The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-15

Atlanta, Ga, Aug. 14-(specIal)--
 Nobody dropped dead of excitement
 during the baseball games between Nashville and Atlanta the past three days. but heart disease and lung troubles have broken out among the
 populace to an extent, that ought to
 hold the doctors on the job for days to come With a mob of 1000 or more at each game played. with the pennant
 practically hanging on the result or the series. to say nothing of the in-
 tense rivalry between the two elites
 represented or the hair-raising in-
 cidents and the thirst for umpire
 with all these elements entering Into
 the combats, it is little shore or
 miraculous that the ambulance corps
 kept off the field and that the suaden sta ordinary proportions. Nashville came here Thursday for five games. a double healer scheduleo
 were we only fourteen points between the standing of the two clubs In tne leagues percentage column when e tne
 conflict opened, and after the naa LrsI was over it was seen that neither nad gained a point in advantage. For weeks the two teams had been playlnk practically the same identiesa sihe, ssith, and when the meeting took place with-
 out allowing the already dizzy natives to determine which was the better team, very naturally the excitement
 grew apace and feeling ran high.
 AZ the series progressed the warmth of inc asmosphere about Ponce de Leon park intensified. The cohaltioh in which the inhabitants found them, nt kis examplified in the instance or the Peachtree belle who limped into her home Saturday evening as the sna les
 of night were, gathering ifnr,ru sSasESSeSe swSeTe the family was anxiously discussing
 Ssr SSsT absence, and fell fainting in a rocking chair, murmuring: Mother. inc doctor succeeded in restoring her to consciousness and her first words
 Have they lynched the umpire ystri Xystis Among the blood-curdling ncluehVS
 of the battles were these: l.,
 With the score tlel in the ninth in-
 ming. Nashville got East to first. base
 on balls Robertson then hit to
 and put out East, then threw quickly
 to first to head off Robertson. Umpire
 Carpenter turned up his thumbs to
 indicate the put out at second: then
 instantly spread out his palms to cal
 Robertson safe at first. But Sid
 Smith. on first. mistook the thumb
 action of the umpire an indicating
 promptly tossed the bali over to
 Scotty Walker at third. Walker
 threw 1t back wildly 1t went over
 Sids head into the boxes under the grand stand and Robertson proceeded
 10 circle the bags for the run that won the game The crowd thought as Sid Smith thought and madly clamored for Umpire Carpenters gore. but he
 Atlanta tied the score in one game in the seventh and won 1t In the eleventh. Four crap-shooters in the bleechers went into a state of cata- lepsy. and only one of them recovered | in time to witness the opening innings of the second game a quarter Of an hour later.
 winter only for the pleasure he gets
 out of baseball in the summer had | been out on the road for four weeks prior to the first game Of this series; | He took a little tin horn with him and
 bought a box seat right behind the to celebrate every good play Atlanta made up to the eleventh Inning, he blew out the fuse when Sid smith
 made the hit that won the game. out on the field. found Bill smith and | begged him to delay the second game until he could chase to town in an auto ana get another horn. Bill promised. and the excited drummer ran the
 machine so fast through town that he and missed the first three innings of | the second game. The new horn was | heard from one end of the grand stand | to the other however, and it had the
 whole crowd going in a gale Of good
 humor until the umpire broke It up
 with a rank decision
 | Pitcher Tommy Atkins was knocked | flat on the ground when one or gHnh