The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-10
SAY SAVANNAH Is "sIZEERED" OF
THE SLUGGERS.
NO UNEASINESS is
FELT IN SAVANNAH.
CAPTAIN COPE BELIEVES TEAM
WILL BE STRONGER THIS YEAR.

| There Is Little TO Indicate That the
Charleston Team Is Any Stronger
Against Savannah Last Year-COm-
parisOn May BE Drawn Next
Wednesday When Savannah WIZ
Play the Soldiers "A Clean Game.
Soldiers Play Jacksonville Sun
day.
Since the result of the football game
played in Charleston last Saturday be-
tween the Charleston and Fort Screven
teams has been made known to the
presiding genius at the desk of foot
ball lore on the News and Courier,
much of his effort has been directed to
telling just how 'skeered' Savannah
was for the New Years game.
No member of the Savannah team
doubts that the task on New Years
will be the hardest that Charleston has
ever set for Savannah. But just how
much does that mean?
According to Capt. Sibert of the Fort
Screven team, only three men on the
Charleston team carried the ball at
all. They were Harvey, Sullivan and
Sid. Smith. Gunter, perhaps would
nave been entrusted with it had he
been in the game.
With four men carrying the ball Sa-
vannah can defeat any team in the
South This is not such broad claim
when it is analysed. With two tackles
and the fullback carrying the ball,
with practically little work for the
backs, it is easy TO see that against a
charging line the tackles will not last
long.
Thinks Savannah Is Worried.
Following is a bit of encouragement
for the Charleston team taken from the
News and Courier:
Savannah is manifestly uneasy over
the football situation in that city. For
several weeks the public press has
spoken OF the Charleston team in a
humorous vein; highly colored pictures
of the pow-wows of the Indians which
Charleston did not employ, appeared;
treating the matter nonchaIantly, with
a light and occasionally sarcastic
touch, the football reporters have writ
ten exceedingly entertaining stories,
but a change has come over the spirit
of their dreams.
The spirit of optimism which per-
vaded the atmosphere in the town of
Savannah has gone glimmering, and
the game to be played in Savannah on
New Years day is not that sure
thing that 1t was thought to be. The
situation is no longer viewed with calm
assurance of ultimate victory and
from looking on the contest with
equanimity, they view 1t with positive
and unmistakable alarm. And the pub
lie press but mirrors the sentiments
and characteristics which prevail in the
community in which it is established.
So 1t can be said without fear of sue
cessful contradiction that we've got
'em worried"
1t seems that Savannah has the ma
terial, that the experience and general
ship are there but somehow the moral
support of the general public Is want
ing. If this be the case, Savannah Is
handicapped just as Charleston has
been in the past. For some reason the
Charleston. public does not seem to
take as much interest in football as
was manifested in baseball.
Why this u.s., whether the average
citizen does not fully understand the
game. whether 1t does not appreciate
the moves of the two opposing elevens,
whether it objects to the seeming
brutality of the game, one cannot say,
but 1t Is a notorious fact that the
football team Is not so we'll supported
bv the public as was the baseball team.
Is Charleston strongerf
since the news of the strength of
the Charleston team has been an
nounced here and the personnel OF the
team made public, many have COM
pared IL with the team which played
against Savannah on last New Years.
1t does not appear so much stronger.
Harvey is no better than Nichols; Sui
livan is the same, and there is no
Saddier, nor Forsyth on the team.
Savannah will be 20 per cent. strong
err than it was on last New Years.
That is the opinion of Capt. Cope.
Capt. Harry Blum says he believes the
Savannah team this year will be the
strongest Savannah has ever put out.
The truth of this is evident in the
fact that several members of last
years team are In danger Of being
beaten out of their places by new
men.
johnson, who may finally be shifted
to fullback. will lost nothing in COM
parison to Harvey. At guard. Hig-
hams is new man who has shown up
WONDERFULLY Wen, even tnOugn ne mas
had limited opportunity to get into
shape. He held this position two years
on the Lafayette team. In all proba-
bility the same ends will be used this
year. Smith and Landsberg have lost
none Of their speed or hard tackling
abilities.
Next wednesday the relative
strength of the teams will be known.
Savannah will not make as large a
score as did Charleston, because sa-
vannah will not resort TO the smuggling
and holding tactics which is alleged 10
have characterized the play OF the
Charlestonians against the soldiers.
Neither will the team be IN as good
physical condition as was the Charles
ton team. and Will lack the general
ship OF Capt Cope at quarter. IL win
be gratifying II the soldiers are de-
feated by a score OF 30 TO o.
The soldiers will also play at Jack
sonville Sunday, which will AFFORD an
opportunity Of comparing the team
there with Savannah.
Miss Isabel Hagner. private sec
Rotary 20 Mrs. Roosevelt, has n FOR.
tune ample for all the frivolities M
Newport and Tuxedo, or for divl.iot, -