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■ ***$*wT*&i m *14 ; • Sri ,v ■ v > " ' * “ ■, ■ , ' - -■» :■'•■ f < ' - ' ' :* "V | ' - ’,,. i'.„ . ' '■ - * • ■ •? ••• .i ■ ■ c ■; s.. ■ f ackers 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. rHTS EAT no wragllngs, not much (N FOIRTH PONCY PARK Tisworth. ^ ibles of figure iow many balls Worked yester- ME. rice Dent Cavel 23 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. SHELL FRAMES. Have your lenses mounted !n 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. 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 TOBACCO HABIT ■ nrm'N voiir health, nrnlnno vn You oan oonouor It eacJly In 3 day a. im prove your health, prolong your life. No more *t*>m ach trouble, no foul breath, no heart weaknoas. He gain manly vigor, calm norvti, clear eyee and bu perior mental strength. Whether you chew or iniuki pipe, cigarette*, cigars, get my Interesting Tobacco Hook. Worth ltA weight In gold. Mailed froo. E. J. WOO03, 534 sixth Av»., 74B M.. New York, N. Y. - BANKRUPT SALE Two Bay Horses and Delivery Wagons. On Monday, September 8, at 11 a. m., I will offer for sale two fine bay horaes about four and five years of ago, re- Hpectlvely, and two grocery delivery wagons belonging to the estate of G. 8, Wyatt C. O, D, Company, tfale will take place in the office of V. H. Adams, Ref er**© in liankruptcy. 613 Grant Building, at which time sealed bids will be re ceived and opened. Bids will be accept ed either separately or as a whole, and fdl bids subject to the confirmation of the Referee. Terms cash. and For inspection of the said horses a rugoriK, inquire of the undersigned, r. M. Moore, 209 Whitehall street. or XL A. FERRIS, Trustee 5IDORE & POMEROY, HENRY NEWMAN* AWurueyd Xuv the TrvutUa* At the start of tbe Henry Muench, the Peachtree Jeweler, offered a diamond studded stickpin to the Atlanta ball player scoring the most runs tor the gea» son. Tommy Long, the speedy Vaft fielder of the Crackers, gets this pin for a total of 110 runs to date. The pin Is a handsome piece at jewelry In the shape of a bat, with a big cluster of diamonds at the e«d. 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. GOLD, SILVER LORGNETTE& Now stylo, largo round short or long handles. Tho latest designs. Sterling, shell and gold. A. K, Hawkes Co. Opticians, 14 Whitehall. Idling ine la u*ed becauae T»tterUi« ts »cirntUU*fly ! prep*r*<l ^ remirto tb« CAUSE as w*U m tfea , EFFECT. TETTERINE CURES SKIN DISEASES jmi W. Scott. inUedgerllla. <7a.. *rftaa< I aufTnrcii with an aruatlon two vaara awl one box of Totterlne curod me and two of »y friend*. It Is worth It* weight In fold. TVUerlne cure* eczema, tettar, ground Mctv eryslpela-i. Itching piles and oChat Get it to-day—Tettarlna. 50o at druggists, or hy mO, 6HUPTRINE CO.. SAVANNAH. Opium. 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