The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-30
BROKE EVEN In DOUBLE HEADER;
STILL TIED FOR FIRST PLACE
Y. NJ c. A. and c. L. A. Ball Teams in Most Thrill
ing Games Seen Here in Years.
Over Two Thousand Specta-
tors Watched the Two
Teams Play While Suns
Rays Beat Down
MerCileSSlV.
FIRST GAME
Y.M.C,A. IS
ella. .........3
MerciIeSSIy.

Two thousand whoopful fan souls
crowded grand stand and side lines at
the ball park yesterday afternoon
while Old Sol sizzled and scorched
everything perishable in his reach as
the c. L. A. and Y. NJ. c. A. teams,
With the hope Of their lives, strug-
gled for victory in the double event.
Despite the terrific rapid ere OF heat
waves that Old Sol sent sizzling over
the whitening field the enthusiasts
stood on the side lines in unbroken
array, cheering their favorite squad,
and undulating backward and forward
as the perspiring bluecoat charged up
and down the line.
1t was the most thrilling afternoon
spent by lovers of the national game
in many moons, from the first inning
of the first game when the Yellow
Legs charged the stronghold Of the liz
brarians and sent three stalwarts
through the lines up to zenith of the
intense interest when in the eighth
inning, with the score to in their
favor, the yellow Legs got in the
chariot and took a ride on the clouds,
and when they descended found that
their opponents had stacked up three
runs to the last inning in the last
game.
Pandemonium reigned during the
Groves was doing some tall hustling
on the lines. He scored and
three men occupied the bases.
Forehand hit to third and a
wild throw to first let one of the three
in. Harms sent the ball to home, but
it was blocked by the batter, and be-
fore it was put in play again by being
thrown to Harmon in the box another
scored. Wild-eyed enthusiasts swept
out on the field and for few moments
the players could hardly be seen for
the spectators. These were the only
runs that the Librarians brought IN.
The game was not won by the
cavorting lesser stars, but in the box
stood 1.-The man who did"
There were no batting rallies for
Rossiter of the Librarians to get into,
but 1t was in the garden that he loom
ed I'D larger than the statue of liber-
ty with a string of wienerwurst In
stead of a torch in her hand. One Y.
M. c. A. run was tagged to ahoist
that Starke gave the sphere over into
left field. He was the first man up,
and whacked the ball fairly. There was
a crack like that of an exploding shell
as the leather sailed towards the left
fence. In their minds the fans saw
another homer to the credit of the
Yellow Legs, and they were shouting
like Turks of Roumelia when RossiteT
lunged backward into the air. He
fell like a sack of wheat out of the
open tail gate of a farmers wagon. He
rolled over just once and, holding up
the ball as he lay among the crickets,
scrambled to his feet. Along in the
shank of the afternoon Rossiter came
from nowhere like the Reliance pass
ing Shamrock III and skinned Starke
out If another jab that resembled a
circuit chaser.
For the Yellow Legs Harmon was
the whole thing. For seven innings
he held the Librarians down without
single hit. Up to that time not a
man passed the first sack. Only three
hits were secured during the entire
game, which was also the record for
the second game. With proper sup
port Harmon should have won both.
AS 1t was the G.. L. A. played all
around the Yellow Legs in fielding In
the last game, and McGraw was much
more effective than in the first, though
he was hit free in both events.
Groves cut Off many stabs to right
field that with an ordinary fielder
would have been marked up against
McGraw in the hit column.