The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-02
LIKE AIDES FABLE
ANOTHER STORY OF ''THE CHAM
PION WHO FAILED TO ARRIVE"
GALATIANS WERE DEFEATED.
CRACK PITCHING ny HARMON RE-
SPONSIBLE FOR THEIR DEFEAT.

Barrett Went Up In the Air in the
Second Inning and Was Taken Out
of the Game-Y. Nj. C. 4. Boys
punched Their BinEIes in the Sec
Ond and Put the stamp of Victory
on the Game by Bringing Four
Men Into POrt-HarmOn Was In
vincible.
Once upon time a man named AIDE
wrote a fable called 1.-THE Champion
Who Failed to Arrive" What took
place at the Bolton Street Park yes
terday afternoon is very much like
AIDES fable-because 1t is so different.
The fable was funny. This story is
pathetic. The fable was a fable, while
this is true.
AIDES champion was a boy who lived
In country town who had learned to
box until his string Of victories over
his would-be local champions caused
his admirers to swear by him, and all
were prepared to stand a tap on his
chances against anybody. One day a
measly woe-begoue Individual, wear
ing one suspender and a sleepy grin,
drifted into town. He said he was
a fighter. and O match was soon ar
ranged between him and "The Cham
pion Who Failed to Arrive" The
tramp fighter trained on cigarettes and
all the beer he could get to, paying lit
tie attention to the strenuous efforts
of the local celebrity. On the night
of the fight, Just about the time the
fight hpHnmfnpr fnfnraotiFaur 10 fho
spectators the measly tramp swung
his right to the Corners" Jaw. The
floor jumped UP and hit his head, and
the back number faded out the rear
door with all the loose change in
town. That was AIDES fable.
Champion Failed to show Up.
Yesterday afternoon another cham
pion failed to arrive This was a
young man named Richard Barrett.
So far he has stood head and Shout
ders above anything in the constela-
ton of local baseball stars. To his
prowess as star slabmen for the ar
tillerymen is due the defeat of the
champions of the city league, and he
has been looked upon as the saviour
of the honors OF the Chathams' aggre-
cation of ball tossers.
Whenever l look at that grin Of
his l want to lay down my bat and
fight him." said Stark. by that time
three are over and ! have struck out"
Richard was billed to pitch yester~
day afternoon against the Christians
and all of his friends and admirers at
tended the game in a body. Richard
nodded pleasantly to his friends in the
stand. He was filled with confidence
and good dinner. He wore that smile
which Stark described He is a big
tall boy, who evidently imagined that
the world was his. But yesterday, as
Is the case with all pitchers. Richard
received His. Before the game his
friends called him THE shenon. !"
THE Wonder" THE Coming Cham
pion," and their remarks were echoed
by every wearer of the red sox.
Stnid But Two Innings,
But the champion only remained two
| innings, after which he was sent to the
tall and uncut. The way the Y. M.
G. A. boys hammered his curves was
really pathetic. He began by wearing
the nine-by-five smile mentioned nv
Stark, but before the Y. M. G. a 3
had been retired in the first inning the
grin had become shriveled and frozen
until 1t looked like a sickly wrinkle
at the corner of his mouth. He passed
through the first inning without more