The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-28
TEAMS WILL HAVE TO BE BUILDED
FOR NEXT YEARS RACE.
SOME WILL SUFFER BY
HAVING PLAYERS DRAFTED.
SAVANNAH WILL LOSE SAVIDGE
AND WEIGH FROM PITCHERS.

Macon VIII Be Badly Crippled, and
Columbia VIII Probably Have
Four New Faces-JacksOnville
VIII Suffer Least From Draft Evil.
Managers viii Devote Their Time
During the Winter Months to
Hunting out Young Players for
the Opening in April.
1t is a little previous TO anticipate
baseball teams in the race for the
South Atlantic rag next season, but
the reserve lists handed in at the last
meeting of the league directors leaves
something for the club managers to
do during the winter months getting
material to build on the nucleus which
they have reserved.
That the South Atlantic League fur
nished good baseball during the season
just passed no one will gainsay. ASK
the fellow who has just returned from
his summer vacation, who saw some
of the big league teams play, what was
the difference in the ball he saw then
and that which he saw at home Nine
out of ten will say that the ball here
was apparently just as good. And it
was just as good to look at
It's the inside work which makes a
champion ball team, and this is not
part of the play that is in view of
the spectator. The intricate code of
signals, the accurate judge of dis
tances in making snap throws to bases,
the quick judgment of the proper place
to put the ball with men on bases to
catch the furtherest advanced man,
and half hundred other details that.
in the main, do not appear to the
average baseball fan, but which in the
end, go to make up the final results.
Why the Difference Is.
Men in the minor league hit lust
as hard, run just as fast, throw lust
as straight and talk to the umpire Just
about as vociferously as the players
in the big leagues do, but they lack
that degree of perfection in every de-
partment which can only be acquired
by practice. They hit as hard, but
not at the right time and place. They
run as fast, but with less judgment
They throw as straight, but often with
less accuracy and more often with less
judgment.
In nearly every club in the South At
lantic enough players have been re-
served to form a nucleus around which
10 gather a team, and at the same
time reap the benefits of having had
most of the men playing together for
a season.
Macon will have several places to
I'LL, which will no doubt be very diff
cult. Bayne has already been drafted
and reserved by Atlanta. Blake is not
under reserve, and is reported to be
signed for next year with Columbus,
o. George Stinson will probably be
drafted by the Montgomery team, and
Sentell is likely to go. Bayne's place
cannot be filled without putting out
large sum of money. Blake's place
will also be difficult task to fill. but
the team will not suffer so much by
the loss of Stinson, beyond his hitting,
which is erratic.
who Columbia VIII Lose.
Columbia loses the mainstay of the
team in Denny Shea, who has ex-
pressed his intention of spending the
next season on the Pacific coast. Bues-
see, who developed into one of the
most timely hitting outfelders in the
league, has also decided to give up
professional baseball. Neither Rey-
nolds, Heisman nor George Engel
have been reserved.
Ed Ashenback has reserved several
players who did not report to him at
all during the last season. They are
the Emig brothers and Harry Triton
He will lose Childs and possibly Sid
Smith and Sam LaRocque. Charleston
will have to build largely for an out
field, having no available material in