The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-23
SPORT AND WORSHIP
WILL MARK THE CELEBRATION OF
THANKSGIVING.
WILL BE A GENERAL HOLIDAY.
NOT ONLY PUBLIC OFFICES BUT
MERCHANTS, ALSO, WILL CLOSE.

Most Interesting Event of Day VIII
BE Football Match With Jackson
viIIe-CIose Second to 1t Is the
shoot in Charleston i'm Which sa-
vannah Teams Are Entered-Many
Parties viii Hunt and Fish-UniOn
Service to he Held in First Baptist
Church and Other Services In
Episcopal and Lutheran Churches.
Caterers Wen Prepared to supply
Thanksgiving Tables.
Thanksgiving Day, 1902, will proba-
bly, be more generally celebrated than
it has been in years. That is the out
look to which the many and various
arrangements for spending the day
point. OF course all the city offices
and the courts will be closed for the
day, and, as it is a national as well
as a state holiday, it is probable that
the postoffice also will close it's de-
partments for at least half a day, and
may be longer. The wholesale and
retail merchants. too, will close their
places of business for all or part of
the day.
In this way there will be hundreds
of pleasure seekers, and for these va
rious amusements have been pre-
pared. Thanksgiving, for many years,
has been looked on as the day of the
year for football. Nearly all of the
big colleges arrange to play their
most important game on that date,
and the lesser colleges and independ-
ent teams follow suit. Savannah has
arranged for her first as well as her
most important game to take place
Thursday, when the local men will
tackle, on the Bolton street gridion,
a team from Jacksonville.
From the interest that has been dis
played in the Savannah team since its
formation, and from the large sale of
tickets within the last few days, it is
probable that the game will be seen
by one of the largest crowds that has
ever attended game in Savannah
The Day With the Military.
Scarcely of less interest than the
football game is that in the shoot that
is to take place in Charleston. in
which will be entered two teams from
the Savannah militia. one from the
companies of the First Regiment, I'M
der the command of Mr.. F. w. Gar
den, and the other from the COM
panies of the Guards. under command
The Savannah marksmen will leave
for Charleston probably early Thurs
day morning. The shoot in which they
will take part is given by the Charles
ton militia. Two prizes are offered,
first SIS. and second SIS No entrance
fee is to be charged visiting teams. So
great is the interest in the outcome of
this match that a number of
Savannahians other than the mem
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team to Charleston and spend the day
there.
Hunting and fishing are other sports
that will claim the attention of many
Savannahians. Already many parties
have been formed to search wood and
stream on that day. The hunters, gen.
orally, will go out in the surrounding
country a few miles, leaving Savan-
nah the night before so as to get after
the birds or deer, as the case may be,
in the early morning; while the fisher
men will HE themselves to the various
streams and stretches of salt water in
the immediate vicinity of the city
Other outdoor sports are golf on the
links of the Savannah Golf Club, and
trained horse and dog show on the
Thunderbolt race course. The members
OF the Golf Clubs Green Committee
are now preparing programme of
events in which the members of the
club will take part.
In the Churches.
There will be the usual religious SER
vices, of course. The churches rep
resented in the Ministerial Association
will hold a union service. this year in
the First Baptist Church. The SER
mon will be preached by Rev, Bas-
com Anthony, pastor of Trinity Meth
odist Church There will be services
also in each of the Episcopal churches.
the chief service at II o'clock, though
In some cases Holy Communion will
be administered at an earlier hour,
and a service will be held in the
Lutheran churches.
In the Roman Catholic churches
there will be no special services,
though of course, the usual masses
and other services of a week day will
be performed.
Not the least popular form Of cell
eebrating Thanksgiving is to indulge
IN the delights of the table to the ex-
tent that the market affords. In this,
100, Thursday will probably be as
well observed as in former years, for
there is an abundant supply of all
game, vegetables and fruit peculiar /
10 the season, and caterers have made
arrangements to meet an unusually
large demand.