The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-03
THEIR FIRST VICTORY.
BY CHATHAM ARTILLERY BALL
PLAYERS OVER THE Y. NJ. C. A.

By Good Hitting When Bases Were
Filled Piled Up Nine Runs Against
the Three of Their Opponents
Game Slow One ThrOughOut-Y.
NJ. C. A.'s Waterloo Came in Sixth
Inning When keIIy's Drive to Cen
ter Field Brought i'm Three Runs.
Fine Catch by Mcbride, and Base
Running of Myers and Harmon,
Features of the Game.
The Chatham Artillery baseball team
won their first game of the present
Tri-Club League series yesterday
by defeating the Y. NJ. C. A.
team by score of 9 to 3. The game
was long drawn out one, lasting
nearly two hours. and was charac-
terized by some very good play and
also some very poor play. Elton, the
Y. NJ. C. A. pitcher, was not as effec-
tive as usual, so that the Chatham
batters touched him up for quite
number of hits and these, with the
gift of several bases on balls, and err
rors on the part of the in-feld at crit
ical times, gave the Artillery boys the
game.
Up to and including the fifth inning
the game promised to be a very pretty
and closely contested one, for, though
the association players had scored in
two innings, one in each, the Chat
hams had punched three runs in the
fourth inning. so that the score stood
to in favor of the artillerymen;
the sixth inning, however, proved a
Waterloo for the association men.
AS the Game Was Played.
Mcbride, the first man UP for the
Galatians, struck out: then Myers hit
a little bounder to first. who caught
the ball about two feet in front of his
base and waited for the runner. Myers
dived under and, though Brewer
claimed he touched him. the umpire
called the runner safe. Myers stole
second, and in stealing third, drew a
bad throw from Harmon to that base.
The ball went into left field and Myers
scored.
Germany got to first on balls and
stole second; Clark also was given his
base, then Rafferty, raped one safe
between first and second and the bases
We're nlled. Barrett struck out, but
Kelly who followed him, put a liner
to center field. which Logan, because
playing too close in, failed to get and
the bases were cleared, Kelly reaching
third. The side was retired by Sulli-
van, who struck out.
The Y M. G. A. scored one run in
this inning, which was the last time
the team could get a runner across
the plate, though the Chathams scored
again in both the seventh and the
eighth inning. In fact, after the sixth
inning. the association players seemed
TO lose interest in the game, and play
ed in most listless way.
Plays That Were All Right.
Despite the fact that the game as a
whole was not up to the standard set
by the earlier work of the league, yet
there were number of plays that de-
serve special mention. Among these
was fine double play from Elton to
Brewer in the first inning, a brilliant
catch of a foul from Blake's bat by
Mcbride, a left-hand stop of a hot
grounder from Clark's bat by Barrett,
and the splendid base running of both
Myers and Harmon, each of whom
stole two seconds and two thirds.
This is the last game of the series
In which the Y. M c. A. will take
part There will be, in fact, but one
more game, postponed ol.@r which
will be played by the C. L. A and
the Chathams Saturday. Yesterdays
game had no effect on the standing of
the teams, for the G. l.. A. has already
the first place in the league cinched,
while the Y. M. C. AS come second
and the Chathams can do no better
than bring up the rear, even should
they win the next game.
The batting order of the teams was:
Chatham Artillery. Y. NJ. c. A.
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