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COVEMEM
THOSE GRANDSTAND MANAGERS
By Tad
Copyright, 1913, International New*
Service.
SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT
Sensational First Sacker Believes Crackers Have Gulls on the Run
AGLER’S HIT WINS BET HE GIVES OTHERS CREDIT
Main Thing Is To Get the Other Fellows On the Run, You Know
BILL SMITH CHEERS EP FOR FIRST TIME IN SERIES
By Bill Smith.
1 KNOW we will never have to fight
for another game as hard as we
fought for yesterday’s.
To me this battle teemed the big
game of the big series. When I saw
Joe Dunn come across the plate In
the ninth Inning with more speed
than he has shown all season, bring
ing the winning run with him, I felt
that the worst was over.
* * •
D ASEBALL is as uncertain a prop-
osition as mankind knows, and
predictions never count for a whole
lot, but, considering everything, I be
lieve right now that we have the
finest sort of a chance to make a clean
sweep of the Gull series and get a
firm hold on the Southern League
pennant.
From the start of yesterday’s game
I realized that we were up against
the stiffest sort of a proposition. Dent
was -pitching wonderful ball, but the
Gulls were getting all the breaks.
The boy& must have felt about like
I did. for they were more nervous
than they were on the first day of
the series.
I looked for a blow-up every mo
ment, and the fact that it never camo
shows how game a ball club Atlanta
has working for it in this scrap.
• * •
IT seems to me that we have gotten
1 about all the bad baseball we ha\ 1
out of our systems; not that we did
anything desperately dangerous yes
terday, but we were far from being
at our normal stride.
But every man is working at top
speed, and if by any chance of mis
fortune we should lose, Atlanta w ill
have the satisfaction of knowing that
it was repr< wanted by a club that put
up one of the sternest fights against
the biggest odds that the history
of the national game lias known.
* • *
THERE is onf thing on which I am
4 laying great hop< s 1 am serene
ly confident of my pitching staff. Th?
first day Price did all that could be
expected of mortal man. Yesterday
Dent did just as well, and I expect us
much of Joe Conzelman to-day.
Yes, Joe’s the hoy
He’s ripe and ready, lie was itch
ing to get in the fray all through
yesterday’s battle, but 1 never saw
any Indication of Dent’s faltering and
I believe Joe will be equal to the task
to-day.
• • *
I'M not much on the psychology
* stuff, but to n man up a tree, It
looks like somebody on the Mobile
club has lost a dog.
The Gulls are lighting, all right.
They art* fighting hard. But they are
fighting on the defensive. And that's
right where 1 want them. If I car
get the jump in every game, I know
I've got a club that will never let up.
Did you notice how they fought
yesterday whenever the Gulls tied or
threatened us? Why, those boys
never knew the fighting stuff thev
had In them until they were in dan
ger. When they were in danger they
tore into the Gull defense like it was
tissue paper, and when It looked as
If the Gulls were going to get busy,
thev stiffened and presented n stone
wall obstacle for Finn's gang to knock
down.
...
| MUST admit that our chances are
1 looking better every second. Cavet
Is out of the way and so Is Hogg.
These two birds were admittedly the
Gulls’ best bets. Now, they have
Campbell, Berger and Robertson to
hurl the other two games.
Who will It be to-day? Ask Mlque.
I don’t'know.
But I suspect It will, in all likeli
hood, be Billy Campbell. Finn may
figure that Billy can stop us. If any
body can. on a'ccount of the number
of left-hand hitters we have, and
then Campbell will add a lot of hit
ting strength.
I'm not worrying, though. I have
supreme confidence in Joe Conzel
man and supreme confidence In my
club. Mlque Finn is a long way from
landing that $1,000 bonus the peopl"
of Mobile have offered for a pennant
winner.
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It will be worth your while to do so.
Thomasville Beats
Valdosta; Leads in
Championship Series
VALDOSTA, GA., Sept. 4.-—Thom
asville now leads Valdosta in their
series for the Empire State League
championship, with three victories
and two defeats. Thomasville won
its third game yesterday by defeating
the home boys, 2 to 1, in a great hurl
ing duel between Day and VVinges.
Valdosta took the lead in the third
inning by pushing one tally over the
plate. Thomasviile romped into th?
lead in the sixth session by pounding
out two runs. The last three innings
were fiercely fought, but neither team
was able to put over a run.
If Thomasville wins to-day’! game
they will capture the series. If Val
dosta wins the two teams will have
to clash in a deciding game.
Frank Moran Stops
Palzer in Seventh
Round at New York
BASEBALL SUMMARY
SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
Games Thursday.
Mobile at Atlanta. Game called at 3:30
o’clock.
Memphis at Birmingham.
Montgomery at Nashville.
New Orleans at Chattanooga
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. Pc.
Mobile.. 80 55 .593
Atlanta. 79 56 .585
Chatt... 69 61 .530
B'ham.. 72 64 .529
W. L. Pc.
Mont.... 68 64 .515
M'phls.. 62 72 .463
N’ville.. 60 75 444
New O. 43 86 .333
Wednesday's Results.
Atlanta. 4; Mobile, 3.
Chattanooga. 10; New Orleans, 3.
Birmingham, 9: Memphis, 4.
Nashville, 1; Montgomery, 0.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Games Thursday.
Chicago at St. Louis.
Detroit at Cleveland.
New York at Washington.
Boston at Philadelphia.
Standing of the Clubs
NEW YORK. Sept. 4.—Frank Mo
ran, the Pittsburg heavyweight, is
rapidly coming to the front as a con
tender for the heavyweight cham
pionship of the world. Moran took on
A1 Palzer her ■ last night and sur
prised a big crowd by putting the
Iowan to sleep in the seventh round.
Several heavy rights to the jaw.
followed by a left to the stomach, did
the work. Palzer went do\vn like a
dog. Moran was the aggressor
throughout the mill and showed much
class.
When the big men entered the ring
Palzer ruled a 10 to 8 favorite. After
the fifth round ringsiders were bet
ting 2 to 1 on Moran.
Coveleskie Refuses to
Join Tigers in Fall
CHATTANOOGA, TENN., Sept. 3.
Harry Coveleskie, the star southpaw
of the local club, announced- to-day
that he would not report to Detroit
this fall, as has been stated. He was
sold with this understanding, but the
“Giant Killer" has worked in 40
games and wants to rest until spring.
\v. I. Pc.
Phila.... 84 27 .667
Cl'land. 77 61 .601
W'gton. 70 55 .579
Chicago 67 63 .558
W. L. Pc
Boston.. 62 62 .600
Detroit.. 56 71 .441
St. L.. . 48 83 .367
New Y.. 43 80 .350
Wednesday’s Results.
Philadelphia. 4; Washington, 3.
New York. 11; Boston. 4.
No other grimes scheduled.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Games Thursday.
Philadelphia at Boston.
Brooklyn at New York (two games).
St. Louis at Pittsburg (two games).
standing of x he Clubs.
W. L. Pc. I W. U rc.
New Y.. 85 40 .680 | B'klyn.. 53 70 .431
Phila. 73 47 609 Boston.. 64 68 .442
Chicago 71 56 .559 Cin’nati 54 78 .409
P burg 66 58 .532 ! St. L.... 45 84 349
Wednesday's Results.
Philadelphia, 4 3: Brooklyn, 3-5.
Cincinnati, 3; Pittsburg, 1.
Chicago, 7; St. Louis, 2.
Boston, 2, New York, 1.
OTHER RESULTS.
Texas League.
Dallas, 6; Austin, 5.
Houston, 5; Galveston, 3.
Beaumont, 4; San Antonio, 2.
Fort Worth, 6; Waco, 1.
Appalachian League.
Knoxville. 17; Mlddlesboro, 4.
Rome, 10; Morristown. 6.
Bristol, 13; Johnson City, 7.
Carolina Association.
Greensboro-Winston-Salem, rain.
Durham-Raleigh. rain.
Charlotte, 7; Asheville, 7.
American Association.
Columbus. 9; Indianapolis, 5.
Louisville. 10; Toledo, 1.
St. Paul. 1; Milwaukee. 0.
Minneapolis-Kansas City, rain.
Federal League.
Kansas City, 4; Indianapolis, 1.
St. Louis, 2; Chicago, 1.
Virginia League.
Petersburg-Richmond, rain.
Newport News-Roanoke. rain.
Norfolk-Portsmouth. rain.
International League.
Providence, 7; Jersey City, 1.
Rochester, 2; Toronto, 1.
Baltimore, 2: Newark. 0.
Buffalo, 4; Montreal. 1.
By Joe Agler.
M Y idea of the game of ball we
won yesterday is that we out
fought the Gulls rather than
outplayed them.
You know in an ideal ball game
there are no errors and no slow 7
“bones" and no slow thinking. It
is all machine-like and accurate.
And one side or the other w r ins on
clean hitting or crafty base-running,
and you go away and say, “Well, that
was a well-played game."
* * *
IT would take a pretty lucky guy
* to say that about that game yes
terday. Not but what there were
brilliant individual bits of work. That
fellow Starr pulled a grand catch of
a line drive off Bisland’s bat, and
Clark did the same thing to Harry
Holland’s wallop in the first inning.
Harry Welchonce held down
Schmidt’s bid for a triple by some
fast work, and Hogg supported him
self by a gloved-hand stab of a line
drive off Nixon’s bat.
I should call it pretty fair fielding.
* • •
D UT the game was not w 7 ell played,
as the ideal games are supposed
to go.
For one thing, both teams were on
the same fearful tension as yesterday
—more so, if possible.
We were crazy to win that game.
Nothing but pure anxiety to play at
top speed ever could have made Wal
ly Smith look like he did yesterdav.
And, at that, it must be remembered
that Wally redeemed himself by some
mighty good fielding, and that not one
of his errors cost a run, though they
kept good old Elliott Dent out there
working overtime in four innings.
But we all do things like that. For
my part. I made a particularly rotten
muff of a perfect throw by Bisland,
to complete a double play in the sixth
inning. We had the play dead to
rights, and I was so anxious to freeze
the ball and make It safe that I Just
muffed it clean.
No excuses. I’m only glad it didn’t
cost anything in the way of runs.
• * *
T HAT’S what I mean by saying we
outfought the Gulls.
We certainly didn’t outplay them,
though I do think Dent jiad it on
Hogg so far as the pitching was con
cerned.
But in spite of our errors and their
really fine defense, and in spite ol
the fact that they outhit us by a
small edge, we scrapped It out, run
for run, right up to the last frame—
and then we had the punch to put
over the odd one.
| RECKON you thought there that I
was going to say something about
the little hit I was lucky enough to
get with Joe Dunn on second, with
one out in the ninth.
Not on your life. It’s true that 1
had a bit of luck in guessing that
low curve Hogg tried to feed me with
the count two and two, just after I
had passed a strike of the stame
kind.
Of course, I feel pretty good about
that, coming just as it did. But I
want to hand the credit to Joe Dunn,
and the rest of the boys are right
with me there.
Joe worked in great form, from the
Dunn Deserves Credit for Victory
•*•••!• •|**4 r *1* • d* •!-•»!• •!•••!•
Castro Praises Veteran’s Work
Carrigan to Manage
Red Sox Next Season
BOSTON, Sept. 4.—That President
James R. McAleer. of the world’s
champion Boston American League
baseball club, believes Manager Wil
liam F. Carrigan capable of making
the team again h pennant winner, was
demonstrated to-day when he con
tracted with Carrigan to continue as
manager during the season of 1914. It
is understood that Carrigan received
a substantial increase in salary.
Carrigan was appointed manager of
the team a few months ago. following
the release of Jake Stahl, who piloted
the club to a world’s championship
last year.
Winston-Salem Wins
Flag by Four Points
CHARLOTTE. N. C.. Sept. 4.—The
first season of the North Carolina
League closed yesterday, Winston-
Salem winning the pennant by a mar
gin of 4 points. The other clubs closed
in the following order:
Durham. Raleigh, Asheville, Char
lotte, Greensboro.
The Official Score
Following Is the official score of
the second game between the Crack
ers and the Gulls, compiled by O. B.
Keeler, of The Georgian, official
scorer for the Southern League in
Atlatna this season:
Mobile. ab. r. h. po. a. e.
Stock, ss 4 0 0 2 6 0
Starr, 2b 5 0 1 4 2 0
O’Dell, 3b 5 0 0 1 3 0
Paulet, lb 4 0 0 13 0 1
Robertson, cf . . . .4 2 2 1 0 0
Schmidt, c 3 1 2 1 2 0
Clark, If 4 0 1 2 0 0
Miller, rf 3 0 1 0 0 0
Hogg, p 400140
Totals 36 3 7x25 17 1
Atlanta. ab. r. h. po. a. e.
Agler, lb 4 2 2 13 0 1
Long, If 3 0 1 2 0 0
Welchonce, cf . . ..2 0 1 0 0 1
Smith, 2b 2 0 0 2 6 4
Bisland, ss 4 0 0 4 7 0
Holland, 3b ... .3 0 0 0 1 0
Nixon, rf 4 0 1 3 0 0
Chapman, c . . . .1 0 0 2 0 0
Voss 0 10000
Dunn, c 110110
Deut, p 3 01010
Totals 27 4 6 27 16 C
xOne out when winning run was
scored.
Voss ran for Chapman in fifth.
Score by Innings:
Mobile 010 001 010—3
Atlanta 100 020 001—1
Summary : Two-base hit—VVel-
chonce. Three-base hit—Miller.
Double plays—Smith to Bisland to
Agler; Hogg to Stock to Paulet;
Starr to Paulet. Struck out—By
Dent, 2; by Hogg, 2. Bases on balls
—Off Dent, 2; off Hogg. 5. Sacrifice
hits—Agler, Deut, Miller. Stolen
bases—Agler, Nixon, O’Dell. Robert
son. Hit by pitcher—By Hogg, Smith.
Chapman, Holland. Time—2 hours.
Umpires—Rudderham and Pfennin-
ger.
By Lou Castro.
I N the fifth inning of yesterday’s
game between the Crackers and
Gulls Umpire Rudderham benched
Chapman for his run-in w 7 ith Hogg.
When Bill Smith substituted old re
liable Joe Dunn for the youngster
very few fans among the 9,000 pres
ent thought that Joe was to take an
active part in bringing the second
game of the crucial series to the
locals.
For two years Dunn has been called
the slowest man in the Southern
League. Yet, yesterday Joe raced
from first to second on a sacrifice that
was fielded perfectly by O’Dell. Later,
this same man scored the winning
run from second on a single by Joe
Agler. But I am not trying to give
Dunn credit for being a fast man.
It was Joe’s great headwork that had
as much to do with winning that game
as Agler’s hit. Dunn took a daring
chance when he started for third on
the pitch. Had Agler missed the ball
Dunn would surely have been caught
between second and third, and thou
sands of fans would be hailing Joe as
a bonehead
* * *
A S it was. Dunn figured out a chance
play and risked his own reputa
tion to bring victory to his team.
That old reliable head that took part
In many an exciting game told him
to dig for the plate, and he did. An
other great play made by Dunn dur
ing his short time behind the bat was
pulled off in the sixth inning. Robert
son. the first man up for Mobile,
singled to center. He took second
when Welchonce fumbled the ball.
Schmidt followed with a single and
Robertson tallied. The Gulls were in
the middle of a rally. They were
fighting mad. Clark, a fast man, came
up next. He pulled the unexpected,
and laid down a beautiful bunt. Now,
remember, practically everything
hinged on this play. Dunn jumped
up in front of the plate, grabbed the
ball, and shot it on a line to second,
forcing Schmidt.
* * *
FJUNN didn’t have a second to think
^ when Clark laid down the ball
If he threw to first he was sure of
catching Clark. With a man on sec
ond and one out the Gulls would
surely be more dangerous than with
one on first. Dunn realized this and
took the desperate chance of making
a force out. He succeeded and cer
tainly deserves much credit for his
nerve.
Yes, it is my opinion that Joe
Dunn’s brain had a great deal to do
In winning yesterday’s game. And
it is also a good bet that if any
one asked Dent after the game who
he would’ rather have behind the bat,
Dunn or Cha.pman, that the Cracker
hurler would pick the veteran.
I am not trying to take any credit
from Chapman. I really think he is
one of the greatest young catchers
the Southern League has ever had.
He is fast, nervy and a wonderful
fighter. But Joe Dunn, in a series of
this kind, is worth a great deal to
a team. He might not be fast, but
he has the brain, and knows how and
when to pull a play. He showed it
yesterday, and it is my humble opin
ion that he will show it again if
\ given the chance.
TOURING my entire career as a
baseball player I have always
felt that the Atlanta baseball public
was the fairest of all. Yesterday,
for the first time, I had to look at
a demonstration by the fans that was
anything but sportsmanlike. Several
of the fans threw cushions and pop
bottles at the Mobile players and this
will not get them anything. Remem
ber. these boys are only human and
deserve fair treatment. Apparently,
the intense excitement got the best
of some of the fans. This should be
avoided. Fair play is best in all kinds
of sport.
* * *
pKKSONALLY, I am heart and soul
1 with the Craekem I want to
see them win and am pulling for
them at all times. But I don’t let
my enthusiasm get the best of me.
I fought in many a hot battle my
self and know what It. means to go
on a visiting team’s, grounds and be
showered with pop bottles and cush
ions, and I am positive that if the
fans only realized what they were
doing they would have cut it out.
• * *
|T looks like the Mobile club Intends
1 to fight to the finish. The fight
ing spirit showed by thje team in
the closing innings yesterday was
wonderful. They refused to quit at
any stage of the game and I look
for tfcem to be battling harder to
day than yesterday. Now. for the
sake of the sport, let’? give them fair
play.
Overanxiousness played a great
part In yesterday's battle. All the
players were trying their best at all
times with the result that several of |
them overstepped themselves Smith’s
four errors were due to his anxiety
to complete his play before the bail
came to him.
Taken all in all, it was a great
game and fought on its merits. The
two teams clash again to-day and
let’s hope that the best team wins.
plate to the platter, on that run. He
looked ’em over for the base on bails
that put him on. He got a good start
and pulled a nice hook 9lide at sec
ond, getting down on Dent’s sacri
fice. Then he got a bigger lead off
second than I ever saw Joe take be
fore. And when I cut that little
single into short right-center. Joe
legged it for home at a rate that daz
zled the fellows on the bench, and
went in with another hook slide—
taking no chances, for he was carry
ing the game, and maybe the pen
nant. on his back.
• * *
J OE caught a nice game, too, after
Chapman got into trouble. I
don’t care to say anything about that,
more than that I believe both Hogg
and Chapman were sincere and hon
est in their views, and it was too bad
that they should have had the trouble.
But in a tight series of this kind, one
must look for things of this kind.
We are playing for blood, and so
are the Gulls, and no one need come
out to watch us, looking for any lady
like shows.
The Gulls are clean sportsmen, I
believe, and I know our boys are, ard
the only exhibition of raw piking
seen yesterday was that of a few bum
sports guying Hogg after the gam®.
I don’t think there are many of that
kind in Atlanta. But there are a few
everywhere you go.
* * *
I\7 ELL. we are up to Game 3 now—
* * and we still have that old hunch
that the Gulls are on the run.
If we can beat them to-day—
But we aren’t letting ourseives get
that far ahead of the game. We have
to make It play by play, you know,
and we just do our best on every one.
That’s all anybody can do.
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MATINEE 2:30 TO-DAY
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Game Called 3:30
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Matinees Tues.. Thurs. and Sat.
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Night Shows 8:30
Big Auto Races Friday
Last chance to see “Wild Bill" Jones and others bum up the track.
Special 100-mile race Friday 2 o’clock sharp. Take cars at Alabama
and South Forsyth streets for Atlanta Speedway.
CRYSTAL POOL PARLORS
Closed From 3 to 6 P. M., To-day, Thursday
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