The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-19
REGULARS. AND YANNIGANS WILL
LINE UP FOR FIRST TINE TODAY
YANNIGANS EXPECT
TO WIN THE SERIES.
ARTHUR sAVIDGE WILL CAPTAIN
THE YANNIGANS AND PLAY FIRST.

Small Admission Fee VIII BE
Charged. and a Good Article OF
Rail Ia Assured Those who At
tend-New Players Arrived Yes
terday and Made Good in Their
First Practice-Webster showing
Up Great Behind the Bnt-WOrk ON
the Grounds Is Rapidly Nearing
0ompIetion, and show Wonderful
Improvement.
Baseball will be furnished 10 lovers
of the game for the rest Of the week
at Bolton Street Park every afternoon
at 4:3O o'clock, and With the teams
evenly picked the indications are that
a good article of the national game
will be enjoyed by fans at a very
small cost.
Owing TO a difference Of opinion as
to the division of the receipts of the
games. owner Boyer was unable TO
make satisfactory arrangements for
exhibition games for this week, and
yielding to requests he decided to line
up two teams against each other for
the rest of the week and charge an ad-
mission fee of Is cents, with no charge
TO the grand stand.
The first game will be called this
afternoon at 4;SO with Dad himself
leading the Regulars, and Arthur
Savidge directing the attack of the
Yannigans. These games will be holly
contested, as every man realizes that
his chances of staying on the team are
now being weighed In the balance.
This series of games will go far to-
wards determining LaRocque on the
men who will compose the regular Ane
UP.
When the announcement was made
at the Pathfinder headquarters last
night, and the line up of the two
teams was announced small Wagers
were posted on each side, and nothing
else was talked of but this game.
The line up of the Regulars in these
games does not signify that this is
what it will be when the season opens,
but they have been selected with
view of making the games as even as
possible. Pittsburg Johnny Welsh
will be in the box for the Regulars
this afternoon for the first time since
his return from Jacksonville, where he
pitched in excellent form. Webster VIII
do the backstop work, with Dad him.
self on first, Bratton on second, Eggert
at short, Oyler at third, Burt in left,
Ray in center and Con WEIGH in right.
Perhaps this line up will show more
strength in the hitting column, butthe
Yannigans say that they will do their
share of the smuggling.
Secrist Will be on the firing line for
the Yannigans with kinsky behind the
wicker. Savidge win cover the first
bag Gallagher at second, Jutzi at
short, Myers at third, Ittig in left,
Coughlin in center and Hopkins in
right.
Grounds in Great shape.
The improvements at the park are
rapidly nearing completion, and the
field is now in great shape for play.
The ploughed surface around first base
has been scooped off, and will be
sprinkled and rolled before the game
to-day Nearly all of the fencing has
been completed, and the painters will
get to work to-day on the row or
boxes, and the grand stand.
The diamond was fast as lightning
yesterday. and the practice put up by
the boys was of a highly satisfactory
order. Jutzi is being tried out at short,
and his work in knocking them down
and firing them LaRocqueward is fast.
Jutzi's great throwing arm, and his
strength at the bat makes him a
strong possibility for the short field
position in the event he does not make
good on the pitching staff, which is
not altogether unlikely.
webster Making Good.
Webster is making fast progress in
satisfac story backst0p work, and has
acquired the knack of swapping them
down to the keystone bag without
making any unnecessary motion. Web
ster's chief trouble at first was in get
ting the ball away from him. He
has mastered this, and has learned to
snap cleverly.
Dan Burt is working some of his
surplus off now, and will soon have
his throwing arm in shape to choke
off many a run at the plate from
deep left. Ray has already put the
finishing temper on his wing, and
made several hard drives from center
into home yesterday.
All of the youngsters were given an
hours work at the bat yesterday. and
Dad looks for a big increase in the
hitting averages of the men from now
on. No one in the business has a
better eye than Dad is showing now,
and it is freely predicted that he will
pass the 400 mark this season. With
such a terrific hitter heading the boys
during the long summer afternoons it
it safe to say that Savannah will at
least be one, two, three.
Fridays game will be free for la
dies and children, and one of the best
games of the series is promised. Ittig
and Savidge will probably oppose each
other in the box, and some lively work