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TTTF ATLANTA CF0RC1TAN AND NEWS. First Punch May Win Fight, Says Bill Smith *1* • 4* ►'*•*!* *!••*'« 4* #4* +•+ +•+ +•+ Dent Hurls To-day With Conzelman in Reserve By Bill Smith. W E’VE landed the first punch— nnd the first punch has won many a battle, believe me. Not that this battle’s won. not by a tong shot; but It’s not lost by two or three Ion* shots, and while there’s life there’s hope, you know. And I’ll confess right now that there’s a good vieal more of hope pounding away in the manly breast of yours truly than there was at this time yesterday * * * T KNOW Mike Finn, and I know his club, though. For more than two weeks they have regarded the South ern League pennant for 1913 as their personal property. Not until yes terday did they realize that they had a scrap, a heluva scrap, between them and that old rag. And will they fight? Will a baby cry? Will a duck swim? Why, I could see the fight rising In that' fat Irishman every second yesterday afternoon. If I don’t miss my guess, there’s going to be some sweet bat tling ahead. * * • TF I didn’t know the Gulls for the A good, game ball players they are, I might think that the smash we handed them yesterday would make them dog it the rest of the way# B/it i% • think so, knowing Ms men. We’ve got to fight, and we’ve got to fight every minute we are on that ball field, and pretty near ly every minute we are off of it, too, "or that matter. * * * tlfE are in pretty good shape for vv the going, l guess both clubs were on a pretty fine edge yester day, but they will both be steadier as the series grows older. I know I can count on my men to go the limit. Every man is ju3'_ as anxious to win as I am, and every bit of baseball in their systems is going to be shown this week. Once or twice yesterday it looked squally y-r a moment, but I never saw a club come back to earth quicker and play steadier, headier baseball. - * * * I ’M handing myself a few medals for picking Gil Price to hurl that opening game. We realized that it was all Important to beat the barrier If we could, and I picked Price as the best man to turn the trick. That’s not throwing off on any of the other pitchers, though, but Price was mentally the man for the lob. The baseball world was pretty well astounded in 1906, you will recall, when in the first game of the world’s series between the White Sox and the Cubs. Fielder Jones, of the Sox, se lected Nick Altrock to pitch. He did this with FM Walsh and Doc While m the bench, and both of these men vere considered Altrock’s superiors. Well, Jones won a world’s title by picking Altrock. He knew that that eccentric southpaw would not be frightened by the man-eating repu tation of the Cubs. He knew he would pitch against Chance’s mighty ma chine with the same confidence *he would have in working against a bunch of bushers. That confidence won for Altrock and he broke the Cubs’ spirit. And 1 remembered this in this ninch. * * * P RICE is a cool, self-reliant fel low, with no nerves—but all the nerve in the world. I knew he would go in confident he could take the Gulls’ measure, and he did it to a queen’s taste. Even with the bases choked, with one down, in the early innings he never wavered, but kept right on pitching ball, and he held the Gulls scoreless until we had the game packed away in the finest little cold storage plant in this part of Georgia. ♦ * * I’M depending a whole lot on my * pitchers, you can bet. To-day, unless my plans go awry in some un looked-for manner, I am going to send Eliott Dent to the hill. Dent is ready. I believe he will work the game of his life. Bui I’m \aking no chances If by any chance he should falter, I will have Conzelman always warmed up, ready to step into the breach at I any moment. Joe will be the reserve force, and the reserves have done their share toward turning the tide of victory. * ♦ • T HURSDAY, according to my pres ent plan, I will work Conzelman, with Thompson and Love in reserve, and if we get away—and I believe we will—who will I come back with for the supreme test Friday? Why, Gil Price, of course. I guess you guessed it. Agler Makj ng Play 1 hat Sav ed Opener Despised Bunt Turns Tide of Victory to Crackers +•+ +•+ 4*#4* 4* #4* 4**4* +•+ +•+ Gull Machine Crumbles Under Unexpected Attack P RICE is of that stocky, sturdy class that can stand going the route twice In four days, and if he works Friday I believe he will be just ns good as he was yesterday— and that's some good. I’m mighty glad we got Cavet out of the way. 1 have always regarded him as the Gulls’ most dangerous pitcher. Of course, I have no dope on whom Finn will work to-day, but he kept Heinie Berger warmed u,- all yesterday afternoon, and it wou'dn’t surprise me to see the veteran Dutch man on the mound to-day. He is a clever old fox, too, and is likely to cause us trouble, but I’m not looking for it. A FTER the start we n ade yesterday I don’t see how trouble can exist for anyone on this good green earth —except for old Mike Finn. Agler was easily the hero of the day, both in fielding and with the bat. By Fuzzy Woodruff. T OO often have the chroniclers of things baseballtc indited this sentence: “He laid down a sneaking bunt.’’ The adjective is ap- probrious. It suggests the kiss of Judas Iscariot, the hidden rapier thrust of Tybalt, the tonsorial treat ment of Samson, and the doping of Jim Jeffries. But the sportive prints have made This photo graph was snapped hy a Georgian camera expert, who snapped all the feature plays of the game. This was by far the most important play of the afternoon. Crackers Face An Old Task •j.o* •!•••!• •i-e-F +•+ +•+ In Same Fix Nine Years Ago SIDELIGHTS ON FIRST GAME AT PONCY PARK CRACKERS ARE By an Ex-Sport. A TLANTA’S desperate fighting chance for the Southern League pennant this year had an almost exact parallel nine years faro when Ab Powell’s team was faced wirh the task of winning nine straight games at the close of the season in order to capture the so-called gon falon. The parallel goes 'so far that the next to the Inst series of the year was against the leaders, New Or leans—managed, as now, bv Chubby Charley Frank. In one particular, all fans join in the hope that the par allel will not be carried out. Atlanta lost one of the necessary games, and the pennant as well. They played later in September then than in these effete and degen erate days. And along about the first of the month of oysters, Frank and his Pelicans left New Orleans, far in the lead in the league race. It was regarded certain that the flag would come back with the team. So Frank ifiade a triumphal march of it. Ho had the team photographed before leaving home, had half-tone engravings made of his stalwart ath letes, labeled as the “1904” cham pions,” and prepared to distribute these among all newspapers in towns ;« which he and his band appeared. * * * U NFORTUNATELY for Frank and his premature champions, everv night on that trip was a big night for them. The popping of corks made more of a fusillade than the crack of their bats against the ball. And by the time the Pelicans reached Atlanta this situation existed By defeating the Pelicans in four straight games and then defeating Shreveport (yes. Bobby Gilks was managing ’em then, as usual) the Crackers were sure of the pennant, with Lew Whistler’s Memphis team only an eyelash behind. So Ab Powell and Atlanta went right to it. Powell sent down to k : ^ the late Alvin Bayne, Georgian-born and as remarkable a youngster as ever hurled a curve. He sent over to Charleston and bought “Doc” Childs of Butts County, Georgia. Thus for tified by new pitchers to help out old Charley Smith and Jack Ely, it appeared that the Crackers had a bare fighting chance. And. take my word for it, there was something in the nature of a base ball fight put up at Piedmont Park for four successive days. Frank’s team was really no slouch, and by the Jime they had reached Atlanta and had sweated the alcohol out of their systems at a Turkish bath, they were fighting mad and ready to put up a real scrap for the pennant. N Saturday the reason opened and Doc Childs, wild as a hawk, but unhittable, was put in to tame thorn. Doc did it admirably. Atlanta won. 1 the Cubs, had them eating out of his hand, and Victory No. 2 was marked up for the Crackers. On Tuesday. Alvin Bayne who had won 4ft games and the first South Atlantic League pennant for Billy Smith, pitched, and the Pelicans were almost licked for the year. But there was one more game to the series. Powell sent Doc Childs back in to wind it up. Frank, offered Winsome Winnie French, who had a round house curve and consummate courage bis excuse for pitching lanta Childs hit the first batter, then cut loose with a wild pitch on which the runner went to third. A fly to the outfield scored what turned out to be the only run of the eame. After that Childs was the master of' the Pelicans. The only trouble was that French was the master of the crackers. And it so happened that two men were out in the ninth tliiius and the game and the pennant o gone a-glimmering when Childs him self came to hat. Doc's normal batting average was .038. Doc singled. Then Doc stole second base. Doc weighed 210 pounds and was slower than old Harry Meek. But he didn't know when to quit fighting! So Doc lit out and stole third. • * * T1.1, never forget the finish of that t game. George Winters was at bat, nervous for perhaps the only time In his life. A hit from him meant may be a pennant. There were two strikes on him, and there on third base was Doc Childs, puffing and dancing and sweating and blowing apd fighting as game a fight as ever man put up for a chance to save the year. French 'ut loose a curve, Winters swung, missed, and the game was over But only a tenth of a second before Childs hurled his tremendous form across the plate. * * • CO Atlanta didn’t win the pennant. New Orleans didn’t, either, for Lew Whistler and his Memphis team had gone one game ahead while the Crackers and the Pelicans were bat tering each other. But so long as certain old-time fans know a baseball from a tomato can, Doc Childs, of Jackson, Butts County, Georgia, now a tiller of the soil, will stand out as a man who played out ilia string in the face of certain de feat and who never said, "I quit.” For in this one game Doc threw out his arm forevermore. And in this one game he stole more bases than he had ever done before in all his life. McNeil Benefit Races At ‘Drome’ Friday The Jock McNeil benefit races at tbe Atlanta motordrome will be staged Fri day night. The races were originally scheduled to take place last Friday night, but were called off on account of rain. The entire proceeds from this race will be sent to the Scotchman’s mother. McNeil was one of the most popular rid ers in Atlanta, and it is hoped that a big crowd turns out. No passes will be honored at this meet. Newspaper men, clerks. Judges and other officials have all agreed 10 pay. The riders, who are also giving their services free, have agreed to race as they never have before. They were all great friends to Jock and will do most anything to help the cause. Experts Travel to Game in Cartercar The Georgian’s baseball experts were taken out to the opening game of the series between the Crackers and Gulls at Poncy Park yesterday afternoon in a Cartercar, driven by the local manager. W. C. Mahoney. The Crackers and Gulls may have played a fast game, but their speed x.tts tame compared with the trips given the experts by Mr. Mahoney in his beautiful seven-passenger car. Welchonce 3 Points Behind D. Robertson flarry Welchonce is right on the heels of Dave Robertson for the batting hon ors of the Southern League. Harry managed to get one hit out of four times up yesterday, while his opponent was held hitless. Latest figures give Robertson a bat ting average of 341. while Welchonce is hitting the ball at a .338 clip. But three points separate the two outfield ers. By Innis Brown. I T’S a long lane that ha9 no turn ing. Likewise and also, all signs fail in dry weather, w r hich may account for the fact that even a honest-to-goodness jinx may be slipped a double cross at rare inter vals. Slip a casual glance over the roster of the Mobilians and you will lamp the presence of Messrs. A1 O’Dell and P. Sentell, one-times Crackers and at present diligent laborers In the fold of Finn. Time was when local bugs would draw a sigh of relief on view ing the nervy A1 strolling to the plate when a pinch hit meant profitable business. In fact, we always enter tained an idea that A1 carried the stuff that enables a fellow to deliver best when said delivery is most needed. Likewise, Mr. Sentell has been known to wallop the hide off of the old pill at most opportune moments. Paul would likely be regarded as a desirable citizen in any minor league city between April 15 and a corre sponding date in September. In fact, he would readily be classified as skilled labor on a ball field, and no body yet has found cause to label him a quitter. All of which is predicated to show that the old jinx was slipped a clean- cut, straight-forward knockout, for neither of the above gentlemen was able to hook us for the count in Tues day's game, despite the fact that fortune passed them opportunities on a silver platter. * * * T HE chance of a lifetime was put up to O’Dell in the third. Gil Price was breezing along on smooth seas until this frame. But trouble was started when Chapman dropped a third strike on Clark, first up, and then did a ring-around-rosy in a frantic effort to locate the ball. He grabbed it up in time to peg to Agler, the throw caught the fleet Mr. Clark in the vicinity of his left shoulder, and caromed into Joe’s mitt, saving an extra base, since the Gull gardener had already reached the bag. Miller forced Clark, but Trice threw Cavet’s bunt high to Agler. Stock watched four wide ones pass and the bases were all inhabited. Starr popped a high foul to Chapman, and two hands down. Enter Mr. O’Dell. Imagine, if you can. a more luscious opportunity to add several streaks of gray to the ebony thatch <»f B. Smith, and incidentally to sAiother all hope remaining in the Crac kers of landing in front at the finish, for be it re membered that Mr. Cavet was going like a house a-fire, and a couple of runs would have looked like a fair- sized mountain. But Al. even with the aid of the cast-off luck, failed to deliver. He watched one good one pass, and then played a straight shot to the corner pocket guarded by H. Holland. The ex-.lacket slezed it in big league style, and whipped it to Agler in time to nip Al, aided by a nice one-handed stab by the agile Agler. * * • T HE ninth frame presented Mr. Sen tell wi*h his opportunity. Charley Schmidt took one<>f Gil Price’s shoots and galloped do^fti to first. Clark shot a straight one to Bisland, and the play was made to nab Schmidt at second. In his hurry to effect a two- ply killing Wally Smith dropped the throw, and all hands were safe. Price appeared to be weakening and at this juncture, sounded two bells for Mr. Sentell, and he substituted at the bat for Mona. Cavet. To all pur poses and intents. Paul had the desire and determination, and in justice to him, it may be said that he carried with it about everything else except the finishing touch. He shot one straight to the slab that looked wicked. However. Price knocked it down, and managed to kill him off to Afler, By W. S. Farnsworth. OTH Pug Cavet and Gil Price were kept busy during the open ing encounter. The Gull twirler pitched 118 balls during the eight times the Crackers were at bat. whiJf the local boxman made 115 separate and distinct chucks. Cavet pitched the most balls in one inning—nineteen in the eighth. Price pitched the fewest—seven in the sixth. The following shows just how many balls were uncorked by each hurler in each inning: Inning Price Cave* 12 16 16 11 16 10 IS 19 First 16 Second 9 Third 17 Fourth 13 Fifth 16 Sixth .. 7 Seventh 9 Eighth 15 Ninth 13 Total 115 118 •Crackers didn’t bat in ninth. Holland didn’t cover the ground he was standing on when O’Dell’s single passed him in the opening spasm. * * • Price worked his curve ball on Cavet as much as possible. It was good judgment, as the shade Pug wo*” *>$pt him from getting his eye on „ benders. * * • Cavet sure is a cool young man. Even when the going was rough and stormy for him he took his time and figured out his every move. * * * Price fell down goinr Nfter Paulet’s puzzling grassier in the second, and while fiat on his stomach, chucked with accuracy to Agler. • • • Holland should have smothered Schmidt’s foul in second, but seemed to be afraid of knocking a picket out of the left field fence. • * * Schmidt was dead lucky on this trip to the platter. He immediately followed with another foul hoist that Tommy Long let slip out of his wait ing hands. • • • Chapman dropped the third strike >n <’larke in the third. He made a quick recovery and chucked to Agler. The ball bounded off Clarke’s back into Joe’s waiting bands, but too late for an out. • • » Pfenninger x**as all to the bad in the last of the third. He happened to call ’em all wrong, but neither side suffered. But how Cavet did bark and yell! • • • Fans who were minus the price of admission Jammed themselves into the trees and on the fences in left and center field. • • • Manush did some bad coaching in the last of the fourth when he let Agler run all the way from first to third on Long’s grounder that O’Dell booted but didn’t let get far away from him. Al simply picked up the pill and waited for Joe to run into it for a most foolish-looking out. • • • Cavet’s fast ball developed a pretty hop during the latter part of the game. With the hop Pug seemed tw lose a bit of control. • • • Paulet had a Just kick coming to him in the fourth. He hit a ball In front of him that should have been called a foul. Pfenninger, however, called It fair and Chapman tagged the batter out. • • • Robertson, heavy hitter and league leader, failed to connect safely. He has made only three hits on the local pasture this season. • * 9 Robertson waited out four in a row in the fourth. And not one of them was anywhere near the plate. * • • Agler, besides being the batting ana fieldimr hero of the dav. was the first to get a hit off Cavet. It was a single that came in the fourth. • * • Holland should have knocked down Stock’s liner in the fifth and held it to a single. As it was, it was a two- bagger. • * • Price can not hit a left-hander’s curve. Which was very plain in the seventh, when, with one down and Holland on third, Gil did a Casey on three benders in succession. And he didn’t come within a foot of connect ing on any one of the occasions. * • m O’Dell didn’t field any one of his chances cleanly. Al seemed to be a bit “up in the ozone.” Cavat sneaked one over on Wally Smith in the eighth for a perfect strike, put Pfenninger was as much asleep as the Cracker captain, and poor Cavet was charged with a ball. * * * It was a hard fight from start to finish, but the players put up a clea.i exhibition and no signs of trouble were noticed at any stage of the battle. • • • Holland was anxious to get in a long wallop in the eighth. As a re sult of trying to kill the ball he proved a line "fish” for Cavet’s fast ball. * * * Robertson played Agler’s triple like a busher. First he ran in for a ball that was over his head and then made a bad recovery once he got his hands on the ball. • * • The Crackers lacked a lot of pep and ginger. They played good ball, but here’s hoping that they make a bit more noise to-day. Those Gulls were talking and jabbering away like a lot of college players all the way. * * * Mike Finn never lost his famous smile at any time. • * • Bill Smith was as calm, cool and collected from start to finish as a bull pup with a bunch of firecrackers tied to his tail on a Fourth of July morn ing. * * * Harry Holland Is going to show more class to-day, or we’ll miss a strong hunch. The youngster was nervous yesterday, and. at that, he handled five chances in good shape. He’ll look a lot better the rest of the series, now he has taken the plunge. • • • While the last Grocers and Butch ers’ half-holiday was last Wednes day, there is a move on foot to per mit all the employees that can pos sibly be spared to go to the game this afternoon. Most of the employers have signified their intention of let ting as much of the help off as pos sible. Milwaukee Manager Signs for Two Years MILWAUKEE. Sept. 3.—Harry Clark, Milwaukee’s fighting third baseman and manager, who has pilot ed fils team to the top of the Ameri can Association this year when most of the sporting editors about the cir cuit picked Milwaukee for second di vision. signed a two-year contract to manage the team to-day. Mrs. Agnes Havenor, owner, refused to divulge the terms of the contract. Chick Evans Makes New Golf Record GARDEN CITY. N. Y.. Sept. 3.— Chick Evans, Jr., of the Edgewater Golf Club, Chicago, has so far shown the best golf in the national amateur golf championship here yesterday. His round of 71 is a course n-cord. This, with his 77 of Monday, made a total of 148 for the qualifying round of 36 holes, and won the Chicagoan the gold medal for the lowest score. By Lou Castro. I T was one of those old-time ex citing battles and the home boys won a thrilling victory. At times I couldn't help but think of the great series betw r een the Turtles and Crack ers in 1907. During the latter part of that year the boys from Memphis traveled to Atlanta to meet us in a series that practical!" - meant a pennant. True, the series didn’t mean as much as the present one means to the locals, as we had several more games- to play. But the teams were the lenders in the fight for the rag and the series meant much to both teams. We won the series and the pennant. I hope the Crackers do the same. But, going back to yesterday’s game I can’t help but take my hat off to the boys playing under Billy Smith I know the strain they are playing under, and I hope they can keep themselves together until the end of the series. Every game the boys go into they must feel that it is their last. If they lose. It is all over. If they win. they have another game to think about. On the other hand. Finn’s men need but one victory. They can take chances that Bill Smith’s men dare not take. * • • "THIS was proven in the fourth in- A ning. Agler reached first on a scratch single. Later he attempted to take third when O’Dell fumbled Long’s bunt. He was out, but as luck would have it the Crackers man aged to win out later. Now, at the time there was none out and had the locals lost there would be many fans to-day blaming Agler for taking hie daring chance. As it turned out. Joe played wonderful ball, and it was hi. j triple that helped the home boys cop the bacon. The men playing ball for the honor of Atlanta at Ponce DeLeon ure real fighters and they will battle to the end. If they win. they Win be ac complishing a miracle. Think of it. They have three more games to play Mobile and they must win all of them. One defeat and It’s all over. Surely this seems impossible. Every play and every move must be figured out. rjNB rally by the Gulls, one mis- ^ play, or one error of Judgment may lose one game. It may lose a pennant. This is the strain the boys are playing under. I watched yes terday’s game and couldn’t help but ■ r S nit h’s crew. I fought With might and main under him for vic tory and can Just feel him urging the boys on. Gilbert Price was the big boy yes terday. Although a little wild, he ap peared like a giant in the pinches His curve ball had the visitors puz zled, and I would advise Smith to use him again by all means. He has the nerve and courage. He appeared confident at all times and seemed to be strong at the finish. Cavet pitched himself out in the first six innings. He started out as if to pitch a no-hit- game and put too much stuff on every ball. In fact, he appeared overanxious to win I hardly think he will beat the Crack ers* in this series. The stinging de feat of yesterday must have taken some of the confidence out of him. * • • T O-DAY’S game is now the battle the Crackers must win. Also, they must face the pitcher whom I think to be the strongest of Mike Finn’s hurling crew when facing thn locals. W. Robertson has beaten the Crackers on manv pccarfons this sea son and seems to have their number. Finn says Robertson is on edge, and when he is there are few twirler> in the Southern League who have anything on him. NO MATTER WHAT YOU WANT, it will save ou time and money if you use Hears is Sunday American and At lanta Georgian. It as classic as "Give me liberty or give me death,” the sextet from “Lucia,” and Hamlet’s soliloquy. Wherefore fandom has grown to re gard the bunt much as knock-out drops in an enemy’s beer, the impor tation of a gang of repeaters for political purposes, and the flashing of a $1.000-blll in the face of a doubtful legislator are held in popular esteem. The method is useful, exceedingly use ful, but hardly ethical; no not hardly. Atlanta’s faithful can arise in uni son to-day and give thanks for the invention of the bunt even as the children of Israel gave thanks for the convenient parting and closing of the waters of the Red Sea; Lord Welling ton for the arrival of Blucher, and the American people for the f*ct that it was the custom of soldiery m Revo lutionary' times, even as now, to get tanked in celebration of Christmas. * * • 17OR to the bunt is due the fact that 1 the Crackers are still leading a pennant hope to-day and the hope i“ not near so forlorn as it was 24 hours ego. Wherefore it is moved, seconded and unanimously carried that all ignominy be removed from the afore mentioned bunt, and it be placed among the things that are noble nnd good, such as the morning cocktail and the accommodating friend with $2 excess change in his pockets. Had it not be^n for the adoption of a bunting policy at th* first momo?,; when the break in luck came the Crackers’ way, there is no telling what might have been written in Dixie yestere’en. It is probable that darkness would have stopped hostil ities with both teams glaring at each other and cussing themselves for the failure to shove over a single run. U i.s equally likely that the game would have been the Gulls’ and Mike Finn would have departed from Ponce De Leon Park with the Southern League gonfalon as securely packed away as any of the .securities and cash in any bank vault in Atlanta with the whole police force awake. To an innocent observer, who knows nothing and pretends to know nothing of the Machia vellan machinations molded In the minds of the baseball strategists on the benches, it is mar velous that the bunting attack was not resorted to far earlier in the game. Especially did this mode of assault seem propitious for the Crackers. • • * A TEMPER? of both teams went on •*■•■■■ the field as nervous as ■ noviti ate in the goodly game of draw poker who finds he has drawn a king and a pair of aces to a couple of mon archs and the gentleman next to him has just bet a gob. And when a club is nervous then the bunt reaches its highest state of effectiveness. Especially did Al O'Dell seem to be afflicted with a realization of the importance of the series. The erstwhile Cracker, always tempera mental, seemed to possess more cf that stuff yesterday afternoon than a SI0.00ft tenor, and mind you, he was guarding the third corner, the place where the bunt is wont to go. Again. It wouldn’t have taken a Mark or a MeGraw to discern that. In the early innings, “Pug” Cavet had it on the Crackers in large quantities Not until the Gull gang had flown high and wierdly in the sixth inning, after the bunting began, was then* the semblance of a clean hit off his southpaw delivery. THE elongated Gull stood in the * box with a patch over his eye, like the knights of old did when they had .‘•'worn themselves to .some deed of chivalry and hadn’t made /rood, and he gave every indication that he was striving to perform that deed on this particular occasion. On the other hand. Gil Price seemed to possess sublime courage, a stout heart, a glove, and nothing much else. He was constantly in the hole, and had the Gulls played a “waiting ’em out” game, instead of attacking too eagerly, the beans might have been spilled for the Crackers early in the session. This is said in no spirit of en deavoring to detract from the mag nificent work of the Cracker hurler. He labored as gallantly as ever war rior did and it was Price who started the bunting game that brought ulti mate victory. He was the first man up in the sixth inning. Price is no Wagner, and as Cavet was going along as smoothly as a canoe in a mlrror-like pond, the Gulls were expecting little nr nothing from the Cracker pitcher. In a second he realized the enemy was off its guard, and on the first ball Cavet pitched over he tapped it to the Infield, Just fast enough to get past ‘he pitcher, just slow enough to compel Starr to come on at Casey Jones’ speed to have any chance of making the play at first base. Result, the ball eluded the Gull captain and Price was on first base with no one down.- • * • THEN came the real play of the * game. Joe Agler walked to the hat. Ho is recognized as one of the most skillful sacrifice hitters in the league. Paulet crowded down the flrsi line. Al O’Dell edged In from third. And then Agler outguessed them. I don’t know, but I would wager that ho purposely missed his first twj attempts to bunt and. when he did so, the Gulls smiled their satisfaction. They reasoned that the Cracker first, sacker would not dare take a chance of hunting at the third strike, and Agler knew what they had reasoned. He took his position to slam the ball as O’Dell returned to playing a deep third and Paulet moved back behind first base. Cavet confidently hooked the next one over. Joe didn’t swing. He dropped his bat and the ball nestled along the third line with Joe scam pering to first like all the demons below the earth were after him. The Gulls, completely surprised, were unable to field the ball, and then there were two on with no one down. Long, next up, twice tried to sacri fice. He failed, but the Gulls were not to be fooled this time. Oh, no. They kept right on playing close in. And what did Tommy do? Why, ne hit one so sincerely on the nose that Stock had difficulty in handling th - ; ball and getting it to second in time to stop Agler, while Price had raced to third and Tommy was on first. • * * T HERE the Gull defense was broken. There the brave heart of Cavet quailed. The mighty Welchonce was up and the day was done, the field was won, or words that effect. No use to recall Vv 'honce’s drive and the drive of Wally mith. They but completed Ihe work t ' the bunt ing had done, and to-Q* Atlanta realizes that by bunting v r ha«’e a chance for the bunting (why little sally should be forgiven by a\. kind and generous souls). THE CRACKERS’ ALPHABET By Misses Dorough. A—(* for Agler, the Atlanta Fans' pet; R—is for Bill Smith—host manager yet. O—4s for Conzelman, pitcher of fame; ■ D’s—for a Daddy—Wally Smith is his name. E—is fnr Elliott, king of the mound; F—is for Frank Manush, pinrh-hittcr sound. C,—is for (Jilhrrt. some southpaw, hy heck! H—is for Holland, our new star from Tech. I’s—“leey” Bisland, too good to he real; J—is for Joe Dunn, who settles their “steal." K’s—for Ihe kicking the fans ran't afford, \,nng as our Tommy hits 'em to the hoard, M’s—for the money the flag winners cop; N—is for Nixcm, who ranks near the top. O—is for option—a manager’s scheme,; I”s—for the pennant, the aim of the team. * Q’s—for the question, early and late; R—is for runs that dent the old plate. 5— is for BUm Dove, whose future looks bright; T—is for Thompson, who started out right. U—is fm umpires, who don't get much praise; V—is for Voss, star of old college days. Ws—for Weiehonre—ran he hit itf He cant XYZ we'll give Chappy, who backs up the pan. 6— for luck and the happiest days, Whic h ihe fans hand the Crackers, deserving all praise. American Sonders Easy Winners Again MARBLEHEAD. MASS., Sept. 3.— The Americans defeated the Germans even more decisively' than Monday in the second of the international sonder yacht series yesterday. 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