Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-11
N|NTH-INNING
RALLY DOWNS
ILLINOIS NINE
Jackets Score Two in Final In
ming and Win, 8 to pitts
on Slab To-day.
BY j. w. Heisnan.

TT HE Illini came to Atlanta yes
terday to battle for the first
time in their careers with me
Yellow Jackets, and it was decidedly
SOME and considerable of a bail
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 a line drive travels.
it dawned faster than daybreIk
usual dawns, that Tech was gong
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
Gent 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 10
much with Pitcher Bryant in the pill
pasting end of the job. but until the
fatal Otis always fatal in that inning
III 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 it takes to make an oppos.-
ton ball team look like a lot of
Weaklings. Again the Jackets were
not striking out. but they just couldn't
bid EN- where the lilies" weren't,
~ IA T1I "a vyTT
his first full game for Tech. He
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 who
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 WISH
tors, put up a grand fielding game,
Knocking down a lot of nasty ones
and throwing them with deadly aim
to the first sack. Tolmie at second,
also distinguished himself by some
EXCEPTIONAL 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 a
way that suggested a wrestling match
with the catch catch can mot
barred but Doc" held the ball and
Ribbed it all over his man without
any doubt of consequence
Techs three errors were distributed
Around among the inheld and We're
fairly simple and to cause a muttered
"Tut. TUT" Those of Illinois. OF
which there were four. were equally
reprehensible, but Suter had the ms
Fortune in right field to let them ee-
Through when Tech men were on
bases. and that proved rather dam
aging TO his teams cause
% 9th teams sot a man on in the
~ first, but there they stayed. ,n
The second Illinois opened up by Ar
buckle walking. taking second on
Skaters sacrifice. and then when Burr
threw wild to third to stop him rom
differing that sack he came home
In their half of the third the Illiui
scored again. Once more Bryant
walked the first man up-the pitcher
at that. Halas was pushed down ode
by TONNES act of renuciation, ana
came home on Phelps slashing single
TO center.
That ended the scoring for both
sides for quite a spell. the game in
the meantime being filed up by some
clever exhibitions of fielding by both
teams and some classy pitching
Then in their half OF the seventh.
the entire crowd Of spectators stand
iue nm and calling on Tech to do or