The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-10
FOREST CITY TEAM WON.
THEY TOOK THE TYBEE BALL
GAME FROM THE SoUTHSIDERS.

Capt. Dreamer Claimed His Team Had
to Play Against Twelve Men,
which Meant That Both EMPIRES
and the Scorer Were Against Him.
An Open Question as to How the
Game ResuIted-SOme Claimed Il
Was 6 to While Others StOutly
Averred 1t Wus 8 to Zone of the
Forest City Players Pounded the
Ball Out to Sea for a Home Run.
The men behind the political gun that is
fired now and then in Savannah with
disastrous effect had big time on Tybee
yesterday. They had a picnic. That's
what it really was and what it was call
ed, the Forest City Independent Club hav-
ing arranged such an entertainment, and
induced many of it's members to partici-
pate. The Forest City Clubs baseball
team, incidentally, declared that there was
another picnic on the island-that they
had with the team from the Southside
Club.
The ball game was the great feature Of
the day. 1t was decidedly warm. This
warmth was not due solely to the blazing
sun and the heated sands, for there was
no little kicking injected into the game,
and the politicians were demonstrative
as though some election were being pulled
off, though the accompaniment of scraps
was lacking. Everything was in harmony,
and only good feeling prevailed.
Some doubt exists as to the score. Scor-
err Frank McDermott was the finest in
his line that ever chalked up a run, yet
could he he ri a HE
array of hierogyphics he presented at
the conclusion of the game, whether the
score stood 6 to or 6 to in favor of
the Forest City team. Ii was one or the
other, but which is not known. That,
like the great controversy as to who
wrote the plays commonly attributed to
Shakespeare will go down TO history as
an unsoived problem. Umpire James Nc
Bride, president of the Forest City Club,
declared it was to 3, but his judgment
was pronounced biased and, besides, the
SOuthsiders said, he didnt know what
he was talking about anyway.
The Southsiders claim they had only
nine men with whom to play twelve Capt.
Robert Dreamer asserted that his team
had not only Umpire Mcbride, which
might have been expected, against them,
but Umpire Samuel Reynolds as well.
The Judge, he declared, sold them out,
did them dirt and gave the game 10 the
Forest City team. And why? Simply be-
cause the Judge will run for justice in the
Fourth again, and the Southside doesn't
happen to be in the District while the
Forest CiSy Club, on the contrary, most
decidedly is That was rough on the
Judge, particularly as he had been chosen
by the Southsiders to represent them as
umpire. The Judge Indignantly refutes
| the charge, and declares that he did
everything he could for the Southsders,
but that the Forest City boys wouldn't
stand for any of his most brilliant tricks
as an umpire.
| Then too, Scorer McDermott was jump
| ed on in fine Style by Capt. Dreamer, who
| said he was the FUNNIEST lot in the scor-
ing line that ever happened. Capt. Cream
err stirred around most industriously look
| ing for someone else TO represent his team
| in keeping score, but the official scorer
managed to hang on to his job. The cap
tain of the Southsiders was registering
kick after kick about the way only the
| best batters for the Forest City crowd
would ever appear at the plate, but he
seemed to be on the losing side. Figura-
| lively speaking the ballot boxes were
stuffed and the lines in front of the vot-
ing PAGES had been filled up with the
opposition before the Southsiders ever ap-
peared on the scene.
Following are the players and the posi-
| lions tn y covered:
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