Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-18
RACE TIGHTEN5
Up; MOBILE. IS
SLIPPING BACK
BY Percy H. Whiting.

TNHE race in the SoutherQ League
is tightening up like a. cheap
suit on rainy day The Look
outs, going at an unexpected. speed.
thanks to Coveleskie's great hurting
ana Elberfeid's wonderful playing. are
now only 4l-3 games behind the
Gulls. The Mobile team lost a dou-
ole--header Tuesday that dropped it
oach a good bit MONTGOMERY Is rust
col behind Chattanooga Atlanta is
only half game behind Nuntgom-
cry, Nashville is but three games
back OF the Crackers. Memphis is
only half game behind Nashville
Birmingham is only one game behind
memphis. Only five games separate
the second team from the seventh >
verify, 1t groweth some torrid in
TINS Dixie country, in more ways than
the thermometer shows.
WO smashing hits in the thir-
teenth inning Of the ball game
az Ponce DeLeOn Park yesterday
busted the siddiest tie of the season,
on local lots and gave the Crackers a
victim. The score was seven 10 Six
winch is admitted to be very close
and which was a good deal closer
yesterday than it looked.
Ihe game proved one thing-that II
the Cracker pitchers can hold the on.
position long enough the Cracker
oatters will always Wallop in with
the hits necessary TO win. But some
uiles II Is an awfully trying wait.
For instance Yesterday
Councilman pitched most excellent
game Of ball against the Nashville
CLUB, game that was csIuulated to
bring victory
OF course the Vols made 10 hits off
his delivery in thirteen innings but
earned runs We're scarce and if an
error in the outfield had not let i'm
GIBSON when perfect playing would
have held him on bases Councilman
would have been the winns~ at the
end of the ninth.
THEN the excitement did get plen-
tiful, for sure Schwartz made.
single in the tenth but couldn't get
anywhere. In the same inning RaiIev
walked and stole but couldn't get
past second. In the eleventh b6th
sides went out One-two-t three. In the
first Of the twelfth. More got to first.
He was sacrificed to Second by Daley
and went to third on Callahans 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 a 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. hvsteri-
cal Councilman got Schwartz. Young
and Lindsay in quick and satisfying
succession.
Then c@me the last half Of the thir-
teenth. I
Wally sm.th. mighty clouter, swung
his well-kuOwn willow against tlss
sides Of a Reach sphere and II. jo4tst
a small, boy off the far corneEs6f the
sign board. On this tegRs1c waHss
t Of Course ours the the faas had sa8aa s
right then thaA4sft was all up with
the Vols for that day and their sus-
plciOns were quickly confirmed. for
Bisland laced into the first ball Pitch
ed him. sending 1t flying past
Schwartz for a clean. conclusive, con-
gliding single. And the game was
over.
Up to the tenth inning you would
have wrecked your imagination in
trying TO picture it a great ball game |
Neither team was fielding as.weH as
it knew how. The Crackers, after rel
ting a lead that looked as safe as
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-give them time and they will
spring a batting rally that viii beat
any team. The Vols gave them until
the thirteenth, and they did the rest