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GIAN AND NEWS. RACKERS DEFEAT GULLS AT PONCY rs f iljed Off While Going Is Good LY TIE IN FLAG RACE for the 1© con- and a nust be yes ‘Crackers Dead Game Team’- Boys Swept Gulls Off Their Feet elaya; no wranflings, not much 1 ng. important ball game ever was 3^d in an hour and a half, and th.‘ owners must have known it FOURTH NCY PARK in the fourth was Jjjfnat the ‘•smoker.” right Ml \lland was declared out s i ,<'r\ 0 j n fo ;n . Bur did put the bal' >n : ini. t Cavoty gler ? stretching Starr 13 13 13 1*23 Hogg 11 15 sure did rob Starr of a double, an possibly a triple, in the fifth, whin he pulled down his demon liner. * * * elchonce now holds th^ Southern Leitue record for hits, with a totu of >ne and 18 also on the ped to . lucky 3 past ifnlth threw Schmidt out in th< i. but Agler caved W illy an error igging the throw right out of the vet deserves a heap of credit for cording back and pitching such a nice gar e. And he is not .n the best of physical condition, either. tret pitched only seven balls in Mxth Inning, yet we grabbed a rulet’s triple In the seventh would hats been an easy out itad not the vd been in the way. Nixon would ta 1 e surely grabbed the ball with a cli r field ahead. being le first or -the ide. y when ie first out a gecond n low. led up lookec ne up. ry for lecorv’. at tya lfcflfld con fbn Ice on ct bail 'k and ion be 1 on ft ide to Stan ?t had eovr-r i i chu» the eighth inning Dent pitched on! r seven balls, but all of them were cui ves. m w m 1 Holland made his best play of the es when he tore In for Miller's rt tap down the ithlrd base line the eighth inning. And Harry m-^de a dandy peg to Agler, too. • * • mith and Paulet were both hurt en /they collided in the eighth. tbf Just did manage to beat out Afield tap. but he and Paulet both down in the melee. • • « japman was a bearcat in the l th. He caught Cavet napping off socond aad then nailed Stock a min ute later trying to pilfer to the mid way.' • • • Long had Stock’s throw of a grounder beaten two yards to first in the ninth, but Pfenninger was asleep and called Thomas out. - • • * Smith's three-cushion soak In the tenth would have surely been a cir cuit clout had not the ground been on the Job, thereby holding the hit to a triple. . a • • Cavet purposely walked Bialand in the tenth so as to get Holland, next up, But Bill Smith crossed the aull pitcher by sending Manush in to bat. 6ECOND GAME. The Mobile players started stalling for time right off the reel. Stock re fused to hurry up in going to the plate, Pfenninger cautioned the young «hurt a too to get a hurry on himself. * * * * I O’Dell made a nice.steal of second, Chapman’s peg being a bit too high. • « • 'Paulet was called out on strikes Jn the first Inning, although he had only iv.’o against him. The first ball was waste ball. The second, he swung and missed; and then he missed h hot her, * * • Thompson was dead game when h? knocked down Miller’s hot shot in the second. The ball was traveling at n mila-a-mlnute rats at the time. • • • Long's single In the first spasm handcuffed O’Dell. • • • .Wenninger called a third * trike '«J3Nnland in ihe second that wmf ^■drve which broke outside the I'lato ng Bnd was way low. 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 9~> 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 7 ball. They played slow 7 ball In the first game. There never w'as a chance to make the sec ond contest a legal game. We aro not blaming Mike Finn or Mike Finn’s ball club for stalling. The opportu nity was rammed down their throat*? They simply preferred to take the chance of beating New Orleans TWICE to playing it out in one final 'death grapple with the Crackers. On the whole, they probably w'ere wise. • * • A NIJ now, where (jo we stand? Well, there are about a hatful of things that can happen In the three games left of tl\e Southern League pennant race—our game with Chattanooga to-day, and the Gulls' two games with the Pels, one to-day, one Sunday. ... H ERE are a few variations. You can devise more, ad lib. If Atlanta wins to-day and the Gulls break even, Atlanta wins the pennant. If Atlanta loses and Mobile breaks even, the Gulls win the rag. If rain prevents Atlanta from play ing—this Is a new hunch—and Mo bile breaks even, Atlanta will win the pennant by a fraction of one point In percentage. If Atlanta wins and Mobile wins two, Mobile wins the flag. If Atlanta loses and the Gulls lose two, Atlanta wins the pennant. If Atlanta wins and Mobile takes one same and it rains out the other, the season ends in a tie. which prob ably would b© played off in a Special series. . . . TF you don't find your favorite oon- 1 tentlon listed in the foregoing, work It out for yourself. It beats Canfield. .. . IT is our private hunch that the 1 co urt business Is going to Increase horrifically os a result of arguments to-day on this very topic. Suggestion Equip yourself with a rule book and a percentage table rather than a pint bottle and Irish confetti. • * • T AXING it by and large, which Is a favorite way of taking things, It appears that we have a pretty fair chance. It’s a better chance than It "it would lt be f a’ better chance than It was after that first game with the Gulls, except for one thing; Tho Crackers’ chances no longer depend solely on their own courage and ball-playing aolllty. \ Third Party has homed In. New Orleans must win one of those e « from the Gulls, or the splendid rush of the Crackers of 1918 will fall Ju&t abort of the O NE cheering ray; Cholly Frank will beat Mike Finn out of a pennant If he can. He likes the genial vfiaui' lust exactly that much. Another hopeful symptom; Cove- leskle nltohed yesterday. * VD the best thing of alb and the A thing that can’t he taken away ^The honest pride and Joy In the grandest fight ever made by an At lanta ball club _ u ,, r rtoytgi Win, lo»e or draw—THAT Bv Joe Agler. W ITH the ending of the most crucial series of tho 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 straiD the boys labored under was terrible. Every play practically meant a game and a pennant. On the other hand, the Gulls had very little to worry about at the start. They came here one confident ball team. All they needed was one victory. • * • A ND the loyal support the fans gave us made the boys fight doubly hard. Most of us are sorry that the second game wasn’t finished. We would surely have got to Hogg before long as he was fast tiring. Thompson, on the other hand, was fresh and eager for the fray. He had had a long rest, and was going great. Of course, we do not feel that we have been beaten out of the flag yet We play Chattanooga to-day and, believe me, we will be out there fighting every minute of the time. If the Pels can only take one game from Finn's crew we will be one happy lot of ball players. I really think we have proven ourselves to be a better ball club than the Gulls and the pennant really belongs in Atlanta. We beat them three games, and only the toughest sort of luck robbed us of the fourth. * * * D URING 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, hut the Gulls could not see it that way. They probably had enough of us during the four games we battled them. Never once during my career as a ball player have I been connected with as game a bunch of ball players as I am with now. If this team Isn’t the best ball club In the Southern League then I don't know what I am talking about And I can safely say that had these same boys been to gether all season that we would have been so far In the lead at this time that this series would not have been necessary. I was to say a few words for Bisland. The way this boy played was certainly wonderful. He Is easily the best shortstop in the Southern League. His stops and throws have anything beaten that I have looked at for a long time. Another feature of our playing was that every member fought for the team Instead or for individual honor. We stuck together at all rimes and the scene after each game In the clubhouse will be remembered by the boys for some rime. All of us knew what we were up against and went Into every game In a “do-or-dle** spirit • • * S EVERAL of the Mobile players admitted to me after the game yester day that we had It on them. They also admitted that the gameness displayed by the boys was unlooked for by them. They really expected little trouble from us when they came down here for this series and were handed the surprise of their lives. As for the Mobile team, we have nothing but praise. They played clean ball. Most of the boys felt somewhat peeved when the team didn’t accept our Invitation to finish the socond game, but I guess the nervous tension the players were working under had them pretty well worn out We sort of expected a hard battle, as we knew what we were up against, but they thought It would be an easy matter to capture one of tho games. • • • T O-DAY’S game brings us against the Lookouts We must beat them to have a chance r.t the rag. The boys know what this game means, and we’ll be fighting Just as hard as we were against the Gulls It Is my humble opinion that Finn’s crew will have the rime of their young lives taking two games from New Orleans They were certainly one fagged-out team when they grantee a rattier for homo last night. The Pelicans have been taking things easy lately and are primed ter a good struggls And I also have It from a good source that Finn and Frank are far from being good friends Frank Intended to send Wilson home for the remainder of tho season, but will, Instead, work the big southpaw against the Gulls In the first game between the two teams. Wilson has always had It cm the boys from Mobile and should cause them a lot of trouble. Billy Smith received the Wilson information In a wire from Frank yesterday. • » * S HOULD the Gulls manage to trim Wilson they will have to faoe Wal ker In the next combat. Fans around the circuit ere calling this boy a second Walter Johnson. These two hurlers should cause Mobile u lot of trouble. ■5-S4- T Cracker Manager Believes Pelicans Will Give Gulls a Fight BILL SMITH PLANS TO PITCH DENT MAY By W. S. Farnsworth. I F the Crackers defeat the Lookouts to-day and Mobile wins the two games with New Orleans, then the local club will have lost the pen nant tbroug n a bad mistake of the Atlanta Baseball Association. The directors should have started yesterday’s double-header a full hour ahead of l:3o o’clock. The games had to be finished at 4:40 o’clock to al low Mobile to catch a train for New Orleans. Mike Finn insisted on two full nine- inning games. And, thereby, the Irishman put one over on the local directors. By starting the first game at 1:30 o’clock and allowing a ten-minute rest between the battle?, the two games had to bo played in exactly three hours—one and one-half hours for each game. And what a fine chance! * * * T T takes nearly two hours to play A a game in the Southern League. So how in the world did the local as sociation figure they could ever crowd tw 7 o 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 official?. Mobile must lose a game to the Pelicans. Of course it could rain in Mobile to-day and to-morrow, and then w 7 e would have a chance. But even so, you can not forgive somebody, whoever he may be, for not seeing to it that the Crackers had all the time needed to play that sec ond game. • • • A ND the Crackers would have won that .second game sure. They were outplaying and outgaming Mo bile. The Mobile players admitted after the game that they were “on the run.” Charley Starr even went so far a? 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 club officials. • • • O NE of Atlanta's biggest advertis ing men called up The Georgian this morning to tell us how sore he and many of his colleagues are be cause the Atlanta Baseball Associa tion did not see to it that the two games w'ere played until a decision was reached. “We were given to understand that we would see two games. But we were bunked." H. Welchonce Breaks Hit Record for Season Harry Welehonoe, the Crackers' star batsman, (rot 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 Huelsmnn 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. It. H. P.O. Robertson. . , , ,133 508 86 173 .341 Welchonce . . . .144 664 66 192 .849 By Bill Smith. W E are not through yet. Not by a long sight, and I’d rather use an adjective that begins with “d”. ends with “n” and has “am” salted In between. I am confident that my club will come back to-day and beat Chatta nooga. 1 am equally confident that Cholly Frank will come through with at lea?t one victory over tho 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 bo euchered out by that sllp-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’? 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 abou£ as well for breakfast this morning as they did yesterday. • * • T REALIZE that we are up against 1 jutft 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 tlfethe will appear at Ponce D»)Leon v Thgp Elberfeld has Kroh, of hi j left-handers left, and Kroh has bwen mighty easy for us. and I know we can take any of his right-handers Into cajnp. If I don’t change my plans at the last moment. Elliott Dent will be my selection for hurling duty to-day. He looked a bear yesterday after I sent him in to relieve Price. He worked four innings and I believe he will be Just as good to-day. If he is, I will be surprised to see the Lookouts score a single run. For ho had about everything yesterday. SHELL FRAMES. Have your lenses mounted In « 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. Haw'kes Co., Opticians, 14 White hall street. N OW to leave our own affairs 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 uso either of his star hurlers, Cavet and Hogg, against the Pelicans. They have already done the work of a pair of truck horses. lie might use Billy Campbell in one of theoe 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. Mique will havi 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 is the boss of things in the town where the gin-fizzes come from, and the big Hibernian, who holds forth with the oysters and oratory of the Gulf coast. It’s a pipe that Frank will try his best to trim Mique. More power to him. I mean it for more reasons than one, too. Of course, I don’t blame Mique for wanting to win a pennant I’ve got a hankering of that kind my self. but I’ve got a mighty fine hunch that Finn handed the Atlanta public one yesterday. W HEN It became certain that we couldn’t p-et through with the second game before train time. Presi dent Callaway went to Finn with a proposition. Hero Is what he agreed to do: He offered to charter a special train for the Mobile club, the train to con- ?ist of two Pullmans and a diner and the limit of expenditure was the blue sky. 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Bids will be accept ed cither separately or as a whole, and ail 'bids subject to the confirmation of the Referee. Terms cash. For inspection of the said horses and wagons, Inquire of the undersigned, or J. M. Moore, 209 Whitehall street H. A. FERRIS, Trustee. MOORE At POMEROY. HENRY NEWMAN, Attorneys for the Trustee. DON’T WAIT 22 Frost arrives with chilly winds and wintry blasts and yoa are shaking and shiver ing-, but bay your COAL NOW, and have it in the bin. Prices are RIGHT, delivery PROMPT. Randall Bros. R6 BUfUCfNQ, MAIN OFFICE. YARDS! ttterfotta street soft North Avenue, both phones 376: South Boulevard and Georgia .railroad. Bell phone 638, Atlanta 303; McDaniel street and Soil thorn railroad. Ball Main 664. Atlanta 821; 64 Krogg street Bell Ivy 4166. Atlanta, 706 SouUi Pr MtL 06; 163 h-yor street, both phones would consent to play out yester- day’s second game. Would Finn do it? Hardly. He knew that his club was on the run. He knew we would trim him that game as sure as it was played out. No inducement could get him to stay. He was content to stall around and let a train schedule keep him from defeat. That may be sportsmanship. Tin not saying, but I’d hate to wear a title of “champion” won by any such methods. Diamond Stickpin For Tommy Long At the start of the 1913 season Henry Muench, the Peachtree street Jeweler, offered a aiamond studded stickpin to the Atlanta ball player scoring the most runs for the sea son. Tommy Long, the speedy left fielder of the Crackers, gets this pin for a total of 110 runs to date. The pin is a handsome piece of jewelry in the shape of a bat, with a big cluster of diamonds at the end. In winning this prize. Tommy Long broke the league record for runs scored by a big margin, the previous figures being 99 runs, made In 1902 by Gus Hill, of Nashville. The pin will be presented to-day and, says Mr, Muench, “It was surely well earned.” GOLD, SILVER LORGNETTES. 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