Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-18
RACE TIGHTENS
UP; MOBILE IS
SLIPPING BACK
By Percy H. Whiting.

TINE race in the Southern League
is tightening up like a cheap
suit on a rainy day. The Look
outs, going at an unexpected speed,
thanl.s to Coveleskies great hurting
and Elberfeld's wonderful playing. are
now only 41-2 games behind the
Gulls. The Mobile team lost a dou-
ble-header Tuesday that dropped it
back a good bit Montgomery is just
.00l behind Chattanooga. Atlanta is
only half a game behind Montgom-
cry. Nashville is but three games
back of the Crackers. Memphis is
only half a game behind Nashville
Birmingham is only one game behind
Memphis. Only five games separate
the second team from the seventh
Verify, it groweth some torrid in
this Dixie country, in more ways than
the thermometer shows.
TWO smashing hits in the thir-
teenth inning Of the ball game
at Ponce DeLeon Park yesterday
busted the giddiest tie of the season
on local lots and gave the Crackers a
victim. The score was seven to six,
which is admitted to be very close
and which was a good deal closer
yesterday than it looked.
The game proved one thing-that II
the Cracker pitchers can hold the OPP
position long enough the Cracker
batters will always wallop in with
the hits necessary to win. But some
times 1t Is an awfully trying wait.
For instance yesterday:
Councilman pitched a most excellent
game Of ball against the Nashville
club, game that was calculated to
bring victory.
OF course the Vols made 10 hits off
his delivery in thirteen innings, but
earned runs were scarce and If an
error in the outfield had not let in
Gibson when perfect playing would
have held him on bases, Councilman
would have been the winp~~ at the
end of the ninth.
THEN the excitement did get plen-
tiful, for sure. Schwartz made
q single in the tenth but couldn't get
anywhere. In the same inning Bailey
walked and stole but couldn't get
past second. In the eleventh both
sides went out one-two- three. In the
first of the twelfth More got to first.
He was sacrificed to second by Daley
and went to third on Galatians fly
to the outfield. This put It up to
Perry, but he grounded feebly to AL
perman.
Long opened the last Of the twelfth
with q single through More. He was
sacrificed by WelChonce, Rugged the
bag after Alperman's short pop to
Callahan and died there when Bailey
hit a foul fly to Schwartz.
WHEN the thirteenth rolled
w around the fans were hysteri-
cal. Councilman got Schwartz, Young
and Lindsay in quick and satisfying
succession.
Then came the last half of the thir-
tenth.
Wally Smith, mighty clouter, swung
his well-known willow against the
sides of a Reach sphere and 1t jolted
a small boy off the far corner of the
sign board. On this terrific Wallop
Smith took third
OF course the fans had a bunch
right then that ii was all up with
the Vols for that day and their sus
picions we're quickly confirmed, for
Pisland laced into the first ball pitch
ed him, sending It flying past
Schwartz for a clean, conclusive, con-
Guiding single. And the game was
over.
Up to the tenth inning you would
have wrecked your imagination in
trying to picture it great ball game.
Neither team was fielding as we'll as
1t knew how. The Crackers, after get
ting a lead that looked as safe as a
government bond, kissed away one
third of it in the eighth inning and
the other two-thirds in the ninth.
There's one thing about the Crack
ers-giye them time and they will
spring a batting rally that will beat
any team. The Vols gave them until
the thirteenth, and they did the rest.