Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-15
CRACKERSNOW
BATTLING FOR
GRAND OLD RAG
They Could Make Only Thirteen
Runs Monday, but Managed
to Win-Race light.
By Percy H. Whiting.


THIRTEEN IL certainly jinx for
Atlanta. It's been a jinx all
season. II is stiu jinxIng. Take
it yesterday. The Crackers were play
ing marvellous offensive game-sim-
ply marvellous Yet. try as they could
old Thirteen had 'em anchored. They
got right up to thirteen hits and thir-
teen runs and there they stuck
IL vas surely unlucky.
Yet. as the league leading Bill
kens could make only seven runs
through all a hot afternoon. the
Crackers won.
And, since Chattanooga kindly
trounced Mobile. the dear old race
frightened up another notch
line doinEs now in the first al
dision' Montgomery has two
games and a half on Mobile Mobile
has one on Atlanta The locals are
q game and a half ahead or Chat
tanooga.
Verify. some contest
II Montgomery and Mobile lost
again to-day which would mean that
Atlanta and Chattanooga must win,
the race would tighten beautifully.
Hb AeiAithtalaN Wbhlh nun - ttR'A %
a game and a half But the Crack
ers would pass the Gulls, while the
LookoutS would close up.
THE pennant bug seems to have bit
ten the Crackers at last They
played to win yesterday strictly And
they won
A team that win bat can not long
be denied And the Crackers ever
lsstingly mauled the pellet yesterday
They had TO.
Good old CIT Price was bad. and
run after run sifted In while he pre-
sided. Then they warmed up Dent,
at the earnest solicitation Of Whitley
Alperman. who nearly waved off an
arm getting the thing started The
Washington chap pitched pretty well
They got to him for a run Ia the sixth
and in the seventh he contributed
again. this time with the assistance
of an error in the outheld Before
the Biluken scoring ended seven runs
were chall<ed up against the Crack
ers. But that amounted to nothing
The locals knocked the Brown Boys
z and c., out OF the box In the or
der named. Then Dobbs, having no
pitcher put in Breen. on appear
ance Breen Is 10 the pitching mound
racing shafts But he proved the
best hurler of the three. and the
Crackers scored but two runs while
he performed, and those were helped
along by two errors.
n NE COB Of gloom cropped out when
- Wallv Smith hurt his hand try
ing to stop a terrific liner and was
forced 10 retire. But tho fans were
cheered by the excellent playing OF
Manush
Apparently. Smith has forked
prize in this chap He handled one
SLOW ball phenomenally well, hauled
down pop, and looked useful at the
bat. though he didn't happen to grab
a hit.
THE game was fun OF weird bat
ting performances Here is a
partial list
Though Bailey scored three runs
be was only given one time at bat
Once he walked. once he sacrificed.
and twice he was hit. He seemed to
think that G. Brown was trying to
bean him and. when for the second
successive time he was beaned-that
time with a terrific ball to the jaw
he tried his best to throw his bat
AT Brown Fortunately. Donahue saw
the motion grabbed the bat and hos
Titles We're called Of To return to
the batting performances.
Long only made two hits-for seven
base
Smith hit two sacrifice flies out of
four attempts
Agler got 10 first three times and
scored every time
Dent made two hits for three bases
and scored one run.
Wares made hits his first four times
up. He began with two Dagger
Then he slumped to singles his next
pair of times out Then he hit a
three Dagger. A fly to Welchonce
in the eighth marred a perfect bat
ting score