Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-11
NINTH-|NN|NG
RALLY DOWNS
ILLINOIS NINE
Jackets Score Two in Final In
ming and Win, 3 to pitts
on Slab To-day,
Bv j. w. Heisman.
TT HE nnnl came to Atlanta yes
terday to battle FOR the frs

II liz llunl came TO Atlanta yes
terday to battle for the frs
time in their careers with me
Yellow Jackets, and it was decidedly
SOME and considerable of ball
game. Not until after the last ball OF
the last half of the last inning had
been flung over by Pitcher Gunkel did
the big crowd know which team had
won. Then, in something less than
two seconds as line drive travels,
it dawned faster than a daybreak
usual dawns, that Tech was going
TO win, was winning, HAD won Then
broke loose the yell of a college base
ball crowd, a roar that would have
made old Tiber tremble underneath
her banks as badly as when in an
cient days she shivered under the tri-
umphant yells of Romans celebrating
return of victorious Pompey or Gaze
sar
Illinois has a good team and played
excellent ball. They could not DO
much with Pitcher Bryant in the pill
pasting end of the job, but until the
fatal Otis always fatal in that inning |
in which some team loses) ninth the
Jackets did even less with Pitcher |
Halas. This young man of pleasing
personality and graceful department !
had speed, control and curves and
whatever ii takes to make an oppos.
ton ball team look like a lot OF
weaklngs Again the Jackets were
not striking out. but they just couldn't
hit EN- where the lilies weren't
G OUTHPAW BRYANT worked out
- his first full game for Tech. lie
was right" and the result was ten
strike-outs of the visitors. Besides
this, he gave up but five hits. Barring
some witness, which, by the way,
resulted badly. for both men VINO
scored for Illinois got on by the big
four" route, he pitched a superb
game He is especially cool and
steady in the pinches.
Shafer, at third base for the visi-
tors, put up a grand fielding game,
knocking down lot of nasty ones
and throwing them with deadly aim
TO the first sack Tolmie, at second
also distinguished himself by some
exceptionally nice work.
TOR the Jackets. Witherington
played his usual steady game be-
hind the mask and protector, making
one specially brilliant catch of a most
difficult foul fly, and clinching with
one man trying to steal home in n
way that suggested a wrestling match
with the catch-as- catch cannot
barred: but Doe held TIE ball an
rubbed it all over his man without
any doubt of consequence.
Techs three errors were distributed
around among the infeld and We're
fairly simple and to cause muttered
Tut Tut" Those of Illinois, o.
which there were four, were equally
reprehensble, but Suter had the mis-
fortune in right field to let them &c
through when Tech men were m |
bases. and that proved rather dam
aging to his teams cause.
D 9TH teams got a man on in the
ID first but there they stayed. IN
the second Illinois opened up by Ar
buckle walking, taking second ON
Shafer' sacrifice. and then when Burr
threw wild to third to stop him from
differing that sack he came home
In their half Of the third the Him
scored again once more Bryant
walked the first man up-the pitcher
at that Halas was pushed down ooe
BY Tolmie's act Of renuCiation, and
came home on Phelps slashing single
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nat ehueu une so ' ti.. ~ 80 jr
sldes Ior qullt sps,i, '''e an 80, ~,
tne nlean.iiIt oelHs ne" s15 w pS bntb
clever eNhIo llo ,I Vi ne,ui's ~
teams ana some rasSH pi's
Then in their haIt OF lhe seventh
the entire crowd 81 spectators STAND
ing up and calling on Iech 70 90 or
die. Pound was pinNed oN tasi oae
and trotted TO hrSt Nooteh sem
long single to right, when Sulrl
failed to flag, and POUND came nome
with Techs first run leaving W oolyn
on third Hill here attempted 10
squeeze Wooten .n nut ms pal
proved too porous ana alcne'
Bradley put the harpooh lh'o MIN
THINGS osaeatiated" along with the /
score . to / in favor OF tho visitors
untiI tbe last half of the ninth. with |
erineton, first up. spanked one down
- t5i,G sharer handled n clean. bur
,',,,,l,Iod o,.er himsaIr a h. threw
Iate and the first baseman dropped it