Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-04

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terday afternoon from Bernhard,
Turtles. The scores were to
and 4 to l.
1t can be demonstrated hevon6
any question that this thing actu-
ally happened. Not less than 5.Ooo
fans saw 1t transpire-and mar
veled.
The crowd which celebrated
torrid Labor day by 5ourneying TO
Ponce DeLeon was one of the
smallest holiday crowds that At
ianta ever saw. The fans figured
that there was no use in going out
to the ball park to be miserable
They could get that anywhere
and at a lower price. Those that
dld come out were treated to AZ
hne an exhibition of baseball as
one would care to see.
Crackers Played Like Champs,
1t wasn't any especial disgrace
Tor the Turtles to lose. They were
up against pennant baseball. The
CRACKERS were weakened by the ab-
sence from the game of their stead
lest hitter, Whitley Alderman. They
used on the slab in the first ga ma
Rudolph Waldorf who hasn't won
a game since base hits were in.
vented, and in the second a new
conner. Price.
Both pitchers worked like de-
mons. Each allowed a scant four
hits and it took everything in the
Turtle shop to send one runner
across in each game.
in the first contest Bernhard
slipped in his angular and fire.
Guently effective southpaw. Doc
Newton. The doctor couldn't have
labored more industriously if he
mad been operating on a million
aire patient Somehow all his pre-
scriptions failed. He wasn't regu-
h'ly lam1a sted. But what hap
pened to him was enough
Ferguson Was Dead Easy.
In the second game Ferguson
took the hurting assignment and
1t proved tough one The Crack
ers biffed him vigorously. and. what
was worse, his support was pune
turcd.
Right off the reel things began
to break badly for the hurler. With
two tucked away. HARRISON sin
sled Then he stole second. Ora
ham struck out and the ball got
by Seabough, just as one of era
hams third st:.kes had sneaked
ny from Tonneman in the pre-
y Jus game. HARRISON went to
third on the passed bail. Where
upon Seabough picked up the pei
let and hurled it over Bales head.
HARRISON started in on this punk
pes, out Crandall fielded the wild
throw neatly and threw to the
pla;e. The ball was in Sea bough's
hands and he would have had Har-
bison by mile if he had held 1t.
But he didn't And the Cracker
Shorfstop tailed. If it had been
within The rules TO give a PLAYER
two errors on play which allowed
a runner to 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 McFlveen, 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 it
went Reynolds and Callahan tai
lied and the game was lost. or
course, Ferguson protested like A
major and sWore and be -cussed II
it 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-
tensively 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 Nebra ska In
dams, of which tribe he is not a
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 bad 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