The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-12-31
SERVICES AND SPORT
v..k THE CELEBRATION OF
NEW YEARS DAY.
MIDNIGHT WATCH SERVICES.
nan IN CHRIST, ST. PAUL's
.xn THUNDERBoLT CHURCHES

,nrnb Subs and Y. NJ. G. A. Foot
nou Teams to Play in Bottom
ct Park-Savnnnnh Football
I'm to play in Jacksonville.
,,ou> to spend the Day With hod
cur-Some of the COlored
churches Also to Observe the sea-
on-C;eorgia state Industrial Col
80 and CIamin University to
play Football Here.
New Years Day like Christmas is
.alabrated in many ways, and the pc
inning of 1902 will offer the oppor-
t,,ritv for the qualification of all tastes
rhe church services, watch services
+ho, are called, will begin at 1880
o'clock the night before, and last into
Tho New Year. Such services will be
,.,d in Christ Church, in ST. Paufs
,,,d at the Thunderbolt Union Church,
where quite an elaborate programme
,,iu he given. This service will begin
Of 10 o'clock and continue to II. The
rropramme is as follows:
HYMN. congregation.
PRAYER. Rev. !. l.. Lee.
Hymn, congregation.
SCRIPTURE reading. Mr.. j. White.
HYMN, congregation.
recitation, Miss Maud Teeple.
49, catalogue. Miss Nellie Mulligan and
Miss Ethel Teeple.
ADDRESS, Rev. j. S. Wilder.
recitation. Miss Lottie Young.
Reading, Miss Aggie Gray.
pecitation Miss Eva White.
headings. Miss Amanda Young, Mr..
r w. Farr, and Miss Haymans.
After a discussion of church matters
for the New Year the programme will
no closed with a hymn and benedic-
ton.
other church services in Savannah
will be held in st. Johns at IL o'clock
New Years Day, when Holy Commun-
ion will be administered, and in the
Lutheran Church of the Ascension,
where a service will be held at o'clock
at night
The football games will be feature
of New Years Day. Much interest is
conferred in the trip of the Savannah
football team to Jacksonville, where,
New Years afternoon. a game will be
played by a picked team, the strongest
that Jacksonville can muster, and
probably the strongest that the local
team will meet this season. Besides
the Savannah team and a number of
subs, quite a number of football en-
thusiasts will make the trip. To Sc
cure crowd of friends and rooters
for the trip, the local team has secured
A rate of 81. Is for the round trip, the
railroad giving a rate of So. Is and the
team standing the additional dollar.
The players and their friends will leave
nd in
for home shortly after the end of the
game. Though the team will not play
at home. Savannahians will not be de-
priyed Of football, for two lightweight
teams. composed of clever players, the
Savannah Subs and the Y. NJ. G. A. s
viii play at the Bolton Street Park
New Years morning, the game begin
ming at 1880 o'clock. The lineup of
these teams has already been printed
in the Morning News. The members
of both having been practicing hard
for many weeks and should. and doubt
less will, play decidedly interesting
game.
Not the least feature of New Years
will be the number of huntsmen and
fishermen that will leave the city for
the haunts of the feathered and the
fnny tribes. Already many parties
have been formed for trips of this sort,
and doubtless a profitable day will be
spent with both gun and rod.
Inc colored people also will have
their services and sports. At st.
Stephens Church a watch service will
De held New Years eve. beginning at
il:5o o'clock Holy Communion will
ne administered. In the afternoon
Football teams representing the Geor-
gla State Industrial College and
Clatiin University of Orangeburg, S.
w. viii play what promises to be an
interesting game. 1t will take place
N the Bolton Street Park. The colored
uToops VIII parade in observance of
Emancipation Day.