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-—'».o .mppHM^F '"iw tttt; ati.a^ta <3 PANORAMA OF 17,000 FANS WHO SAW * ■ £ i »*'*•’ ••*« *,. ;t* i MUPP* W 'i -;v. v * i * t * . v - • •* , MIME ■ jsi *tv ,k Yi- *.. *M.~ 4i !mi!L IH *» tjteiii '<i j Msu^t > <; ■■<*>» ,j’ | • 'vra^| <l&s' .r -., _ <, .a s i hi ml;: U- W:s- .'*? ^r- ♦>>„ -*■- 1 £:• ■ . : *$S> v < ij 3J ' ^ ^ '<1 4 r ••• •■ .. •. - 'i ;., • Father Time With Deadly Scythe Rushes to Rescue of Beaten Gulls CRFjlT SflFNF CRACKER CLUB IS VANQUISHED,THOUGH VICTORS By Fuzzy Woodruff. TTxANTA won. And defeat wa A the Cracker*. Mobile lost, and when the G«U* departed from the stricken field of Ponce DeLeon they were tasting the sweet* of victory. The statement sounds paradoxical, but the paradox is true. For to the losers belonged the spoil*, while the winner’* 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 wlsht than William Andrew* Smith at that time has never appeared outside of e hi age snowstorm. And William was the victor. Miquo was the vanquished. J ET us pause and analyze this con dition under which oil mixes with waiei. streams run uphill, theft be come* honesty, raise* in salary are given unsolicited, and other rank im possibilities become stern reality. When Finn led hi* 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 a* pick ing chsrrles 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 l«agun. before whose attack other clubs In the circuit bad fallen as chaff be fore the wind and riders from the water wagon on the first bump after Nlew Tear's Day. E"OUR games were scheduled be- 1 tween the Crackers and the Gulls Experts agreed that for the crankers 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 tn rounded phrase and (inkling jingle the gallantry with which William went about his labors. Marco Boczarls, the gent who awoke the Turks, Arnold Von IVlnkelrlsd, the warrior who made a pin-cushloti of himself for the Independence of Switzerland; Nathan Hale, who did a •aft-shoe dance on atmosphere and wished for the lives of a oat In order to take his encores, had nothing on the sublime courage with which Hilly and his Crackers tackled the Job. Wonderful Blood Remedy Host Brings Health to a of Sufferers '"THE firm gnme was an Atlanta vie- 4 tory. The ta»k 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 Hercuianean Job of w-inning two battles in a single day, equaling, if not bettering. the hatting 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 hunun carcass. He fought de*perately 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 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 populite whiskers and the agricultural impliment. that is pic tured as being charted 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 a* fast a* master mariner can make. HTHE Crackers have displayed a won- * derful nerve during the Gulls se ries. They may still be working a:, top speed against the Lookouts. They may w*in the pennant. But golden opportunity was lost when Atlanta took a chance on let- WIN OPENER Has Fate Robbed Atlanta of +•+ +•+ +•-> +•+ +•+ C. Thompson Looked Like Winner 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. Ther® 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 Houthern 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 la deducted. The remarkable action of 8. S. 8. in the bknxl is glv- I en Impetus by m letter received from Bari C. | Cook. 708 Bouth j Center St.. Bloom- | lngton. 111. He say*. “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. I quit the doctors, and there wan marked improvement from the start 1 used thirteen bottles of P. S 8. and was entirely cured My blood was In a dreadful condition, and 1 can not thank S. S 8 enough for my wonderful recovery.” This preparation stands alone among specific remedies aa a blood purifier, tince it accomplishes all that w*s ever claimed for mercury, io dides arsenic and other destructive mineral drugs, and yet it la absolute ly a purely vegetable product These fart* are brought out in a highly in teresting book compiled by the medi eal department of The Swift Specific f'c.. 192 Swift Bldg.. Atlanta. Ga. It is mailed free together with a special letter of advice to all wTio are strug gling with a blood disease <»et a bottle of S S s to-day of ur druggist. it will Kurprine you j l is t m Lbs TTHK Atlanta club could have had 1 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 1:30. and the club, and the club alone, i* responsible for the fact that the (’rackers, instead of being in first place hv a margin so comfortable that it would he desperately hard to overcome, are hut 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 meet* 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 Now Orleans. It Is decidedly problematical, after the strain of a series like the one under which the Crackers labored while they were flghling the Gulls, that Atlanta can come right back and take the dangerous Elberfeldans into camp. It la altogether likely that Mobile (an bent the tail-end Pelicans twice in tw r o days. tlrg 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. e. Stobk, ss. . . . . 3 1 0 .3 5 1 Starr, 2b. . . . . 3 1 1 o •» i O’Dell, .'lb. . . . . 5 0 1 2 3 0 Paulet, lb. . . . . 4 0 O 13 1 0 Robertson, of. . . . 5 0 1 3 0 1 Schmidt, c. . . . 5 0 0 i 1 Clark, If. . . . . 4 0 0 2 1 0 Miller, rf. . . . . 3 2 T 0 0 0 Cavet, p. . . . . 4 1 2 1 2 Total :u; 8* 28 15 8 Atlanta. ab. r. h. po. a. e. Agler, lb. . . . . 5 fi i 14 0 0 Long, If. . . . . 4 1 i 0 0 1 Welehonee, of. . . 5 0 3 3 0 0 Smith, lih. . . . . 5 2 2 2 6 0 Bisland, ns. . . . . 3 0 l « 4 «• Holland, 3b. . . . . 4 1 l 1 4 0 xMauush . . . . i n 0 0 0 0 Nixon, rf. . . . . 3 1 1 1 0 0 rhnpman, o.. . . . \ 1 3 2 0 Price, p. . . . . 1 0 0 0 0 0 Dent, p . 1 0 0 0 0 0 Total tl 11 30 16 1 Score by Innings: Mobile .... . 000 0110 300 0—6 Atlanta .... . 220 001 000 1- -6 •One out when winning run waB scored. xBatted for Holland in tenth. Summary: Three-base hits—Pail- 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, Chapman, Price (2). Stolen bases—Long, Smith, Bisland. Starr, Robertson, lilt by pitched ball—Mil ler, by Price. Time—2:13. Umpires —Rudderhum and f*Tenninger. BASEBALL SUMMARIES. SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Games Saturday. Chattanooga at Atlanta. Game called at 3:16 o’clock. New Orleans at Mobile Memphis at Montgomery. Birmingham at Nashville. Standing of the Club* W. L. Pc. W Ta Pn. Atlanta. 80 66 .688 Mont ... 68 66 M>7 Mobile 80 66 .688 M phis.. 62 73 ,45t B'ham. 73 64 .533 N ville . 62 75 449 Chutt. . 70 53^ New O.. 44 87 .331 Friday’s Results. Atlanta. t>; Aiowiu., o turn innings). Chattnn>H)ga. 5. New Orleans, 1 Nashville. 4; Montgomery. 3. Birniingham-Memphis, rain. By Innis Brown. A S that mass of humanity rose and roared yesterday after noon, as the band of brans 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 sirensi, 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 ohout 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. 1 have seen the surging erow'd 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 ns 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 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 eaw business men of the highest standing, climbing fences like 10-year-olds. I saw society belles calmly Reated on the red clay ground, regardless of future of dainty dresses. I saw newsboys become supremely Important personages because they were possess of a soda water box- on which to seat themselves. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games Saturday. Chicago at 8t Louin Detroit at Cleveland. New York at Washington. Boston at Philadelphia. Standing of the Clubs. W. L Pc. W. L. Pr. Boston.. 65 62 .512 Detroit. 67 72 .442 49 84 .369 St. L. New Y. 44 82 .349 Phila. .. 84 45 .661 Cl’land 78 52 .600 W’gton. 72 56 .562 Chicago 68 64 515 Friday’s Results. Boston. 6; Philadelphia. .< Chicago, t; 8t. Louis. 0. Cleveland, 7; Detroit. 6. Washington, 3-1; New York, 2-0. A rLANTA can win the pennant ^*under these .ondltions: (D Defeat Chattanooga, while Mo. bile loses one game to New Orleans ' (2) Lose to Chattanooga, while j Mobile los^s twice to New Orleans. t3> Win from Chattanooga, while both Gulls games are being rained out. (4) Have rain in Atlanta while Mo bile is losing one or more games. The conditions seem numerous. Jusg ! try to figure out the number of ways in which Atlanta can lose and then *-md a hurry call for an adding ina- chinjk NATIONAL LEAGUE. Game* Saturday. Philadelphia at Boston. Brooklyn at New York. St Louis at Pittsburg. Cincinnati at Chicago. Standing of the Clubs W. L. W. L Pc New Y . 87 4t .680 B’klyn.. 54 72 .429 Phila. 74 47 .612 Chicag P’burg Boston. 54 69 439 71 57 .556 ( C’nati... 56 78 .414 69 59 539 St. L... 46 87 346 Friday’s Results. Cincinnati. 9. Chicago. 4 New York. *5. Brooklyn, 0 Pittsburg 8-11; St Louis. 3-2 Philadelphia. 1-0; Boston, 0-u ^second gam« tea Innings, darknem). That crowd was never silent 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 seemod that the limit had been reached. But w’hen the winning run wns scored the noise that had resounded before sounded like a pin drop in a boiler factory. The shov.ts must have been heard in East Point. Certainly the spirit of enthusiasm pervaded Fulton and DeKalb Counties. \nd 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 bit of Paulet that scored Mobile’s tying runs that forced the gam * into extra Innings and con sumed valuable time wouid 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 mtnutes were lost bringing him from third home. By Lou Castro. H AS fate beaten the Crackers out of the Southern League pennant for 1918? After trimming the’ (lulls 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 ah even change 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. Pretty Tough to See Crackers Pi GRAND BATTLING GAINS. still By 0. B. Keeler. B OYS, we’re still THERE— And not so BLAMED ahout 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? "THIS small writing 1s going to stut- 1 ter. Pnssihlv the magic of the 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. ter. linotype straight. Possibly will keep the alphabet Don't know— FIRST GAME. Don’t rare; a Innings— Price Dent Cave Thing is Fust 23 We’re still there! Second Third ... 16 .. . 8 • • 13 8 The typewriter did that. Just Fourth . . . 0 16 sitewed out of It, like the orecious Fifth .., 15 .. 9 attar of roses out of the otter. Ought Sixth Seventh ... 8 .. 23 •* 7 H to put quotes around that. Old Mark Eighth 7 13 Twain’* stuff. Let’s be honest, though Ninth 16 13 the bottom drops out. That's Lycur- Tenth 13 13 gus, now. • • • Totals . . .86 V 3G 123 \1F H’RE still there, because we won. vv We would be more there, but 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 hack 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. game be- we lost, too—lost the second because wc didn’t win li. We won one and we lost, too, 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 LJ Everybody thought so. NT EXT to Bislaud 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 WdlUe 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. game! Every body aaw it. It was a grand afternoon for second-story men. Most of the houses in thle town were depopulated. Also, moat of the dinner conversa tion last night was in husky whis pers. Also, it was ahout the hall game that was, and the ball game t£at 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 bat tle is to be rewarded. leaving an odd ten minutes for the , necessary interval between the con- s tests. A game played In an hour and » half is a fast game. There must be I SIDELIGHTS 0 GAME AT By TV. S. Farnsworth. H day: ERE are two tables of figure showing just how many halls| each hurler uncorked yester- SECOND GAME Innings— T'mptfn Hoggl First n 11 Second 17 15 Third 12 14 ( Total* 46 ilOj 1 • • • - FIRST GAME GOSSIP. \.T Price's first ball was a fast one ar.if 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. .Welchonofe’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. AND the demonstration Itself. The crowd surge on the field. It ran wildly for awhile then It formed ani marched, and more time was tRken 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. TTAD Robertson caught that ball the game might have gone on lndefl- nltely. 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 truthfnlly 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 W the blff aartoe 18 1,ut still have a chance to cop the rag. » 1 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 hop© to cop the pennant. 1 will be out there for one. and 1 hope that another record- breaking crowd will he 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-Aew Orleans game. They will he posted on the eeore-board. "THE Craekor© won the final game Jt „ of * ,rle * by whipping the Guile. This time they outplaved ae 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 bail game. It was on the heels of the mjventh Inning disaster that the oourage of the Crockers flashed more brightly athwart tho gray horlxon than ever before 1n all their desperate, grueling grind of eighteen victories out of twenty games. Price yielded under the savage at tack of the Gulls, bat Elliott Dent's great heart and arm and Chapman's deadly whip mastered the oneiaught and fought back the Invaders until the flail crack of victory in the tenth. Blsland'e single In the first spasmj was a wicked grounder to left thdg would have gone a mile had it been a ballooner. Blzzy then made a beauty steal « second, pulling a dandy hook slide, r Elnn had Berger warming up 1 in the Cavet wae being pounded inning. Robertson would have been out a mile on his 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, looked like an awful boob the first time up. He fanned on throe ourve balls. Robertson made a peachy try for Axon's single to center in the eeoond. pill N! He almost ehoet ops speared the at his tl A WD it wa« an honest victory, well CG earned, for Pug Covet blinders Chapman ieely In the Gull lnfeid fixed o» and all, woe pitching a grand game of ball after a bad start—a gritty, calculating, heady gome that rated him for all ’ ... I time with 15,000 Atlanta fans as a pitcher of oourage 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. . crossed nicely In the second. With Nl: first Chapman tried to sacrifice ton the flret ball. But on the next bull he banged the ball hard to Stock and beat it out for a hit, A ND there is small doubt In 15,009 minus that the Oraokern would have taken the second rams and the lead In the pennant chaee—would eventually have won that terriflealiy- foqght-for flag—but for the grave mismanagement of the club director* in arranging tits play-off of the drawn battle of the day before. DY some quaint method of reason- *-* Ing. it apparently was figured the two games could be played Just three huuxs ot (tUyius time, Price wag robbed of a hit when ha wae declared out in the second on u bunt that Cavet threw so wide to flret that Starr left the bag, Starr was covering the bag as Paulet had run in to get a bunt. • * • Bisland was lightning f^si cover ing Cavet’s demon grasser in thr third. And he made a pippin chuck while ont of position, too. • • s A bunch of fair fans crowded into the Gulls’ benoh In the third inninif There wasn't a pook inside the para n that wae n't oo^phsd. Bisland robbed Psulet of a sure bll h when he made a one-hand stab of A . hard-hit grounder back of second-*'* the third. r> Jl » » * A Agisrs n*juu pi JtihwWA# AwistiUF * )