The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-06
ATLANTA TIES
MOBILE IN RACE
Southern League Championship
Still in Doubt-Last Game
to Decide.

Atlanta. Ga. September 5-Mobilo
and Atlanta tonight are tied for nrst
place In tho race for the Southern AS
ISOLATION pennant Atlanta to-day won
the first game of the double header,
6 to 5, after ten innings The second
game was called at the end, Of the
third Inning that the Mobile team
might catch a train for Mobile. Neither
club scored in the second contest.
Tonight the fight for tho flag pro-
sents condition most unusual II not
{. unique in baseball history. To-mor-
row Atlanta will close It's season with
game against Chattanooga Mobile,
however. VIII play New Orleans to-
morrow and Sunday. Tonight each
club had won eighty games and lost
nifty six. Should Atlanta defeat Chat
tanooga tomorrow. Mobile must take
both contests from Ncw Orleans TO
finish in front II Atlanta loses to-
morrow. it's chance OF ending the sea
New Orleans. the tail-end team OF the
league. takes both battles from Mo-
bile.
monster crowd. the largest by
moro than 1000 that ever attended
game on the local grounds filled
tho stands. and formed a huge circle
around the playing field. 1t was OH :
cially stated tonight that l2,Sl2 paid
admissions were registered a. the box
office. The second game was begun In
light rain. There was constant
wrangl!ng during the second contest.
While the tension was high during
the ten Innings OF the opening battle,
1t was not game which could be set
aside as brilliant, Mobile played rag
gedly. p!iing UP eight errors OF these,
Schmidt waI credited with three. all
OF them costly. Atlanta was credited
with only one error, but the players
plainly showed the effects Of the strain
10 which they were subjected The
crowd. equipped with innumera b e
noise making devices and reinforced
by brass band. kept up an indescrib-
able din.
Crackers Start With Rush.
Atlanta started with rush. scoring
two runs in the first and like mum :
her In the second. Cavet, pitching for
outset, giving up five hits in the first
two innings. He steadied, however, and
held Atlanta runless for three innings.
In the sixth. the locals scored once
more.
Mobile seemed unable TO do anything
with the offerings Of Price until the
fifth, when TWO runs were scored In
y
pitcher weakened. and Mobile. quick
10 seize the chance. hammered in three
runs on Is many hits. tie!ng the score.
Dent relieved. Price at the opening
of the eighth inning. pitching brilliant
ball and holding the visitors runless
for the remainder of the game. In the
tenth, after Welchorcc was out, Smith.
Atlanta's second baseman, triplcd into
the crowd in left field and scored when
Robertson dropped a long fly hit by
Manush, batting for Holland when
the winning run was scored the crowds
went wild and, headed by the band.
invaded the playing field and paraded
the length of the stands and bleachers.
II was announced that by agreement
the second game would he called at
$40 p NJ. Hogg went in TO pitch for
Mobile. and Thompson for Atlanta.
Just after the contest opened Il light
rain began 10 fall. but there was not
sufficient moisture to interfere with
play. During the three innings At
lanta secured two hits from Hogg,
while Thompson held the visitors with
out safety. Promptly at the nour
agreed upon the game was stopped.
Score by innings: r. II. L.
Atlanta . 220o0lOo o1-6 II /
Mobile. ... oo002o3 oO-5 S S
Batterics-Price Dent md Chapman;
Cavet and Schmidt. Time. 2:l5. I'm
pires. Rudderham and Pfenninger.