Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-11
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RALLY DOWNS
ILLINOIS NINE
Jackets Score Two in Final In
ming and Win, 3 to pitts
on Slab To-day,
By j. W. Heisman.
TT HE Hlini came to Atlanta yes
terdav to battle for the first


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
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
cient days she shivered under the tri-
umphant yel1s 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
pasting end of the job, but until the
fatal Otis 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.
G OUTHPAW BRYANT worked out
- his first full game for Tech. lie
was right" and the result was ten
81 Of x-fci
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 a 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 lot of nasty ones
and throwing them with deadly aim
to the first sack Tolmie. at second,
also distinguished himself by some
exceptionally nice work.
Tor the Jackets, Witherington
played his usual steady game be-
hind the mask and protector, making
one specially brilliant catch of most
difficult foul fly, and clinching with
one man lTA IIlS " SlGdl lipiliC III u
way that suggested a wrestling match
with the catch-as catch can not
barred: but Doe held tie ball and
rubbed ii all over his man without
any doubt of consequence.
Techs three errors were distributed
around among 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 eec
through when Tech men were on
bases, ard that proved rather DAM
aging to hts teams cause.
DOTH teams got a man on in the
d 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 Illini
scored again. Once more BRYANT
walked the first man up-the pitcher
at that. Halas was pushed down one
bv Tolmie's act of renuciation, and
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
ing up and calling on Tech to do or
die. Pound was pinked by a fast one
and trotted to first. Wooten sent a
long single to right, which Suttr
failed to flag and Pound came home
with Techs first run, leaving Wooten
en- third. Hill here attempted 70
squeeze Wooten in but his BAT
proved too porous and Catcher
Bradley put the harpoon into him.
THINGS "sagatiated" along with the
score , to in favor OF the visitors
until the last half OF the ninth. With
erington, first up, spanked one down
TO third Shafer handled 1t clean. but
stumbled over himself a Bit threw
late. and the first baseman dropped 1t
anyway. so DOC" had to be safe, Burr
now Clipped in with his first safety
of the day which went, as-IR football,
for two points, or two bases ! should
have said. putting Witherington on
third. Up stepped Captain Pound,
and he smote one out to left that
MAS neatly lldpHth ~ A@fAA SNAi' ~ -
was a hit for all that And this, ny
the way, had happened after Pitcher
Halas had been removed from the box
following Burr's two Dagger, ami
Gunkel substituted. Gunkel had the
speed stuff, too, but Pound likes that
kind. which was something Mr.. 9.
didn't know Burr had remained at
second on Pounds single to left. and
so he and Pound were showed up 2
peg each BY Wooten's sacrifice. Hill
struck out, and so with two out and
F.. Montague up the question was
whether to let him try his hand ONE
more or put in a pinch hitter II was
finally decided to let him have the
chance 10 accomplish that than which
the dear angels are not more to be
relied upon II was a lucky guess.
for Edgar stung it to right center and
the game was won by score OF 3
10 e
This afternoon the two teams WI
lock horns again Joe Pitts VIII prob
ab'v 'wirl for Tech and Gunhel tor
Illinois.