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SIGNS 10 LUO
PELS IN 1814
Great Little Manager Makes Deal
Over Wire in The Sunday
American Office.
CHARLEY FRANK RETIRES
FROM MANAGERIAL ROLE
Lou Castro To Be the Kid’s “Man
Friday” in thg Make-Up of
New Orleans Club.
By Fuzzy Woodruff.
A S the lid of the Southern League
season of 1913 crashed with
sonorous sound that was heard
from the mountains of Tennessee to
the shores of the sun-kissed Gulf, ds
the politicians are \^ont to say, a deal
■was consummated in the office of
Hearst’s Sunday American that made
more Southern League history than
any Incident since Charley Frank
threatened to disrupt theorganization
In the winter of 1902.
Charley Frank, since the organ!za-
Pelicans Lose Vital Battle After
Vicious Struggle by Narrow
Margin of 4 to 3.
NEW ORLEANS TEAM FILLS
SACKS IN THE NINTH INNING
Mike Finn Rushes Campbell to
Rescue of Hogg When the
Bases Are Crowded.
M obile, ala., sept 6.—By a
one-run margin on Monroe
Field this afternoon Mobile
won the first of the two-game series
from New Orleans in a game that
bordered on sensationalism through
out the nine innings. The final score
was 4 to 3.
A crowd of nearly 4,000 people saw
the contest that perhaps sfettles the
Southern League championship for
1913.
What saved the local club was the
taking out of Pitcher Hogg in the
ninth inning, with three men on
bases, after he had weakened badly.
Three runs were made off his deliv
ery' in the eighth off three successive
hits, one of them being a home run
by Left Fielder McKillen, who was
the star of the game. He secured
a single, a double and a home run.
Peddy was given the grandest kind
of support by the men behind nim,
*Kraft making two sensational catches
B. Smith’s Contract
Has Been Extended
For Another Year
Baseball Directors Reward Cracker
Manager for His Great Work
This Season.
Billy Smith, manager of the Crack
ers. has been rewarded for his great
work in bringing the local club from
a rank tail-ender last year to the top
rung of the ladder this season. The
directors of the Atlanta Baseball As
sociation announced yesterday that
they had extended Smith’s contract
for another year.
The local manager’s original con
tract called for 1913 and 1914. He
will now be at the head of the club
In 1915 also. This means that Smith
will manage the Atlanta ball club
for at least two more years.
Whether Mobile wins or loses to
day’s game does not take any credit
away from Smith. Had he any luck
with his pitching staff earlier in the
season he would surely have copped
the Southern League flag. Many of
the leading experts claim that the
Atlanta team, as it stands to-day .s
the greatest aggregation of ball play
ers that ever represented a Southern
League club.
BROWNS ARE AFTER SNYDER.
Pitcher Clifford Snydei. the yoting
collegian with Henderson in the Kitty
League, has been attracting a good deal
of attention. Both Milwaukee, of the
American Association, and the St. Louis
Browns are said to be after him.
Harry IVelchonce Maying
Hook Slide to Third Base
Here is the great center fielder
of the Crackers, snapj*ri by Ttye
Sunday American photographer,
sliding into third in one of the
games between the Gulls and the
Smithmen. It was a corking
“hook,” and he beat the throw
to third by inches only. Harry
is almost sure to be bought by
one of the major league clubs
this fall. If he is not purchased
it is a cinch
that he will be
drafted. He is
the most nat
ural hitter in
the Southern
League, and all
of the big
league sc o u t s
have been look
ing him over
during the past
few weeks .The
Naps are hot
after him.
The Official Score
Chattanooga
KltiK, cf. . . ,
Flick, 2b. . .
Coyle, lb. . . .
Johnson, If. rf.
Graham, c. . .
Graff, 3b. . . .
Giddo, rf. If. .
Williams, as. . .
Howell, p. . .
Totals . . .
Atlanta
Agler, lb. . . .
Long, If
Welchonce, cf. .
Smith, 2b. . . .
Bisland, ss. . . ,
Holland, 3b. . .
Nixon, rf. . . . ,
Chapman, c. . .
Thompson, p. . ,
Totals 29 B 8 27 7 1
Score by Innings:
Chattanooga .... 000 000 000—0
Atlanta 202 000 Olx—5
Summary: Two-base hits—Hol
land, Chapman. Double play—Wil
liams to Coyle to Flick. Struck out—
By Thompson, 8; by Howell, 1. Bases
on balls—Off Thompson, 3; off How
ell, 4. Sacrifice hits—Long, Smith,
Stolen bases—Nixon, Flick. Hit by
pitched ball—By Howell, Long. Time
—2 hours. Umpires—Pfennlnger and
Rudderham.
Dudley Wins Pennant
For Thomasville and
A Bride lor Himself
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THOMASVILLE, GA„ Sep*. 8.—At
a 'banquet given to the members of
the Thomasville team, a telegram was
received from Manager Martin Dud
ley, at Valdosta, announcing his en
gagement to Miss Man' Bondurant.
of that city.
Miss Bondurant belongs to one of
Valdosta’s best families, being the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Bondurant and since her debut has
been a popular member of society.
Mr. Dudley is a native of Alabama
and makes his home In Greenwood,
Miss., where he is In the cotton busi
ness.
The marriage will take place Oc
tober 10.
GREAT UPHILL BUTTLE
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Ten Thousand Fans Bank Field as
Crackers Hold Tie in the Pennant
Race by Beating the Pepper Kids,
5 to o—Police in Sorry Exhibition.
By O. B. Keeler.
O NCE more boys—maybe for the last time—
We’re still THERE!
The geLaway game of the 1913 season at Ponce DeLeon
went the way of eighteen of the previous twenty games there—to
the Gamest Ball Club on Earth.
The score was 5 to 0. The scrappy Pepper Kids did their
damdest—and it wasn’t enough to wrench us loose from the death-
grapple that has sent whirling up to the Hall of Fame the bright
record of that grand battle of the Fighting Chance.
Somebody else must do the fighting, now. We know Charley
Frank will go the limit against the Gulls to-day. That was fore
cast in the grim struggle the good old Dutchman and his elan pot
up yesterday.
But, boys—if it was Bill Smith and the Crackers trotting-.<jnl
on that field at Mobile this afternoon!
Then we’d KNOW where the
pennant of 1913 would fly—
what?
As it is, we can only hope, and
pull for the Fighting Dutchman,
and the stubborn, crafty scrap
we know he will put up on our
side of this splendid quarrel.
It’s up to the Dutchman, now.
Our Part Is Done.
The Grackers have done thedr
part—and that part will go down
in history as the gamest role the
The Kid paid no attention. H© ©aid
later that he asked the umpi to al
low him to stay* in until he had
warmed up Coveleskle, when h© would
go. But whatever he said appeared
to exasperate Rudderham. who sig
nalled a couple of very large police
men standing near.
The two arms of the law put tour
legs In action and presently were at
taching four hands to outlying sec
tions of the rebellious Kid. It really
looked like a shame for the two hug©
bluecoats to start working on the lit
tle fellow, and It looked worse when
one of them, shaking the Kid by his
collar while he and his partner held
the player’s arms, loosed his grip and
tion of the new Southern circuit in
1901, retired from active Interest in
baseball. The name of the portly
Dutchman, who has led four pennant-
winners in the league’s twelve years,
ceased to be listed on the roll of
managers.
At the same time, Norman (Kid)
Elberfeld, who by his aggressive,
never-say-die methods shot Chatta
nooga into the first division this sea
son after two years of despondency in
the cellar section, became the 1914
leader of the New Orleans Pelicans.
Castro May Join Pels.
Count Lou Castro, known the
length and breadth of the Southland,
will probably be with Frank next sea
son as utility man, coach, scout and
every other fill-in thing a ball club
needs.
For days the deal has been on the
fire. It was not declared done un
til last night. And by that deal it is
believed that New Orleans will re
sume the position of a potent factor
in Southern Leaguedom that it has
always held until this year.
The season just closing has been a
remarkable one In more ways than
one, and its most remarkable feature
nas been that a team piloted by
Charley Frank has finished not only
In the second division, but in abso
lutely last place, with no club se
riously contending with him for that
dubious honor.
Frank has failed ot win pennants
before, r*ht he has always been
among the leaders. This season,
though, has been a disastrous one for
him. He has not only lost baseball
prestige, but he has lost big money
on the New Orleans franchise, which
he controls.
Frank Realizes Change Needed.
The big Dutchman has enemies,
but not one of them has ever brand
ed him a fool. And the wisdom that
has brought him championships told
him that his days of activity were
done.
He had become too peaceful, too
complacent, too good-natured to get
the results that he had once attalnel
with the ease of the snapping of a
finger.
He looked about for the man who
had those qualities which he realized
he lacked. When his eye rested on*
Elberfeld, he stopped. He had gone
far enough.
Elberfeld was a free agent His
contract as manager of the Lookouts
ran out last night.
Byrne Greatest Third
Sacker in National
ST LOUIS, Sent. 0.—Third Ba»man
Mowrey, of the Cardinals, is quoted as
saying that Bobby Byrne, now of th©
Phillies, is the greatest third baseman
in the National League. Says he: "He
can do everything, come in on bunts,
go back to take throws and everything
that goes with the job."
MERRIAM TO COACH IOWA AGGIES.
CHICAGO, ILL, Sept. 6—Ned Mer-
riam, the former star halfback of the
University of Chicago football team in
] 907-08. was to-day appointed coach for
the Iowa Agricultural College Merriam
was noted as & 440-yard man In th© low
hurdle*.
of high foifl balls, and McKillen
pulled one down in left field that was
made after a long, hard run.
Gulls Won in Third.
Mobile practically won ^he game
in the third inning when Peddy was
touched up for four hits that score!
three runs, aided by a base on balls.
Hogg, who started to pitch for Mo
bile and lasted until the ninth round,
when Captain Starr, of the Mobile
club, used his noodle and took him
out, pitched air-tight ball, allowing
only three hit© up to the time that
he blew, m the second inning he re
tired the visitors by striking out the
three men that faced him.
The game was delayed in the first
inning on account of rain for fifteen
minutes.
When the game started, Manager
Frank, of the New' Orleans club, be
gan jockeying and changed hie bat
ting order twice. He first had a line
up with Hendryx leading off In tha
event that Campbell was going to
pitch, and when Hogg was announced
he changed it and put Kyle in to lead
off. ,
Neither team scored a run in the
first inning, although the visitors got
a man to second when McKillen sin
gled and reached the midway on
Stock’s error. Mobile secured one hit
when O’Dell, with two down, singled
and was out 'stealing.
Hogg Fanned Three in Row.
In the second inning Hogg struck
out Hendryx, Flanagan and Erwin in
succession, and w’as given a great
ovation for his work. In Mobile’s half
Robertson beat out an infield hit, the
only one he secured in the game, but
died at first.
In the third it was a case of three
up and three down for New Orleans,
but Mobile got busy in their half aft
er Peddy walked Miller on four wide
ones. Hogg hit to Peddy, who tried
to get Miller at second, and both run
ners were safe, Hogg getting credit
for a Cincinnati hit. Stock beat out
an infield hit to third and filled the
bases. Starr hit to Kraft at first, and
Miller was forced at the plate. A1
O’Dell, whom many of the /ans are
giving credit to his playing In the
past w'eek for Mobile’s present stand
ing, drove a ball so hot at Erwin
that it went * through his legs into
left field, and Hogg and Stock scored.
On Paulet’s single Starr came home.
Robby fouled out to right and
Schmidt stopped the scoring by going
out from McDowrell to Kraft.
Pauiet Busted Out a Hit.
There was nothing that looked like
a score until Mobile came to the bat
at the end of the fifth inning. Stock
hit the first ball over, and It w’ent to
left field fence for a foul, and McKil
len, by some fast legging, captured it.
Starr singled to right and stole sec
ond, and O’Dell’s infield out from sec
ond to first went to htird. Pauiet,
who had been hitting like a house
afire for the past two days came
across with a steaming hit to right
field along the foul line.
Starr came across the plate with
the fourth and what proved to be the
winnlg run of the game. Robertson
fouled out to Kraft, who ran almost
into the negro bleachers to get the
ball. Mobile had a man on third in
her half of the sixth when Clark hit
a long drive to left that netted two
bases and Miller's long fly to right
Hogg ending the innig by flying out
to left.
The seventh inning was devoid of
any features with the exception of a
Continued on Pago 2, Column 8.
J73Z40T
LOU CASTRO’S PLAY BY PLAY STORY OF YESTERDAY’S GAME
FIRST INNING.
The Crackers were given a great ova
tion as they trotted on the field at 3:13.
Every seat In the park was filled when
Umpire Pfennlnger cried ‘Play ball!"
Ground rules were made giving the
batter three bases for a hit into the
crowd. Thompson hurled the first ball
pitched at 3:15 to King, and he was
out Bisland to Agler. The first ball
pitched to Flick was a fast inshot that
cut the inFide corner of the plate for
a strike. The next two pitches were
wMde. Flick caught a fast ball for a
clean single to center. Coyle watched
a curve cut the center of the pan. Coyle
singled to right and Flick took second.
Johnson refused to bite at a high one
and then iook a strike on a fast ball
that cut Lhs plate. He missed a fast Jo-
shoot for his second strike. Johnson
was called out on a beautiful curve ball.
Graham, the ex-Cracker catcher, then
stepped to the plate. Thompson shot
the first oall over the plate for a strike.
Graham fouled the next ball to right
that for a time looked safe. A fast
ball went outside. Graham lined out
to Bisland, retiring the side. TWO
HITS. NO RUNS,
Howell's first two pitches to Agler
were wide. Joe then watched two fast
ones cut the center of the plate. Agler
smashed the next ball for a clean single
to center. Long bunted down the third
base line and was out. Graff to Coyle.
Joe took second on the out. The first
ball pitched to Welchonce was wide.
Harry hit the next pitch to Walsh and
was out to Coyle. Wallie Smith was
nearly hit by a ball inside. Wallie stood
still w nlle a curve broke wide for ball
two. Howell hooked a curve over the
outside corner of the plate and Wallie
fouled tne next to the stand. Ball three
was a curve that refused to break.
Smith walked on a curve ball outside.
Bisland watched an inshoot cut the
plate. He dodged a fast pitch at his
head and fouled a drop. Bisland singled
to left and Agler romped over the count
ing station wdth the first run of U>«
game. When the ball went through
Johnson’s legs Smith also tallied. Bis
land raced to third on the error and the
crowd went wild With one and one
on him Holland hit to Flick and was out
to Coyle. TWO HITS, TWO RUNS.
SECOND INNING.
Thompson’s first ball to Graff was
an inshoot that broke wide. He sent
a high skyscraper that was easy for
Tommy Long. It started to rain at this
stage of the game. Giddo watched a
high one shoot by and then fouled a
drop to the stand. Giddo smashed a
hot liner back to the pitcher’s slab that
Thompson rneared with one hand and
threw the runner out at first. After
taking a strike on a fast Inshoot, Wil
liams missed a fast ball. Williams
struck ouc on a drop. NO HITS. NO
RUNS.
Nixon let a fast ball cut the plate for
a strike. He fouled the next pitch to
the right field bleachers for tne sec
ond strike. Howell waisted two bad
ones trying to get Nixon to bite. The
Cracker outfielder fouled the next ball.
Coveleskie was aent out to warm up.
Ball three on Nixon was a curve that
broke wide. Nixon walked on a high
fast one. Chapman dodged a wild In
shoot. Nixon stole second. Chapman
failed in an attempt to bunt for his
first strike. Elberfeld was put off the
grounds for beefing. He refused to
leave the grounds and. the game was
stopped, while Rudderrmm called for
the police. A long wrangle took place
between the police and Elberfeld and the
former then pulled his club on the
Chattanooga manager. Elberfeld was
hp.ndled like a criminal. The crowd
swarmed all over the grounds. One
policeman held Elberfeld while the
other hit the scrappy manager In the
face with his fist.
Elberfeld still refused to leave the field
walking to the Chattanooga bench.
Rudderham then pulled his watch,
threatening to forfeit the game. The
umpire a iso called the policeman for
striking Elberfeld. President Callaway
then asked Elberfeld to leave the field
so as to keep the game from being for
feited. Elberfeld yielded to Callaway's
request and walked off the diamond.
It was rotten work by the police.
The game was then resumed. Chap
man hit to Williams and was thrown
out at first Coyle threw to second,
catching Nixon off second for a double
play. Flick ant the second put out.
Thompson was thrown out by Graff. NO
HITS, NO RUNS.
THIRD INNING.
Howfcll singled past third. King was
an easy fan victim. Flick hit to Agler,
who threw to Bisiana, forcing Howell
at the midway. A nice snappy play.
Flick pilfered to second, making a nice
slide under Chapman’s throw. With
the count two and three on him Coyle
grounded to Holland, who made a dandy
stop and then threw to Agler for the
out. ONE HIT. NO RUNS.
With one strike and one ball on him
Agler singled over second. As Long
came up Tt began to rain. The couni
was two him two on Tommy and then
Howell hit nim on the elbow with a
wild ball. Thomas trotted to first and
Agler moved up to second. The rain
came down pretty hard right here, but
Pfinnmger showed no signs of calling
a halt. Howell made a feeble attempt
to catch Agler off second, but with no
luck. Welchonce laid down a beau
tiful bunt and then beat it out.
When Graff threw the ball away,
Agler tallied. Then Coyle recovered
the ball and threw it over Graff’s head,
Long also scoring. Welchonce moved
up to the keystone sack on the Comedy
of Errors. The first ball to Smith was
. wide, but the next, a fast one, went
j over for a strike. Then Wally sacri-
I fleed Welchonce along to third, Howell
to Flick, who covered the initial sack.
Bisland grounded out, Williams to Coyle,
Welchonce remaining on third, as he
had no chance to score. Ball one on
Holland was outside. He swung at one
inside. He hit a slow bounder to Wil
liams and was an easy out at first.
TWO HITS. TWO RUNS.
FOURTH INNING.
Thompson curved over the first ball
for a strike on Johnson. 'The next was
a wide curve. One ball. Johnson
bounced a hit off Holland’s shoulder
and went to second when Harry made a
wild throw to Smith. Elberfeld ap
peared on the scene at this stage on
the top of the rtghttteld fence. Graham
popped up a fly in front of the plate
that Chapman smothered. With the
count three and two on him Graff drew
a walking ticket on a low curve ball
outside by a foot. It was the first base
on balls off Thompson. Giddo waited
out the first one, which was wide. The
next was a fast one right over the plate
and Giddo failed to swing. Giddo lifted
an easy foul to Agler. Williams drew
a wide curve for ball one. Then Wil
liams hit to Bisland, forcing Graff at
second. Smith took Bizzy’s relay. ONE
HIT, NO RUNS.
Nixon sent a high ballooner to King
in deep center. Chapman swung at a
fast hall for one strike. The next was
a curve on the outside corner. Strike
two. Chapman then dropped a Texas
leaguer back of second and made two
bases on it. No Chattanooga player
made a play for it. Ball one on Thomp
son was high. He then popped weak
ly to FTick. The first ball to Agler was
a fast one and outside. Ball one. The
next was In the groove. Strike one.
Joe then fouled one off that hit Graham
on the shoulder. Strike two. Agler
struck out on a curve hall that was
called. ONE HIT, NO RUNS.
FIFTH INNING.
Howell fouled the first ball pitched to
Bisland, who ran way over to the left
field .stand for it. King waited out two
high ones. The next cut the inside
corner. Strike one. He fouled tipped
the next. Strike two Curving the
next one over the plate Thompson
fanned King. King made a protest
over the called strike. Thompson’s first
Continued on Pago 2, Column L
spotlight of Dixie ever shone
upon.
It ended at twenty-three minutes
after 6 o’clock yesterday afternoon,
when Roland Howell, the lanky
pitching entry for the Kids, swung at
the last of Carl Thompson's sweep
ing curves and rolled a little ground
er toward the slob. Joe Agler got
the put-out, and the game, and the
season, and the grim battle of the
Fighting Chance came to an end.
A feature of the game was the
customary EJFberfeldian row, only this
time we mu»t confess that the Ta
basco K1d was more rowed against
than rowing.
In fact, the incident looks like a
cue for a well-done roast of the po
lice. or such of them as had a hand
in as sorry an exhibition as ever
took place in a Southern League ball
park.
Kid Only Partly to Blame.
The Kid wag to blame In some de
gree, probably. He usually is. He’s
that kind of a Kid.
This is the way th© incident ap
peared frorr* the press coop.
Nixon, first up in the third inning,
domestic section, walked and stole
.second. The little chap’s slide was
desperate, for Graham's throw beat
him. Nixon and Flick went down in
a heap, and the ball came rolling out.
Flick bounced up with the protest
that Nixon had knocked the ball out
of h1*> hands.
Elberfeld was out In front of the
left field bleachers, warming up Co
veleskie. He came running on the
diamond with his usual line of com
ment, and Rudderham, after getting
an earful of It, indicated first the
bench and then the gate with a man
datory thumb.
Warming Up th© Pols.
Elberfeld went back and began
playing catch with the Pole once
more. Both umpires walked over and
Pfennlnger ordered him off the field.
swung his free hand to Elberfeld’*
face.
It was a dirty, cowardly act, and
one calculated to touch off the huge
crowd, which was already well along
in hysterics.
Crowd Got Into ft.
The overflow along the bleachers—•
more than a thousand—came up on
the gallop. Chattanooga players sur
rounded th© oops and their prisoner,
and it is probable that President Cal-
law'ay of the Atlanta club prevented
something ugly by his prompt action
in jumping from the directors' box
and taking a hand in the row.
Mr. Callaw’ay ordered the policemen
to reiease Elberfeld, and then he and
the players got the Chattanooga man
ager Into the visitors' ooop while Bill
Smith and the few policemen who
showed up were shooing th© crowd
back to Its proper place.
Ffenninger insisted that the Kid
must depart, and pulled his watch. It
was a dramatic and tense Interval,
for the Kid, furious at the bullying
treatment of the low-brow'ed cop, was
in a mood to cause all the trouble
that a forfeited game—even to At
lanta—surely would have caused.
Kid Was a Good Sport.
But an appeal by President Calla
way to his sportsmanship was more
effectual than the clubs of the Police
Department, and within ten seconds
of the time limit set by Pfennlnger
the Kid shook hands with the Atlanta
mogul, glared savagely at the then
distant policeman, and walked srtowty
from the bench.
A few minutes later he reappeared,
being visible from the press box, seat
ed with a dozen street car motormen
on top of the tall board fence that
guards the southwestern corner of
the field, back of the stands.
For once, we felt sorry for ths
scrappy Kid. And distinctly ashamed
Continued on Page 7.