Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-20
PRISON PAPER
FLASHES EXTRA
ON BALL GAME
Editor Of "GOod Words" Has
Complete Account of Pennant
Battle Out in Record Time.
PIRATES WIN SPRING TITLE
Publication Contains All Details
of Diamond Struggle and Is
Set by Hand of. Editor.

Eight hundred convicts stood Ct
squatted about the sun-baked base
ball field at the United States pen
itentiary Saturday, apparently uncon-
scious of the heat that would have
cooked an egg, and saw the Pirates
beat the Tigers in the deciding game
for the spring season championship Of
the prison baseball league.
1t was a great occasion. Register
4179 was pitching in superb form.
Fielding was faultless. The fans were
wild
But the greatest event of the grea-
day was to come after the game.
Hardly had the jubilant fans troopei
into the COOL prison and quieted 20
some extent than through the cell
room rushed a squad of prisoners,
with lusty voices and with bundles of
papers under their arm.
"Extra-a-a," they yelled CAN about
the big game"
"Good Words" Out on Time.
1t was the baseball extra of Coos
Words" the prison paper. There was
the game in detail, complete summary,
detailed score in heavy black type
all the appurtenances of the conven-
tional sporting edition that Atlantans
buy on the streets each evening. jour
nalism at the penitentiary is all that
is modern, and at one bound Good
Words" has leaped from the ranks of
the staid monthly magazines into the
busting daily class.
The task of getting out the extra
was considerable. Editor 1892 and his
workers had to toll over the cases
from one compartment to the other,
with a speed that you might think i'm
possible, now that the old tramp
printer has gone the way of Min
eveh and Tyre.
But even without the Mergen-
thalers, the prison journalists made
their baseball extra a great, up-to-
the minute success.
The game of which It told was n
good one, in spite of the 10 to score
by which the Pirates won. The Tiger
pitcher, 4409, had two bad innings,
and the tragic tale thus is told. In
the most approved baseball language,
the extra told the story, as witness:
Here's the Detail.
Third municipalities up. 1884 bal
looms a high fly to the infield and gets
q safe hit on the society stunt Of the
shortstop and third baseman, and
goes to second on wild throw. Angel
Emashes one to left garden, and
FRANKIE" scores. Pitcher asleep, and
angel" steals third. 1888 perambu-
lates to first on a donation. 1922 lifts
one to center and out. 1852 hammers
a safety to right. and Angel" and
1888 score. Chief strikes out. 1861
places a Texas Lacquer in right and
"Smittie" helps to win his game by
sizzling two-bagger to left, and two
runs register. He scores on error of
frl ha Cfrilr
FIVE HITS, SIX RUNS.
There was another bad inning, the
seventh, when the same story was
told. And with them both, the Pirates
won.
The prison fans followed the game
enthusiastically. Every man was
cheering, whether he was a bootleg
ger or a millionaire banker. The
baseball extra noted the fact. In its
column Of FLASHES from the Dia-
mond," It announced:
1:15-Many notables are arriving
and are ignored as they take their
places in the reserved seat section.
All fans are brothers to-day.
Banker Section Thrilled.
I:17-Great excitement in the
bankers section as one sack of to-
basco is bet against two packages of
chewing gum.
'1:19-Odds Veering to the Tigers.
One rooter offers to wager his dough-
nut, with no takers"
The spectators sat on the ground,
unsheltered. Above them the sun was
hot. Below them the hard packed
ground was hotter But nobody com
planned or even asked his neighbor il
1t were hot enough for him.
The spring season thus closed, the
fall season Of the league has begun.
The winning team of the fall season
will play the Tigers, the winning
team of the spring season, for the
championship and the pennant
The Pirates were drawn from the
corps of cleaners, and the Tigers from
the construction workers. Guard
Waddell is manager of the Pirates
and is the proudest man in Uncle
Sans employ to-day, unless maybe
it is Editor 1882, who conceived and
carried out feat that is without par
allel in the prison world. At least, any
other baseball extra in prison has
never been recorded