The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-06
Games Today
Sew Orleans at Mobile.
chattanooga at Atlanta.
Nv DICK JENIsON

Atlanta, September 5-tspcciaI.) AT
League pennnnt by winning the first
game of the double header today, 5 to
in the tenth inning. Only three in
nings of the second game were played.
the agreement before the same start
ed being to call the play at 4;40 O'Clock.
The Gulls showed the white feather
at the start of the second game. Only
so minutes OF playing time remained
when the hrst game ended. Realizing q
that 1t would be impossible to play
even five innings in the allotted time,
Preston Arkwright, owner of the At
Ianta franchise, offered to charter and
pay for a special train to take the
GuiIs home, but Manager Finn flatly
refused the offer.
Also the train that they did catch was
marked up an hour late at the depot, but
still Finn refused to play the Crackers.
The locals had them on the run and no
one knew it better than Finn
The official paid attendance is not OBJ
tauable, but tho turnstiles passed the
12,000 mark 10 minutes before the first
game started. There were at least 1000
unpaid admissions as many scaled the
fence in right field.
Price and Cavet started the first game
For the first seven innings it was all
Price. He then lost the hop on his fast
ball and with it his control. Dent fin
ished for Atlanta and held the Gulls
easily. The fielding of Bisland was SEN
sational and the catching and backing up
of Chapman the best ever seen at Poncey.
Unofficial figures show that Harry
Welchonce broke the Southern league
records for the number of hits made,
when he crashed out three in the first
game. His total for the season is now 1872.
Huelsman of Shreveport set the record
that Welchonce broke in the season of
1901, with 191.
While the tension was high during the
10 innings of the opening battle, it was
not a game which could be classed as
brilliant. Mobile played raggedly, piling
up eight errors. OF these Schmidt was
credited with three, all of them costly.
Atlanta was credited with only one error,
bNt eiiO PidS Sio pidiHiy 5ifOWCo LIS tllcClS
of the strain to which they were subject
ed. The crowd, equipped with innumer-
able noise-making devices, and reinforced
by a brass band, kept up an indescribable
din.
The Crackers scored twice in the
opening session. Long got a free tick
ct and Welchonce beat out an infield
hit. Smith forced Welchonce at sec
ond on the double. steal Schmidt
dropped the return peg to the plate,
Long counting and Smith taking third
from where he scored on Bisland's
single.
Nixon's single, Stocks error of
Chapman's rap, Prices sacrifice,
Schmfdts error and Longs single scored
two more in the second Miller was hit in
the Gulls' fifth, Cavet singled. Long
threw badly to third, ground rules CIV
ing Miller home and Cavet third.
O'Delrs single scored Cavet
The Gulls tied it in the seventh. Mil
Ter singled. Stock and Starr walked
and Miller counted on an intield out
Paulet poled a high fly, which would
otherwise have been an easy, out, but
which fell in the right field crowd for a
triple.
The Crackers had previously secured
one in the sixth on Stocks error of
Hollands rap Cavet's bad throw to
first on Nixon's pop bunt and Chap
mans sacrifice fly.
Winning Tally
The game was won in the tenth when
Smith laced a clean home run to CEN
ter but got only triple by ground
rules. Bisland was walked purposely.
Manush. hitting for Holland. poled a
sacrifice fly to left which Clark final
ly dropped.
Headed by a band, the crowd par
AIDED the field between games in jubil-
alton. Hogg and Thompson, former
Mercer and Georgia college stars, start
ed the second game. Thompson did not
allow a hit; Hogg two