The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-11
South Atlantic Standing.
WHERE THEY PLAY TO-DAY.
savannah in Jacksonville. Possibly
two Games.
Columbia Mt Charleston.
Macon at Augusta.

period of calm and holy quiet will
follow the last stirring afternoon the
Pathfnders spent at home for several
DAYS to come. Capt. Mullaney gather
ed up the shattered fragments this
morning and started south. He ex-
pects to infuse some new stock on the
trip.
One story has it that Mullaney will
exhume Charles Eggert, the ex-prem-
Ter second baseman of the Path
finder line up, and put him at third.
Charley's arm turned to pig iron at
the beginning of the season.
Still, if what they say of his arm is
true, Eggert is the man for Mullaney.
What those Pathfinders require is a
phenom at third, who cannot make
three base wild throws past first. Put
Eggert on third and let him roll the
ball across. Then. should it deviate
from the true course, the pitcher can
step in and correct the ball or stop
it entirely, and save the extra bases.
Managers are seldom accorded prop
er credit for the efforts they make to
strengthen the team. Some one in
variably lobs up with knock when d
boost is the thing to help the game
along But there is one instance where
a move is made in the right direction,
and any man who tries to block it
has not the welfare of the team at
heart.
A Chance for Eggert.
If those Pathfinders are determined
to delve among the ruins of Pompeii
in search of dead ones, why not give
Eggert a chance? That venerable ac-
tor never failed to deliver the goods
on any part of the diamond stage, and
Charley can bat with one hand as good
as the best of them, and better than
some who use two in swinging the
bludgeon.
There are reasons why Eggert should
come in out of the West. He has been
playing phenomenal ball since he left
Savannah and seems to have imbibed
of the elixir of life.
All of the late arrivals on the team
have been disappointments. Tom Con-
nOrs recommended Lillig as an infield-
er of high class. and he presumably
came to Savannah to join the team.
1t was not Lillig, however, who put
in an appearance, an enterprising base
ball ring artist in Chicago substituting
the first wharf rat he could get his
hands on, taking all the advance
money and half of the first two weeks
pay.
But the two weeks pay was not
forthcoming. Daniels, the ringer, was
cut loose with very little soft stuff
in his pockets. Then came Paddy
OBrien. He was a second edition of
Myers, who imposed on the team ear
ller in the season. He even failed in
meeting the requirements for good
voice on the coaching line. Now Mr..
Rhodes is on the list of advertised
letters. The team would not be weak
ened by giving Mstuh Mackay
chance at Rhodes present job.
J. Kennedy Glad to Get Back.
If ]. Kennedy's intentions go for
anything, he will shortly be playing
the star game of the league. He almost
shed tears of joy when he was sum-
moned back to the fold and told to don
his uniform and sin no more.
Jim has cut out all of those airy
trlfling mannerisms that have caused
him to be roundly censured, and has
entered into the game heart and soul.
As an inielder he is the most finished
In the league when steadied down, and
make his mark
Hard Trip on the Road.
The team has one of the hardest trips
of the season before it on the road.
This morning all packed up and moved
down to Jaytown. The Jays have al
ways been our Jonahs, and If we take
enc out of the three, and possibly there
Will be four, we will be satisfied.
After leaving Jacksonville the trail
Will he taken UP and on to Macon.
Billy Smith has not yet recovered from
that severe drubbing given his lot down
here, and he will do everything possible
to make it three straights from Savan-
nah.
From Macon the team stops over
three days in Augusta before coming
nome with Macon on July n, % and %.
Jacksonville's loss to Macon yester-
DAY ties them with Savannah for sec
ond place, and the battle this week will
ne to determine who is entitled to the
place.