Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-11
UMPIRES HELP
CRACKERSL LOSE
To GULL CLUB
By Percy H. Whiting.

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THE umpires IN yesterdays ball
game were Wright and Wrong
chiefly the latter. or, any
how that's the way the fans felt
as they filed sadly out Of Ponce De
Leon Park, hooting at Umpire Pat
Wright and hurting cat-calls after
the Gulls
Yet. to our own private notion,
the poorest time TO register Kick
against the umpires IS after a losing
ball game-and especially after one
Of the most horrible exhibitions or
a generally ragged season.
Another thing-a poor umpire Is
generally the most honest thing IN
the world.
There was never any deception at
all about Umpire Wright poor soul.
He was doing his best, and II was
very bad But he broke It as fair
as he could.
And the Crackers. II anybody
should happen TO ask you, lost the
ball game-and they lost il good and
proper
IT ought to have been a parade.
L The Gulls are crippled, and they
started in the game with the pep OF
a cart horse. For the Crackers, Gil
Price was his bully best and ought
10 have had a shut-out up to the time
the rain fell, wet up the ball and
cost him his effectiveness.
The Crackers just refused 10 win
the game They iammed II down the
throatg Of the Gulls. They firmly
lbs sted that Firms men MUST win
il. And, after displaying the proper
reluctance. the Gulls did It, And what
was more. they got 50 much amuse-
ment out Of the fielding efforts Of
the Crackers and so much encour-
agement over their Cinchy victory
that they laid In a stock OF enthusi-
asm and confidence that may last
them the rest Of the season.
DON'T let Yesterdays game worry
- YOU. II was horrible in the ex-
IRENE. But a team that has been
PLAYING as the Crackers have for
couple Of weeks are entitled 10 one
real bad one. It's a shame that IL
has TO go against Price. If ever "a
man pitched winning ball he pitched
H. His own fielding blunders and his
own wild pitch looked bad. But In
the matter Of hurting he was there
strong.
THE crowd does not deserve any
especial commeudation--that IS
the part OF IL who chuckod pop bot
Ties az Umpire Wright and later stood
around the Gulls bus and shrieked
best thing to do was TO take II
calmly
The incidents yesterday empha-
sized more than ever the necessity
OF dressing rooms on all grounds
for visiting ball players.
Baseball should be a hiEh-class
game. IL will never reach the right
plane so long as the visiting team
returns TO its hotel IN bus, the
bntt Of jokes and gihes, and occasion
ally the target for rocks and sticks.
The big leagues have walked up to
that The Southern hasnt-though
be It said 10 Atlanta's credit that the
directors of the local club have al
ways been in favor Of dressing rooms
in every burg in the league for visit
ing players, and viii provide one, II
the other cities OF the league win
THE game had a lot Of wild and
festive features. The most mar
Vicious was the fact that the Crack
ers pulled four errors in the first
inning,
Here are some more:
For six innings (and until II ratned)
Gil Price gave up but one hit
A press box enthusiast propounded
this query. why not feed Cayet7'
He was referred 70 Mike Finn
Mobile used a patched dup team,
with Robertson at first, Paulette at
second and Clark and Campbell in the
outheld-and yet IL had a game
thrust upon A.
Hint. Chain Joe Agler He mussed
up two plays by going after "A pop-ur
that belonged TO another player.
Sanitary suggestion: Chain the
sewer 1t smelled most awful vile
yesterday.
Price beat out his usual bunt He's
a marvel at that
In the fourth inning Cavet retired
the Crackers on four pitched balls
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