The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-28
ROSTER OF SOUTH ATLANTIC
TEAMS ARE NOW COMPLETE

suggestive that the name of Dreamers
should have been decided on for his
punch of longshoremen, who will req
lster from the Sleeping City, but the
committee could find no other name so
appropriate. King Kelly has con-
senteo that the organization which will
represent the Florida metropoIis he
known as the Jays. Ded LaRocoue
ana his pets will answer to the name
Oh Pathhnders from the Forest City.
When Con Strouthers and Ed Ashen-
pack We're in Savannah last Strouthers
said he was going to dig a. grave on
memorial Day and put Ashenback and
his whole crowd in it and fire a salute
so that the Augusta aggregation will
wear the doleful sobriquet of Grave
Dlggers. Jack Grim and his bunch
are unfortunate in living in a. disnen-
sary town, but they will soon know Of
the Blind Tigers, which appellation
will follow them through the season.
Billy Smith and his Central City dar-
hngs will be known as the Highland
ers.
Savannah Team Looks Good.
In a letter President Boyer. the
owner of the Savannah club, saws the
men which have been signed make Sa-
vannah's chances look good to him.
OF course we have much untried ma
terial," Mr.. Boyer writes, but some
one has got to develop players, and
as we are just starting out, and will
have to go a little slow at first, we
can afford to give all aspiring young
sters chance to see if there is any
thing in them worth developing.
The boys will report in Savannah
nearly a month prior to the opening
of the league season, and this will
give ample time in which to weed out
all of the weaker ones, and if neces-
sary new men throughout the lineup
can be signed, and all of those on the
lists now turned loose if they cannot
make good.
Il don't anticipate, however, that the
task of picking out a good team from
the men that we have signed will be
hard one, and 1 have on file now
the record of every man that has sign
ed, and all of them have done most
creditable work, some of them in the
very fastest of company"
What the Team Looks Like.
Dad has only signed four pitchers and
Says he does not think there is any
necessity for going any farther in this
direction, having been unusually fortu
nate in getting star slabmen with the
greatest abundance of speed, good ideas
VI CildIlSe VI pace, pleIlly Ol curves, anu
all that goes to make a twirler a sue
cess.
Dad is enthusiastic over young Con-
rad WEIGH, boy from the Iron City.
He has had trials in good fast company
and has always made good. His show
ing last season was so satisfactory that
Charlie Frank made a determined eff
fort to sign him for the Pelicans, but
WEIGH preferred to make his debut in
the professional ranks with Dad La
ROGUE, whom he has known for years.
Jack WEIGH is the only southpaw
twirler out of the quartette. He has
had two seasons in fast company and
pitched no hit game during last sea-
son against a strong team from Hart
ford.
Gut Jutzer, from st. Louis, is expect
ed to do great things in the box. He is
a powerful fellow and is noted for his
tremendous speed, and was considered
the best man in the st. Louis City
League last year. He has two seasons
in the professional ranks. The fourth
man on the pitching staff is Georgia
boy who has been playing ball for the
past ten years, Ross Blanton. He has
had several offers to go into the South
ern League, but like most young pitch
ers, he prefers to start out in slower
company where it will be easier for
him to make good at the start.
Three cracking good backstops have
been signed-Lucien Webster, from the
state of good. whisky, pretty women
and fast horses; Young Hopkins, a spe-
cially recommended receiver who is