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No important ball game ever was I ayed In an hour and a half, and th«? ut> owners must have known it. n hour and a There must be — HTS ON FOURTH E ATfiQNCY PARK nsworth. i bles of figure# L Q\y many ba^‘ eobked yes ter ME. •tee Dent Cavet 23 Ijin the fourth klnst the “smoker. was right up 86 7 16 13 13 8 16 • 0 7 8 13 13 13 36 123 MME T’mpsfn Hog^ ... 17 ... 17 ...12 46 They knew that the Mobile club had to leave the park at 4:40 o’clock, and agreed that the second game should be called at that time. It was called at that time—and it was called after the third inning, the game having gone just 40 minutes. • • • I T was bad management. The directors must have known I what it meant for Atlanta NOT to I win BOTH games. Everything was in Mobile’s favor. If Mobile' should score at the jump of the second game, Mobile could afford to play fast and make it a regular contest. If Mo bile should be in danger of losing, the Gulls could stall in a thousand ways no umpire can combat, and there would be no chance of making it a legal contest. |Iand was declared out stretching ngie in the- fourth. But Starr THE first game went two hours and * thirteen minutes — just about what might have been expected in so important a contest. Eighteen min utes were consumed between games and when play was called in the second, exactly FORTY MINUTES remained in which to make the Gulls stand up and take it. The Gulls did not stand up and take It. They played slow ball. They played slow ball in the first game. There never was a chance to make the sec ond contest a legal game. We are noi blaming Mike Finn or Mike Finn’s ball club for stalling. The opportu nity was rammed down their throats They simply preferred to take the chance of beating New Orleans TWICE to playing it out In one final death grapple with the Crackers. On the whole, they probably were wise. did put the ball on him. [ Agler sure did rob Starr of a double, id possibly a triple, in the fifth, ^hen he pulled down his demon liner. * * • | Welchonce now holds the Southern eague record for hits, with a total 192. • • * • Smith threw' Schmidt out in the sixth, but Agler saved Wally an error 5y digging the throw right out of the dirt. .vet deserves a heap of credit for ,ng back and pitching such a nice And he is not in the best of J Ileal condition, either. « % v>cA.vet pitched only seven balls in TT /tA* sixth inning, yet we rabbed a 40 sain. GOSSIP. a fast one and ■ring was also nged it on the bo relayed to t was a lucky a bound past lay after being *d in the first ralght for th< ling back anj he first spasm ^r to left that ile had it been Deauty stfal of r hpok slide. 'ming up when led in the first ve been out a in the second row been low. in who tied up i single, looked s first time up. irve balls. Deachy try for * in the secou.d. he pill at ^Rls le Gull infield With Nixon on ;o sacrifice on the next ball d to Stock and a hit when he le second on a w so wide to lie bag. Starr as Paulet had ig fast cover- asser in the l pippin chuck :oo. * crowded into e third innin; nside the of a sure land s*ab of k of second Paulet’s triple in the seventh would ive been an easy out had not the jwd been in the way. Nixon would ave surely grabbed the ball with a tear field ahead. m * • | In the eighth inning Dent pitched nly seven balls, but all of them were arves, • 9 m Holland made his best play of the tries when he tore in for Miller’s tort tap down the third base line the eighth inning. And Harry 4e a dandy peg to Agler, too. • * • ►nith and Paulet were both hurt en they collided in the eighth, pith just did manage to beat out aeld tap. but he and Paulet both down in the melee. • • • rtapman was a bearcat in the r _*hth. He caught Cavet napping off iecond aad then nailed Stock a min ute later trying to pilfer to the mid- way. . . . Long had Stock’s throw of a grounder beaten two yards to first In the ninth, but Pfenninger was asleep and called Thomas out. • • • Smith’s three-cushion soak In the tenth would have surely been a cir cuit clout had not the ground been on the job, thereby holding the hit to a triple, ... Cavet purposely walked Blsland in the tenth so as to get Holland, next up. GBut Bill Smith crossed the Gull pitcher by sending Manush In to bat AMD now. where do we stand? Well, there are about a hatful of things that can happen in the three games left of the Southern League pennant race—our game with Chattanooga to-day, and the Gulls’ two games with the Pels, one to-day, one Sunday; You ' SECOND GAME. The Mobile players started stalling for time right off the reel. Stock re fused to hurry up in going to the plate. Pfenninger cautioned the young shortstop to get a hurry on himself. ... O’Dell made a nice steal of second, Chapman’s peg being a bit too high. Paulet was called out on strikes In the first Inning, although he had only two against him. The first hall was a waste ball. The second, he swung at and missed; and then he missed another. ... Thompson was dead game when hs nocked down Miller’s hot shot In the ond. The ball was traveling at a -a-minute rate at the time. first H ERE are a few variations, can devise more, ad lib. If Atlanta wins to-day and the Gulls break even, Atlanta wins the pennant. If Atlanta loses and Mobile breaks even, the Gulls win the rag. If rain prevents Atlanta from play ing—this is a new hunch—and Mo bile breaks even, Atlanta will win the pennant by a fraction of one point In percentage. If Atlanta wins and Mobile wins two, Mobile wins the flag. If Atlanta loses and the Gulls lose two, Atlanta wins the pennant. If Atlanta wins and Mobile takes one game and it rains out the other, the season ends in a tie, which prob ably would be played off In a special series. . * « I E you don’t find your favorite con tention listed In the foregoing, work It out for yourself. It beats Canfield. I T Is our private hunch that the court business Is going to increase horrifically as a result of arguments to-day on this very topic. Suggestion; Equip yourself with a rule book and a percentage table rather than a pint bottle and Irish confetti. ... T AKING it by and large, whloh is a favorite way of taking things, It appears that we have a pretty fair chance. It’s a better chance than It was a week ago. It would be a better ohance than It was after that first game with the Gulls, except for one thing: The Crackers’ chances no longer depend solely on their own courage and ball-playing ability. A Third Party has horned in. New Orleans must win one of those games from the Gulls, or the splendid rush of the Crackers of 1913 will fall just short of the flag. tnldV* twUttof O NE cheering ray: will beat Mike Finn Cholly Frank out of o pennant if he can. He likes the genial Mlque just exactly that much. Another hopeful symptom: Cove- leskle pitched yesterday. • • • A VD the best thing of ell. and the thing that can’t be taken away from us. The honest pride and joy In the grandest fight ever made by an At lanta ball club By Joe Agler. W ITH the ending of the most crucial series of the year the Crackers have proved themselves to be one of the gamest bunch of ball players that ever trotted on a diamond. Entering the series with the odds against us we have accomplished the task of taking three games from the Gulls and held them to a draw in the other battle. Never once during these trying games did one of the boys show the white feather. True, several of us made errors, but the nervous strain the boys labored under was terrible. Every play practically meant a game and a pennant. On the other hand, the Gulls had very little to worry about at the start. They came here one confident ball team. All they needed was one victory. * * * A ND the loyal support the fans gave us made the boys fight doubly hard. Most of us are sorry that the second game wasn’t finished. We would surely have got to Hogg before long as he was fast tiring. Thompson, on the other hand, was fresh and eager for the fray. He had had a long rest and was going great. Of course, we do not feel that we have been beaten out of the flag yet. We play Chattanooga to-day and, believe me, we will be out there fighting every minute of the time. If the Pels can only take one game from Finn’s crew we will be one happy lot of ball players. I really think we have- proven ourselves to be a better ball club than the Gulls and the pennant really belongs in Atlanta. We beat them three games, and only the toughest sort of luck robbed us of the fourth. • * • T~'vURING the second game the players offered to charter a special train to take the Mobile team to New Orleans if they would only consent to finish the second game. This was sure true sportsmanship, but the Gulls could not see it that way. They probably had enough of us during the four games we battled them. Never once during my career as a ball player have I been connected with as game a bunch of ball players as I am with now. If this team isn’t the best ball club in the Southern League then I don’t know what I am talking about And I can safely say that had these same boys been to gether all season that we would have been so far in the lead at this time that this series would not have been necessary. I was to say a few words for Blsland. The way this boy played was certainly wonderful. He is easily the best shortstop in the Southern League. His stops and throws have anything beaten that I have looked at for a long time. Another feature.of our playing was that every member fought for the team instead or for individual honor. We stuck together at all times and the scene after each game in the clubhouse will be remembered by the boys for some time. All of us knew what we were up against and went into every game in a “do-or-dle” spirit. • • • S EVERAL of the Mobile players admitted to me after the game yester day that we had it on them. They also admitted that the gameness displayed by the boys was unlooked tor by them. They really expected little trouble from us when they came down here for this series and were handed the surprise of their lives. As for the Mobile team, we have nothing but praise. They played clean ball. Most of the boys felt somewhat peeved when the team didn’t accept our invitation to finish the second game, but I guess the nervous tension the players were working under had them pretty well worn out We sort of expected a hard battle, as we knew what we were up against but they thought it would be an easy matter to capture one of the games. • • • T O-DAY’S game brings us against the Lookouts. We must beat them to have a chance at the rag. The boys know what this game means, and we’ll be fighting just as hard as we were against the Gulls. It Is my humble opinion that Finn’s crew will have the time of their young lives taking two games from New Orleans. They were certainly one fagged-out team when they graDOea a rattler for home last night The Pelicans have been taking things easy lately and are primed for a good struggle. And 1 also have it from a good source that Finn and Frank are far from being good friends. Frank intended to send Wilson home for the remainder of the season, but will, instead, work the big southpaw against the Gulls in the first game between the two teams. Wilson has always had it on the boys from Mobile and should cause them a lot of trouble. Billy Smith received the Wilson Information in a wire from Frank yesterday. • • • S HOULD the Gulls manage to trim Wilson they will have to face Wal ker in the next combat Fans around the circuit are calling this hoy a second WalWi; jqhiWHh Xtokj e!wi*W Mobile a lot of i By W. S. Farnsworth. I F the Crackers defeat the Lookouts to-day and Mobile wins the two games with New Orleans, then tile local club will have lost the pen nant throug n a bad mistake of the Atlanta Bas-eball Association. The directors should have started yesterday’s double-header a full hour ahead of 1:30 o’clock. The games had to be finished at 4:40 o’clock to al low Mobile to catch a train for New Orleans. Mike Finn insisted on two full nine- inning games. And, thereby, the Irishman put oue over on the local directors. By starting the first game at 1:30 o’clock and allowing a ten-minute rest between the battles, the two games had to be played in exactly three hours—one and one-half hours for each game. And what a fine chance! • • • TT takes nearly two hours to play A a game In the Southern League. So how in the world did the local as sociation figure they could ever crowd two decisions in three hours. It was a big oversight, and it is likely to cost us a pennant. You can overlook a ball player for bootirig one in the pinch, but you can not overlook this mistake on the part of the club officials. Mobile must lose a game to the Pelicana Of course it could rain in Mobile to-day and to-morrow, and then we would have a chance. But even so, you can not forgive somebody, whoever he may be, for not seeing to it that the Crackers had all the time needed to play that sec ond game. • • • A ND the Crackers would have won that second game sure. They were outplaying and outgaming Mo bile. The Mobile players admitted after the game that they were “on the run.’’ Charley Starr even went so far as to tell Joe Agler that the entire Gull Infield were up in the air. “Why, I didn’t know what I was doing,” is the exact statement that Starr made to Agler. Yes, if we win to-day and are beaten out of the pennant then there is no one to blame but the local olub officials. • • • O NE of Atlanta's biggest advsrUe- ing men called up The Georgian this morning to tell us how sore he and many of his colleagues are be cause the Atlanta Baseball Associa tion did not see to it that the two games were played until a decision was reached. “We were given to understand that we would see two games. But we were bunked.” H. Welchonce Breaks Hit Record for Season Harry Welchonce, the Crackers’ star batsman, got three hits in five times up in the game with Mobile Friday afternoon and ran his string for the season up to 192, according to unofficial figures. The Southern League record for the number of hits made in a season was 191, made by Frank Huelsman in the season of 1901, when a member of the f-hreveport team. The last time that Huelsman was in Atlanta was as a member of the Mobile team a few years ago. Welchonce closed the gap on Dave Robertson for the league batting hon ors. Only one point now separates the two star stickers, with Robertson still in the lead. Here is the way the two star stick ers stand today: Player. '4 G A.B. R. H. P.C t RCA Aft 17ft !~ By Bill Smith. W E are not through yet. Not by a long sight, and I’d rather use an adjective that begins with “d’\ ends with “n” and has “am” salted in between. I am confident that my club will come back to-day and beat Chatta nooga. I am equally confident that Cholly Frank will come through with at least one victory over the Gulls. Then the pennant will fly at Ponce DeLeon. I don’t believe that after the hard, game fight we have made that it’s on the cards for us to be euchered out by that slip-up in time that halted us yesterday. I believe that the best team will win, and I’m dead sure that the Crackers form the best team. After cussin’ ourselves a bit for our slip-up, let’s get right down to rea soning. and when we <^o we will find that the sun Is still shining and that bacon and eggs taste about as well for breakfast this morning as they did yesterday. • • • T REALIZE that we are up against * just as tough a proposition with Chattanooga as we were with Mobile, maybe Just a. bit tougher. But it seems* our luck right about now to be able to beat the tough ones. “The bigger they are, the harder they fall,’’ old Bob Fitzsimmons used to say. Well, that’s about how we feel toward the Lookouts. We have been able to take their measure pretty consistently during the season. There’s no reason why we shouldn’t be able to repeat when we come to the pinch. I see where Coveleskie worked yes terday. , That means that the Big Pole will not work to-day. Sommers worked the day before. It’s hardly likely that he will appear at Ponce DeLeon. Then Elberfeld has Kroh, of his left-handers left, and Kroh has been mighty easy for us. and I know we can take any of his right-handers into camp. If I don’t change my plans at the last moment. Elliott Dent will be my selection for hurling duty to-day. He looked a bear yesterday after I sent him in to relieve Price. He worked four innings and I believe he will be Just as good to-day. If he is, I will be surprised to see the Lookouts score a single run. For he had about everything yesterday. SHELL FRAMES. Have your lenses mounted In a shell spectacle or eyeglass frame. They're light weight, easy on the face and decidedly popular. Come In and look at a pair. A. K. Hawkes Co., Opticians, 14 White hall street. N OW to leave our own affairs for a second and take/a Journey down by Mobile Bay. i Finn will have the advantage of being at home, and there’s no doubt about that being a big advantage. But I have rarely seen a club in worse shape for two tough games than the Gulls are right now. It is an absolute cinch that he will not be able to use either of his star hurlers, Cavet and Hogg, against the Pelicans. They have already done the work of a pair of truck horses. He might use Billy Campbell in one of these games, but it’s no easy Job for an athlete as ancient as Billy is to come hack after a game like he had Thursday and work a good game as early as Sunday. Mique will havo to use either Berger or Robertson in one of these games and I believe that the Pelicans can trim either one of them, especially if Frank has Wilson cocked and primed for the fray. • • • AND don’t think for a second that ** those Pel games won’t be tough affairs for Finn. These tail-end clubs have an awful habit of spilling the beans for league leaders. In addi tion to this there is not one speck of love lost between the big Dutch man, who is the boss of things in the town where the gin-fizzes come from, and the big Hibernian, who holds forth with the oysters and oratory of the Gulf coast. It’s a pipe that Frank will try his best to trim Mique. More power to him. I mean it for more reasons than one, too. Of course, I don’t blame Mique for wanting to win a pennant. I’ve got a hankering of that kind my self. but I’ve got a mighty fine hunch that Finn handed the Atlanta public one yesterday. W HEN it became certain that we couldn’t n-et through with the second game before train time. Presi dent Callaway went to Finn with a proposition. Here is what he agreed to do: He offered to charter a special train for the Mobile club, the train to con sist of two Pullmans and a diner and the limit of expenditure was the blue sky. 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Bids will be accept ed either separately or as a whole, and all bids subject to the confirmation of the Referee. Terms cash. For Inspection of the said horses and wagons inquire of the undersigned, or J. M. Moore, 20‘J Whitehall street. H. A. FERRI8, Trustee. MOORE &. POMEROY, HENRY Vtr TXT’XjV a XT f r\ r- would consent to play out yester day's second game. Would Finn do it? Hardly. He knew that his club was on the run. He knew we would trim - him that game as sure as It was played out. No inducement could get him to stay. He was content to stall around and let a train schedule keep him from defeat. That may he sportsmanship. Tm not saying, but I’d hate to wear a title of “champion” won by any euch methods. Diamond Stickpin For Tommy Long At the start of the 1913 season Henry Muench, the Peachtree street jeweler, offered a diamond studded stickpin to the Atlanta ball player scoring the most runs for the sea son. Tommy Long, the speedy left fielder of the Crackers, gets this pin for a total of 110 runs to date. The pin is a handsome piece of jewelry in the shape of a bat, with a big cluster of diamonds at the end. In winning this prize. Tommy Long broke the league record for runs scored by a big margin, the previous figures being 99 runs, made in 1902 by Gus Hill, of Nashville. The pin will be presented to-day and, says Mr. Muench, “it was surely well earned.” GOLD, SILVER LORGNETTES. New style, large round lenses: short or long handles. The latest designs. Sterling, shell and gold. A. K, Hawkes Co., Opticians, 14 Whitehall. Maddening akin dlaeases can’t exist If Tettar- lxie la used because Tetterlne la Bclentlflcally prepared to remove the CAUSE aa well as the TBCT. TETTERINE CURES SKIN DISEASES Jeese W. Reott, Milledgevllle. Ga.. write**. I suffered with an eruption two years and one box of Tetterlne oured me and two of my friends. It Is worth Its weight In gold. 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