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THE ATLANTA PANORAMA OF 17,000 FANS WHO SAW 4 at --WiK 4*^tar'c, i V •-. •• ». jv 7CJJ* CSWJ • . -- . v ’ t • t. - ~ •W< ' ! H' ■ -.5 - ; sji r M 1-1 I , . • * , S If:^ WW£M Ppp 8 ? ”.#* r • » g. m'i'l ! 'Hilllij iliilHIhiil'Iiiiil' •; li:illHli!iiilt[ill„. flflPlifi ,,lllliWlil)ll1l!llltllHll mm ■m *<? a.. ; ...,„ ■■ >, '■ % ji f,' i vR ______ - ’.. ~ "T ’ i ~ - ■i pSJiWteH, «,•••&•.. i „ . -:*4 -r .V iL^, _ ' ■ s Father Time With Deadly Scythe Rushes to Rescue of Beaten Gulls L fj f A T QP |- j\j F CRACKER CLUB IS VANQUISHED, THOUGH VICTORS ' Has Fate Robbed Atlanta of Rag? •Fed- +•+ +•+ +*+ +•+ By Fuzzy Woodruff. A TLANTA won. And defeat was the Crackers. Mobile lost, and when the Gulls departed from the stricken field of Ponce DeLeon they were tasting the sweets of victory. The statement sounds paradoxical, but the paradox Is true. For to the loserg belonged the spoils, while the winner’s share was the headache. A happier, more radiant, more su premely contented face has never been seen in Atlanta than was the Fenian physiognomy of Finn as he left that battle-plowed, rain-soaked field. A bum despondent, heartbroken wight than William Andrew Smith at that time has never appeared outside of a stage snowstorm. And William was the victor. Mique was the vanqulahed. T ET us pause and annlyze this oon- dition under which oil mixes with water. streams run uphill, theft be comes honesty, raises in salary are given unsolicited, and other rank im possibilities become stern reality. When Finn led his (Tulls into this city of Southern progress. William Andrew Smith had to lead a forlorn hope that makes Pickett’s charge at Gettysburg appear as easy as pick ing cherries olT papa s tree. With a club that had but recently recovered from a slump he was com pelled to face the leaders of the league, before whose attack other clubs in the circuit had fallen as chaff be fore the wind and riders from the water wagon on the first bump after New Year’s Day. P OUR games wore scheduled be- 1 tween the Crackers and the Gulls. Exports agreed that for the Crackerv to have a reasonable chance for the Southern League gonfalon all four of these battles must be taken by Atlanta. Writers got out their trusty book of adjectives, picked out “Herculanean** and then began to describe Smith’s task. Then let the epic poet twang his lyre and tell in rounded phrase and tinkling jingle the gallantry with which William went about his labors* Marco Bozzaris, the gent who awoke th«* Turks; Arnold Von Wlnkelrisd, the warrior who made a pin-cushion of himself for the independence of Switzerland; Nathan Hale, who did a soft-shoe dance on atmosphere and wished for the lives of a cat in order to take bis encores, had nothing on the sublime courage with which Billy and his Crackers tackled the job. Wonderful Blood Remedy THE flr*n game was an Atlanta vic- * tory. The task ceased to be Her. culanean. It dwindled to monumental proportions. A second victory re duced it to just plain tremendous. And then came a drawn battle that sent Smith back to the Hercul&nean job of winning two battles in a single day, equaling. If not bettering. the hatting average of N. Bonaparte, a major leaguer of the early part of thy late departed century. Smith didn’t quail. He resumed the role of Hercules with as stout a heart as ever tripped inside of human carcass. He fought desperately for the first game of this double affair. He won It. He fdught desperately for the second. He was not defeated by the Gull^, H'» THE Crackers have displayed a won- * derful nerve during the Gulls se ries. They may still be working at. top speed against the Lookouts. They may win the pennant. But golden opportunity was lost when Atlanta took a chance on let ting Father Time enter the lists, for old Father has won all of his battles, save the one that is still being waged with Lillian Russell, and he may get her yet. was downed by Father Time, a war rior who has been able to dispose of every champion who has ever sported laurel wreath or The Police Gazette belt. To-day he stands a vanquished conqueror, through no fault of his. Had the figure in the silhouette robe with the populite whiskers and the agricultural impliment, that is pic tured as being chased by a chubby infant every time the Old Year dies, not cast his shadow over the ball lot. had not some untoward fate caused the New York-New Orleans Limited to be on time for once on yesterday afternoon, there is every probability that Atlanta would be leading the league standing by one full game to day. instead of the top of the per centage table being tied In a knot as fast as master mariner can make. IT was palpable yesterday that the 1 Mobile club had realized It was beaten, practically before the ath letes trotted on the field. Weirder support than was given "Pug” Cavet in the opening session has rarely been seen So securely did the game set m tucked away that the Crackers eased In their attack to hurry matters and make the second game sure. Of course, there is where Smith or the officers of the Atlanta Baseball Association or somebody erred. There should have been no chance of the second game being called without five Innings being played. It was known, day's and days in advance, that the Mobile club would have to leave the ball park at 4:40 o’clock yesterday' afternoon to com plete their schedule at home. It was known, weeks and weeks ago. that Southern League games played in le<« than two hours are rarities. But only three hours were given for the playing of the two games, when the ten minutes’ rest between struggles is deducted. The Official Score Mobile. Stock, S8. . . Starr, 2b. . . O’Dell. 2b. . . I'aulet, lb. , , Hotjertson, cf. Schmidt, c. . Clark, If. . . Miller, rf. . . Cavet, p. . . r. h. po. a. 1 2 Total . Atlanta. Agler, lb. Cong, If. . Welchonce, cf. Smith, 2b 5 2 2 Bisland, ss 3 Holland, 8b 4 xManual! .... 1 Nixon, rf 3 Chapman, c.. . . .3 Price, p 1 Dent, p 1 THE Atlanta club could have had * the first game called at 10 o'clock Brings Health to a Host of Sufferers •ulus, I quit w as mark d The remarkable action of S. S. S. in the Mood is giv en impetus by a letter received from HJarl C. Cook. 708 South Center St., Bloom ington, Ill. He says. ‘*1 suffered several month* and took treat ment here, but ob tained relief only for a few days at h time. Becoming doubtful of ra the doctors, and th*r* improvement from the start. I used thirteen bottles of S. 8 S and was entirely cured My blood was in a dreadful condition, and 1 can not thank S S. S. enough for my wonderful recovery/* ThU preparation stand* alone among specific remedies as a blood purifier since it accomplishes all that was ever claimed for mercury, io dides. arsenic and other destructive mineral drugs, and yet it is absolute ly a purely vegetable product. Theae facts are brought out in a highly in teresting book complied by the medi cal department of The Swift Specific Co., 192 Swift Bldg . Atlanta, Ga It is mailed free, together with a special letter of advice to all who are strug gling witb-,a blood disease Get a bghle < *’ S 8. g. to-day of druggist It .-/l surpria vesterday morning as well as 1:30 ‘’’clock yesterday afternoon. Not one i‘aid admission would have been miss ing. Still, the club fixed the hour at ; I : 30. and the club, and the club alone, | is responsible for the fact that the I < rackers, instead of being in first ! t’ince by a margin so comfortable I that It would be desperately hard to overcome, are but tied for first place, with the schedule so arranged that there is only the barest possibility that Atlanta can finish in front. To-day Atlanta meets Chattanooga, i an admittedly formidable club. To day Mobile meets New Orleans, ad mittedly the weakest club In the league. To-morrow the season of 1913 is a thing of the past for At lanta. To-morrow Mobile meets New Orleans. It is decidedly problematical, after the strain of a series like the one under which the Crackers labored while they were fighting the Gulls, that Atlanta can come right back and take the dangerous Elberfeldans Into camp. It la altogether likely that Mobile can beat the tail-end Pelicans twice in two days. Total 35 6 11 30 16 1 Score by innings: Mobile 000 020 300 0—5 Atlanta 220 001 000 1—6 *One out when winning run was scored. xBatted for Holland in tenth. Summary: Three-base hits—Pau- let, Smith. Double play—O’Dell to Starr to Paulet. Hits—Off Price, 6 in 7 innings; off Dent, 2 in 3 innings. Struck out—By Price, 2; by Cavet, 1. Bases on balls—Off Price, 4; off Dent, 2; off Cavet, 3. Sacrifice hits— Bisland, Chapman, Price (2). Stolen bases—Long, Smith, Bisland, Starr, Robertson. Hit by pitched ball—Mil ler, by Price. Time—2:13. Umpires —Rudderham and Pfenninger. IN OPENER C. Thompson Looked Like Winner BASEBALL SUMMARIES. SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Games Saturday. Chattanooga at Atlanta. Game called at 3:15 o’clock. New Orleans at Mobile. Memphis at Montgomery. Birmingham at Nashville Standing of the (Jubs. W. L. Pc. Atlanta. SO 56 .588 Mobile.. 80 56 .588 B’ham. 73 64 .533 Chatt... 70 62 530 Friday's Results. Atlanta. 6; Mobile, 5 (ten innings) Mont.... M’phls.. N’ville.. New O. W. L. Fc. 68 66 507 62 73 .468 62 76 448 44 87 336 A tlanta can win the ui ‘ • 1 Fn»c you u mtaiMUL. «lia Ah* 1 £hlne» pennant inder these .’onditions: <n Defeat Chattanooga, while Mo bile loses one game to New' Orleans. (2) Lose to Chattanooga, u'hile M* Mb loses twice to New Orleans. (3) Win from Chattanooga, while both Gulls ^nies are being rained out. <4^ Have rain in Atlanta while Mo bil.* is losing one or more games. The conditions s**pm numerous. Just try to figure out the number of ways in whic h Atlanta can lose and then st mi a hurry call iur uu adding ma- Chattanooga, 6; New Orleans. Nashville, 4; Montgomery. 3 Birmingham-Memphis, rain. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games Saturday. Chicago at St Louis. Detroit at Cleveland New York at Washington. Boston at Philadelphia Standing of the Clubs. W. L. Pc . I W Phila.... 84 45 .651 I Boston.. 65 Cl’land. 78 52 .600 I Detroit W’gton -72 56 .662 St L. . Chicago 68 64 .515 1 New Y. 44 82 .349 Friday’s Results. Boston. 6; Philadelphia. 6. Chicago. 1; St. Louis, 0 Cleveland. 7; Detroit, 6. Washington. 8-1: New York, 2-0. L. Pc. 62 .512 57 72 442 49 84 .369 By Innis Brown. A S that mass of humanity rose and roared yesterday after noon, as the band of bra^»a crashed out a martial air whose first bars even were drowned by cheering, the clanging of cow bells, the tooting of horns, the shrieks of automobile sirens, as those hundreds of red-blood ed people, bankers and artisans, financiers and clerks, clubmen and laborers Joined on common ground, and shoulder to shoulder, marched the blue-coated, apoplectic musicians to voice and demonstrate their enthusi asm, I longed for the present of some of our critics from across the sea, who are always prone to shout that our sports are too commercialized to per mit genuine enthusiasm. That crowd yesterday would have been a better answer to that critisicm than 10,000 w'ords written by our ablest defenders. It was a sight Worth going miles to see. I have seen the surging crowd at the running of the Futurity in the days that are gone. I have seen the hysteria with which the winner was greeted. I have heard that awful roar that comes from the rival stands when toe meets football and armored athletes clash In their classic annual strug gles. But I have never seen demonstra tion to equal the one on Ponce De Leon field yesterday afternoon. IT was a climax to a wonderful day. 1 As early as noon the stands began to fill. These early comers were the dyed-in-the-wool bugs, the fellows who never know what it is to miss a ball game, men who would sacrifice job and health and anything else rather than miss such a critical com bat as yesterday. It was truly a typical American gathering The spirit of the Republic was more evident there than in any convention of a political party ever assembled. Every class was repre sented. As standing space became of value. I saw' business men of the highest standing, climbing fences like 10-year-olda. I saw society belie6 calmly seated on the red clay ground, regardless of future of dainty dresses. I saw’ newsboys become supremely Important personages because they were possessed of a soda water box on which to seat themselves. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Saturday. Philadelphia at Boston. Brooklyn at New’ York. St Louis at Pittsburg Cincinnati at Chicago Standing of the Clubs B’klyn.. Boston. C’nati.. W. L Pc 64 72 .429 64 69 .439 65 78 414 W L. Pc. | New Y.. 87 41 .680 I Phila... 74 47 .612 I Chicago 71 57 .565 j P’burg 69 59 639 ! St L... 46 87 .346 Friday'* Results. Cincinnati. 9; Chicago. 4 New York. 5. Brooklyn. 0 Pittsburg. 8-11; St Louis, 3-3. Philadelphia, 1-0; Boston, 0-o ^second gam* lau darsjiasai* That erow’d was never silent for a 1 second. Every noise that could be made that erow’d made. Every move that favored Atlanta was greet ed with a demons rat ion louder than the one just preceding, until it seemed that the limit had been reached. But w'hen the winning run was scored the noise that had resounded before sounded like a pin drop in a boiler factory. The shouts must have been heard in East Point. Certainly the spirit of enthusiasm pervaded Fulton and DeKalb Counties. And then comes* the sad part. That crowd, the crowd that did all and would have done more for the Crack ers was the direct cause of the Crack ers not scoring a double victory. The three-base hit of Paulet that scored Mobile’s tying runs that forced the game into extra innings and con sumed valuable time would have been easily captured had not the pres*ence of the crowd interfered with Out fielder Nixon. Again in the tenth Inning. Wallie Smith’s drive to left would have been an easy home run, but the fact that it went into the crowd made it a three-bas*e hit. and more of those priceless minutes were lost bringing him from third home. By Lou Castro. H AS fate beaten the Crackers out of the Southern League pennant for 1913? After trimming the Gulls 6 to 5 in the first game, the locals looked like sure winners in the second combat. The calling of the second game, however, forces the Crackers to beat Chattanooga this after noon, while Finn’s men must drop one of their two remaining contests to the Pels. At the present time both teams have about an even chance for the flag. But, had the locals been able to finish the second game they would have surely copped. Carl Thompson was going strong, and it is doubtful if the overworked Hogg could have stood the strain much longer. A vic tory for Smith’s crew in the final game’meant the pennant. The Crackers knew it. The Gulls knew it, and every fan in that ball park knew it. Pretty Tough to See Crackers Ptilet GRAND BATTLING GAINS/W By 0. B. Keeler. B OYS, we’re still THERE— And not so BLAMED still about it, either. Our bread-winners tremble as these lines are indited. The typewriter trembles with conflicting emotions and type-bars. The desk trembles. The old work-shop trembles. We recall something Scriptural about the little hills skipping or danc ing together, or something. Must have been at the shank of a bitter pennant fight—what? S TILL you can not beat fate. The second game started at 4 o’clock. The rival managers had agreed to stop play at 4:40, no matter how the count stood. To complete four and one-half innings in' 40 minutes was impossible. The teams started to play, but after going three innings, the contest was called, as the time was up. True, the Mobile players stalled, but where is there a ball club that wouldn’t have done the same thing? They were fighting with their hacks against the wall and were out to take advantage of every opening. If they dropped that second game to the boys from Atlanta it meant the pennant, and they were out to save themselves. Fate did it for them. N OW that the great series is over, there Is one player who is scampering around the shortfield for the Crackers who deserves much credit. Rivington Bisland is the gentleman, and he is certainly a wonder. Never have I seen a boy deliver the goods in the pinches better than Bisland. His work at short was simply wonderful, and it will be some time before local fans will see it duplicated. I have watched such stars as Wagner, Barry, Wallace, Elberfeld and Bush in action, but Bisland’s work in this series has never been equaled by any of them. He covered the territory between second and third in great style, and more than once raced in back of Holland for seemingly impossible grounders. Once he got his hands on the pill his throw to first was like an arrow. His two one-handed stops yesterday were surely remarkable. If some major league club doesn’t grab this boy next season I miss my guess. And it's a 100-to-l bet that he will make good, too. He has the class, and class tells. "PHIS small writing is going to stut- 1 ter Possibly the magic of the keep the alphabet ter. linotype will straight. Don't know— Don’t care; Thing is. We’re still there! The typewriter did that. Just stewed out of it. like the precious attar of roses out of the otter. Ought to put quotes around that. Old Mark Twain's stuff. Let’s be honest, though the bottom drops out. That’s Lycur- gus, now. leaving an odd ten minutes for the.. necessary interval between the con- • tests. A game played in an hour and a half Is a fast game. There must be I dela raring. No in layed I ub O! SIDELIGHTS ON! GAME AT \Y7 E’RE still there, because we won. ” We would be more there, but we lost, too—lost the second game because we didn't win it. We won one afid we lost, too, be cause we didn’t win two. Try that over on your typewriter. It looks sort of suspicious to us. X J EXT to Bisland Joe Agler was the shining star for the Crackers. Joe played great ball, both at bat and in the field. It is my opinion that Agler and Bisland are two of the greatest players in the Southern League. Going back to the game, I want to say a few words about Wallie Smith. Many of the fans had thought Wallie was about through after he made four errors the other day. Wallie certainly redeemed himself in the eyes of the fans yesterday when he lined out a triple in the tenth inning of the first game. The crowd was all that robbed Smith of a home run. The ball cleared Clark’s head by twenty feet and would have been a home run on any field. Ground rules, however, kept him from circling the bases. He was forced to go back to third, but later scored when Robertson dropped Manush's fly. ANT. n crowd surged on the field. It ran wildly for awhile, then It formed and marched, and more time was taken. Eighteen minutes were consumed In clearing the field. The allotted time between games is ten minutes. Those moments that the crowd wasted might have b<Rn enough to enable the Crackers to have taken both gamaat _ TTAD Robertson caught that hall the game might have gone on indefl- 4- A nitely. The ball was close in and chances are that Smith would have held third. Billy Smith made a good move when he yanked Holland and sent Manush to bat in his place. Before I finish this story I want to say a few words about Billy Smith, manager of the Atlanta baseball club. I have been on his club for two seasons and can truthfully say that there isn't another manager in base ball to-day who labors under the strain this man does. True, he doesn’t play, but if he was an active member of the team it would be better for him. I watched him during several stages of yester day’s game and it is really surprising to me that he didn’t collapse. He is without a doubt one of the hardest losers in the country to-day, but a good fellow with it. W ELL ’ the big series ls over, but we still have a chance to cop the rag. ' * Remember, to-day’s game is just as important as any of the bat tles just finished. The Crackers must win to-day if they hope to cop the pennant. I will be out there for one, and I hope that another record- breaking crowd will be out to cheer the gamest ball club Atlanta has ever had to another victory. The fans that are out at Poncy to-day will also have an opportunity of getting the scores of the Mobile-New Orleans game. They will be posted Ott ttUMMMlMrts D OYS, that was one ball game! 1J Everybody thought so. Every body saw it. It was a grand afternoon for second-story men. Most of the houses in this town were depopulated. Also, most of the dinner conversa tion last night was in husky whis pers. Also, it was about the ball game that was, and the ball game that wasn't, but ought to have been. And about the pennant that may be —AND OUGHT TO BE, if right really does prevail and a mighty uphill bat tle is to be rewarded. THE Crackers won the final game * of the series by whipping the Gulls. This time they outplayed as well as outfought the enemy, and only the weakening of Gil Price’s over worked arm in the seventh inning saved the doomed Gulls from a dis tinguished licking within the nine rounds prescribed for an ordinary ball game. It was on the heels of the seventh inning disaster that the courage of the Crackers flashed more brightly athwart the gray horizon than ever before in all their desperate, grueling grind of eighteen victories out of twenty games. Price yielded under the savage at tack of the Gulls, but Elliott Dent's great heart and arm and Chapman’s deadly whip mastered the onslaught and fought back the Invaders until the final crack of victory in the tenth. AND it was an honest victory, well earned, for Pug Cavet, blinders and all, was pitching a grand game of ball after a bad start—a gritty, calculating, heady game, that rated him for all time with 15,000 Atlanta fans as a pitcher of courage and ster ling ability. Had It not been for the yielding of Price, we would have been helped to a hall game by the cracking of the Gulls in the first two rounds. As it turned out. we smashed out a victory that was earned to the core. H By W. S. Farnsworth. ERE are two tables of figures day: showing just hovr many br each hurler uncorked yester-‘ in iainst FIRST GAME. Innings— Price Dent Cavet Fust 7 .. 23 Second 16 13 Third 8’ .. 8 Fourth Fifth .. Sixth .. Seventh Eighth Ninth . Tenth . [ Agler ad po then h | Weld eaguo 192. Totals .86 30 123 ■ Smlti sixth, b By digg dirt. SECOND GAME Innings— T'mps’n Hog^ First 17 U Second 17 I? Third » JL^vet Totals 46 40 **** ® lx FIRST GAME GOSSIP. Price’s first ball was a fast one and Starr fouled it off. Cavet’s opening offering was also a fast ball. Agler banged it on the ground to Stock, who relayed to Paulet. Welchonce’s first hit was a lucky one. The ball took a bound past Stock. Long made a nice play after being caught asleep off third in the first inning by tearing straight for thi plate instead of running back a: forth. din. Paule ave b< Dwd t ave si Bear fl< I In th nly se 1 urves. Holla tries tort t the ,e a Bisland’s single In the first spasm \ was a wicked grounder to left that f would have gone a mile had it been] a ballooner. Bizzy then made a beauty stpal of second, pulling a dandy 1190k slide. Finn had Berger warming up when Cavet was being pounded in the first inning. Robertson would have been out a mile on his pilfer trip in the second had not Chapman’s throw been low. Miller, the young man who tied up Thursday’s game with a single, looked like an awful boob the first time up. He fanned on three curve balls. Robertson made a peachy try for Nixon’s single to center in the second. He almost speared the pill at #ls shoetops. ^ Chapman crossed the Gull Infield nicely in the second. With Nixon on first Chapman tried to sacrifice on the first ball. B^t on the next ball he banged the ball hard to Stock and beat it out for a hit. AND there is small doubt in 15.000 ** minds that the Craclsers would have taken the second game and the lead in the pennant chase—would eventually have won that terrifically- fought-for flag—but for the grave mismanagement of the club directors in arranging the play-off of the drawn battle of the day before. D Y some quaint method of reason- 1J ing, it apparently was figured that the two games could be played ifk 4US.A .Uuos. k<W4 o{ Claying time, Price was robbed of a hit when he was declared out in the second on a bunt that Cavet threw so wide to first that Starr left the bag. Starr was covering the bag as Paulet had run in to get a bunt. Bisland was lightning fast cover ing Cavet’s demon grasser in the third. And he made a pippin chuck while out of position, too. A bunch of fair fans crowded into the Gulls’ bench In the third innln; There wasn't a nook inside the pa that wasn't occupied. isa.pi fchth. lecond ate late way. Long ground! the nin and cal Smitl tenth v cult cl( on the a triple Cavei i te ♦he ten lip. <Bi pitcher The : tor tlm fused 1 plate. I short st O’Dei Chapmi Paule the firs two ag a wast at and anothei Bisland robbed Paule* of a sure when he made a one-hand stab of hard-hit grounder ba cond hi* the third. V Aglecia catch of SotualdV* '<Pfen: Hollam curve ■ end, wi