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


TNHE race in the Southern League
is tightening up like a. cheap
suit on a rainy day. The Look
outs, going at an. unexpected speed,
thanks to Coveleskie's great hurting
and Elberfeld's wonderful playing, are
now only Alp games behind the
Gulls. The Mobile team lost a dou-
ble-header Tuesday that dropped if
back good. bit. Montgomery is lust
.O01 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-
tenth inning of the ball game
at Ponce DeLeon Park yesterday
busted the giddiest tie of the season
on local lots and gave the Crackers q
victim. The score was seven to six.
which is admitted to. be very close
and which was a good deal closer
yesterday than ii looked. %
The game proved one thing-that If
the Cracker pitchers. can hold the op-
position long enough the Cracker
batters will always wallOp in with
the hits necessary to win. But some
times it is an awtully trying wait.
For instance yesterday:
Councilman pitched a most excellent
game of ball against the Nashville
club, a 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 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 Railey
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 fivst.
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 a single through More. He was
sacrificed by WciChUnCc, Rugged the
bag after Alpermans short pop TO
Callahan and died there when Bailey
hit a foul fly to Schwartz.
INHEN the thirteenth rolled
w around the fans were hysteri-
jai. Conzelman got Schwartz Young
and Lindsay in quick and satisfying
succession.
Then csrae ae last half of the thtr-
,eenth.
Wally Smith mighty cIouter, swung
bis Wetl-Fnown willow against the
sides Of q Reach sphere and il jolt ~
sign board. On this tarrifi9Swallop
OF course the fans mad a h4Hef'
right taeu that igSiSaS all up. NTl VI
he Vols. for that~day 'aql their sjis
piCions were quickly confirmed, FOR
Bisland laced into the first bali Pitch
ed him, sending 1t 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
frying to picture il a great ball game
Neither team was fielding as Well as
it knew how. The. Crackers, after Get
ting a lead that looked as safe AS q
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 win beat
any team. The Vols gave them until
The thirteenth, and they did the rest.