The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-01
PEL|CANS WILL DO
WELL TO FINISH
IN SECOND PLACE
Squirt of Travellers Makes
Them Strong COntenders
for the Next Best
Position

New Orleans, August 31.--The South
weeks remaining, has been won prac-
tically by Atlanta with New Orleans
and Little Rock almost neck and neck
for second place. So despite the fond
contending that New Orleans can win
nine of ten games to play and the
Crackers will win only four of nine
scheduled contests and thereby lost
the championship, Atlanta will be hail
ed as the 1919 champion
The fact is that the Frank machine
which began a drive in mid season has
lead of 4 " games and that neither
the Heinemann nor the Elberfield
Travellers can probably overcome that
with the Crackers in strong form for
the finish.
The race is closing as it began, At
lanta, New Orleans and Little Rock
strong Fourth place apparently will
be between Mobile and Chattanooga
Atlanta during the season in every
place from seventh to the top began
a steady rise from the fifth place dur
ing the eighth week and ousted New
Orleans who had led the field for eleven
weeks, in the middle of August.
The Crackers won of games this
week; one. a IL inning affair, with
New Orleans, was tie. Three wins
in four over Mobile were followed by
the series in Atlanta with New Orleans,
and there, although the Pelicans came
away with two hard earned victories,
a tie and one loss it became certain
that the Heinemann tribe could hardly
overtake the Frankmen.
New Orleans, due to weak playing
which has chara cterized the club in the
last few weeks, will have to show
better form or the Little Rock club
will finish second. The Pelicans lost
five of the nine games played and won
only three. The disastrous encounter
with the Barons at Birmingham knock
ed Pelican hopes. Birmingham took a
series of four straight from New Or
leans. The two victories over Atlanta
in the quartet and the retaliation on
Birmingham in single here today
made up the trio of Pelican victories.
The tie with Atlanta, although not a
defeat as far as scores stand, check ed
the badly needed percentage to push
Atlanta
Little Rock at third had the best
week of any club, seven wins to
a lone defeat. The Travellers took two
and dropped their only bad game to
Chattanooga. They took quartet
from Nashville and today added a
single from Memphis With a continu-
ance of this form there is no doubt but
that the Trave.ers will take the Sc
cond honors to the Arkansas capital
while the Crackers take first to the
Georgia chief city. But even with a
slump of the Travellers of the 1918
champions, third place is not within
reaching distance of other clubs.
Fourth place is fight between Mo-
bile and Chattanooga, the Bears now
holding it by three points. Mobile lost
8 games in nine with the Crackers and
Barons. Incidentally, Scuggs, the
Cracker southpaw from Auburn, hurled
three of the five victories over the Bear
left handed sluggers. Monday the eff
fective pitcher against Portside bats
men went in and he'd them scoreless
during his end of the double header
Wednesday he repeated the record
Again today, Frank sent the collegian
on the mound to face the Bears and
again Suggs was victorious, just three
times during the week over Mobile.
Chattanooga finishing at the top of
the second division. had the same re-
cord as Mobile, half dozen losses to
a trio of wins.
Memphis with four victories to five
defeats finished sixth.
Birmingham began the week strong
and won six Straight games but drop
dep double header saturday to Mobile
and lost single here today to New
Orleans. The Barons are seventh with
Nashville, habitually, bringing up the
rear and certain to finish last, again
lowering around the 400 mark after
three wins in eight games