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But Starr r did put the ball on him. jgler sure did rob Starr of a double, id possibly a triple, in the fifth, en he pulled down his demon liner. • • • Telchonce now holds the Southern fcague reoord for hits, with a total 192. a • • ■Smith threw Schmidt out in the £th. but Agler saved Wally an error digging the throw right out of the a vet deserves a heap of credit for ning back and pitching such a nice And he is not in the best of kical condition, either. Hfaxth inning, yet we grabbed a « ^ • • • ^aulet’s triple in the seventh would ive been an easy out had not the owd been In the way. Nixon would ive surely grabbed the ball with a ear field ahead. • • • In the eighth inning Dent pitched lly seven balls, but all of them were iirres. nries when he tore in for Miller's hort tap down the third base line the eighth inning. And Harry lade a dandy peg to Agler, too. m a 9 Smith and Paulet were both hurt they collided in the eighth, ust did manage to beat out d tap. but he and Paulet both in the melee. • • • nan was a bearcat In the He caught Cavet napping off . *err#TO1 aid then nailed Stock a mln- * later trying to pilfer to the mid- ray. • • • Dong had Stock** thsow of a rounder beaten two yards to flfSt in h*» ninth, but Pfennlnger was aateop nd called Thomas out. 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. Tho directors must have known what it meant for Atlanta NOT to 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. «.• * * T HE first game went two hours and thirteen minutes* — just about what might have been expected in sd 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 content a legal game. We are not blaming Mike Finn or Mike Finn’s ball club for stalling. The opportu nity was rammed down their throats They simply 7 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. * * a A ND 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, t>ne Sunday. • * • H ERE are a few variations. You can devise more, ad lib. If Atlanta wins to-day and the Gulls break even, Atlanta win* the pennant. If Atlanta loses and Molblle breaks even, the Gulls w'ln 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 percentaga. If Atlanta wins and Mobil© 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 M ‘Crackers Dead Game Team’-Agler CLUB OFFICIALS •{•••{• +•+ 4* #4* 4*s«fr Boys Swept Gulls Off Their Feet Bv .Toe 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. Smithip thrso-cushion soak In th« enth would have surely been a clr- •uit clout had not the ground been m the job, thereby holding the Mt to t triple. • • • Cavet purposely walked Bisland In he tenth so as to get Holland, next jp. But BUI Bmlth crossed the Gull kitcher by sending Mravih in ts bat. SECOND GAME. The Mobile players started stalling time right off the reel. Stools re- ’nsed to hurry up In going to tna binte. Pfennings* cautioned the young shortstop to get a hurry on himself. % • • • O'Dell made a nice steal of second. Id - I. tn J m J -Th til >or t; id | jfuset jchapmun'B peg bel^g ^ g a bit too high. strikes In had only !d ! Paulet was called oat on I the first Inning, although he two ageinst him. The first ball was r- a v kte ball. Tb© second, h© swum hn at and missed; snd then be misMi ck another, , , , Thompson was dead game when h» to knocked down Miller's hot shot in the Ig I second. The ball was traveling at a rk mllet a-mlnute rate ;• the time. 0 * Longh' single in the first *pa*m tit j handcuffed O'Dell. In, 1 ,. Pfennlnger called a third striko or. * Hol'and In the second that was a ¥ irve which broke outside the plate ad was way low. Canfield. I T Is our pri court business is going to Increase horrifically as a result of arguments to-day on this very topic. Suggestion: Equip yourself with a rule bock and a percentags table rather than a pint bottle and Irish confetti. see TAKING It by and large, which is * a favorite way of taking things, It appears that we have a pretty fair ohance. It’s a better ohanoe than It was a week ago. It would be a better chance than It was after that first game with the Gulls, except for one thing: The Crackers’ Chances no longer depend solely on their own oourags and bail-playing ability. A Third Party has horned In. New Orleans must win one of those games from the Gulls, ot the splendid rush of the Crackers of 1618 win fall just short of the tlag.^ O NE cheering rayu Oho By Frank will beat Mike Finn ont of n pennant If he can. He likes the genial Mlque just exactly that much. Another hopoful symptom; Cove- leskte nltched yesterday. • t/ • A ND the best thing ot aU and the thing that can’t be taken away from us. The honest prifle and joy in the grandest fight ever made by an At lanta bell club _ , Win, lost or draw—THAT GOES: L T Cracker Manager Believes Pelicans Will dive Gulls a Fight BILL SMITH PLANS TO PITCH DENT TO DAY A ND the loyal support the fans gave us made the boys fight doubly 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. D u * ^TIRING 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 use 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 hall 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 wan 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 hoys for some time. All of ns knew what we were up against and went Into every game In a “Oo-owdte" spirit. _ „ . ... : ... • • • — —— . S FJVEBAI, of the Mobile players admitted to me after the game yester day that we bad R 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 Jives. As for the Mobile team, we have nothing but praise. They played otean balk Most of the boys felt somewhat peeved when the team didn’t accept our invitation to finish the second gome, bnt I guess the nervous tension the players were working under had them pretty well worn out We sort ot 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 ODAY’S game brings us against the Lookouts. We mnst heat them to have a chance at the rag. The boys know what this game means, and weTl be fighting Just os hard as we were against the Gulls. It Is my humble opinion that Finn’s crew will have the time of their young IIvob taking two games from New Orleans. They were oartalnly one fagged-out team when they grabbed m rattler tar home last night The Pelicans have been taking things eaey lately and are primed for a good straggle. And I also have It from a good source that Finn and Frank are far from being good friends. Frank Intended to send Wilson borne for the remainder of the season, but will, Instead, work the big southpaw against the Gulls in the first game between the two teams. WUson 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 Prank yesterday. • • • S HOULD tho Gnlls manage to trim Wilson they will have to face WrtV ker In the next combat. Fans around the circuit are calling this boy a second Walter JehnsuA. These two harlots should cause Mobile u lot of trouble. - By W. S. Farnsworth. I F the Crackers defeat th© Lookouts to-day and Mobil© wins the two games with New Orleans, then the local club will have lost tho pen nant throuf n a bad mistake of the Atlanta Baseball Association. The direc.ors should have started yesterday’s double-header a full hour ahead of 1:30 o’clock. The games had to b© finished at 4:40 o’clock to al low Mobile to catch a train for Now Orleans. Mike Finn Insisted on two full nine- inning games. Ajft, thereby, the Irishman put one 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 chancel • * * IT takes nearly two hours to play 1 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 booting 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 th© Crackers had all the time needed to play that sec ond game. • • • A ND the Crackers would have won t,hat seoond game sure. They were outplaying and outgamlng 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'* biggest advertis ing men called up The Georgian this morning to tell us how sore he and many of his oolleagues 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 wore ghren to understand that we would see two games. But we were bunked.” By Bill Smith. W E are not through yet. Not by a long sight, and I’d rather u9e an adjective that begins with “d”. ends with “n” and has “am” salted In between. I am confident that my club will come ftack to-day and beat Chatta nooga. I am equally confident that Cholly FYa A will come through with at least on^Tlctory 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 do 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 1 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 EHberfeld 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 he my selection for hurling duty to-day. He looked a bear yosterday 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. N OW to leave our own afTairs for a second and take a Journey down by Mobile Bay. 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 hurlera, Cavet and Hogg, against the Pelicans. They have aJready 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 back after a game like he had Thursday and work a good game as early as Sunday. Mlque will have 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. • • • A ND 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 19 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 Mlque. More power to him. I mean it for more reasons than one, too. Of course, I don’t blame Mlque 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 p-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. He offered to dig down In his own pocket and pay for this if Finn would consent to play oat day’s seoond game. Would Finn do it? Hardly. He knew that hta dob was on the run. He knew we would trim him that game as sure as it was played out. No Inducement oould get him to stay. He was content to stall around and let a train schedule keep him from defeat. That may be sportsmanship Tm not saying, but Td hate to wear a title of “champion” won by any such methods. 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. TOBACCO HABIT ■ nrn*F vour hfilth. oni Ion a vo H. Welchonce Breaks Hit Record for Season Harry Welchonoe, 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 Shreveport 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. G. A.B. R. H. P.C. Robertson. . .133 508 86 178 .341 Welchonce . . . .144 664 ki 192 .349 You cm conquer It cully In 3 day*, Im prove your health, protons your I If a. No more atom - *ch trouble, no foul breath, no heart weakne,** Re gain manly vlpor. oalm nerve*, dear eyes and au perlor mental strength. Whether you rhew or smoke pipe, cigarettes, cigars, get my interesting Tobacco Book. Worth Its weight. In gold Mailed free. E. J. WOODS. 534 Sixth Ave., 748 M.. New York, N. Y. 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