The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-30
BALL PLAYERS IN A SCRAP
An UGLY INCIDENT IL THE GAME
WITH BALTIMORE.

McGrnw Punched for Guying Pitcher
Herbert-SituatiOnL Looked Ugly for
a Minute-HustOn's Men Unable TO
score-stuItz's WiIdness and Beech
er's and Deveney'S Errors Lost the
Game-BaIInntyne's Great stick
Work.
That rowdyism still exists In base ball
was made plainly apparent yesterday af-
ternoon in the game between Baltimore
and Savannah. There is still need for leg
islation around ball playing, as much to
protect those bail players who practice
and favor clean ball as to better the game
itself.
The ugly incident occurred in the fifth
inning and married what would have been
otherwise prettily played game. McGraw.
Baltimore's gingery little third baseman,
was at the bat and Herbert was pitching
The two players entered into guying
match, in which each decried the others
ability as ball player. McGraw evident
y had the better of the argument and
Herbert became riled at the Orioles jibes
while McGraw was in a thoroughly good
humor for If "Mugsy' is ever happy it
is when guying a fellow player, especially
a minor Lacquer.
When the inning was ended and McGraw
walked out on the field he renewed the talk
with Herbert and the latter sent several
| stiff punches at the Orioles face, some of
which he lodged and others of which
landed. McGraw made no attempt to
strike back. Bowerman rushed at Her
bert and by this time there was a general
mix-up of players and policemen. The
situation began to look squally, but the
policemen and the more cool-headed of the
players soon quieted the belllgerents and
the game proceeded. In the mix-up Her
bert was struck by a Savannah man.
The spectators were about evenly divld-
ed as to placing the blame of the trouble
| and both McGraw and Herbert were Kissed
when they appeared again. 1t was GER
| tainly an unfortunate episode, and was
a bad start in the inauguration of clean
| ball playing.
The Baltimores played sharper ball than
| they did in the two previous games, while
Savannah did not show up so well. The
fielding of Illusions men was ragged. Bal
! lantyne continued his good stick work,
| and got In two hits, one of which was
| two-bagger. Herbert got the only other hit.
| Chance caught for Savannah until the
| seventh inning when he injured one of his
| fingers and gave way TO Ballantyne. Hol-
| lowell took Ballanyne's place in right
! field. Woods, the Chicago player, made
| two pretty throws
Herbert was in the box for Savannah
for the first FIVE innings, when he was re-
| placed by Stultz, whose main fault as in
| Saturdays game, was his widness. Nops
| pitched a great game for Baltimore.
| O'Brien made three fine catches in left
field, and Mccain made two bad mufrs
! on first.
Savannah got four men on bases in the
/ first inning, but Meaney and Weikert were
4 forced out at second and Huston was left
4 on third. Again in the fifth Savannah
| came near scoring. Chance reached first
1 on McGanns mun of a thrown ball, but
was forced out at second by Huston. Hus-
| ton moved up when Deveney got his base
on balls and went to third when Mccain
| muffed another easy throw. He tried to
score on the error, but was thrown out
at the plate This is the nearest Savan-
nah get TO scoring. Deveney got as far
| as third in the same inning, but was left
there when Meaney flied out to OBrien.
Baltimore did it's scoring in the SIXTH
seventh and eighth innings. Stencil open
| ed up in the sixth with a drive to center
| and went to third on O'Brien's beautiful
left-field hit. O'Brien reached second when
Deveney muffed Meaney's throw Nc
Gam struck out. Quinn followed with a
fast hit through Deveney and both run
ners scored. Hoffer flied out to Meaney,
Beecher fumbled Clarkes grounder and
| Quinn reached second. Nops then sent a
sharp drive between third and short and
Quinn went to third. coming home when
Weikert fumbled McGraw's grounder
| Three men were left on bases when De-
niontrevlle was thrown out by Woods
magnificent throw.
Stencil scored for Baltimore in the sew
enth on Beecher's two errors, Ballantyne's
juggle of the ball and McGann's high fly
to Huston. which allowed Stencil to score.
After two men were out in the eighth
inning Baltimore got in three runs De-
montreville was given his base on balls
and reached second, when Beecher let
Stencils ball slip through his hands
OfBriens base on balls advanced each
man. McGann scored Demontreville and
Stencil on hit just to the right of Wei
kert and Quinn got in his third hit of the
day and brought in O'Brien. Hoffer was
thrown out by Beecher.