The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-21
SAVANNAH D0WNED AGAIN.
THE SEA GULLs TOOK THE THIRD
SUCCESSIVE GAME.

Herbert Freely Hit by the sen GulIs
StuItz's Beautiful Throwing a Pref
~ Observation-Disclosures BacISstOT
Work GOOd-EustOn on la His
PIayinE-SaVannnh Had Good
Chance to Tie ina the Eleventh. Hut
the Fates MiHed Otherwise-New
Orleans To-day.
It took eleven innings TO decide yester-
days bali game, and the Sea Gulls won in
a thrilling finish from Illusions pets.
Charleston has won FIVE Of the six games
played with Savannah. and took three
straight from The Savannah team on its
own dunghill.
Despite the fact that Savannah was at
the bottom of the percentage column. and
that Illusions players had lost the Two
first games al home there was a big crowd
at the game. The visiting drummers in
the city may have swelled the, crowd. or it
may have been that the root
ers went out strong to pun
for the home team, but there was
a big crowd. That the spectators got a
run for their money is without question,
for the game was an exciting and we'll
played contest, but it is hard TO satisfy
crank with even good article of ball.
when ii makes the third successive defeat
The Savannahs put up the snappiesi
game that they have played. They were
undoubtedly out to win. and the loss of
the game has knocked the boys all out of
joint They are expatiating upon the run
of hard luck the team is having, and hop
ing that it is al an end, but the players
are in a demoralized frame Of mind.
Red" Herbert occupied the box for
Savannah and the Gulls batted him heav-
lily. What was more, their hits came at
opportune times for them and in the elev-
enth inning won them the game. Red"
was also unusually wild and gave six bases
on balls which helped materially TO lose
the game for Savannah. Ballantyne
caught an errorless game. He is gaining
confidence and losing some of the rawness
which characterized his catching in the
earlier games, and indications seem to
point TO his rounding out into good form.
Two of the prettiest features of the
game were the throwing out of two men
at the home plate by Stutz from right
field. The little pitcher took care of right
garden in fine style He bagged four flies
and sent two beautiful throws to Ballan-
tyne from right, both of which caught
runners at the SAD.
Huston played a ragged game at third,
making three errors. and Deveney FUN
bled one of the two chances he got. Dowe
was not worked much, but handled what
he got in good style. Illusions men were
weak at the bat and could not get but
seven hits in eleven innings of Hieberger.
The Gulls had on their batting clothes
and got twelve hits with a total of eigh-
teen bases. Jones placed the bali over the
left field fence when there was no one on
base.
Savannah had an excellent chance to
score in the last inning, and it looked for
few minutes like two men would cross
the slab, which would have tied the score,
and made another inning of play neces-
sary. Dowie opened up with a drive to
left and Ballantyne followed with a hit
10 right, sending Dowie to second. Her
bert got in a neat sacrifice and Dowie and
Ballantyne advanced to third and second.
This made only one out, with two men on
bases, and little hit would have brought
them both in. The crowd leaned forward
and held it's breath while HALLOWEEN step
ped up to bat The Savannah twirler
grasped the bat and gritted his teeth, de-
termined TO do or die. He died He made
three vicious attempts to connect with thu
ball and famed the atmosphere There
was another chance still. "A dollar for
HIT came from three or four throats as
Stultz walked to the plate, but the best
he could do was to strike out. The score
follnrsc-