Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-24

afford to spend a game finding out
how your leg feels
Il can tell you one thing" came
back the South Carolinan, II never
threw a game for anybody"
All right, you pitch" was the
verdict, and you, Miller" Hemp
hill continued, turning to "Doggie,"
get warm and be ready"
If Miller kept right on warming
up until he was called for he ought
to be tolerably heated by now. for
there was never a second in long
game when his services were need
ed.
Sitton pitched like an old master.
For five innings they couldn't get
even an imitation hit off his deliv-
cry In the sixth and seventh they
got scratches only In the eighth
Maloney hit an unmistakable three
Dagger. In the ninth Paulet
scratched one through the infeld.
That was the total batting effort
of the Gull team-one hit and three
scratches OF course, Sitton was
wild and he contributed one error
that counted against him But not
until the score stood Z to 0 in At
fantas favor did he perpetrate
flicker that was perceptible to the
uncovered optic Eventually the
Gulls made three runs, but they
didn't count for much, for Atlanta
had a total of eight.
a SCHEME was Matched up on the
"A Mobile bench to run Sitton to
death. In the second inning, after
y Sitton had singled, Bailey made two
futile efforts to bunt and both
times. though the ball rolled foul,
the decision was so close that the
pitcher had to run EN- out" The
Gulls noticed that he limped pain
fully. and that his running was la
bored.
The next time Sitton came up he
had Just finished pitching his fifth
no-hit, no-run inning and the
Gulls realized that as he was no
team on earth could beat him
SO the fertile brain of Charley
Starr Matched out a scheme
Lets run Sitton to death he
tipped off the team. So Cavet
walked him and then pegged time
and again to first, to force the
Cracker 10 run back to the bag.
Bailey rather spoiled the scheme
by bunting SO sharply to Walsh
that Sitton was forced out at sec
ond. And because the Crackers
were getting to Cavet so strong the
plan petered out
1t was a good scheme though,
and with feeble pitcher and
close game it might have worked
out successfully As it was. the 4
ninth inning found Sitton weaken
ing, though by then it did not make
any difference.
-l-HE game fairly bristled with en-
L couraging points-was a regu-
larg porcupine of them, in fact.
one that it will not do'to overlook
was the nice work of Donahue, the
new catcher. This man looked good
Wednesday. Bat he looked still bet
ter Thursday
Donahue, for one thing made a
wo-bagger and a three Dagger out
of four times up. His work behind
the bat was excellent and his peg
cling good Campbel's steal in the
ninth didn't really count against
him. because there was man on
third at the time The only man
who really stole was Dunn But
this happening in itself is worth
separate story.
a STOLEN base by Dunn is an
"A event AS Halley's comet
grazes by the earth once every
seventy odd years, 80 does Joe
Dunn now and again pilfer bag
But not often. Last year Dunn
stole one base in 80 games. The
year before he stole four in ITO
games. That gives him an average
OF one stolen base in every Al
games.
SO there was clearly some. class
to his pilfer yesterday.
So unusual was the happening
that when the announcement was
flashed from the press box over the