The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-05
Jacksonville 1. Macon q.
Charleston savannah, rain.
Columbia 1, Augusta o.
WHERE THEY PLAY TO-DAY.
Savannah at Charleston.
Jacksonville Mt Macon.
Augusta at Columbia.


shorne lamb, the gentle summer rain
brings sunshine into the rapidly dark
ening lives of the Pathfinders. Bev
cause of showers they play double
headers with the Gulls to-day and to-
morrow. 1t is a funny habit of the
Pathhnders to lose single games and
break even on the doubles.
Just how we will fare in the first
bargain counter engagement to-day
looks easy to surmise now. We have
one good sound pitcher to poise on
the slab, and with three others suf-
fering from various troubles. Gen.
Grant is suffering with bone spav-
in in his left foot from the sharp con-
cussions with Umpire IGrim's Stats
before an amused audience at Tiger
town. Moral: don't try to jolly the
umpire too hard.
The only exercise Staley has been
permitted to engage in recently was
TO close the forehnger. and thumb of
his right hand over a pay check, and
a sudden break in this monotony
would make him unfit for a whole
section. The angling twirer has been
so long away from good deep water
fishing that his barber is down and
Old Rip will be walked up to take the
game that we need to balance the
double event.
And too we will go up against a
strange combination. Herr, the Ar
mour speciman and Dummy Rosson.
representing before" to Eds after"
viii pitch the ball to our batters
Neither of these athletes were includ-
ed in the nerve wracking jibes con-
tanned in the lines of an Owed to
Segars' from the South Atlantic poet
laureate now rusticating at Macon.
The funny part is how a man with
out voice can find a place on the
Charleston team.
TRULY and Roth May Go.
Since the deal whereby the Pathfind-
ers annexed Roth. TRULY and Miller
the daily press of Augusta has teemed
With concentrations of President
Boyer for taking these players. Not
Sc many regrets were expressed for
Miller and TRULY, but Roth was the
especial bunch of bones of contention.
Out OF the trio there is only one who
is demonstrating that he is fast
enough for the company that he is
He has made two-thirds of the entire
number of hits chalked up by the Path
finders since they have peen on the
road. No continuation of the story of
the return of Roth and TRULY to Au-
gusta has yet been received, but there
is some foundation to it in the fact
that Owner Boyer went to Atlanta
Tuesday night on a hunting expedi-
ton, holding a secret conference with
Charley Fra N Of he
club and Abner Powell or the Atlanta
club, both of whom are warm personal
friends of his. If he has promised to
return TRULY and Roth to Augusta il
means that he has landed the men
that have been promised him for some
time by Powell and Frank The in
jury to Heiny Krug, however. may
IN measure upset these plans, as
Mckay, who was one Of the men to
come to Savannah win probably go to
third for the rest of the season.
Mr.. Boyer could not be reached in
Augusta last night, and it is pre-
sumed that he went to Columbia with
the Augusta team. At all events. il
is safe to predict that in the event
TRULY and Roth are allowed to go they
will in no wise weaken the Savannah
team, but more strength will be added.
Talk OF Eight Club League.
During his visit to Atlanta Presidelrt
Boyer was quoted as favorinE an
eight-club league, with Tampa and
Columbus as prospective additions 20
the circuit. This is evidently an error,
as Tampa has long since been dis
carded as a possibility Of league mem
bership. Dad Grovesm who for years
has been the high muck-a-muck in
baseball affairs in Tampa, was in Sa-
Nannah a few days ago. and he said
the plan TO take Tampa into the league
was foolish one, and no sane man
would put his money into the scheme.
President Boyer has repeatedly ex-
pressed himself as against such an I'M
dertaking. both as president of the
league and as a holder OF the fran
chises. The jump from the other cities
in the circuit to Tampa are entirely too
long, and the only paying attendance
would be on Sundays.
Columbus has so far displayed little
desire TO get into the circuit. When
the league was being formed a deter
mined effort was made to get Column
bus in. but the plans fell through at
the last moment. Charlotte is another
prospective city. but Manager Ashen-
back of the Charleston team, who also
managed the Charlotte team several
years ago. said that Charlotte would
not support team fast enough for
this league. II is safe TO predict that
for another year. at least, the South
Atlantic will be composed OF the same
cities as are at present incorporated.
unless Atlanta and Birmingham decide
to bolt the Southern
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