The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-21
TELEGRAM MAKING ANNOUNCE
NIENT DID NOT MENTION NAME.
WILL BE HERE SOME
TIME NEXT WEEK.
FIRST work WILL DE TO PUT
THE BALL PARK IN REPAIR.

No Mention Yet Made of Players
siERed-MacOn Has Full List, and
Jacksonville Has Only Three
Places TO FiII-Ashenback and
strOthers Gone North to Import
PInycrs-President Boyer Says He
Is Enthusiastic over the Outlook
for a Great Season of BAH and a
Revival of the Game in This Sec
ton.
A telegram received from Mr.. Charles
w. Boyer, owner of the Savannah
franchise in the South Atlantic
League, states that he has signed a
manager and that he will be in Sa-
vannah the early part of next week.
Mr.. Boyer failed to mentioned the
name of the man he has engaged to
look after the Savannah team while he
is engaged with league matters, but
his thorough knowledge of all ball
players and men capable of managing
a team insures that the man he has
signed will be one of the best in the
league
In a letter written several days ago
Mr.. Boyer stated that while he would
look after all matters governing the
Savannah team, he would leave the
management of the team to whoever
he signed for that position. Il feel"
wrote Mr.. Boyer, that a certain
amount of my time will be demanded
by the league, and as every club is
affected by the success or non-success
of the league, ] am going to do all
that 1 can to make it go through. OF
course, it is to my interest to keep
things moving, and 1 must say that
have grown enthusiastic over the pros
poets"
Managers All Busy.
With the signing of the manager for
Savannah every city is now equipped
for hustling for good players. 1t has
already been demonstrated by the
class of men that have been signed by
other cities that the article of ball
that will be furnished to the fans down
this way when the stalks begin to
shoot will be the very best, and be-
fore the end of the season is over many
players win have made a reputation
that will attract the boil weevils of
the Southern League and they will
hold out inducements in the way of
purchase money that will be lucky
drop ms for the smaller league.
All the managers are now on the
hustle. Macon has signed her full quota
of men, and Jacksonville has about
filled up. Ed Ashenback is giving
out little information, but when he
left for Cincinnati he said, with a
wink, that he was going to bring some
surprises back for Con Strothers to
look over. But Con is busy himself
He has gone up to Jersey, where they
grow all of the fast bali players, and
he will give Augusta an article of ball
that she has not seen since the days
of the old Southern League when the
great stars of the country were play
ing in the South.
Put Grounds I'm Shape.
The first duty that will devolve on
the Savannah manager will be to put
the park in shape and make plans for
new grand stand and bleachers.
This work will be commenced some
time next month. and no pains or ex-
pense will be spared to make the park
as comfortable as any in the South.
The diamond will be regarded, and
the infield filled in so that there will
be some drainage to it. At present a
regular duck pond forms there after
every rain. and IT is two or three days
before the water finally disappears.
The fences will also be repaired, and
the park put in thorough repair.