Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-07
SID WORTH Of
BALL FOR TWO
BITS FRIDAY
By Percy II. Whiting.

ITEM 5ohars worth Of baseball Al
Two otis wes the Offering at
Ponce DsIssor Park Friday aft
ernOou. in "a game the Crackers lost
20 Chattanooga, z 70 E. The contest
took zen innings, two hours and sew
eusssn minutes and a pound Of fesh
nom The wracked frame OF Manager
RAJ Smith
y W.T. surely a cuckoo little con
rsst
go~ 54gnt innings L Was an awful
affair. a regular boob game ~ far
a. me Crackers we're coDcerned. They
l1Rd made only three hits on Rudy
SummsFs and Il lOolCsd ~ though
they would newer mako any more.
TIE score was then five TO nothing
against the Crackers, for Chappelle
was no puzzle 20 the guys no used 20
Nvorss with and his support was much
20 the cheese.
r HE last half of he eighth was a
1 memorable session Joe Agler
0psue6 n with q single. Dunn walt
ed-and walked Robe, batting to
ChappeIie. flied out Long walked.
Ana then came WelchOnce the hero
az the previous oSy's game. All he
dfd this time was 20 triple but that
scored three men and out Summers
in a blue funk. Whereupon Alper-
man arose and damned the bali e.
ire score board for a home run-and
hts tied b up Five runs IN one In
ming for tie mp Wow!
IND you ever notice that when a
- team comes from behind they
oorns 3ust far enough 10 tie the score
and then stop there2 II happens
nine times out Of ten. In Fridays
game Il was obvious that the locals
had Summers absolutely on his last
legs. With only one OUT and two
dangerous batters IN line st seemed
as though a little more Of the same
steam would have put over the win
ming run.
up on even terms and stop to
breathe believing that the overhaul
ing will be an easy matter later
AFTER warming up both Dent and
q Price while the batting rally was
IN progress Smith stuck IN the for
mer He retired the first too men
and then got in an awful mess by
letting Flick and King hit. COyle
then grounded 10 Alpeman, who
started a double play and pulled the
Crackers through that inning
To the surprise OF everybody Ell
nurfeld elected 20 use Harry Cove
lsslde 70 finish out the game for him.
Considering tho Poles uncertainty
and the ease with which he Is usual
fy ratified this was a brave choice.
Hardly another manager IN the world
would have taken that chance.
But Coveleslde stood the gan
Every Cracker went up 10 the plate
with strict orders 20 wait him out.
II started All right too. when Blsland
walked. Agler sacrificed him along
but there no croaked Dunn waited
Ike a statue but CoveIeskie had the
plate located and Joe finally popped
20 Coveleskle. Dent had "a lovely op-
portunity but was struck out
Ina the first Of the tenth Dent got
his Elberfeld opened with a single.
Elston sacrificed johnson singled
Street fractured the tie by going out
smith 90 Agler. So ariistically that
Elberfeld ,alucd. Williams was walk
ed And tH.n came the superlatiyt
surprise for CoycioEkie hit clean
single scoring Johnson and closing
out the Crackers.
M the last half Of the tenth Wei
chonce kept up his great pinch hit
ting with "a timely single but Cove
iessic was the master Of the rest of
them and deserved a victory
This was the first game the Look
outs have won ont Of eight attempts
against the Crackers.