The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-20
We PLAYS BALL-NIT
De Capital Triss to Trun Us Over
De Fence.
VE STIAGS EN- LIKE 4 WAPST
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JOURNAL IL, Capital %. This was the
result of the literary baseball game al
Athletic park yesterday. The game was
merely a case of muscle against BRAINS
and muscle as usual won It never was
the goal OF the JOURNALS ambition 10
play baseball Some may think that the
Journal wanted to win the game; but the
idea couldn't be farther from the trush
and kept getting farther and farther az
ter the second inning. There are Iots
Of things we'd rather do than play base
ball The JOURNAL will continue to print
the best newspaper in Topeka for ten
cants a week. delivered, Notwithstanding
the base efforts OF the vile sheet across
the alley to disprove this assertion
Il couldn't have been batter day for q
ball game than it was yesterday when
the JOURNAL nine rolled into or rather
70 the edge Of Athletic PARK IN Its specIaI
street car and prepared, with merry
little twinkle II its eye 20 have fun anu
uIease the boys who run the paper on the
JoURSAL's alley by letting them beat
At lust about the same time the Capl-
tai people came into the park IN their
private taIly-ho coach Al least one
thousand people more or less were pres
ent to see the greatest ball game Of their
Iives-and they were not disappointed
The game was called promptly as al
vertised. with the JOURNALS in the field
County Clerk Charley McCabe-brave
fellow that he is-kissed his wife good
by aud umpired the game at the risk Of
life aud limb and popularity. But be
got through unseathed-
There were a large number OF ladies'
present, and they enjoyed it immensely.
Il was Just too cute for anything they
said. and wasn't Barnes just lovely
Barnes was in the box for the Capitals,
and did some really meritOrious work
once when he sent a boy after bucket
of water. This Is not said in envy.
We're not mad
Telegraph Editor Clark of the Capital
was behind the bat, and had no troubI e
in picking the ball up after It had been
stopped By the backstOp. The most
graceful man the Capital fellows had
was Billy Trainer, who looked almost as
handsome IN sweater as Pick Smith
does in tights Trainer certainly had one
advantage was perfectly safe from
being hit by the ball
Had the JOURNAL been stronger in the
in6eld and outf1eId the score would have
been closer. The battery with Carr IN
the box aud Murphy Immediately in
front Of the back-stOp won round after
round-of noise.
The only high priced player the
JOURNALS had was Seiber of the com
posing room He made double play in
the first inning and then concluded ne
had earned his salary aud quit playing
and went to talking. Seiber is q real
good fellow and E5s0gos lots about base
ball
Il was hard for the JOURNAL battery to
let the Capitals get anything at all.
kiene on first base for the JOURNAL
played good, steady game. Wolf at
second did something to his credit
every now aud then. Kane at third did
too. Stevens, Blakesly and Gordon IN
the field didn't have much TO do.
The young man who kept the score be-
came 50 absorbed in the game that he
forgot to De accurate. but his tabulations
showed the following results:
JOURNAL