Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-26
BY O. B. Keller

TIME Crackers, having won the
worlds championship Of Class
\ and Double-A leagues by
waIlopiur the Newark Indians two
straight. are now squaring off in a
three -cornered affair with the New
York Yanks and the weather man.
The Yanks are scheduled to play at
Ponce DeLeon Thursday afternoon
their only Atlanta engagement this
season--and the W. m. has promised
rain.
We are pulling for the Yanks Gas
against the sky juice). but the Hon.
VonHerrmann' bet may be a bad one
to copper
III fhe 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-b bits per throw, and sit
where you please
A MoNG 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 j. CONFRONTED
with the stupendous problem OF max
ing over the Yankees. He has pref
ty nearly made them over, at that It
Is now to see il they were cut out and
sewed up properly.
Malsel the highly expensive in
fielder. will be on exhibition; and
Gilhooley, the speed demon, and
WARRIOR. the Irish-Indian hurler, ana
our old friend Ed Sweeney, and plen-
ty Of others.
Barring much rain, good crowd
should witness the performance.
ID EVERTING to the Crackers win
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. oeing waged with very amateur
teams.
But Of the FIVE remaining contests.
one was a tie with 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 AA teams, rank
ing ahead OF the Southern.
WITH all this winning we don't
wv seem TO get 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
year. Schwlnd's errors, aided by a
Wild peg by Joe Dunn, caused ma
iority 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 a
hard hearted scorer might have list
ed as a sixth error against the unfor-
tunate Schwind.
Tor Schwind was unfortunate
4 and hard working, The fast lit
tie chap got thirteen chances, not
counting a brace of scratch hits that
he reached. You might call II fifteen
an all: and he was going after every
thing in sight His misdeeds were
all OF commission; he loafed on
nothing. And they were all on tough
chances and hurried pegs. II 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 OF
not at all.
co we are going 10 permit Mr. B
- Smith to do any fusslng at MT
Schwind 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 base on balls
in five attempts. His work In the
field Is not clean-cut as yet. but he is
fast and aggresslve-and he can
throw.
| (WHICH recalls the performance OF
w Mr.. Tommy Long, and the High
way Robbery Of Mr.. w. Zimmerman.
committed on what would have been
Mr. Longs second home run OF the
matinee.
Mr., Long did falely well. as it was.