The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-17
GIANTS NOW IN
THEIR NEW CAMP
DIVIDE TIME WITH HOBSoN
HERO OF THE SIERRIMAC is ALSO
TRAINING AT SLAGTOWN.

kissing Stories Told About Him.
With the MISUNDERSTANDING Cos
sip Anent the Players.
Writing from Birmingham, Allan
Sangree has the following to say of
the arrival of the Giants at Stag
town:
The Giants and Capt. Richmond P.
Hobson of Merrimac fame are here.
1t is a toss-up for the center of the
stage Hobson has lost his mustache
and the Giants have lost so cents
worth of coal dust per capita acquired
from fifteen-hour trip over the Geor-
gia country. 1t was a low down trick
of Hobson to show up here and play
against the Giants. Up to o'clock
last night Birmingham was exclusive
ly interested in Frank Bowerman's
hands and Christie Mathewson's
kaleidoscope socks.
Suddenly the crowd began to sway,
women screamed and strong men, mar
ried men, clenched their fists. Cries
of Hobson, Hobson, ripped the
zephyrs wide open. And rough mascu-
line hands were clapped over many
half-puckered rosy lips.
:" Red Ames, who has shoulders like
Jeffries and legs like Munroe, tried to
brace himself, but was caught in the
swirl and rough-housed. Picking him
self up, covered with coal dust, he de-
manded: 'Hobson; what league does
ne belong toy and Dummy Taylor
tried to explain, but he has a cut fin
ger and does not spell accurately.
Dan McGann, being apprised, grab
bed Billy Gilbert and hustled him out
of the way. Who knows, little one,
he said, but that fellow might take
you for a bonny colleen, you're lookin'
so handsome these days, and L prom
lsed your folks to take care of you.'
Gilbert tried to get a little talk
with the captain, but he had to cat oh
train for Greensboro, his native
home, where he is now conducting a
highly exciting and divertfng campaign
to be elected congressman from the
Twenty-sixth district. His opponent is
veteran politician named Mr. Bank
head, and his trump card is to guy
Hobson ON his kissing reputation The
captain did stop to ask the writer that
he contradict all reports anent same.
=" The whole thing was a fabrica-
cation, he said, i never kissed one of
them.
Down here they believe this denial.
and say that Hobson will win without
whip or spur
While we are preparing this a mes
sage arrived via a trained boil Weeyil
to say that Lea Lynch and Southpaw
Willse have spent the night in Jail.
and want MOCHA 4 n 70
A boil weevil is an insect that eats UP
the cotton crop. Haven't heard yet
what he drinks. Pc
Victims of the recent cotton corner
have been cultivating the animal to
tighten Sully and Brown and tear
them to pieces. The boil weevil is fast
and intelligent.
Message says that the two Giants
visited the Jail yesterday and were so
shocked at seeing twenty negroes in
one cell that they protested and speed
lily found themselves in the laws
clutches. A deputy sheriff regaled
them all night by showing them twelve
condemned murderers, the most, he as
sured them, contained in any Jail here
abouts.
They hang people in Birmingham for
robbing colored folks, at any rate,
which is some comfort to McGraw, as
the lSlll-llllSSEeu SefllIy III SdNdIlIldn
annexed half a dozen bats and so
many balls that Fred Knowles may
as well order some more.
For training purposes this town
promises to be the real thing. In the
first place there is a handsome ath-
letic club house, provided with marble
plunge, showers, and slabs for rubbing.
The grounds are 100 per cent. better
than at Savannah, being used by the
league team here and thus kept in con-
dition. AS for the other attractions,
less said the better.
Slagtown they call the place, and
Slagtown it is, furnaces blazing on ev-
cry side, pail of smoke overhead, the
streets lined with trolley cars. 1t is a
combination of Pittsburg and Brook
Ign.
The team is getting together in fine
shape. There is perfect harmony, and
the new men call the old ones by their
familiar names. The game in Savan-
nah last Saturday was not much of a
criterion, but it proved what Warner
says of Joe" McGinnity, that he will
astonish fandom this season. Joe"
pitched the first four innings, and his
control was something marvellous,
while his speed seemed greatly in
creased. He is able to cut any corner
of the plate with remarkable precision,
ana reels so STRONG InaI ne is most
'fraid of his SELF" as the ballad says.
Mccormick swung on the dummy for
three Dagger, and it is a sensation to
see him lay the willow over that plate.
Sam Mertes had a triple, double, and
single. He has gained in stick work
and lost nothing of his eye for sky
rockets. McGraw will pay special at
tention now to hitting and base run
ming, and for this purpose has ar
ranged games here on Wednesday and
Saturday, with the local league team,
incidentally picking up some coin, as it
is a great baseball town.