The Savannah morning news., 1904-06-08
WHERE THEY PLAY TO-DAY.
Augusta at savannah 4i45 p. m.
Charleston at Columbia.
Jacksonville at Macon
south Atlantic Standing.
~. my. MAD a scratch!

My, my, what a scratch!
Two corpulent tallies in the very first
round.
After that Tourists were strangers UP
MulTs way. Not one got to the sack
after Mr. Savidge settled into the
groove of his phenomenal slant service.
Did ever a pitcher suffer such luck
Two measly singles without costly
error back of him-and yet a loser
Twice as many singles were ours. A
third more errors were theirs. We gave
one free pass They gave three.
But Mr.. Strouthers always has this
horseshoe with him. Remember, dear
friend, the last he played here. George
Washington was the hero who suffered.
Two hits from him, and neither in that
fatal inning in which the luck lohsters
scored five tallies. just topping off our
hard earned collection of four grand
circuits
record of all the games yet pitched
by SaVidge will show that there has
been a fatal lack of stick work to as
sist him to victory. The baseball hoo
doc has logged his very move. But
all of this can not take away what is
his by right. He is the best pitcher in
the South Atlantic League to-day. I'M
qualifiedly.
The DOIefuI Beginning.
1t was a sad beginning with such
bright prospects. We had the bright
sunshine as we have often had. But
there was something lacking Shorty
was i'll, and hardly able to take his
stand at the first turn. We felt his
weakness all through the game.
Engel leads the list for the Tourists
by right He was nervous when he
walked up to the plate. Two spitters
went whizzing across the plate before
he had fairly settled into his position.
Savidge decided to waste a high one,
hoping to get a bid at il and a strike
out, the very first man up Engel
closed his eyes and swung, connecting
just in time to push the globe out to-
wards Dan Burt for a single.
Curtis took no chances at any of
them, and while he was being served
with four wide ones Engel stole second.
Woody Thornton sacrificed both men
forward and the second and last hit of
the game was made by TRULY, Engel
and Curtis kicking the glad gum. Roth
flew out to centerfield and J. Kennedy
served Bussy's hot grounder to Null in
nice shape. After that the Tourists
only sent twenty -four men to the bat
in the remaining eight innings.
Hard Luck Was With Us.
Hempleman was thrown out from
third, and then things took turn that
made. all hopeful. oyler hit hard to
Spratt, who fumbled and the Kid wal
safe. Burt hit hard across second bag,
and with one man out and the good
boys with the mace to follow, 1t looked
like a cinch that We would tie matters
up
Null faced the domestic rubber, and
we all settled to see him swat it. Did
you ever read Casey at the BATE
Remember how you were worked up &c
the point where you thought the next
line would bring the intelligence that
Casey hat swatted clean over the saw.
mill nearby? That's the way we felt
every time Mr.. Durham united himself
in a knot and turned the sphere loose.
Two of those percentage robbing fou
strikes operated against us, and Their
Null felt the real effects of physic he
has been taking for the ague and
swung wide. Oh, grief What a dis
appointment, with two anxious ones
waiting for the sound of the joyful
swat
Bun there was Stlii nope leIJ IN the
memory of Rays two home run stunts
already Nailed this season. He did his
best, and sent one out in right field
territory which Mr.. Lucas handled
with credit to his averages.
Another start In second.
After we had laid them away in one,
two, three order in the second we got
another lead for the goal. r. Kenne-
dy walked. Holmes crashed one down
to Engel. who promptly tossed it over
10 Pa TRULY, who delayed il just Ions
enough to kill Kennedy, and then on
TO the first to catch Holmes in his fly
ing leap for safety, pretty double
that took the starch out of us. j
Kennedy hit to second and died at
first.
Hope rose again in the seventh. Null
cracked one hard on the snoot. driving
it jam against Durham's leg, stunning
that individual and Null was safe or
first before Spratt could gather il up
Ray few out to center field r. Ken
nedy singled over second base and
Null went to third. scoring on Holmes
hard drive TO second.
In the two succeeding innings we
had men on bases and it looked bad foi
the visitors, but their luck never de-
serted them. In the eighth, with one
man out, Hempleman walked Oyler
hit hard to Spratt. who came near
spiking himself in the hand trying tc
field the ball He fumbled 1t. then
kicked il while trying to pick 1t up. The
ball rolled over to TRULY at second just
in time to cut Hempleman off. Spratt
was given an assist on what should
have been an error. Burt flew out to
center retiring the side. Hempleman
probably could have gone to third on
the throw in and the next time Null
was up he got hit which would have
tied the score. But luck was against
us.
The score follows: