form of an
plause. The shouting and howIng which
was INDUCED in last season will not be al
lowed, and if persisted in it will result
eitber in stopping the games. altogether or
in having the offenders removed from the
hall.