The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-13
WASHBURN VICTORIOUS.
Defeat Nebraska University Ball
Team by q Score of e to 3.

s'Are we all here?' asked the big
catcher Of the Nebraska university base
ball team as he drew his handsome
form up to it's full height His crimson
uniform fairly blazed and his face wore
an easy confident air as he cast his
eye over the aggregation in blue uni
forms with whom the Nebraska players
were to do battle. This was at Ais p.
m. on Friday. Two hours later the
same man with his brilliant uniform
covered with dust left the field by a
side gate He was heart sick.
This all goes to prove the old adage
about counting chickens before they are
Matched. Catcher Moore may have
thought that the aforesaid chicks had
already broken the shells and were
ready to step out in the broad light of
day but he forgot that sometimes a
thunderbolt descends when least ex-
pected
It,may be said without any deviation
from the truth that the Nebraska play
ers were much prettier than the Wash
burn men. 1t may also be said that
while they would be entitled to a place
in the heavyweight, or at least the mid
dleweight class, their antagonists would
be decidedly light weights While the
Washburn players are neither pretty
nor large no one will deny that they are
the fastest lot of little ball players in
the west. The Nebraska team under
rated their opponents and so Gid most
of the people in the grand stand.
A young man named Gramley pitched
for WaShburn. He is one of these loose
jointed, awkward fellows who looks as
if he might fly to pieces on the street
at any moment. But when he steps
into a baseball diamond he is trans
formed. He moves with an easy grace
which always places him in the way of
the ball, and anything that comes his
way never escapes. He is every inch
a ball player Pitcher Gramley is
student of human nature When
olax ct hofn h i'm a
nizes him carefully and finds out
whether he will pound the air when a
high ball comes his way or not At any
rate he usually gives the batter what
he doesn't want and that is the reason
why for six long innings the Nebraska
players failed to get hit. Mr. Gram
ley uses his head in pitching. OF course
he throws the ball with the full move
ment of his strong arm, but he uses
what is sometimes called judgment.
There is a little. fellow by the name of
Barnes with the Washburn team He
plays in center field and he can cover
more ground for his size than any Fill
Pine who ever taTried in the path of
the Twentieth Kansas. His sensational
catch of a fly near second base was the
feature of the game. The ball came
hurting toward the field from Rhodes,
who watched it gleefully as he stepped
toward first base. 1t was over the head
of the short stop and looked safe but
that little man Barnes flew toward the
ball like a Mauser bullet and just about
the time II was ready TO COucn JHe
ground he scooped his hands under it
and the ball was his. There were groans
long and loud from the Nebraska play
ers and their wonderment did not di-
minish as the game progressed. Camp
bell at short made a catch almost as
sensational as that of Barnes and he
received an ovation.
Out of the kindness of his heart
Pitcher Gramley allowed Nebraska to
get three scores but a wild throw by
Third Baseman Gephart had something
to do with it,
The interest in the game was empha-
sized by gang of rooters made up of
Albert Parker B. NJ. Davies, c. K.
Holiday, jr., A. B. Quinton, John c.
Waters, Bennett r. Wheeler and Geo.
w. Neale, jr-, who fairly made the air
ring with their "'rah, 'rah, 'rah.'
The Washburn baseball team de-
serves encoura cement.
Score by innings:
Washburn ............O 0 1 90 o 2-6
Nebraska % 0 0 1 1-3
Summary-Earned runs, Washburn /,
Nebraska 1; two base hit, Backinstoce;
passed balls, Moore 1; bases on balls
Bliss /, Gramley 1; hit by ball. by Bliss
2, by Gramley /; struck out by Bliss 8,
by Grumley z; left on bases, Washburn
5; Nebraska 4; stolen bases, Washburn
6, Nebraska 5; double play, Campbell