The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-29
PRESIDENT ROVER REACHED SA-
VANNAH FROM BALTIMORE.
WILL COMMENCE WORK
BRIGHT AND EARLY TO-DAY.
DAD LARoCQUE WILL BE HERE
WITH PATHFINDERs FRIDAY.

Little League Is Now Beginning to
BustIe in n business Like Way.
Three of the Macon Players Have
Arrived and Others Are Expected
TO-day-President Boyer VIII Es-
tabIish League Headquarters This
week and Let Contracts for the
improvements at the Bolton Street
Park.
Commencing to-day the ball situation
in Savannah will take actual shape,
and by the end of the week the Savan
nah team will have assembled, donned
uniforms and taken the first hard try
outs preparatory to the opening of the
initial season of the South Atlantic
League.
President Boyer, who is also the
owner of the Savannah club. reached
Savannah last night from Baltimore,
but did not leave the steamer, in order
to be up bright and early this morn
ing to make arrangements for the
rapid completion of the work that is
now before him.
Mr.. Boyer failed to reach Baltimore
in time to catch the boat he first in
tended coming on, and was two days
late in getting to Savannah. He was
delighted to find the weather here so
pleasant. The temperature was almost
freezing when he left Baltimore.
The first thing Mr. Boyer will look
after will be the Improvements that
will be made at Bolton Street Park
The grand stand will be the first thing
attended to. and then the fences. The
work of putting the diamond in shape
will be carried along with the other
work, and it is hoped to have the in
field finished by the latter part of
this week, if the weather permits.
Owing to the short space of time
before the opening Of the season, Mr..
Boyer will not fill in the diamond as
it is his intention to do later on. After
the first series in Savannah is fin
ished, and the team goes away for a
twO-weeks' stay, work will be COM
menced on the grounds, and they will
then be filed in and a proper system
of drainage arranged.
Mr. Boyer will ask the owners of
the Bolton street property for permis-
sion to tear down the old house that
now stands in the extreme right field.
The outfield will be cut down con-
siderably and the dirt that is taken
from there will be used in filling in
the diamond.
Tickets Sent to Players.
Owner Boyer has sent transportation
to all the members of the Savannah
team, and the boys will commence re-
porting the latter part of this week.
Dad LaRocque will leave Birmingham
on Thursday night, arriving in Sa-
vannah on Friday. BY the time Dad
gets here number of the players will
have assembled and the regular routine
work will be taken up.
The Pathfinders will be hustled out
to the park every morning at
o'clock, and put through two hours
hard work. At $3.50 in the afternoon
the same programme will be followed
So far no exhibition games have been
arranged, except those with the all
Cuban team, which will be played
April 10, 20 and 81 An effort viii be
made to have Manager Powell of the
Atlanta team stop here on his way
back to Atlanta from Jacksonville, and
play a series.
Uniforms Have Been shipped.
The order for the uniforms for the
Savannah team was given some weeks
ago, and Owner Boyer has been noti-
fed that they have been shipped. The
Savannah uniform will be one of the
most attractive in the league Royal
blue and white are the colors, with a
large Roman IS" on the breast of the
shirt.
Speaking of the league and the out
look President Boyer was most en-
thusiastic. Though a bit sleepy he
found time to tell all about the splen-
did outlook. Il have no doubt in the
world how that by the opening of the
next season we will be in the same
class with the Southern League and
with the many advantages thar we
have over this organization in the way
of short hauls, and keen rivalry be-
tween the cities in the league, 1 would
not be surprised If we would not be
able in another year to outbid them
for the very best players that can be
secured for minor leagues.
Boyer Is Satisfied.
AS far as possible, l have left the
work of getting the Savannah club
together to Mr.. LaRocque, and 1 am
satisfied he has signed the best team
in the league Every man on the team
made a splendid record last year with
the bat. and we We're particular to get
opinions from the best ball players in
the country about the fielding abin-
ties of those that we did not know
personally. 1t will be found that Sa-
vannah will be in the first section from
the start, and at the wind up we ex-
pect to be in front.
THE teams in all of the cities of the
league are assembling, and by the end
of the week the six teams of the
league will be in uniform, settling
down to hard work. AS soon as / get
little sleep and get my things un-
packed l will be able to tell the peo-
pie of Savannah and other cities of the
league all about how we stand and
what we expect to do for them in
the way of good, clean baseball this