Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-04
BRIGHT
ONCE MOREFOR
CRACKER CLUB
Their Fourth Straight Victory Is
One Fine Ball Game-Pen-
nant Hopes Revive.
By Percy H. Whiting.
THE Crackers came home from
their road trip looking like

by L 6ICY II. w nlJllg.
THE Crackers came home from
their road trip looking like
pennant winners. They went
crazy with the stick, ran bases at
will and played errorless ball.
No team has looked better here this
year.
OF course any hyper enthusiasm
can be discounted two ways. to wit:
First Way-The Crackers haN e
looked like pennant winners a score
Of times this season-and the next
day It rained. You get the idea?
Second Way-The local team was
playing against one of Dixie's sad
dest little teams, the puny Pelicans.
put after you've discounted all the
~ notes of gloom and after you've
made due allowances for everything,
the Crackers still keep right on look
ing like a million dollars.
They not only won Thursdays game
against the Pelicans, to 0, but just
previous to that they had won two
from the league leading Gullss and
one from the powerful Billiken club.
Also they just managed to lose the
semi final BiIliken game by one run
and miracle.
Price pitched a positively bully
game yesterday. The Crackers ham
mered Walker clean sideways, and
the whole affair was fine.
There wasn't a sad note struck until
after the game, when the current gave
out and left most of the baseball
cars stranded, halfway between
Ponce De Leon and Atlanta. 1t must
nave ClOuded up out at Bull SluiCe or
sprinkled in Marietta
THURSDAYS game was illumi-
mated by some of the most bril-
liant fielding that good old Ponce De
Leon ever saw. The star performance
by an infelder was made by Mellow
ell In the third. with Price on first
(and he got there with hits three
out of his four times up), WeIchonce
grounded briskly about ten feet to
the right of second base. Mcdowell
went for ii, reached out, eau yht the
ball, fell down and threw to second,
all with one motion. Price was forced
and Mcdowell sprawled all over tine
ground. with the ringing cheers OF
the Atlanta spectators in his eGrs.
Tommy Long absolutely discounted
that. In the ninth Spencer hit a
low fly to right field. 1t sailed, al
most on a line, right smack to the
deep as the bottomless pit How
Tommy Long got back there nobody
knew but he did made a terrific leap
and plucked the pill right off the
sign board He came down all sprad-
died and it was not until he climbed
back on his feet that the spectators
realized he had held the ball.
w HEN the game was over Charley
Frank strolled out to his limou-
sine Ooh, yes. he rides in EN- now
grinning. 1t was too awful to worry
about. And surely the Pelicans would
be any mans idea of nothing on
earth to worry about It's a great
team. but it isn't synchronized. Moth
ing comes off right. They hit-but
nobody is on. They cover bases
but somebody has just covered it
for them. They run bases-but ar
rive too late. They field brilliantly
at odd times-but bobble in the
pinChes
However, Charley Frank may wake
them up yet. He has several players
on the team-and up to the time he
hooked up with Cleveland he was
mighty resourceful about getting
players when he needed them.