Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-26
By @. b. Keller

TIME Crackers, having won the
worlds championship of Glass
A and Double-A leagues by
waltoptng the Newark Indians two
straight. are now squaring off in a
three eornered affair with the New
York Yanks and the weather man.
The Yanks are scheduled to play at
Ponce DeI.eon Thursday afternoon
their only Atlanta engagement this
season--and the W. m. has promised
rain.
we are pulling for the Yanks (as
against the sky juice, but the Hon.
VonHerrmanns bet may be bad one
to copper.
If the afternoon is reasonably clear,
however, there ought to be a good
big crowd out TO enjoy the privilege
Of looking over the reconstructed
Highlanders at the very moderate
price of two-bits per throw, and sit
where you please.
AMONG the celebrities will be the
"A Peerless Leader himself-the man
who won four pennants and two
worlds championships with the
Cubs. and who now Is confronted
with the stupendous problem of max
ing over the Yankees He has pref
tv nearly made them over' at that II
Is now to see If they were cut out ana
sewed up properly
Maisel. the higniy expensive IN
fielder. will be on exhibition; ana
Gilhooley, the speed demon, ana
WARRIOR, the Irish Indian hurler, ana
our old friend Ed Sweeney, and plen-
~ of others.
Barring much rain, good crowd
should witness the performance.
d EVERTING to the Crackers vim
N ming streak, We foot It up that they
have copied six out of seven practice
games. and tied one. OF these games,
two were not exactly orthodox bat
ties, being waged with very amateur
teams.
But Of the five remaining contests.
one was tie with a big league team
--Cleveland-one series of two games
was divided with Louisville, of the
American Association, and the other
two games. with Newark, were mar
row victories. Both Louisville and
Newark are Glass IA teams, rank
ing ahead of the Southern.
WITH all this winning we don't
w seem to get a line on the Crack
ers so far. Big Perryman looked bet
ter in the second game against the
Indians than at any other start this
wear. Schwnd's errors. aided by
Wild neg by Joe Dunn, caused a ma
ioritv of the scoring against him,
although two resounding blows in the
ninth made three runs out of base
on balls and a scratch hit that d
hard hearted scorer might have list
ed as sixth error against the unfor-
tunate Schwind
EoR Schwind was unfortunate
r. and hard working. The fast lit
tie chan got thirteen chances, not
counting brace Of scratch hits that
he reached. You might call It fifteen
In all: and he was going after every
thing in sight His misdeeds we're
all of commission; he loafed on
nothing. And they were all on tough
chances and hurried pegs 1t would
be sorry work to penalize a young
infielder for suffering over the tough
ones and for errors Resulting from
fast play when it had TO be fast or
not at all.
co We are going to permit Mr. 3,
y smith to do any fussing at Mr.
Sehwind that is to be done. while we
take occasion to mention the sharp
fielding and savage walloping Of Mr..
Lynch The red-top got three clean
hits, one a triple and a base on balls
in Ave attempts. His work in the
field is not clean-cut as yet, but he is
fast and aggressive-and he can
throw.
XNHICH recalls the performance OF
w Mr. Tommy Long and the High
way Robbery of MIR. w. Zimmerman,
committed on what would have been
Mr.. Long'se second home run of the
matinee.