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This play was made in the
third inning. The bases were
filled, with two out. O’Dell
hit a grounder to Holland.
The throw was a bit late and
far wide. Agler had to reach
way back, but he speared the
ball for a wonderful out.
TTTF ATLANTA OEOBOTAN AND NEWS.
Hrst Punch May Win Fight, Says Bill Smith
*!*•*!• *!*•*!* »!«a v *J*#*I*
Dent- Hurls To-day With Conzelman in Reserve
By Bill Smith.
W E'VE landed the first punch—
and the first punch has won
many- a i>attle, believe me.
Not that this battle’s won, not by
a iong shot; but it’s not lost by two
or three long shots, and while there's
life there’s hope, you know. And I’ll
confess right now that there’s a good
deal 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
1 club, though. For more than two
weeks they have regarded the South
ern League pennant for 19X3 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-
.ling ahead.
* * •
TP I didn’t know the Gulls for the
1 good, game ball flayers they are,
I might think that the smash we
handed them yesterday would make
them dog It the rest of the way. But
I don’t think so. knowing Mike and
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.
* * *
Y\J ID are 1n pretty good shape for
the going. I gue. c »s both clubs
were on a prettv fine edge yester
day, but they will both be steadier
a? the series grows older.
I know I can count on my men to
go the limit. Every man is jU3
flp anxious to win as I am. and every
bit of baseball in their* systems is
going to be Mhown this week. Once
or twice yesterday it looked squally
for a moment, but I never saw a club
come back to earth quicker and play
steadier, headier baseball.
* * *
T’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 we!’
abounded 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 Ed Walsh and Doc White
m the bench, and both of these men
vere considered Altrock’s superiors.
Well, Jones won a wbrld’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 th*
Cubs’ spirit.
And I remembered this in this
pinch.
• * •
p RICE is a cool, s*elf-reliant fel-
A low’, with no nerves—but all the
nerve in the world. I knew he wmuld
go in confident he could take the
Gulls’ measure, and he did it to n
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- i
looked-for manner, I am going to send j
Eliott Dent to the hill.
Dent is ready. I believe he w’li
work the game of his life. But I’m
'.aking no chances
If by any chance he should falter.
I w’ill have Conzelman always warmed
up. ready to step into the breach at
any moment. Joe will be the reserve
force, and the reserves have d 'ne
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.
* • •
p RICE is of that stocky, sturdy
A class that can stand going the
route twice in four days, and if he
works Friday I believe he will be
Just as good as he was yesterday—
and that’s some good.
I’m mighty glad we got Cavet out
of the W’ay. I 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 won'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 ex,ist
for anyone on this good green earth
—except for old Mike Finn.
Agler Maffi
ng Play
I hat Sav
ed Opener
Agler was
easily the hero
of the day,
both in fielding
and with
the bat.
Despised Bunt Turns Tide of Victory to Crackers
+•+ 4*e+ •S'#* +•+ +*+ •F#4 i + •+ +•+
Gull Machine Crumbles Under Unexpected Attack
T
By Fuzzy Woodruff.
)0 often have the chroniclers of
things baseballic indited this
sentence: "He laid down a
sneaking bunt.” The adjective is ap-
probrtous. It suggests the kiss of
Judas Iscariot, the hidden rapier
thrust of Tybalt, the tonsorlal treat
ment of Samson, and the doping of
Jim Jeffries.
But the sportive prints have made
This photo
graph was
snapped by 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*
In Same Fix Nine Years Ago
By an Ex-Sport.
A TLANTA’S desperate fighting
chance for the Southern
League pennant this year had
an almost exact parallel nine years
ago when Ab Powell’s team was* faced
with 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 last series of the year
was against the leaders, New Or
leans'—managed, as now, by 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 made a triumphal march
of it. He 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 al.l newspapers in towns
in which he and his band appeared.
* * *
T TNFORTUNATELY 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 Pow’ell and Atlanta w’ent
right to it. Pow’ell sent dow’n to
'Bill Smith’s Macon team and bought
the late Alvin Bavne, 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
time they had reached Atlanta and
had sw’eated the alcohol out of their
systems at a Turkish bath, they w’ere
fighting mad and ready to put up a
real scrap for the pennant.
* * •
O N Saturday the reason opened and
Doc Childs, wild as a hawk, but
unhittable, was put in to tame them.
Doc did it admirably. Atlanta won.
On Monday, Charley Smith, now of
the Cubs, had them eating out of his
hand, and Victory No. 2 w r as marked
up for the Crackers.
On Tuesday, Alvin Bayne who had
won 40 games and the first South
Atlantic League pennant for Billy
Smith, pitched, and the Pelicans were
almost licked for the year.
But there w’as 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
as his excuse for pitching.
The game opened badly for At
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 gamp.
After that Childs was the master
of the Pelicans. The only trouble
w’as that French was the master of
the Crackers. And it so happened
that two men were out in the ninth
l&nUm find the same and the pennant A era.
gone a-glimmering when Childs him
self came to bat.
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.
* * *
I LL never forget the finish of that
gjime. 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 blow’ing and 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.
* * *
S O 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 fan >
know’ a baseball from a tomato can,
Doc Childs, of Jackson. Butts County,
Georgia, now a tiller of the soil, wi.l
stand out as a man who played out
his string in the face of certain ae-
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 the
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 to
pay The riders, who are also giving
their services free, have agreed to race
as thev 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 'Ll 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
was tame compared with the trips
given the experts bv Mr. Mahoney In
his beautiful seven-passenger car.
Welchonce^f Points
Behind D. Robertson
Harry Welehonee Is right on the heels
of Dave Robertson for the hatting 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 Welehonee
is hitting the ball at a .338 clip But
three points separate the two outfield-
CAST-OFFS Ft
TO BEAT LOCALS
IN THE PINCHES
By Innis Brown.
I T'S a long lane that has no turn
ing. Likewise and also, all signs
fail in dry weather, which 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
w’ould 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 alw’ays enter
tained an idea that A1 carried the
stuff that enables a fellow' to deliver
best w'hen 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 betw’een 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 labe!
him a quitter.
All of which is predicated to show
that the old jinx w’as slipped a clean-
cut, straight-forw r ard knockout, for
nedther 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, fir^t 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 Price threw
Cavet’s bunt high to Agler. Stock
watched four wide ones pass and the
bases were all inhabited. Starr
popped a hign foul to Chapman, and
tw’o hands down. Enter Mr. O'Dell.
Imagine, if you can. a more luscious
opportunity to add several streaks of
gray to the ebony thatch of B. Smith,
and incidentally to smother all hope
remaining in the Crackers of landing
in front at the finish, for be it re
membered that Mr. Cavet w’as going
like a house a-fire, and a couple of
runs would have looked like a fair-
sized mountain.
But Al, even w’ith the aid of the
cast-off luck, failed to deliver. He
w’atched one good one pass, and then
played a straight shot to the corner
pocket guarded by H. Holland. The
ex-Jaoket siezed it in big league style,
and w’hipped 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-
tefi wdth his opportunity. Charley
Schmidt took onenf Gil Price’s shoots
and galloped do^rn to first, (’lark
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 Mons. 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
wjeked. However. Price knocked it
down, and managed to kill him off to
Agler,
SIDELIGHTS ON FIRST
GAME AT PONCY PARK
CRACKERS ME
B
By W. S. Farnsworth.
OTH Pug Cavet and Gil Price
were kept busy during the open
ing encounter. The Gull tw’irler
Pitched 118 balls during the eight
times the Crackers were at bat, w’hiie
the local boxman made 115 separate
and distinct chucks.
Cavet pitched the most halls in one
inning—nineteen in the eighth. Price
pitched the fewest—seven in the sixth.
The following ‘••hows just how' many
balls w r ere uncorked by each hurler
in each inning:
Inning Price Cavet
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
W’as 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
wore kept him from getting his eye
on the 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 going after Paulet’s
puzzling grasj-ter in the second, and
while flat 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
fpliowed with another foul hoist that
Tommy Long let slip out of his wait
ing hands.
* • •
Chapman dropped the third strike
on Clarke in the third. He made a
quick recovery and chucked to Agler.
The ball bounded off Clarke’s back
into Joe’s waiting hands, but too late
for an out.
• • •
Pfenninger was 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 w*ere 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.
• • •
Tavet’s fast ball developed a pretty
hop during the latter part of the
game. W’ith the hop Pug seemed to
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.
• • t
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
fieldinsr hero of the day. 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 i♦
to a single. As* it was, it was a two-
bagger.
Price can not hit a left-hander’s
curve. Which was very plai
seventh, when, with one dow
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.
* • •
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 h?rd 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 fine "fish” for Cavet’s fast ball.
• * *
Robertson played Agler’s triple like
a busher. First he ran in for q 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
bi* more noise to-day Those Gull**
were talking and jabbering away lik«-
a lot of college players all the way.
* * *
Mike Finn never lost his famous
smile at any time.
• * •
Bill Smith w r as as calm, cool and
collected from start**o finish as a Dull
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 his 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.
hander's |T was
ninth d| citinf
>\vn and 1
Chick Evans Makes
New Golf Record
GARDEN CITY. N Y.. Sept. 3.—
Chick Evans, Jr., of the Edgew f ater
Golf Club, Chicago, has so far shown
the beet golf in the national amateur
golf c hampionship here yesterday. His
round of 71 is a course record.
This, with his 77 of Monday, made
a total of 148 Tor the qualifying round
of 36 holes, ind w’on the Chicagoan
the gold medal for the lowest score.
>v Lou Castro.
one of those old-time ex
iting battles and the home boys
won a thrilling victory. At times
I couldn't help but think of the great
series between 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 penmant. True,
the series didn't mean as much as
the present one means to the locals,
as we had several more games to
Play. Rut the teams were the leaders
in the fight for the rag and the serit s
meant much to both teams. We won
the series and the pennant. I hope
the Crackers do the same.
But, goirig 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-
1 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 Inst there would be many fans
to-day blaming Agler for taking his
daring chance. As it turned out. Joe
played wonderful ball, and it was his
triple that helped the home boys cop
the bacon.
The men playing ball for the honor
of Atlanta at Ponce DeLeon are real
fighters and they will battle to the
end. If they win. they will 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
YANK rally by the Gull*, one mi>-
V '-' 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
pull for Smith’s crew. I fought with
might and main under him for vic
tory and can Just feel him urging
the hoys on.
Gilbert Price was the big boy yes
terday. Although a little wild, he ap
peared like a giant in the pinches.
His curve hall had the visitors puz
zled, and I would advl.** 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 pu*
too much stuff on every’ ball. In
fact, he appeared overanxious to win.
I hardly think he will boat the Crack
ers in this series. The stinging de
feat of yesterdav must have taken
some of the confidence out of him
• • •
T O-DAY'S game is now’ the battle
the Crackers must win. Also,
the.v must face the pitcher whom I
think to be the strongest of Mike
Finn’s hurling crew when facing tilt-
locals. W. Robertson has beaten the
Crackers on manv occasions this sea
son and seems to have their number.
Finn says Robertson is on edge, and
when he is there are few twirlers
in the Southern League who have
anything on him.
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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-Dill 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 fact that
it was the custom of soldiery in Revo
lutionary times, even as now, to get
tanked in celebration of Christmas.
• * *
17 DR to the bunt is due the fact that
1 the Crackers are still leading a
pennant hope to-day and the hope is
not near so forlorn as it was 24 hours
ago.
Wherefore it is moved, seconded
and unanimouslv carried that all
ignominy be removed from the afore
mentioned bunt, and it be placed
among the things that are noble and
good, such as the morning cocktail
and the accommodating friend witli
$2 excess change in his pockets.
Had it not been for the idootion of
a bunting policy at th? first moineM
when the break in luck came the
Crackers’ way, there Is no telling
what might have been written in
Dixie y’estere’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
is equally likely’ that the gam** would
have been the Gulls’ and Mike Finn
would have departed from Ponce De
Leon Park with the Southern League
gonfalon as securely nacked 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 Maehiavellnn 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.
EMBERS of both teams went on
the field as nervous as a 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 o f
effectiveness-. Especially did Al O’Dell
seem to be afflicted with a realization
of the importance eff the series. The
erstwhile Cracker, always tempera
mental, kerned to possess more cf
that stuff yesterday afternoon than
a $10,000 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
Mack or a McGravv 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 wlerdly in the sixth inning,
after the bunting began, was there
the semblance of a clean hit off hi?
southpaw delivery.
T HE 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 good,
and he gave every Indication that he
was striving to perform ;hat 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 W’as 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 mirror-like
pond, the Gulls were expecting little
or nothing from the Cracker pitcher.
In a second he realized th enemy
was off its guard, and on che first
ball Cavet pitched over he tapped it
to the infield. Just fast enough to
get past the 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.
• • •
T HEN came the real play of the
game. Joe Agler walked to the
bat. He is recognized as one of the
ni• ■ -r skillful sacrifice hitters* in tho
league. Paulet crow’ded down the
first line. Al O’Dell edged in from
third. And then Agler outguessed
them.
I don’t know, but I w’ould wager
that he purposely missed his first twj
attempts to bunt and, when he did si,
the Gulls smiled their satisfaction.
They reasoned that the Cracker first
sacker would not dare take a chance
of bunting 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 thp third line with Joe scam
pering to first like all the demons
below the earth were after him.
The Gulls, completely surprised,
w’ere unable to field tne 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 tin
hall and getting it to second in time
to stop Agler. w’hiie Price had raced
to third and Tommy was on first.
• * *
T HERE the Gull defense w’as broken.
There the brave heart of Cavet
quailed. The mighty Welehonee was
up and the day was done, the field
was won, or words to that effect.
No use to recall Welchonce’s drive
and the drive of Wally Smith. They
but completed the work that the bunt
ing had done, and to-day Atlanta
realizes that by bunting they ha»’e
a chance for the bunting (which little
sally should be forgiven by all kind
and generous souls).
THE CRACKERS' ALPHABET
By Misses Dorough.
A—is'for Afjlcr, the Atlanta Fans* pet;
B—is for BUI Smith—best manager yet.
C—is for Conzelman, pitcher of fame;
D’s—for a Daddy—Wally Smith is his name.
E—is for Elliott, king of the mound;
F—is for Frank Manush, pinch-hitter sound.
G—is for Gilbert, some south paiv, by heekl
H—is for Holland, our new star from Tech.
I’s—“Izzy” Bisland, too good to be real;
J—is for Joe Dunn, who settles their “steal.”
K*s—for the kicking the fans can't afford,
Lang ns our Tomrny hits 'em to the board,
M’s—for the money the flag winners cop;
N—is for Ni.ron, who ranks near the top.
O—is for option—a manager's scheme;
P’s—for the pennant, the aim of the team.
Q’s—for the question, early and late;
It—is for runs that dent the old plate.
S—is for Slim Love, whose future looks bright;
T—is for Thompson, who started out. right.
U—is for umpires, who don*t get much praise;
V -is for Voss, star of old college days.
W’s—for Welehonee—can he hit itt lie can!
XYZ we'll give Chappy, who backs up the pan.
& for luck and the happiest days.
Which the fans hand the Crackers, deserving all praise.
American Sonders
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