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THE ATEANT f-'V' PANORAMA OF 17,000 FANS WHO Father Time With Deadly Scythe Rushes to Rescue of Beaten Gulls CRACKER CLUB IS VANQUISHED,THOUGH VICTORS GREAT SCENE By Fuzzy Woodruff. A TLANTA won. And defeat was the Cracker*. Mobile lost, and when the Gull* departed from the stricken field of Ponoe DeLeon they were tasting the « wool a of victory. The statement sound* 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 au- premoly contented face has never been seen In Atlanta than was the Fenian physiognomy of Finn a* 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. Mlque was the vanquished. Y HIT us pause Rnd analyse this oon- ditlon under which oil mixes with water, streams run uphill, theft be comes honeety, raises in salary are given unsolicited, and other rank im possibilities become stern reality. When Finn led his Gulls Into this city of Rout.hern progress. William Andrew Smith had to lead a forlorn hope that makes Pickett's charge at Gettysburg appear an easy as pick ing eherriow off papa's tree. With a club that had but recently recovered from a slump he was com pelled to face the lenders of the league, before w*ho»e attack other clubs In the circuit had fallen as chaff be fore the wind and riders from the water wagon on the first hump after New Year’s Day. pOTTR 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 “Herculanettn’’ and then began to describe Smith’s task. Then let f he epic poet twang his lyre and tell in rounded phrase and tinkling jingle the gallantry with which William went about his labors. Marco Boxzarle, the gent who awoke the Turks; Arnold Von Wlnkelrisd, the warrior who made a pin-cushion of himoelf for the Independence of Switzerland; Nathan Hale, who did .1 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. T HE first game was an Atlanta vic tory. The task ceased to be Her. culanean. 11 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 batting average of N. Bonaparte, a major leaguer of the early part of the late departed century. Smltn 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 woh 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 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 popullte whiskers and the agricultural impllment, thftt 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. Wonderful Blood Remedy IT was palpable yesterday that the * MVtbile 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. Ho 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 tjia 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. Brings Health to a Host of Sufferers The remarkable action of 8. S. S. in the blood is giv en Impetus by a letter received from Earl C. Cook. 7 08 South Center St., Bloom ington, Ill. He says, "I suffered several month.;; and took treat ment here, but ob tained relief only for a few days at a time. Becoming doubtful of re sults, 1 quit the doctor*, and there was marked Improvement from the start I uaed thirteen bottles of S. S. S. and was entirel> cured. My blood was In a dreadful condition, and 1 can not thank S 8. 8 enough for my wonderful recovery.’* This preparation stands alone among specific remedies as a blood purifier, since it accomplished* 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. These fact* are brought out in a highly in teresting book compiled by the med: 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 with a blood disease. Get a bott> s S S. to-day of THE Atlanta club could have had * the first game t ailed at 10 o’clock yesterday morning as well as 1:30 o’clock yesterday afternoon. Not one paid admission would have been miss- I ing. Still, the club fixed the hour at 1:30. and the club, and the club alone, is responsible for the fact that the I Crackers, instead of being in first I place by 1 margin 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 1 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 the\ were fighting the Gulls, that Atlanta ('an come right back and take the dangerous Klberfeldans Into camp. It i* altogether likely that Mobile i a an beat the tail-end Pelicans twice in two days. , ATLANTA can win tl ** under these conditions: . with (1) Defeat Chattanooga, while Mo. I bill* 1 tws one game to New Orleans (2) Lose to Chattanooga, while i Mobile !•«-.. >• twice to New Orleans. (3) Win from Chattanooga, while both Gulls games are being rained 1 out. <4j Have rain In Atlanta while Mo- : bile in losing one or more game* The conditions seem numerous. Just' I try to figure out the number of ways jin which Atlanta ran lose and then ; ~ ml a nurry rail tor an adding ina- 1 chine. T HE 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 wsb lost w'hen Atlanta took a chance on let ting Father Time enter the lists, for old Father has won all of his battles, wave 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. c. Stock, ss. . . • . 3 i 0 3 5 1 Starr, 2b. . . . 8 i 1 3 o 1 O’Dell, 8b. . . • •. r. 0 1 2 3 0 Paulet, lb. . . • . 4 0 o 18 1 0 Robertson, cf. . . fi 0 i 3 0 i Schmidt, c. . . 5 0 0 1 1 3 (Hark, If. . . . 4 0 0 1! 1 0 Miller, rf. . . . 3 o i 0 0 0 Cavet, p. . . • . 4 1 o 1 • > o Total ... 86 5 8* 28 15 8 Atlanta. ab. r. h. po a. ©. Agler, lb. . . . 5 0 1 14 0 0 Long, If. . . . . 4 1 1 0 0 1 Welchonce, cf. . 5 0 3 3 0 0 Smith, 2b. . . . . 5 11 1! • » 6 0 Bisland, ss. . . . 3 0 i « 4 0 Holland, 2b. . . 4 1 i 1 4 0 xManush . . . 1 0 0 0 0 0 Nixon, rf. . . t . 3 l i 1 0 0 Chapman, e.. . . . 3 1 i 3 2 0 Price, p. . . . 1 0 0 0 0 0 Dent, p. . . . . 1 0 0 0 0 0 Total . . . . .35 H 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—Pan- 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, Chapqjan, Price (2). Stolen bases—Long, Smith, Bisland, Starr, Robertson. Hit by pitched ball—Mil ler, by Price. Time—2:13. Umpires —Rudderham and Pfenninger. BASEBALL SUMMARIES. SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Garnet Saturday. Chattanooga at Atlanta Game called at 8:16 o'clock. New Orleans at Mobile Memphis ut Montgomery. Birmingham at Nashville. Standing of the Club* W. L. Pc. W L. Vr.. Atlanta. 80 66 .688 Mont. .. 68 6« 607 Mobile 80 66 .688 M’phis . 62 73 .450 H’liatn. 73 64 .638 N'ville.. 62 75 .449 Chatt 70 «- .630 New O.. 44 87 .330 Friday’s Results. - Atlanta, b. AiouUe, .» iumi innings). Chattanooga, 6; New Orleans, 1. Nashville, 4. Montgomery, 3. Blrmingham-Memphls, rain. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games Saturday. Chicago at St. Iaouls. Detroit at Cleveland. New York at Washington. Boston at Philadelphia. Standing of the Clubs. Phi la (Tlund. W. L Pc. 84 48 651 | Boat on W. L Pc 65 62 .512 78 62 .600 Detroit. 57 72 .442 W’gton. 72 66 .662 St. L New Y, 49 84 .369 44 82 .349 Chicago 68 64 .515 Friday’s Results. Boston, 6: Philadelphia. 21. Chicago, i; St. lx>uis, 0. Cleveland, 7; Detroit. 6. Washington, 3-1; New York, 2 0. NATIONAL LEAGUE. the pennant | Game* Saturday. Philadelphia at Boston. Brooklyn at New York. St Duds at Pittsburg. Cincinnati at Chicago Standing of the Clubs W L Pc New Y 87 41 .680 i B’klyn.. 54 73 429 Phila.. . 74 47 .612 Boston. 64 69 439 C’natl 66 78 .414 46 87 ,346 Chicago 7i 57 .565 P’burg . 69 69 639 ! St L. Frldav** Result®. Cincinnati. Chicago. 4 New York. 6: Brooklyn*^. Pittsburg. 8-11; St lxmte. 3-3 Philadelphia. 1-0; Boston. 0-0 (.second gume ten innings, darkness). Has Fate Robbed Atlanta of Rag? +•+ 4* •4* *l*i^ f 4*«4* 4*#4* C. Thompson Looked Like Winner WIN OPENER By Innis Brown. A S that mass of humanity rose and roared yesterday after noon, a* the band of bra-"* 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 t'hout that our sports are too commercialized to per mit genuine enthusiasm. That crowd yesterday would have been a better answer to that critlsicm 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 rivaf stands when te e meets football and armored athlete3 clash In their classic annual strug gles. But 1 have never seen demonstra tion to equal the one on Ponce De Leon field yesterday afternoon. JT was a climax to a wonderful day. * 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 .1 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. Everv class was repre sented. As standing space became of value. I saw business men of the highest standing, climbing fences like 10-year-olds. I saw society belles calmly seated on the red clay ground, regardless of future of dainty dresses. I saw newsboy* become supremely important personages because the\ were possestied 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 crowd made. Every move that favored Atlanta was greet ed with a demonstration louder than th* one Just preceding. until it seemed that the limit had been reached. But when the winning run was scored the noi9e that had resounded before sounded like a pin drop In a holler factory. The shout* must have been heard In East Point. Certainly the aplrlt of enthusiasm pervaded Fulton and DeKaJb 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. T^he three-base hit of Paulet that scored Mobile's tying runs that forced the gam 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, Wallle 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-baee hit, and more of those priceless minutes were lost bringing him from third home. A ND the demonstration itself The crowd surged on rha field. It ran wildly for awhile, then it formed ani 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 be^n 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 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 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. XT 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 Wallle Smith. Many of the fans had thought Waliie was about through after he made four errors the other day. Wallle 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. TTAD Robertson caught that ball the game might have gone on lndefl- 1 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 txiaetiall club. I have lwen on his club for two seasons and can truthfully say that th^re 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. 1 watched lilm 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 tti AT 7 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. 1 will be out there tor one. and 1 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 on the score-board. Pretty Tough to See Crackers \ filed GRAND BATTLING GAIN# J- 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 typew-riier 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—w'hat? 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 THIS small writing is going to stut- A ter. Possibly the magic of the keep the e alphabet 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 Drecious 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. \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 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 w r as 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 ba% tie Is to be rewarded. | The Cracker* won the final game 1 of the series by whipping the Gulls. This time they outplayed as well as outfought the enemy, and <$nly the weakening of Gil Price’s over worked arm in the seventh inning saved the doomed Guile from a dis tinguished licking within the nine round* prescribed for an ordinary ball game. > It was on the heel* of the seventh inning disaster that the courage of the Cracker* flashed more brightly athwart the gray horizon than ever before In all their desperate, grueling grind of eighteen victories out of twenty game*. Price yielded under the savage at tack of the Gull*, 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. A ND it was an honest vlotory, 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 fan* &H 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 gamo by the cracking of the Gull* in the first two rounds, A* It turned out. we smashed out a victory that was earned to the core. AND there 1* small doubt in 16,000 ** minds that the Crackers would hav* takeq the second game and the lead in the pennant chase— would eventually have won that terriflcallv- 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- lJ ing, it apparently was figured that the t*o games could be played in just three hour# of playing time, SIDELIGHTS GAME AT scot ng. plajpd ir ow el ay 1m I H By W. S. Farnsworth ERE are two tables of flgu! showing just how many each hurler uncorked yes day: FIRST GAME. Innings*- Price Dent Cav Fust 7 Second 16 Third 8 Fourth 9 Fifth 15 Sixth 8 Seventh 23 Eighth Ninth Tenth 16 13 Total* . 8G 30 123 SECOND GAME Innings— T’mpu’n Hogg First n 11 Second 17 15 Third 12 I 14 * Totals 46 4) 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 firm Inning by tearing straight for Jbe^ plate instead of running back a; “ forth. Bisland's single in the first sip was a wicked grounder to left would have gone a mile had It a ballooner. • • • Blzzy then made a beauty stes^^o] second, pulling a dandy hook slide. elch L~Jgue of inith bi C ivet n mg gar ph\ ;ica (Let tl,- Six1 ha' cle iule b< f-d t si fli 11 th on f s© 1 Finn bsq Berger warming up when ' 1 th. Cavet was being pounded In the first Inning. Robertson would have been out a mile on hta 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, loofcea 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 tils rfioetops. Chapman crossed the Gull llfiaAd nicely in the second, With Nixon tin first Chapman tried to sacrifice on the first ball. But on the next ball he banged the ball hard to Stock and beat It out for a lilt. Price was robbed of a hit when be was declared out In tile second on <> bunt that Cavet threw so wide to first that Starr left the bag. Stan was covering the bag as Paulet had run In to get a bunt. Long ground the ntn and ca The for tin fused plate, 1 shorts! Bltiand was lightning fast cover Ing Cavet’s demon grasser In tl v third. And he made a i Ippln chu O’De Chapm ^ 'Paul tl-e fin ' V.’O Q,( wasi 1 nnc ■i.'iothe while out of position, too. A bunch of fair fans crowded in< the Gulls’ bench In the third innint Tliere wasn’t a fiook inside the park that wasn't occupied. Thoi knoek< second mila-a Bisland robbed Paulet of a sure when he made a one-hand stab of4 hard-hit grounder back of secorrf ‘;'i the third. 3-rfmj handc: