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Atlanta Mogul Tackles Job That Made Monte Cristo’s Hair White
B.SMITH HAS COUNTED ‘2’; CAN HE COUNT TO ‘4’?
By Fuzzy Woodruff.
two, three,’* counted the
Count of Monte Crlsto, be
fore he had accomplished his
life work. The time for this may
seem infinitesimal. "One, two, three”
ranks with “A, B, C” in our system
of location, but before Monte Crlsto
could perform thi» feat of primary
mathematics, he had to spend a
couple of billion francs, kill half a
score of people, and become a hop-
head in something like 1,000 pages
of magnifying glass type.
This is not a story of James ONeil,
Edmund Dantes, or Alexander Dumas.
Ae little as you may think it, this has
to do with the modernized commer
cialized game and business o? base
ball. The Fxile and only reason for
the existence of the first paragraph
is to prove that William Andrew
Smith, boss of Atlanta’s baseball des
tinies, has a harder Job ahead of him
than had Monte Crlsto.
Billy nas to count "four.”
He has counted “two” with such
supreme accuracy that the teacher is
about ready to send him to the head
of the class. His prospects of reach
ing “four” are brighter every mo
ment. He tackles “three” to-day.
* « •
«TWO" was an awful Job, It was
A mastered with so much dif
ficulty that Atlanta slghe with relief
that he doesn’t have to go up to
“ten.”
Had he this task ahead, there would
be nobody left in Atlanta to hear him
apeak the number. The population of
the city would have been transferred
to Milledgoville, where the keepers
would be trying to convince them that
they were not all Napoleon Bona
parte*, John D. Rockefellers, Hans
Wagners and other noted personages.
For the pleasure of hearing Wil
liam enunciate the only word In the
English language that can be spelled
three ways, something like P.000 wild-
eved persons horned their way
through the generous gates of Poncy
Park at from two to six bits a throw
under the ostensible excuse that they
came to glimpse the noble pastiming
of these United States.
Beyond doubt baseball was played
for their edification, Everybody Is
sure of it. for the umpires were calle 1
other things than “Dan” and “Frank”
during the afternoon* which is base
ball’s surest sign.
* * *
B UT in addition to the sport of Pa
Chadwick, the impressarios of
the well-known Crucial Series trotted
out as add°d attractions coneiderabl°
like of which has not been seen at
Camp Perry, a well-defined case of
assault and battery, and a mob scene
light comedy, some sharpshooting the
true to all stage traditions. The crowd
roared, but no one wan hurt.
The Crackers and the Culls fur
nished the pastiming. The Atlanta
police force furnished the comedy,
young Mr. Hogg did the work from
the rifle pit, the youthful Mr. Chap
man committed the misdemeanor
against the peace and dignity of the
State of Georgia, and some sorry pin
heads. the same sort that furnish
the behind-the-scenes growls for the
stage mobs for a quarter a night,
performed a similar act for their own
edification and amusement.
The subject* must be taken up se
riatim, as the politicians say when
they are about to pass a measure
that they don’t think the people can
swallow at one gulp.
hobo in a box-car when it’s on u
siding.
As nothing serious happened, the
bluecoats performed admirably as
comedians. Had something serious
occurred, there would have been Just
cause for the police bourd to assemble
in extraordinary session.
* * *
^ OW as to the pitcher with the
porcino appellation and his
sharpshooting ability and Mr. Chap
man with his violation of the crim
inal code.
In the fifth inning, Chapman ran
out of the batter’s box to hit at a
curve before it broke A professional
ball player knows the answer of the
opposing pitcher to this trick of the
trade. It Is to shoot the next ball
high, fast and straight at the batter.
Chapman is a professional bad
player He knows Hogg is a pro
fessional ball player, and when Hogg's
fast one caught him in the back, It
was more or less his own fault.
Chapman, evidently, let his temper
and the nervous strain under which
all the players were working get tho
better of him. Instead of trotting to
first base, he recovered the ball that
hncl pinked him and deliberately
slammed it at Hogg, who barely had
time to dodge and evade the throw,
Had a spectator hurled a brick at
another In this manner an arrest
would have been made. The attack
on Hoag was In no sense a part of
tho ball game. The umpires property
and promptly hoisted Chapman out
of the game, and the policemen ate
peanuts.
RUT that was not enough for the
bold, bad men of the bleachers.
They immediately began to pant for
the heart blood of Mr. Hogg, even as
the hart panteth after the water
brook.
Added fuel was placed on their fire
when Hogg, by pure accident, pinked
Harry Holland on the wrist.
Soon after, the game ended dra
matically. There was a scene of wild
enthusiasm. Cushions were thrown
on the field. Hats sailed through
the air. The demonstration was
natural, was praiseworthy, was
sportsmanlike.
But there were a few cravens in
the crowd. who took advantage of
this demonstration of sincere enthu
siasm to hide their attack on the
Mobile pitcher. Cushions flew in
swarms about him as he walked
toward the Mobile bench. Then a
pop-bottle or two began to fly. Then
a half-dozen of them.
• • •
U OGO, In the meantime, was being
11 abused by spectators. He at
tempted to retaliate. He was wisely
restrained by his teammates. Finally,
in company with Charley Schmiat.
the big. burly catcher of the Gulls,
he walked to the Mobile bus.
The crowd went yelping, snapping
at the heels of the pair. There was
no attack. Schmidt looked entirely
too businesslike for that sort of busi
ness.
And in the meantime, hundreds
yes thousands, of true Atlanta sports
men had to witness the scene and
have the sweet taste of a well-earned
victory filched from them by the sour
display of a few, but always present,
adalepates.
SIDELIGHTS ON SECOND
GAME AT PONCY PARK
A
d.
S to tho pastlmtns. It can bo truly
said that tho nervous strain
under which the athletes labored in
the first of these pennant clashes
was multiplied several figures yes
terday afternoon. To all appearances
all that Mlque Finn would have need
ed was to have put a match to the
Cracker Infield for it to blow up.
All that Bill Smith would have had
to have done was to suggest flame
and furv to the Mobillans and there
would have been an explosion that
would have awakened the Federal sol
diers’ keeping In Marietta and made
them think that the Battle of At
lanta was on again. ■
From the flfst inning until the last
there was not a second when the
Gulls were net in imminent danger
of scoring. From the time that the
umpires announced the batter es r..
the moment when Speed Demon Dunn
slid into the plate with the winning
run In the ninth, the Crackers seemed
ready at any moment to break up the
pastiming-.
IT was one of those games worth
* going miles to see, not to witness
any marvelous baseball performances
but to look and marvel that so much
mad baseball could be crowded into
nine inning.- and so few runs scored.
With the single exception of the
first run the Crackers scored, their
every count was due either to bases
on balls or errors by the opposition.
Every one of the Gulls' trio of tallies
can he directly attributed to Cracker
misplay-. t
T HERE were some bright spots.
Dent hurled wopderfui ball un
der adverse circumstances. .Toe Dunn s
thinking gave the Crackers the edge.
Toe Agter’s brilliancy went along un
dimmed. And the Crackers won,
which should he enough-.
* • »
B UT away from the pastiming-. 1/et's
to smiling comedy and grim-
visaged near-tragedy.
As we remarked before, the Atlanta
police force furnished the Toe Welcr
stuff. Enough bluecoats horned their
way through the entrances before the
game to patrol the Mexican border
with the Maderists and the Huerta-
ites both out on a' bloodthirsty jag.
They were as much in evidence while
the pastiming was peaceful as a clown
is in a circus between the acts of the
trained elephants and the entrance
of the unequalled troupe of European
acrobats. , , .
They stood before grandstand and
bleacher and distributed the. scenery
and the view of the faithful in fault-
lees fashion.
Sir Teseph Porter, K.C.B., once
ahanted:
"But when the breezes blow,
I generally go below,
And seek the seclusion that the cabin
grants—”
CHORUS.
“And SO do his sisters, _and his
cousins, and his aunts.”
So did the constabulary. When the
dark clouds of violence began to
gather and there seemed squally
weather ahead, the enforcers of law
•mil order wont below the grand-
stan d nr inmc Other plaee where they
— -Htuji bodily harm as a
By W. 8. Farnsworth.
E D DENT didn’t work quite as
hard as Hogg In the second
game of the series. That is, he
didn't pitch as many balls. The
Cracker hurler uncorked 109 separate
and distinct heaves, while the Gull
boxman sent 110 up to the pan.
In the second Inning Reff i hetf
only *ix balls. That was the low
figure for one stanza. He also hurled
the most balls in one spasm—28 in
the fifth.
Following: 1b a summary of Just the
number of balls each hurler pitched
in each Inningi
Inning
Dent Hogg
First ...
• .4 k , • 4-1 k , V Vi ii
10
Second -.
6
Third ..
12
Fourth -.
11
Fifth ...
. V 1 -. •. 1 1 1 i V 1 i V , . . 1 2
28
Sixth ..
1.1
13
Seventh
i
12
Eighth ..
12
12
Ninth -..
12
Total .
................109
116
Dent’s first offering of the day was
a ball, low and outside-. It was a
curve-.
• • •
Hogg made his debut with a fast
one- waist-high, that Agler iet ride
on him for a strike.
* « •
Agler was first to register a hit.
It came in the opening inning and
was a beauty slice to right-.
• * 9
Agler also made the final hit, a
single to center that scored Dunn
with the winning tally-.
* * *
Welchonce’e two-bagger to left in
the first inning took a right angle
twist to the stand after it hit the
ground. Just an inch inside the foul
line. It feored the first run, as Ag
ler cashed on the blow.
• • •
Bisland should have waited out a
few in the first instead of hitting at
the first ball for an easy infield out,
Hogg was "up” as a result of Agler s
single* Welchonce’k double and the
beanlng of Smith.
9*9
Holland had luck on his welt in the
first. Clark made a highway robbery
stab of hi* hard line drive that looked
good for the circuit
Welchonce did some fast fielding in
the Fecond when he held Schmidt’s
good-looking swat to a single. Looked
like a sure three-rushion soak.
9 9 9
Clark registered a lucky single in
the second when Bisland and Smith
let his roller over second go ffir a
single. Each thought the other was
going to take it, It was Hisland’B
ball.
9 9 *
Nixon showed a pretty wing in the
second when he made a play to nip
Schmidt on Miller’s sacrifice hoist.
The fly was deep* hut the chunky
little gardener aimofit nailed the Ger
man,
9 9 9
Two lucky stabs did the Gulls mak«
in the second.
9 9 9
Nixon banged a hot one right into
Hogg’s glove, ^
Then Chapman was robbed of an
other hit of the wame brand when
Sfock was right in front of a terrific
slam.
9 9 9
Hogg’s delivery seemed to be a
pipe to solve. Whenever he un
corked a curve he stepped outside of
the box with his right foot,
* • *
Bisland made tile best play of the
day when he went back of third and
stopped Stock’s grounder that got
past Holland. Then Rlvington made
a peacherino chuck to Agler, getting
the runner by inches only.
...
Dent caught Starr napping off first
in the third by a nice snap throw to
Agler. But Pfennlnger was asleep
and missed It.
• • •
Wally Smith has probably cleared
his system of errors, and can be
counted on to redeem himself to-day.
• * •
Tommy Long was lucky to got
away with his single that came In
the third when he slid into first. Pau-
let’s chuck to Hogg, who covered, ap
peared to have Thomas beaten a
.‘■•hade.
* * •
Suur ait hard at one of Dent's
slow curves In the fifth that the bat
twisted out of his hands and rolled
almost to the Gull-bench,
• * •
Fuzzy Woodruff made two errors
going after fouls that rode up to the
press box,
9*9
Starr registered a Cincinnati hit
In the fifth inning. They all count
in the averages, however,
* * «
Chapman was verjt accommodating
In the fifth when he ran to the bench
to get a handkerchief for Dent,
9 4 9
Dent bunted at a third strike In
the nxth for a foul. Hnw the Gulls
did howl when Rudderhnm refused
to declare the tall pitcher out,
4 9 9
And to mak° matters all the wore**,
Dent, then, with the count two and
nothing against him, dropped a Texas
Leaguer to short left.
9 9 9
Robertson made two hits. This Is a
total of five for him this season at
Poncy Park,
4 9 4
Either Stock or Robertson came up
first for the Gulls In every inning.
And they are the two most dangerous
men in the Gull batting list,
4 4 4
Manush was a regular Arlle T^tham
on the coaching lines. He cut some
mighty funny capers and had the left
field bleachers rooting their heads
off.
9 9
Royal Rooter Brewster sat in the
press box and was as quiet as a pack
of yelling wolves on a dark and
stormy night.
9 9 9
Miller made a sweet play in the
sixth when he knocked down Nixon’s
rapid welt to right-center that was
tagged for the circuit.
4 9 9
After a consultation between the
entire Gull infield Welchonce was pur
posely walked In the seventh when
things looked a bit blue for the vis
itors.
9 9 9
T/ong was dead slow fielding Mil
ler’*. triple In the eighth. It would
have been an easy out bad Tommy
turned and ran back instead of back
ing up for It.
9 9 9
Holland pure got an awful Jolt on
his crazybone in the eighth. Hogg had
a world of speed behind that heave*
4 4 4
And now we are ready to scalp the
Gulls for the third successive time,
Let’s go!
Ball Players Will
Attend McNeil Races
At ‘Drome’ Friday
The Jock McNeil benefit races at
the Atlanta ’Drome to-morrow
night are creating much atten
tion among local fans, McNeil way a
great favorite here and fans arc plan
ning to turn out In large numbers so
as to make the receipts a# big as pos
sible.
The proceeds of this meet will be
turned over to McNeil’s mother, who
is in Scotland. Mrs, McNeil 1» in need
of the money and the management is
doing all in its power to have a large
crowd present.
The newspaper men, riders, judges
and other officials have all agreed
to pay. No passes will be honored.
Everyone in connection with the Mo
tordrome will render his services free.
Many of the Atlanta ball p
will also be present. Agler. Smith,
Welchonce and Manush have already
stated that they will be on hand.
The program is to be a mom at
tractive one. The riders have
promised to race as they never have
before, so as to give the fans a real
night’s sport. Jock was a great fa
vorite among the local speed demons
and they want to do everything in
their power to make the benefit a
success.
CARR RESIGNS.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., Sept. 4 —
Charles Carr, manager of the Kansas
City baseball club, of the American As
sociation. has handed his resignation
to Owner George Tebeau, who is here
with the team. He will leave at once for
his home at Cleveland.
Long Beating Out
Hit by Great Slide
Police Let Uncouth Mob Attack Visitors With Cushions After Came
WE ARE ONLY ONE GAME SOUTH OF GULLS NOW
By 0. B. Keeler.
W E’RE still THERE.
And there doesn’t seem to
be any more apt way of put
ting it.
One game south of the Gulls.
Two more games to play them.
Then one game with the Pepper
Kids, while the Gulls and the Pels
plav two .
Wear out your own pencil—and
don’t forget that it MAY rain.
IF you want any dope on the game
* to-day you can find it elsewhere
in this issue, probably plastered over
fair segment of Page 1.
For our part, we are going to
climb on that tussle of yesterday,
which was Wednesday, if you are un
lucky enough to get this great edu
cational lay-out the morning after.
We are going to climb on that Sec
ond Game of the Hectic Series, and
we are going to RIDE.
Want to come along?
O NE reason is because the riding
is good. „ Just at the exact
present.
Toymerrow’s low descending sun
may produce a Dull Thud in the Tank
of Calamity.
Wherefore we shall go booling
along while the booling is good.
N O special features, understand.
Special Features are handled
elsewhere ir this Admirable Lay-out
(as before hinted) by a Battery of
Wild and Untamed Experts, who nave
been training for weeks on raw beef
to acquire the requisite Local Color.
For our part, we are simply going
to execute a Gloat.
Here goes.
the red dust at Ponce DeLeon and
tested the souls of ball players and
umpires (if any) and lashed 9,000
spectators into the last stages of
twittering hysterics.
On the whole, we’ll Just revive that
first estimate.
It was a Grand Game.
* 9 9
'PHE rottenness of the second Gio-
*■ rious Victory would he charged
by a Regular Expert, hired to look
over a ball game for its alleged fine
points, and criticise any and every
little point that broke below cold,
mathematical, stop-watch, machine
baseball of H. Fullerton anil other
analysts.
Viewed from that hypercritical an
gle. Wallop Smith, In his own single
person, committed enough crimes to
have damned an entire season of
Sterilized Baseball.
Wally did have one awful day of It.
He used up enough fumbles to last
an ordinary lnflelder a couple of
weeks, and at bat the supreme tffffort
of his attack consisted in getting h
shoulder blade’ in front of one of
Hogg’s fast curves.
9
J OE AGLER and Harry Welchonce
tried to keep Wally from feeling
lonesome, hut they didn’t get very
far with it. Harry s boot in the sixth
came from a too-desperate effort to
play fast on Dave Robertson’s line
drive to center, and Joe—again the
spot-lighted hero of a crucial game—
Joey let a good peg by Bisland to
complete a two-ply killing hop from
between his flippers
But Wally—well, Wally had a round
dozen chances, and he fielded .666 2-3.
Go on and wear out some more
of that pencil—or take a once-over
at the Official Box Score, displayed
elsewhere in this sparkling issue.
9 9 9
C ONSIDERING the extreme shaki
ness of the Right Wing of his
support, Elliott Dent pitched a great
game. Bradley Hogg was good, too,
but he had some miraculous fielding
back of him. if not much assistance
from the umpire.
Once a line drive from Welchonce’s
bat caromed from the dodging Brad
ley’s off hip, straight into Stock’s
hands, and a swinging double-killing
resulted, Again, a screaming punch
from Nixon’s weapon lodg.-d in the
hands of Starr and Holland was
doubled off first. And yet again, the
same peaky Starr, bouncing back
ward, leaped in the air and when he
cam$ down on his rear elevation he
held In his gloved hand the line drive
of Rivington Bieland.
Oh. we should say SOME support
for Mr. Hogg.
9 9 9
PPOSED to this was the three-
bagger of Mr. Miller, which tied
This photograph shows Tommy sliding into first in the third in ning. He had sent a puzzUng grounder down the first base line that
Paulet picked up. Hogg ran over to “cover” but just a flash befor e the Mobile pitcher received the ball Tommy sank his spikes into
the sack, thereby earning a hit.
EADE’S
Hogg, Chapman and Smith Are First to Break Under Fierce Struggle
STRAIN TELLING ON PLAYERS OF BOTH TEAMS
DOYLE WEDS SOUTHERN GIRL.
NEW YORK, Sept. 4.— Larry Doyle,
captain of the New York Giants, was
married yesterday afternoon to Ger
trude Elizabeth McCoomba, of Florida-.
By Iunis Brown.
W ITH the great collection of
baseball bugs assembled at
Ponce DeLeon Wednesday
afternoon, there was no doubt a lib
eral sprinkling of those who sub
scribe rtrongly to tho theory of the
psychological. In that event* they had
their inning, In fact* they had nine
full innings, it requiring no loss than
the full allotment to settle the con
test.
As first evidence of the fact, take
a look at the error columns, focusing
your chief gaze on the record of Wal
lie Smith. Ordinarily, we believe that
Wallie possesses a?' useful a pair jf
hands as adorns the anatomy of ar.v
gen. In the Southern League wh/n
It comes to handling a grass-cutter.
However, Wallie succeeded during tne
afternoon in kicking in with no less
than three foozles on gentle bounders
into Mm immediate vicinity.
Heretofore. Wallie has given local
bugs full cause for believing that he
would kick In with the real goods
all done up in nice silken-bound
packages. Wherefore, there is only
one plausible reason to be assigned
for his failure to come through as
per schedule — psychology. Maybe
some would call it an overanxiety,
but call it whatever you will, it is
a hidden force that somehow side
tracks the main performance long
enough to cause a failure to connect.
9 4 9
OOWRVBR, there Is no intention of
*■ *■ panning Wallie herein, and fur
thermore. Wallie was not the most
conspicuous victim of that indefinite
situation commonly referred to as the
psychological moment. There were at
least two others who were victims of
the circumstances to a most marked
degree.
Reference ia made to Harry Chap
us all up In the eighth, after spat
tering out of Tommy Long's mitts,
far away toward the left-field fence.
If Tommy only could have clung
to it, a lot of hysterics and fits and
such wouldn’t nave been wasted in
the next frame.
Then, In the second Inning, our boys
man and Bradley Hogg. In the opin
ion of Harry, Bradley produced the
first vibrations in the psychological
wave, while the Gull slabman main
tains that the Cracker receiver pro
voked the situation which led to emi
nent developments of the psycholog
ical.
At any rate, it required the srrv-
Ices of practically every member of
both clubs to suppress the immediate
source from which these waves ema
nated, and it. almost called lor activi
ties of the dignified, blue-coated min
ions of the law.
In the fifth, after A1 Nixon had
grounded out from Stock to Paulet.
Harry Chapman shouldered his
bludgeon and faced the ex-Mercer
tlinger. On the first pitched ball,
Chap danced up and down the bat
ter’s box with such liberty that Char
lie Schmidt appealed to Umpire Ru .
derham. On the second pitched tyill,
Harry received the shoot near the
rear moorings of the diaphragm.
Evidently, Chapman figured that
Hogg was evening up for his bold
antics on the preceding snot. At any
rate, he decided that, in directing his
fusillade, Bradley had drawn a bead
on his fifth rib and shot true to his
mark. Angered for the moment, he
grabbed up the ball which had rolled
aside, and with more speed even than
he usually employs in nipping run
ners at second, he took a shot at
Hogfc’M bulky form. Bradley duck« d
in time to miss a knock-out shot, and
associates and camp followers butted
into the fray,
9 9 9
F ROM this point on the psychology
of the situation as affecting
Chapman was lost to the ensemble,
he having been politely, nut firmly,
requested by Empire Rudderham to
depart from the field of activities.
With the substitution of Joe Dunn,
hocLiities were resumed.
With these thoughts preying on his
mind, it is little wonder that Mr.
Hogg lost his equilibrium, and with
his mental balance went fleeing the
steadiness of his pals. On the first
ball pitched to Dent that worthy
rolled it down to Paulet. The visit
ing first-flacker heaved wide to sec
ond to head off John Voss, who sub
stituted on the paths for Chapman,
and both hands were safe*
Hogg settled long enough to make
Agler roll to Stock, who killed Dent
at third to O’Dell, but Tommy Long
was walked and Harry Welchonce
also drew free transportation, after
fouling off a half-dozen, taxing the
hassocks to their capacity. Then,
when Hogg failed to get them over
for Smith, he forced Agler home with
the second counter for the Crackers.
With the bases full, Charlie Schmidt
escaped the circumambient wave of
old “psycho” long enough to nip
Smith off first to Paulet.
- These happenings ghould have been
sufficient to pack the old game away,
had it not been for the crumbling
of the Crackers’ inner defense. How
ever, the tensity of the situation got
the better of the inner guard, and
operating as a boomerang, allowed
the Gulls to slip through with coun
ters. one at a time, until they evened
the score in their half of the ninth.
Than as to keen eyesight on part
of Josephus Dunn, a neatly-done bunt
by Mr. Dent, and a timely punch by
J. Agler, the deciding run was shoved
across in the last half of the same
spasm. This combirvatlon dropped
back to bedrock for a long enough
period to regain a clear conception
of the chief business of the after
noon. and before the Gulls could col
lect themselves and array their de
fensive strength the last sad rites had
been said arid done, and That Fighting
(’hem e nad been reduced to a two-to-
oiip ifjojporition,
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your favor with every other
car—no matter what the
price. That its cost is
small is due to the manner
and magnitude of its mak
ing.
Five hundred dollars Is the new price of the Ford
runabout; the touring car is five fifty; the town
car seven fifty—all f. o. b. Detroit, complete
with equipment. Get catalog and particulars
from Ford Motor Company, No. 311 Peaobtree
street, Atlanta.
spotted them the first tie of the con
test, when, with Schmidt on first,
Bisland and Smith raced together at
tho second bag after Clark’s soft
bounder—and stopped and bowed to
each other, while the pill hopped
feebly out to center field.
And then there was Wallop Smith
—and yet not one of Wallop’s bobbins
figured in the actual scoring, except
as they kept Dent toiling overtime
and working his head off in four dif
ferent scoreless innings.
9 9 4
"M - OW. about the two little riot*.
1 l Chapman’s run-in with Hogg
in| the fifth arose from an old. old.
custom, traditional with pitchers
a method*of discouraging the prac
tice among batters of stepping in to
meet the pitch before ft break*.
Chappy stepped in on the first
pitch. It was a called strike. Then
Bradley observed tradition. He
wheeled up a fast one high and in
side. If Chapman had Ptepped in to
meet it, it would have met him. Chap
py didn’t step in to meet that, but
it got him. anyway.
Absolving Mr. Hogg of murderous
intentions, we are inclined to judge
the affair a. dog-fall, and even.to re
prove Mr. Chapman for trying a
bean-ball of his own at his supposed
enemy. A vote of thanks also is due
Mr. Schmidt, who embraced Mr. Hogg
as he came in to offer battle, and per
suaded him, by force of arms, as it
were, to lay off.
The whole business was not be
coming. but one must remember that
this series is for blood and not being
played between roomies.
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A ND, at that, the sparring match
between Mr. Chapman and Mr.
Hogg was a clean and sportsmanlike
engagement compared with the ex
hibition staged right after the game
by a lot of imitation thugs in the
western side of the grandstand.
Cushions and ili-smelling conver
sation were hurled at the Gulls as
they gathered up their baggage and
prepared to depart. Two policemen
were in eight and appeared to be
wondering what they were there for.
They showed no symptoms of
knowing.
The crowd Jeered the Mobile play
ers and showered cushions on them,
and the Gulls’ progress to the gate !
was impeded by a swarm of the low
browed populace, lacking only a lead
er to cause actual warfare.
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T HERE was just one wild hope in
our heart while gazing down ai j
the impending carnage from the press
coop. j
We did hope earnestly that some
one of those yelping cowards would
get within reach of Charley Schmidt
and say something personal.
Take It from us. that bug would
have supplied himself and all his kind
with a lasting lesson on the im- '
prudence of being a dirty piker out
loud, while real men were about.
We dwn’t believe many such mis
erable pikers were in that crowd.
We do believe that the ones who
were should have been kicked out.
We believe the police ought to *ook
after it.
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N OW. we are going to saw this off,
and compile full reports on the
two leaders in this noble strife, viz.
Bill Smith and Mique Finn.
Mr. Smith is saying nothing—and
eating tobacco.
Mr Finn is saying nothing—and
smiling.
And to the knowing ones, that
means W-A-R.
And THEN some.
Welchonce 4 Points
Behind D. Robertson
Four points now separate Harry
Welchonce, and Dave Robertson in their
fight for the batting honors of the South
ern League. Robertson gained 1 point
on the Cracker outfielder yesterday. He
is hitting the bail at a .343 clip. Wel
chonce has a mark of .339.
Robertson got his first two bingles of
the series yesterday, pounding out two
clean hits. Welchonce. was charged with
two times at bat and got one hit.