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A i i } I I i f $ t n t i > ■ 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 v . Jm- ? m > 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 " ILi 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.