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THE ATLANTA' (TEOROTAH AND NEWS.
leaving an odd ten minutes for
necessary interval between the
tests.
A game played in an hour and a;
half is a fast game. There must
4
delays; no w-ranglings. not much
ball game ever was
in an hour and a half, and th\?
owners must have known it.
SIDELIGHTS
FOURTH
GAME
PARK
Father Time With Deadly Scythe Rushes to Rescue of Beaten Gulls
CRACKER CLUB IS VANOUISHED,THOUGH VICTORS
GREATSCENE
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
losers 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 more 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 vanquished.
♦ • •
T FT us pause and analyze this con-
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 Gulls 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 off 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 who.se 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 were scheduled be-
* tween the Crackers and the
Gulls. Experts agreed that for the
Crackers 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 Rozzaris. the gent who awoke
the Turks; Arnold Von Winkelrisd,
the warrior who made a pin-cushlor
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 his encores, had nothing on
the sublime courage with which Billy
and his Crackers tackled the job.
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JH&HM JAt t
T HE 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 drawm battle that
sent Smith back to the Herculanean
job of winning tw'o battles In a slngt*
day, equaling. If not bettering, the
batting average of N. Bonaparte, i
major leaguer of the early part of the
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 fought desperately for the second.
He was not defeated by the GullaL He
was downed by Father Time, a W’ar-
rlor 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 fftult 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 ills shadow over the ball lot.
hod not some untoward fate caused
the New York-New Orleans Limited
to he 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-
etntifs table being tied in a knot as
fast as master mariner can make.
• * *
IT was palpable yesterday that the
* Mobile club had realized it was
beaten, practically before the ath
letes trotted on the field. Weirder
support than w*as given "Pug" Oavet
in the opening session has rarely been
seen So securely did the game seem
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, days 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 less
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 Atlanta club could have had
* the first game called at 10 o'clock
yesterday morning as well as 1:30
o’clock yesterday afternoon. Not one
paid admission would have been miss
ing. Still, the club fixed the hour at
l 30, and the club, and the club alone,
responsible for the fact that the
' nickers, instead of being In first
place by a margin so comfortable
* bat 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,
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 is altogether likely that Mobile
can beat the tail-end Pelicans twice
in two days.
• • •
ATLANTA can win the pennant
'Minder these venditions:
(1) Defeat Chattanooga, while Mo
bile lose* one game to New Orleans
(21 Lose to Chattanooga, while
Mobile loses twice to New’ Orleans.
(3) Win from Chattanooga, while
both Gulls g%inesi are being rained
out.
(41 Have rain in Atlanta while Mo
bile is losing one or more games.
The conditions seem numerous. Just
try to figure out the number of ways
in which Atlanta can lose and then
send a hurry call for an adding ma-
uhiaet __
f
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 w’as 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 st:Jl being w r ageu
with Lillian Russell, and he may get
her yet.
The Official Score
Mobile.
Stock, ss. . .
Starr, 2b. . .
O’Dell, 3b. . .
Paulet, lb. . .
Robertson, of. .
Schmidt, e. .
Clark, If. . .
Miller, rf. . .
Total . . . ’,
Atlanta.
Agler, 1b. . .
Long, If. . .
Welchonee, ef.
Smith, 2b. . .
Bisland, ss. . .
Holland, 3b. . .
xManush . .
Nixon, rf. . .
Chapman, c.. .
Dent, p.
ab.
r.
h.
po.
a.
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. 3
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3
5
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. 3
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. 5
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1
2
3
0
. 4
0
2
13
1
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. 5
0
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3
0
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0
0
1
1
3
. 1
0
0
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1
0
. 3
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0
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. 4
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. 5
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14
0
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. 4
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. 5
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. 5
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. 3
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6
4
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. 4
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. 3
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. 3
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0
0
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0
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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 r Price, 2; by Cavet, 1.
Bases op 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.
WIN OPENER
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 Clubs.
W. L. Pc. I W. L Pc.
Atlanta. SO 56 .588 ! Mont..., 68 66 607
Mobile 80 56 588 j M’phis.. 62 73 469
IVham. 73 64 533k 1 N'ville.. 62 76 449
Chatt. . 70 62 530 I New O. 44 87 336
Friday's Results.
Atlanta. 6; Mobile, 6 (ten innings).
Chattanooga, 6; New Orleans.
Nashville. 4; Montgomery, 3.
Blrmingham-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.
Phila... 84 45 .661 Boston.
Cl’land. 78 52 .600 Detroit.
W’gton. 72 56 .662 St L. .
Chicago 68 64 .615 I New Y
Friday's Result*.
Boston. 6; Philadelphia, s.
Chicago. 1; St. Louis. 0
Cleveland. 7; Detroit. 6.
Washington. 3-1; New York,
W L. Pc.
65 62 .612
57 72 .442
49 84 .369
44 82 .349
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Games Saturday.
Philadelphia at Boston
Brooklyn a; New York.
St. Louis at Pittsburg.
Cincinnati at Chicago
Standing of the Clubs
W. L Pc. | W. L
New Y.. 87 41 .680 1 B'klyn.. 64
Phlla... 74 47 .612 I Boston.
Chicago 71 57 .655 C'nati...
P’burg.. 69 59 .639 I St. L. .
Friday's Results.
Cincinnati. 9; Chicago. 4
New York. 5; Brooklyn, 0.
Pittsburg. 8-11; St Louis. 3-3
Philadelphia. 1-0; Boston. 0-0 taecond
gam* ua fan Inga, dorknos**.
By Tnnis Brown.
A S that mass of humanity rose
and roared yesterday after
noon, as the band of bra*s
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 words 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 i
ball game, men who would sacrifice
job and health and anything else
rather than miss such a critical com
bat as yesterday.
It w’as 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 belles
calmly seated on the red clay ground,
regardless of futjire of dainty dresses.
I saw’ new’sboys become supremely
important personages because they
were possessed of a soda water box
on which to seat themselves.
• • •
'THAT crowd was never silent for a
* second. Every noise that could
be made that crow’d made. Every
move that favored Atlanta was greet
ed w r ith a demonstration louder than
the one just preceding. until it
seemed that the limit had been
reached.
But when 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.
*\nd then comes the sad part. That
crowd, ihe 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 presence
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
three-base hit. and more of those
priceless minutes were lost bringing
him from third home.
• » •
A ND the demonstration itself. The
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 garner is ten minutes.
Those moments that the crowd
wasted might have been enough to
enable the Cracker? to have taken
both 8>mMb _
Has Fate Robbed Atlanta of Rag?
+•4* 4**+ +•+ 4-*4*
C. Thompson Looked Like Winner
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.
• * *
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 hall club that
wouldn’t have done the same thing? They were fighting with their backs
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 <-lnd 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.
• • •
N 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 tho 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.
• • •
IT AD Robertson caught that ball the game might have gone on indefl-
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 1L
• • •
\\T ELL, the big series is over, but we still have a chance to cop the rag.
* V 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
aa ttKB yruTMfraid,
W E’RE still there, because we won.
We would be more there, but
w’e lost, too—lost the second game
because we didn’t win it.
We won one and we lost, too, be
cause we didn’t win two.
Try that over on your typewriter.
It looks sort of suspicious to us.
* * •
DOYS, that was one ball game!
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 reallv
does prevail and a mighty uphill bat
tle is to be rewarded.
• * •
*T"HE Crackers won the final game
1 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 th£ 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 wap an honest victory, well
•'A 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.
• * *
AND there is small doubt in 15.000
*"A minds that the Crackers 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
1a fa,q'4M of Slaying time,
SECOND GAME
Innings— T’mps’n Hog
First 17 11
Second 17 l
Third 12 \
Totals 46
FIRST GAME GOSSIP.
Price’s first ball was a fast one ar.d|j
Starr .fouled it off.
Cavet deserves a heap of credit for
ing back and pitching such a nice
#me. And he is not in the best oi
lyrical condition, either.
M • • *
\mvet pitched only seven balls ir
‘ j sixth inning, yet we rabbed a
Paulet’s triple in the seventh would
£kve been an easy out had not th<
Ijjgrowd been in the way. Nixon would
7 ~ , (have surely grabbed the ball with <
Cavet s opening offering was alsoKt , ahead
a fast ball. Agler banged it on the]f Iear fleld an . * *
ground to Stock, who relayed to* In the eighth inning Dent pItche(
, „ „ mly seven balls, but all of them wen
Welohonce’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 the
plate instead of running back and
forth.
• • •
Bisland’s single In the first spa
was a wicked grounder to left thd
would have gone a mile had It bed
a ballooner.
* * • m
Bizzy then made a beauty steal fl
second, pulling a dandy hook slide. ■
• • * ^
Finn had Berger warming up when
Cavet was being pounded in the first
inning.
Holland made his best play of th«
lerles when he tore in for Miller’
hort tap down the third base lin-
in the eighth inning. And Harr;
nado a dandy peg to Agler, too.
• * •
Smith and Paulet were both hur
lien they collided in the eightt
"5hn!th just did manage to beat ou
infield tap. but he and Paulet hot
mt down in the melee.
• • m
lapman was a bearcat in th
ith. He caught Cavet napping oi
ond aad then nailed Stock a min
|fc*© later trying to pilfer to the mid
ray.
Long had Stock’s throw of
_,.*ounder beaten two yards to first i
Robertson would have been out a ninth, but Pfenninger was aslee
mile on his pilfer trip in the second Jand called Thomas out.
had not Chapman’s throw been low.
Miller, the young man who tied up
Thursday’s game with a single, looked cuR clout had not the ground be€
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 his
shoetops.
Chapman crossed the Gull
nicely In the second. With
first Chapman tried to sacrifice
the first ball. But on the next
he banged the ball hard to Stock and
beat it out for a hit
Smith’s three-cushion soak in t!
tenth would have surely been a cii
on the job, thereby holding the hit i
a triple,
• • •
Cavet purposely walked Bisland
the tenth so as to get Holland, ne
up. But Bill Smith crossed the Gi
pitcher by sending Manush in to b*
ull infield j
Nixori on I
.orifice on A,'
next balrW3
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 fact 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 inning.
There wasn’t a nook inside the park
that wasn’t occupied.
* * *
Bisland robbed Paulet of a sure hit
when ho made a one-hand s'ab of a
hard-hit grounder back of second in
the third.
AgleF# catch qi Schmidt'# twls
SECOND GAME.
Mobile players started stallii
.'or time right oft the reel. Stock r
Wsed to hurry up in going to t
plate. Pfenninger cautioned the you;
shortstop to get a hurry on himself
• * .
O’Dell made a nice steal of secoi
Chapman’s peg being a bit too high.
Paulet was called out on strikes
the first Inning, although he had oi
■two against him. The first ball v.
a waste hg.il. The second, he swu
at and missed; and then he miss
Mother.
* . •
Thompson was dead game when
knocked down Miller’s hot shot in t
second. The ball was traveling al
Hfile-a-minute rate at the time.
• • •
Long’s single In the first spa
handcuffed O'DeU.
Pfenninger called a third strike
Holland in the second that was
' / knfrve which broke outside the pi
::=* *«•« —
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?
* * *
1THIS small writing is going to stut-
A ter. Possibly the magic of the
linotype will keep the alphabet
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.
By W. S. Farnsworth.
H ERE are two tables of
showing just how many
each hurler uncorked
day:
FIRST GAME.
Innings— Price Dent
Fust 7
Second 16 .. 13
Third 8 .. 8
Fourth 9 .. 16
Fifth 15 .. 9
Sixth 8 .. 7
Seventli 23 .. 8
Eighth 7 13
Ninth 16 13
Tenth 13 13
Totals 86 36 123
in the fourth was right up
the “smoker.”
* * •
was declared out stretching
in the fourth. But Starr
pait the ball on him.
* * •
sure did rob Starr of a double,
possibly a triple, in the fifth,
wfien he pulled down his demon liner.
• • *
< ^"Welchonce now holds the Southern
Lf ague record for hits, with a total
Of 192.
• • •
®ESmith threw Schmidt out in the
sixth, but Agler saved Wally an error
by digging the throw right out of the
dirt.
PANORAMA OF J 7,000 FANS WHO SA
Pretty Tough to See Crackers Ptilled Off White Gol
GRAND BATTLING GAINSAINLY TIE IN