Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-17
BY O. b. keeIer.
ME Crackers look pretty fair

TIME Crackers look pretty fair
This estimate is offered with
number of things to be IN
derstOod. The mere fact that Bill
Smiths men licked the Louisville
'oIonels, to ,. in the frs, game II
the exhibition season does not Of IL
self make the Crackers look good.
ANY team is likely to win an exhibit
ton game, Back in 1908, we per-
sonally saw the Crackers trim The
chicago Cuos in a desperately fought
battle. But Atlanta did not win the
southern League pennanl that year.
And the cubs Well. they wound
az world champions
So We take II that one swallow
doesn't make a summer though We
have known several to cause y 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 Colonies, representative
team OF class "A league, showed
real fight sand the Crackers We're
lucky so win But in their luck, aud
outside of It, too. they looked prejty
good
The Atlanta defense looked good
deal better than The offense Five
hits, one "A sCratchy blow. made ~
the sum Of the attack on Grover lol-
dermilk and the youthful Northrop
That of itself is not impressive. Os-
born the Colonies center fielder. 30.
nearly that manv wallops all by him
Syif lie pounded out four clean,
rincin singles and two very hard
fouls in his four times at bat end Is
the game with a Percentage of 1000
and deserving an OF II.
THE Crackers runs came in cot
pie Of Jumps IN the first two in
niuEs before G. Ioudermilk had col
lected his extensive anatomy and cot
10 10 working in one section. Several
bases ON balls, a hit batsmeu and "
NclCNouCr's presence OF mind In
striking ont on wild pitch coz
spirod With an error by the tan pitch
or himself to produce -Four runs
And mat was absolutely an for The
Crackers Loudermilh finally GOT
tuned up. and an the Crackers could
500 Was smoke He famed seven In
four innings including the Hfore
mention Wc'chopre incident ard
Welded only three hits Northr 70
came on aud was even stingier. Civ
INK NV 7 wv I|.iN 'I Af'll' AllIlVkNr ''u -
my Tong was the hard hitter getting
two. While Nelchouce Munich ami
Er,her rrorated the other three
Mr. kjrehcr'S blow was encouraG-
ine. The new hand was injected 60
hi' for Gfl Price in the sixth, and
made his debut popular by cracking
one right ON The nose.
DCT II the Crackers batting alta *
- was not impryS siNe, II must be
remembered that this was the nrs,
p.trhnE they had looked at this year
and il was blamed good pitching,
too. YOU may take it from US TIE
Louisville pitchers had put I'm rcCula-
time down IN Florida, and We're show
lug mid season stun all the way
And this was the most encouraging
feature ~ the first game The Crack
ers hayiug ,urrdiied skinny lead,
stuck their Cleats into IL and held on
like the Grim Reaper They played
q fs. errorless rame and absolutely
declined 20 blow IN any Of the pinChes
The, looked mighty good on the de.
tense. AGAINST team In better con-
du'uu. az a hiGher class. as the league
ratings go.
nE\T. Price and Browning took
NH'nS OF three innings each or
the rubber and Gilbert suffered al
the r,CklnC. witch came IN the fourth
and hfth innings
Gilbert own .vl'dneSs caused part
~ Wis trouble And resourdins wal
Ions by M,larry. Beaumner
4, HourN" ari the -edoubjable O,-
BORN we're rsSnouS'h'e for the rest 90
10 rive ~ the Colonies nine hits
came IN tHus" tvo innings. and only
fast 0cID'ng kept the score down
Dent gave mp two hits IN the frSt
inning and ONE ju the second. but held
the eremg to ndeld splashes when
trouble lovmed. Browning showed a