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led Off While Going Is Good
TIE IN FLAG RACE
ninutes for the
tween the con-
an hour and a
There must be I
delays
oring.
No Important bd game ever was
ayed in an hour fid a half, and the
ub owners mus have known it.
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EAT
no wragllngs, not much
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FOIRTH
PONCY PARK
Tisworth. ^
ibles of figure
iow many balls
Worked yester-
ME.
rice Dent Cavel
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2 in the fourt was right
st the “smoir.”
iolland was dedred out stretching
single in thefourth. But Starr
ft’ did put the All on him.
* » *
Ter sur« did Vb Starr of a double,
possibly a J*iple, in the fifth,
en he pulled own his demon liner.
Welehonce nol holds the Southern
1 ©ague record tr hits, with a total
|f 192.
* * *
7
16
13
8G
V 3G 123
Smith threw chmidt out in the
xth. but Aglerkved Wally an error
digging the trow right out of the
irt.
• * •
AME
T’mptfn Hogg |
...17 11
... 17 15
... 12 14
Caret deserve a heap of credit for
>ming back an pitching such a nice
ame. And hep not in the best of
hysica] conditti. either.
46
Cavet pitches only seven balls in
sjxth innir, yet we grabbed a
GOSSIP. V
a fast one an J
ering was also
nged it on the
bo relayed to
t was a lucky
a bound past
lay after being
rd In the first
raight for the
ling back and
‘he first spasm,
er to left th;
lie had it been'
In the eight inning Dent pitched
nly seven ball but all of them were
hirves.
ulet’e trlpljn the seventh would
been an |sy out had not the
wd been in te way. Nixon would
e surely gmbed the ball with a
ar field aheu.
Holland man his best play of the
i cries when hi tore in for Miller's
i hort tap dou the third base line
i the eighth inning. And Harry
i lade a d&ndyjeg to Agler, too.
Smith and > aulet were both hurt
hen they cdided in the eighth.
* lith Just cfc manage to beat out
mlfteld tar\ut he nnd Paulet both
"at down ii tie melee.
ty steal fft
>k slide.
• up when
l the
first
.pman vat a bearcat in the
,th. He cauht Cavet napping off
d and themailed Stock a min-
,ter trying o pilfer to the mid-
een out a
ho second
been low.
io tied up
looked
t time up.
ball*.
try tor
> second.
I at hi#
AJUil? iftcau wrwiw "
P bunder beaten.wo yards to first In
•he ninth, but Pmnlnger was asleep
ind called Thome out.
. • .
Smith's three ushlon soak In the
tenth would ha* surely been a cir
cuit clout bad H the ground been
On the lob. ther«y holding? the hit to
» triple.
We *
walked Bisland in
|o get Holland, next
Oavet
1 Inf eld I
rixorf o*
purpose
the tenth so a»o b^v --
♦Pg But Bill »lth crossed the Gull
Oireher by sendis Manush In to bat.
Nil
orifice ion
next mall
3tock a ltd
when he
ond on a
wide to
8, fctari
*ulet had
i 6EC(40 GAME.
.'he Mobile Ay*™ started stalling
or time right ft the reel. Stouk re
used to hurr up In going to the
!«t». Pfenning cautioned the young
hortatop to g. a hurry on himself.
O’Dell madia nice steal of second,
Chapman's pa;being a bit too high.
Paulet was ailed out op strikes In
lth
St cover-
in the
in chuck
■ded Into
J inning
the pa**
sure hU
tab o;
sound
the ilrst lnnln although he had only
two against hn. The ftrst ball was
a waste ban. The second, he swung
at and missel and then he missed
another.
» » •
Thompson game hs
knocked ^
second. TheXiH waa traveling at a
inile-a-minut rate at the time.
* • •
the first spasm
tone's slme in
handouOea veil.
ItjM
^urve
,nd in he *eoond that wae a
wuryif whlcl broke UUlfcldfl til# Pl^te
iWiBtiPjr and. MUM
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 -t
was called after the third inning, the
game having gone Just 40 minutes.
IT was bad management.
* The 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 so
important a contest. Eighteen min
utes were consumed bet een games,
and when play was called in the
second, exactly FORTY MINUTES
remained in which to make the Gulls
stand ijp 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 contest a legal game. We are noi
blaming Mike Finn or Mike Finn's
ball club for stalling. The opportu
nity was rammed down their throats
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 were
wise.
A
N’n now, where do we stand?
Well, there are about a hatful
of things that can happen in the
three gameG left of the Southern
League pennant race—our game with
Chattanooga to-day, and the Gulls’
two games with the Peis, one to-day,
one Sunday.
You
H EBE are a few variations,
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 game and It rains out the other,
the season ends In a tie, which prob
ably would be played oil In a special
series.
I F you don't find your favorite con
tention listed In the foregoing,
work It out for yourself. It beats
Canfleld. .. ..
I T Is our private hunch that th«
court business Is going to increase
horrifically as a result of arguments
to-day on this very topic.
Suggestion Equip yourself with a
rule book and a percentage table
rather than a plat bottle and Irish
oonfettl.
‘Crackers Dead Game Team’-Agler CLUB OFFICIALS
+•+ +•+
Boys Swept Gulls Off Their Feet
By Joe Agler.
W ITH the ending of the most, crucial series of the year the Crackers
have proved themselves to he 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.
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, but the Gulls
could not see it that way. They probably had enough of us during the
four games we battled them.
Never once dnring 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 thlB boy played was
oertalnly 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 times and
the scene after each game In the clubhouse will be remembered by the
boye for some time. AH of us knew what we were up against and went
Into every game In a "do-or-dle*’ spirit. , .. .,
Cracker Manager Believes Pelicans Will Give Gulls a Fight
BILL SMITH PLANS TO PITCH DENT TO-DAY
T
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 througn a bad mistake of the
Atlanta Baseball Association.
The directors should have started
yesterday's double-header a full hour
ahead of 1:30 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
betw'een 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 chance!
IT takes nearly two hours to play
* 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 w'as 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 the Crackers had
all the time needed to play that sec
ond game.
T AKING It by and lares, Which !«
a favorite way of taking thin
* a lavonm w.v v. —***w —
It appears that wo have a pretty fair
ohance. If* a better ohanoe than It
was a week eg°- .. ..
It would be a better cnanee than
It was after that first game with the
Gulls, exoent for one thing:
The CraokerF chances no longer
depend solely on their own oourage
and ball-playing ability.
A Third Party has horned to.
Xew Orleans must win one of those
games from the Gulls, or the splendid
rush of the Crackers of 1W8 will fall
just short of the flag^
Q ME dhoertng_ row. ChoUg Frank
' wm’ Veat"MU4 r,nn ont of -
ai): Ho
pennant if he can, He likes the genial
Mlque lust exactly much.
Another bepofu] symptom: Cove-
leskte rvltched yesterday.
A ND the best thing of alt said the
thing that canfF be taken away
^The honeet pride and Joy In the
grandest fight ever made By an At
lanta ball club ram/uruast
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 wae 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 boll. Moat of the boys felt somewhat peeved when the team didn’t
aocept our invitation to finish the second 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 ODAY’S gamo brings us against tho Lookouts. We must beat them to
hove a ohanoe at the rag. The boys know what this game means, and
we’ll be fighting Just as bard as we were against the Gulls.
It Is my humble opinion that Firm's crew will have tho time of their
young nvos taking two games from New Orleans. They were oertalnly
one fagged-out team when they granoeo a rattler for homo test night The
Pall cans have been taking things eaay lately and are primed for a good
struggle. And I also haws K from a good source that Finn and Frank are
far from being good friends.
Frank Intended to send Wilson home for 13k remainder of the season,
bat will. Instead, work the big southpaw against the Gnlls In the first
game between (he two teams. Wilson has always had it on the boys from
Mobile and should cause them a lot of trouble. Billy Smith received the
WUson Information to a wive fsuu> JiVauk yesterday.
* * •
S HOULD tho Gnus manage to trim Wilson they wtU have to faeo Wal-
kOTtn the next rombat. Fans around the circuit are calling this boy a
second WiUtor Jktwwaft, TIatwa mw twim» abaulll utugi MbhUa ft Ipt of
* v » • r » v ) r « *
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 an
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 A#ler.
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 N~E of Atlanta's biggest advertis
ing men called up The Georgian
this morning to tell us how sore he
and many of hia colleagues 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 were given to understand that
we would see two games. But we
were bunked.”
H. Welehonce Breaks
Hit Record for Season
Harry Welehonce, 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 182, according
to unofficial figures.
The Southern League record for the
number of hits made In a season was
131, made by Frank Hoelaman In the
season of 1801, when a member of the
Shreveport team. The last time that
Huelsmaa was In Atlanta was as a
member of the Mobile team a few
years ago.
Welchonee closed the gap on Dave
Robertson for the league batting hon
ors. Only one point now summits
the two star htickers, with Robertson
still In the lead.
Here Is the way tho two star stick
ers stand today:
Player G. A.B R. H. PC.
Rohertson. , . . .1*2 BUS KK ITS All
h W*lcko»u. A * * sit* w*- Mi -48 ,
By
Bill Smith.
W E are not through y*t.
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. I am equally confident that
Cholly Frank will come through with
at least one victory 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 cuswln' ourselves a bit for our
slip-up, let’s get right down to rea
soning. and w'hen we do we will find
that the sun is still shining and that
bacon and eggs taate 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 w r e 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.
X see where Coveleskle 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 Elberfeld ha^s Kroh, of
his left-handers left, and Kroh has
been mighty easy for us. and I know
w© can take any of his right-handers
Into camp.
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
scoro a single run. For he had about
everything yesterday.
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N OW to leave our own affair* fov a
■econd 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 hurlers,
Cavet and Hogg, against the Pelicana,
They have already done the work of
a pair of truck horses.
He might use Billy Campbell hi
one of these games, but it’s no eaay
lob 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 hav*
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.
would consent to plap ooft jwn iii
day's seoond game,
Would Firm do ttX .
Hardly. f
He knew that hi* tbt)
run. He knew we would trim htm
that game as sure as It was placed
out. No Inducement could get hkfc to
stay. He was content to stall i
and let a train schedule
from defeat.
That may bo
not saying, but Td liate to ’
of “champion"*
method*,
Diamond Stickpin^®
For Tommy; Long
A^^D 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 spook
of love lost between the big Dutch
man, who Is the boss of things in the
town where the gln-flzzes 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 bis
best to trim Miqua. 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. Here is what he agreed
to do:
He offered to charter a special train
for the Mobile club, the train tc con
sist of two Pullmans and a diner and
the limit of expenditure was the blue
sky. He offered to dig down 1n his
own pocket and pay for this if Finn
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for a total of 110 runs to date.
The pin Is a handsome piece at
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In winning this prise, Tommy Long
broke the league record fbr rung
scored by a big margin, the prevkwM
figures being 99 runs, made S& IMA tqp;
Gus Hill, of Nashville.
The pin will be presented
and, says Mr, Mtaench, **lt wae i
well earned.
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