The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-20
WILL TRY BUsHWHACKING TAG
TICS THIS SEASON.
SENT OUT SCOUTS FOR
THE Willy RED MAN.
SAVANNAH ATHLETES MAY HAVE
To FACE ToMAHAWKs.

Suggestion to Match a Bunch of
Savannah LOnGshOremen Against
Chief Big Pop Eye and His Broth
ers-AthIetfc DereIicts Who viii
Strand on the Dream City shoals
Are Out Looking for WOrk-Sa-
Vannah Players Would Balk al
Playing Red Men.
Jay banner in many encounters during
the past ball playing exhibitions, VIII
live in posterity for the one noble deed
he signed and executed while carry
ing the rule book for the Florida tribe.
His was the noble vocation of uplift-
ing Cuba. He placed two noble sons
of the sunny isle on easy riding Pull
mans with full dinner pals. He graft
fed their thirst for coin with which
to WOO the timid goddess over the crap
table, and kept them from the humili-
alton of being heralded to the wonder
ing world as Signor Costello Slugbug
Derello, copied from the drunk and
disorderly docket.
In Havana and the provinces, it is
said. paens of praise went aloft with
the shouts of come seven, come elev-
en-" for the noble deeds of this "Ameri-
canos." The Jaytown baseball impress
sario-that was-by his intended noble
deeds, raised the question of whether
or not his action was a boon to the de-
pendent race, or was he putting the
half-tinted crap shooters on the blink.
Anyway, Kel added two men to the
Jay outfit which were more or less
in the way the rest of the playing
season.
Now comes some noble William Penn
of the Carolines. who seek to treat,
trade and barter with 10, the poor In
dian. In love. in war and in football
all is fair. Well! Beaten often on and
off their own plots of green, armored
heroes of the Dream City gridiron have
negotiated for the prowess of the sons
of the plain-themselves having failed
In exchange for wild warhoops and
body wrecking onslaughts of every de-
gree the modern Penn gives Poor Lo
large punches of wampum, beads and
bright jewsharps he enables the paint
ed son of the plains to wear fine raj
ment, wear real diamonds and live in
pressed brick wigWams. He will no
beef and bone jetty for the pale face
tides to pound on in the athletic af-
fairs of the historic Charlestonians.
Once within the camp of the Dream
City athletes the Indian is sure to rise.
Any state of inactivity guarantees
that. His name will blaze in the pub
lie prints, and horny faced sons of toll
will knock off work to sit in the cold
and watch him mangle the pale face.
While he Y1nb1a broth tower, hprnasf
is preparing his frontier tactics with
which to outwit the Pathfinders, eff
forts are being made on the river front
to induce enough longshoremen to go
in for practice to take a fall out of the
noble red men. Compressed bales of
cotton are being used as tackling dunn
mics and the tour of training is ten
hours a day between truck handles.
The announcement really does come
from Charleston that three former
members of the Carlisle Indian School
team have been engaged to make their
home in Charleston. When the an
nouncement was first received here
there were many members of the Sa-
vannah squad who openly avowe1
themselves that if Indians were to be
played on the Charleston team they
would not participate in the annual
New Years game.
According to the Charleston, Sulli-
van, who played on the team which Sa-
vannah defeated last New Years Day.
was going to return and commence
practice for his old position at tackle.
Every member of the Savannah re-
members Sullivan as the greatest foot
ball player they had ever been up
against. In fact. if it were not for
professionalism this rugged bunch of
sinew and bone would find little trou-
BILE in making any team in the coun-