Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-17
BY o. b. Keller.
Crackers look pretty far.
This estimate ie offered will

TINE Crackers look pretty fair
This estimate is offered with
a number Of things TO he m
derstood. The mere fact that Bin
Smiths men licked the I.ouisvi' q
Colonies 4 to 3, in The first game II
the exhibition season does not OF IT,
self make the Crackers look good.
Any team is likely to win an exhib-
tiou game. Back In 1905 we per-
sonallN saw the Crackers trim the
Chicago cubs In 2 desperately fought
battle. But Atlanta did not win the
Southern League pennant that year.
Mud the cubs Well, they wound
up worlds champions
So We take il that one swallow
doesn't make n summer though We
have known several TO cause a fall
RUT the opening exhibition game
- of the season appealed to tho
500 fans present as being very near
the regular article OF baseball. The
Louisville Colonels. a representative
team of Glass AA league, showed
lucky to win But In their luck. aud
outside OF 1t, too, they looked pretty
good
The Atlanta defense looked good
deal better than the offeuse Five
hits, one scratChy blow. made ~
the sum Of the attack on Grover LoG-
dcrmilk and the youthful Northrop
That of itself is not impressive. OS.
born. the colonies center fielder go
nearly that many waIlops al by him
self He pounded out four clean
rihEiu- singles and two very hard
fouls In his four times at bat end i7s
the game with percentage OF 1000,
and deserving all Of IT,
TUE Crackers runs came in coll
pie of Jumps In the first two in
nings. before G. Loudermuk had cot
lcctcd his extensive anatomy and got
IL To working In one section. Several
bases ON balls, hit hatsman and H.
WclchouCe's presence Of mind in
striking out on a Wild pitch cor
sptred with an error by the tall pitch
or himself TO produce four runs
And thdt was absolutely an for M
Crackers Loudermik finally got
tuned up. and all the Crackers could
see was smoke lie famed seven in
four innings including the afore d
mentioned WelChOnce inCident-Rui
yielded only three hits Northr p
came ON and was even stingier, Civ
ing up two hits In four innings Tom
my Long was the hard hitter, getting
two while Welchouce. Munich an
kircher prorated the other three.
Mr. kirchcr's blow was eucourag-
ing The new hand was injected 90
hit Tor Gjl Price in the sixth. and
made his debut popular by cracking
one right on the nose.
PUT II the Crackers batting alta *
II was not impr ssiye, IL must lie
remembered that this was the first
pitching they had looked at this year
and 10 WAS blamed good pitching,
too, you may take II from us. The
Louisville pitchers had put IN reGu,2s
time down In Florida. and were show To-
ing mld-seaSon stuff all the way
And this was the most encouraging
feature 81 the first game. The Crack
ers, having corralled a skinny loal,
stuck their cleats into IL and held IN
like the Grim Reaper They played
q fast errorless game, and absolutely
declined 10 blow in any ~ the pinches.
They looked mighty good on the de
Tense. against team IN better con-
dit.ou OF higher class, as the league
ratings 80.
nENT. Prige and Browning took
- turns Of three innings each on
the rubber and Gilbert suffered ali
she ricktng which came IN the fourth
and dfth innings
81 b,rt's own WlIiuess caused part
NJ his trolOls and resoundiug wal
lops hv McLarry. Beaumi1er
ORourhe and The redoubtable O,-
born We're RESPONSIBLE for the rest ~
it, Five - the Colonies nine HIS