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THE ATLANTA f JtTBTFl i‘w<?v IlilMI Falher Time With Deadly Scythe Rushes to Rescue of Beaten Culls fiRfllT SRFNF CRACKER CLUB IS VANQUISHED, THOUGH VICTORS Bv Fuzzy Woodruff. IOLANTA won. And defeat A TLANTA won. And defeat was the Cracker*. Mobile lost, and when the Gulls departed from the stricken field of. Ponce DeLeon they were tasting the sweet* of victory. The statement sounds paradoxical, but the paradox la true. For to the losers belonged the spoils, whLle 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 Wllham was the victor. Mlqtte wM the vanquished. Y HTT us pwtise and anafyse this oon- - dltton under which oil mixes with water, stream* run uphill, theft be comes honesty, raises In salary are given unsolicited, and other rank Im possibilities become stem reality. When Finn led his Gulls into this city of Southern progress. William Andrew Bmlth had to lead a forlon; hope that makes Pickett's charge at Okrttvsburg appear as easy as pick ing cherries off papa's tree. With a olub that had but recently recovered from a slump ho was com pelled to face the leaders of the league, before whose attack other clubs In fh« < lroult had fallen as chaff be fore the wind and riders from the water wagon on the first br-np after New Year’s Day. F OUTt games were scheduled be tween the Orackers 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 Bozzaris. the gent who awoke the Turks; Arnold Von Winkelrisd, 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 his encores, had nothing on the sublime courage with which Billy and his Crackers tackled the Job. Wonderful Blood Remedy Brings Health to a Host of Sufferers '“THE first 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 Herculanean 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 the late departed century. Smith didn't quail. He resumed the role of Hercules with os 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 Gulls. He was downed by Father Time, a war rior who has been able to dispose of every ohamplon 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 lmpllment, 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 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 Pout hern League games played in less than two hours are rarities. But only three hours were given for the playing of the two game9, when the ten minutes* rest between struggles is deducted. The remarkable action of 0. P. S. in the blood is giv en Impetus by a letter received from Earl C. Cook, 7(h* Pouth Center St., Bloom ington, Ill. He s'.-ga Bays, '1 suffered (vJtfM JKUii* several month* and took treat- msnt here, but ob tained relief only for a few days at a time. Becoming doubtful of re sults, I quit the doctors, and there was marked improvement from the start. 1 used thirteen bottles of S. P P and was entirely cured My blood was in a dreadful condition, and 1 can not. thank S. 8. S. enough for my wonderful recovery." This preparation stands alone among specific remedies as a blood purifier, since It accomplishes all that was ever claimed for mercury, io- a THE Atlanta club could have had * the first game called at 10 o’clock yesterday morning as well as 1:80 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Not one paid admission would have been miss ing. Still, the club fixed the hour at 1:80. and the club, and the club alone, is responsible for the fact that the Crackers, instead of being In first place by a margin so comfortable 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, 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 ani take the dangerous Elberfcldans into camp. It is altogether likely that Mobile can heat the tail-end Pelicans twice in two days. dides. mineral drug* - and other destructive and yet It Is absolute etable product. These rht out Jn a highly in- complied by’ the medi- of The Swift Specific Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. It is mailed free, together with a special letter of advice to ell who are strug gling with a blood disease. Get a bott> S P. S. to-day of r drugrl you .Vwuuviiui *wUwa in the •d 1 92 ATLANTA can win the pennant under these ondltions: (11 Defeat Chattanooga, while Mo. bile lows on*- game to New Orleans (2) Ix)se to Chattanooga, while Mobile lo-es twice to New Orleans. (3) Win from Chattanooga, while both Gulls games are being rained out. (4> Have rain In Atlanta while Mo bil 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 **-nd a hurgy call for an adding ma chine. 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, nave the one that is still being waged with Lillian Russell, and he may get her yet. The Official Score Mobile. ab. r. h. po. a. e. Stock, 88. . . . . 3 i 0 3 5 i Starr, 2b. . . . 3 i 1 3 2 i O’Dell, 3b. . . . 5 0 4 2 3 0 Paulet, lb. . . . 4 0 2 13 1 0 Robertson, cf. . . 5 0 1 3 0 1 Schmidt, e. . . . 5 0 0 1 1 8 Clark, if. . . . . 4 0 0 Q 1 0 Miller, rf. . . . 3 2 1 0 0 0 Cavet, p. . . . . 4 1 2 1 «> o Total .... . 36 5 8*28 16 8 Atlanta. ab. r. h. po a. e. Agler, lb. . . . r> 0 i 14 o 0 I-ong, If. . . . . 4 1 i n 0 1 Welehonce, cf. . IS 0 8 3 0 0 Smith, 2b. . . . IS 2 2 2 6 0 Blsland. ss. . . . 3 0 i 6 4 0 Holland, 3b. . . . . 4 1 i 1 4 0 xManuah . . . . 1 0 0 0 0 0 Nixon, rf. . . . 3 1 1 1 0 0 Chapman, c.. . . 3 1 1 3 2 0 Price, p. . . . . 1 0 0 0 0 0 Dent, p . 1 0 0 0 0 0 Total .... .35 S 11 30 lfl i Score by Innings: Mobile 000 020 300 0—5 Atlanta 220 001 000 1—6 •One out when winning run wag scored. x Hatted 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. BaHee on balls*—Off Price, 4; off Dent, 2; off Cavet. 3. Sacrifice hits— Blsland, Chapman. Price (2). Stolen bases—Long, Smith, Blsland, Starr, Robertson. Hit by pitched ball—Mil ler, by Price. Time—2:18. Umpires —Rudderham and Pfennlnger. BASEBALL SUMMARIES. . SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Games Saturday. Chattsrorvga at Atlanta. Gama nailed at 8:16 o’clock. New Orleans at Mobile Memphis at Montgomery. Birmingham at NaahvHla. Standing of tha Clubs W. L Po. W L Po. Atlanta. 80 66 688 Mont.... 68 68 6<Vf Mobile. 80 66 688 M’phis.. 62 73 .468 B'ham. 78 64 688 N’vllle.. 62 76 449 Chatt. . 70 6- .680 New O.. 44 87 .834 Friday’s Results. Atlanta, b. Aiouiw, o uen innings) Chattanooga, 6. New Orleans, 1. Nashville, 4; Montgomery, 3 phis, Birmingham-Mem pi 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 L Pc. Phila.... 84 46 661 Boston.. 66 62 .612 Cl’land. 78 52 .600 Detroit. 57 72 442 Wgton. 72 56 662 , St L. 49 84 .369 Chicago 68 64 515 1 New Y. 44 82 349 Friday’s Results. Boston, 6; Philadelphia, s. Chloago, 1; St. Louis. 0. Cleveland, 7, Detroit, 6 Washington, 3-1; New York, 2-0. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Saturday. Philadelphia at Boston. Brooklyn at New York. St 1/ouis at Pittsburg. Cincinnati at Chicago Standing of the Clubs W. L Pc. New Y . 87 41 .680 Phila . . 74 47 .612 Chloago 71 67 .655 P’burg.. 6y 59 .539 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 (second game ten inning*; darknesa;. B'klyn.. Boat on. C'natl... St. L. . W. L Pc. 64 72 429 54 69 .439 66 78 .414 46 87 346 OPENER Has Fate Robbed Atlanta of Rag? +•+ +•+ C. Thompson Looked Like Winner By Innis 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 clerk?, 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 crltisicrn 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 tee 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-ln-the-wool bugs, the fellow’s 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 belles calmly seated on the red clay gTound, 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. THAT crowd was never srtlent for a 1 second. Every noise that could be made that crowd made. Every move that favored Atlanta was greet ed with 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 holler factory. The shouts must have been heard in East Point. Certainly the spirit of enthusiasm pervaded Fulton and DeKalb Counties. And then come? the sad part. That crowd, the crowd that did all and would have done more for :he 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 a three-base hit, and more of those priceless, minutes were lost bringing him from third home. AND the demonstration itself The ** crowd Purged on the field. It ran wildly for awhile, then it formed an i mnrehed, 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 been enough to enable the Crackers to have taken both games. * 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 ball club that wouldn’t have done tl\e 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 shortfleld for the Crackers who deserves much credit. Rivlngton Blsland is the gentleman, and he is certainly a wonder. Never have I seen a boy deliver the goods in the pinches better than Blsland. 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. N 1 [EXT to Blsland 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 Blsland 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 oertalnly 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 beck to third, but later scored when Robertson dropped Manush’s fly. T T AD Robertson caught that ball the game might have gone on lndefl- nitely. The boll was oloee In and chances are that Smith would have held third. Billy Smith made a good move when he yanked Holland and sent Moorish 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 \\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 tor 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, 1 The fans that are out at Poucy to-day will also have an opportunity of getting the scores of the Mobile-Mew Orleans game. They will be posted on the score-board. Pretty Tough to See Crackers P lied GRAND BATTLING GAINS By 0. B. Keeler. B OYS, we’re still THEBE— 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? leaving an odd ten minutes for thdj necessary interval between the con tests. A game played in an hour and a half i=i a fast game. There must be T HIS small writing is going to stut ter. Pnsslhlv mucrin rtf ihc 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 otewed 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. YY7 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 and we lost, too, be cause we didn’t win two. Try that over on your typewriter. It looks sort of suspicious to us. D OYS, 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 th>isi 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 b^ —AND OUGHT TO BE. If right really does prevail and a mighty uphill bat tle Is to be rewarded. ’T'HB Crocker* won the final game 1 of the series by whipping the Gulls, This time they outplayed .** well as outfought the enemy, and only the weakening of Gil Price's over worked arm in the seventh tuning •ored the doomed Gulls from a dis tinguished licking within the nine rounds prescribed for an ordinary ball gome. It was on the heel# of the seventh Inning disaster that the courage <yt the Crocker* flashed more brightly athwart the gray horizon than ever before In all their desperate, grueling grind of eighteen victorias out or twenty games. Price yielded under the savage at tack of the Gulls, but Elliott bent's great heart and arm rtnd Chapman's deadly whip mastered the onslaught and fought back the Invaders until the crack of victory in the tenth. A NT) it was an honest victory, well ** corned, for Pug Caret, blinders and all, was pitching a grand game of bull after a bad start—44 gritty, calculating, heady game, that rated him for all time w’lth iK.OOd Atlanta funs 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 ball 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. A ND there Is small doubt In 16,000 minds that the Crackers would have taken the second game and the lead lr; the pennant chase—would eventually have won. that terriflcally- fought-for flag—but for the grave mismanagement of the clqb direotora jn arranging the play-off of the drawn "of battle of the day before, D Y some quaint method of reason- lng, it apparently was figured that the two g^mes could be played In just three hours of playing time, SIDELIGHTS (N F GAME AT fo H Bv W. S. Farnsworth. ERE are two tables of ftgurl day: showing just how many baila each hurler uncorked yesterJ Innings* FIRST GAME. Price Dent Cavil Dllanc Isingli • did Ellst 7 23 1 Second 16 13 1 Third 8 8 I Fourth 9 IS 1 Fifth 15 !l i Sixth 8 7 1 Seventh .... 23 si Eighth ..... 7 13 i Ninth 16 13 1 Tenth 13 13 1 Totals .... 86 38 123 j gler s poss hen he Felcho |agrue 1 192. |Smith tth. bui digglt SECOND GAME Innings— T’mpsi'n Hogjd First 17 Second 17 Third 12 Totals 46 1 FIRST GAME GOSSIP. Price’s first ball was a fast one and 11 ♦ nvv 14. „ or L Starr fouled it off. iulet‘ ive bee fowd be Cavet’s opening offering was al8ojH£I« 22 a fast ball. Agler banged It on the^ • ground to Stock, who relayed toy Paulet. Welchonce’s first hit wat a luckyR one. The ball took a bound past! Stock. Holilan iries w I^ong made a nice play after beingjf 10 ^; ^ caught asleep off third' In the firmin' Inning by tearing straight for the|| plate Instead of running back and|| rorth. Bisland’s single in the first spas’ was a wicked grounder to left tha, would hAve gone a mile had It a ballooner. » • • -V Btz^y then made a beauty steal ol ••oorvl, pulling a dandy hook slide. Finn h»d Berger warming up when- v#< was being pounded In the first lug. Qav innl: ;’ay. Robertson would have been out n mile on his pilfer trip In the gecoH had not Chapman's throw been low Miller, the young man who tic 1 up Thursday's game with a eingle. looked I0«s an awful boob the first time up. | He fanned on three curve balls. Robertson made a peachy try for JClron'e single to center in the aecon ’ He almost speared the pill at his I f ild ifaoetops. Chapmen crossed the Gull 1 lnflffid Ci*or# on Long Tdundei n!nt nd call Fmitijj enth vr ult cloi >n the j triple. Cavet :he tent jp. Bu- Etcher -The IV first Chapman tried to sacrifice on the first ball. But on the• next •ball jlor time be banged the ball hard to Stock and * beat it out for a hit. late. P: horteto Price was robbed of a hit whei h was declared out In the second ■ bunt that Cavet threw m wi first that Btarr left the bag. S r was covering the bag as Paulet run in to get a bunt. O’Dell IfChapma Paris the first two ag: Blsland was lightning fast m\ «r- a w ine lng Cavet’s (jemon grosser in the at and third. And he made a pippin chuck another while out of position, too, Thom A bunch of fair fans crowded into knoekec the Gulls' benoh in the third inning, second. There wasn't a nook inside the park • mile' 1 - a- that wasn't occupied. • • 4 j Long’ Blsland robbed Paul©* of a sure hii 1 handou when he made a one-band stab of a hard-hit grounder back of second In the third. k t • • • if Agler’* catch of Schmidt’s twtsti; ngTai _j;r> e a and wa