Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03

e@"ieS Vi uouO4e-header here yes
terday afternoon from Bernhard.
Turtles The scores were 8 to :
and 4 to l.
1t can be demonstrated bAvor5
any question that this thing actn-
ally happened. Not less than ooo
FANS saw it transpire-and mr.
veled.
The crowd which celebrated ,
torrid Labor day by journeving -
Ponce DeLeon was one of tho
smallest holiday crowds that A,
ANITA ever saw The fans Aerros
that there was no use in going on+
TO the ball park to be miserabra
Ihey could get that anyvhera-
and at lower price. Those Nh.
dld come out were treated n a..
fine an exhibition of baseball as
one would care to see.
Crackers Played Like champ,
II wasn't any especial disgrace
for the Turtles to lose. Tbev ror.
up against pennant baseball TIL.
crackers were weakened by the ah-
sence from the game of their stead
lest hitter Whitley Alpermsn Tbor
used on the slab in/the first gan,
Rudolph Waldorf who hasn't won
game since base hits were in
vented, and in the second neu,
conner, Price.
Both pitchers worked Hike ID
mons Each allowed scar+ fon.
hits and it took everything in tho
Turtle shop to send one runner
across in each game.
In the first contest bernhard
slipped in his angular and fire.
quently effective southpaw. Doe
Newton. The doctor couldn't bs,a
Iabored more industriously if he
mad been operating on a million
atre patient. Somehow all his nra-
scriptions failed He. wasn't rem
iarly lam3asted But what ham
pened to him was enough.
Ferguson Was Dead Easy.
In the second game Fergueo,
took the hurting assignment and
1t proved a tough one. The Crack
ers biffed him vigorously, and. what
was worse, his support was pune.
tured
Right off the reel things began
to break badly for the hurler With
two tucked away, HARRISON sin
9lcd. Then he stole second. Ora
nam struck out and the ball got
by Seabough. Just as one Of Ora
hams third strikes had sneaked
ny from Tonneman in the pre-
1us game. HARRISON went 10
third on the passed ball. Where
upon Seabough picked I'D the mel
let and hurled it over Bales head
HARRISON started in on this punk
peg, but CrandalI fielded the wild
THO" neatly and threw to the
pIa.e. Tie ball was in Seabough's
hands and ne would have had Har-
bison by a mile if he had held It.
Eut he dtGn't And the Cracker
shor'9top tailed. If it had been
within the rules to give PLAYER
two errors on a play which allowed
a runner 70 advance one base. Sea-
Dough would have got them.
In the next inning came a play
which made Pitcher Ferguson con-
slider himself a badly abused man.
After he had allowed McElveen.
Reynolds and Callahan TO single.
scoring McElveen, and after Wolfe
had famed, Price. who was pitch
ing for the Crackers, slipped
hook down between Bales and the
third sack. At least, that's where
Umpire Dan Pfenninger said il
went Reynolds and Callahan tai
lied and the game was lost OF
course, Ferguson protested like a
major and swore- and be- cussed II
1t was fair ball. But Pfenninger,
having no other alternative. stuck
by his decision. This decision took
the heart out of the Turtles and
While they worked we'll enough de-
fensively they could only get
through with one run.
An Indian No Longer.
Much Of the Crackers success
in the second game was due to the
useful hurting of Pitcher Price.
This man has been transforming
this season with the Nebraska In
dams, of which tribe he is not
bona fide member, being an Irish
man by Inheritance and an Ameri-
can by birth. AS an Indian, he
worked under the name of Schegg
but having returned to civilization,
he has resumed his own cog He
has had a bit of league experience
in the South Michigan league. He
hurled cleverly against Memphis,
and If he can continue the speed
he showed, will be heard FROM
even if he is hooked up with a
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