The Savannah morning news., 1900-08-03
BRUNSWICK WON IN A WALK.
TOOK FIRST GAME FROM JACK
sONvILLE BY A SCORE OF 20 TO 9.

| Coed Crowd Witnessed n Poor Exhi-
bition of the National Game.
the First and Three in the Second
Inning. Seeming to Throw jack
sonviIIe Into n stupor From Which
IT Could Not RecOver-Never i'm the
Game From the Jump-Errors Were
Costly Ones for Both Sides-second
Game of Series This Afternoon.
A crowd of baseball fans much larger
than the game warranted turned out at
the Bolton street park yesterday afternoon
to witness the initial contest between the
Brunswick and Jacksonville aggregations.
The Brunswick team walked away from
their opponents to the tune of 20 to 6.
The game was dull and undressing
the Jacksonville players falling into a
stupor in the first inning. from which they
never entirely recovered The Brunswick
team put up a better article of ball, but
even their playing was not of the kind
that the fans had been led to expect, and
that they believed they would see. A
game of baseball is either wildly exciting
or stupidity and namely tiresome; that of
yesterday was decidedly of the latter de-
scrption.
Brunswick was first at the bat, and
Wolfe, the first player who faced Oil
phant, went to first on a misjudged fly.
Hallowell also reached first in safety, and
was followed by Vileneau. In the mean
time Ballantyne had famed the air once
too often and been retired from the plate
but the bases were full when Bud Harp
er picked up a stick and walked over to
the rubber. There was plentiful clapping
of hands for this old Savannah player,
" hich grew into a roar as he lined out
c.ean hit that scored Wolfe, and ad-
vanced the o;her men on the bases peg.
With the assistance of a couple of hits
and as many errors Brunswick piled up
six runs in its half of the first before it
was retired
jacksonville never succeeded in making
the circuit for the first two innings only
eight men facing Hollowell during this
time Brunswick, in its half of the sec
ond, added three runs to the six it had
made in the first and thus attained a
safe lead that was almost constantly in
creased.
Jacksonville players managed to cross
the home rlate four times during the
third inning. Harrison started the bali
rolling with a clean hit, and Linton, Con-
roy and O'Neill rep5 ated the performance,
Harrison scoring on ONeilps single. A
short and hot one from Abbotts bat Serv-
ed to retire Linton at the pate. Weiss
handing it in to Ballantyne in good shape.
However, Conroy, O'Nein and Abbott
scored on an error and Summers
hit This was the best run-making
that jacksonville did during the game,
never succeeding in making more than
one in an inning at any other time.
Brunswick made three runs in the fifth,
two in the sixth, five in the seventh and
one in the ninth, bringing up it's score to
twenty. Jacksonville added a run in the
fourth and another in the eighth, leav-
ing it with six to its credit when time
was called at the end of the game.
Holowell pitched a good game for Bruins
wick and had good support Oliphant
though he was wild at times and found
1t difficult to keep them near the plate,
and although he was hit freely, was at
times very effective. He spraned one of
his legs in the first inning and ambled
about on a game one for the rest of the
trouble. 1t keut him from fielding his
position properly and the failure was ex
pensive, everything that went slowly
along in front of the plate counting a
safe hit.
The errors that were made during the
game were costly ones for both teams
The second game of the series will be
played this afternoon, with O'Neil in the
box for Jacksonville. He is said to be a
good one and the game of this afternoon
is expected, therefore, to be more inter
esting.
The following is summary of the Off
cial score of yesterdays game: