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

Yellow Jackets, and it was decidedly
SOME and considerable Of a 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 a line drive travels,
1t dawned, faster than a daybreak
usuall-- 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
a 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
FASTING end of the job, but until the
fatal (it's 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 1t 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
hit EN- where the lilies weren't,
c OUTHPAW BRYANT worked out
- 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 wildness, which, by the way,
resulted badly. for both men who
scored for illinois got on by the big
four" route, he pitched 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 q lot of nasty ones
and throwing them with deadly aim
to the first sack. Tolmie at second,
also distinguished himself by some
exceptionallv nice work.
TOR the Jackets, Witherington
L played his usual steady game be-
hind the mask and protector making
difficult foul fly, and clinehing with
one man trying to steal home in
way that suggested a wrestling match
with the catch-as- catch can not
barred; but Doc" held the ball ami
rubbed it all over his man without
any doubt of consequence.
Techs three errors were distributed
around amone the infield 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 mis-
fortune in right field to let them pc
through when Tech men We're on
bases, and that proved rather dam
aging to his teams cause.
DOTH 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
Skaters sacrifice, and then when Burr
threw wild to third to stop him from
pilfering that sack he came home
In their half Of the third the lllini
scored again once more Bryant
walked the first man up-the pitcher
at that. Halas was pushed down ode
by Tolmie's 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 ooth
teams and some classy pitchlnS
Then in their half of the seventh,
the entire crowd Of spectators stand
ing up and calling on Tech to do or
die, Pound was pinked by fast one
and trotted to first. WOoten sent a
long single to right which Suterl
failed TO flag, and Pound came home
with Techs first run. leaving Wooten
on third. Hill here attempted 70
squeeze Wooten in but his pay
proved too porous and Catcher
Bradley put the harpoon into him.
THINGS "sagatiated" along with the
/ score 2 to / in favor Of the visitors
until the last half of the ninth With
erington> first up, spanked one down
to third Shafer handled it clean, but
stumbled over himself a bit, threw
late. and the first baseman dropped II
ANYWAY. SO DOC" had to be safe. Burr
now Clipped in with his first safety
Of the dav, which went, as in football,
for two points, or two bases / should
have said, putting Witheringlon On
third. 1 Up stepped Captain Pound,
and he smote one out to left that
was neatly trapped by Larson, but II
was a hit for all that. And this, ny
the way. had happened after Pitcher
HAAS mad been removed from the boX
following Burr's two-bagger, ana
Gunkel substituted. Gunkel had the
speed stuff, too. but Pound likes tnat
kind which was something Mr.. O.
didn't know Burr had remained at
second on Pounds single to left, ana
so he and Pound were showed up p
peg each by Wooten's sacrifice I'M
struck out. and so with two out and
r. Montague up the question was
whether to let him try his hand once
more or put IN pinch hitter il was
finally decided to let him have the
chance. TO accomplish that than whlcn
the dear angels are not more to pc
relied upon 1t was a lucky guess
for Edgar stung It to right center and
the game was won by a score Oh
TO 3
This afternoon the two teams WIN
lock horns again Joe Pitts VIII PROP
ably twirl for Tech and Gunkel lof
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