The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-28
OLD TIME BALL GAME
GUYTON TEAM WAS A LITTLE
SLOW IN LAST TACK.
ONE EXCITING MOMENT
IN THE FIFTH INNING WAS EN-
TENT OF HAIR RAISING.

Suectators Were in IA Good HumOr,
and JOIIied Players and Them
seIveS-EnOugh Energy WINS Ex-
nended to Play Al Dozen Games.
CaroIan and Lang Carried on the
HonOrs Starke Caught and
pitched with His Usual Skill.
The game at the ball park yester-
dav afternoon was not one that even a
highly strung fan could wax enthusi-
astic over. 1t was hardly one of the
hair-raising order, and yet, the lost en-
ergy during the progress of the game
would supply motive power for a part
of Savannah's trolley system for the
rest of the year. 1t was one of those
sad, lonely, graveyard games, game
that made the spectator think of home
and mother and wonder if the wind
whistled through the pines as it once
did, and whether the birds still devour-
ed all the grapes and whether the COW
broke out every Sunday just as she
did when one of the family wanted to
go to church, a game that made one
think of all the money he owed and
of all the acquaintance who had died
owing him.
Had it not been for one disturbing
element in the grand stand, the spec
tators would have been able to sleep
peacefully through the nine seances. A
small man with a very large voice
found something exciting in every
move that was made, and even shouted
with glee when the policeman flourish
ed his club in defiance at the young
sters who were trying to outwit him
by scaling the back fence and getting
into the grounds without giving up"
AS it was. the crowd was keSt awake,
and after the first two or three innings
had lots of fun. All entered into the
spirit of the occasion, and jollied the
players and each other.
The Guytons, assorted in ages and
accoutrements as circumstances de-
handed, put more hard work into their
efforts with less results than is GUS
tomary with baseball players wearing
Wreaths of laurels. They tried and
tried hard TO send enough men across
the pan to win from the Yellow Legs.
but to no avail. Gladness did little
hoVerlng over their squad in the fifth
after that inning the excitement was
over Many believed that the Yellow
Legs would be victims of the Alum
rust, but in the following inning
Stafke shut down the hit works. and
not another Guyton man reached port
Inc I. NJ. c. A. team went into the
game in a badly crippled condition
harmon was being saved for the dou-
bic header Saturday and could not do
occupy the box for the locals. found
at the last moment that he could not
get on, and Banks was called to the
nrlng line. Only four hits were Sc
cured off him-the other balls he pitch
ed being out of reach of the batters.
rive men complimentary passes to
i1rst on balls in two innings was ais
record. Savarese was also detained
and was out of the game. When Banks
was taken out of the box Starke pull
ed off his mask and NIT and took his
fallen comrades place and pitched the
team to victory. When Banks threw
up the distress signal there were many
calls for Harmon from the grand
stand, but the hard battle before the
team Saturday, when all of the pitch
ing vitality there is in the Yellow
Legs crackerjack will be needed. was
more important to the team than yes
terday's game, and Harmon finished
out at third. Two features that merit
ed the applause they were accorded
was the running catch of a short fly
by Carolan in center field. This
youngster, though only Is years of
age, played an excellent game and was
not afraid of the ball when he came
up to the pan. He hit every time and
sent one of his singles safe; the other
was Lang's sacrifice steal to second
on which Howard scored, and a slow
ness in the transmission of the sphere
saved Lang at second.
Every department of the national
game was freely exhibited. There
were plenty of runs plenty of hits
plenty of errors, bad throws, wild
pitches, fast work, slow work and all
that goes to make the game what it
is-good when it is good, but when it's
bad, it's horrid.
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