The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-12
THOMAS DID IT.
Missouri Normal Pitcher Too Much
For Washburn

The Washburn baseball players, root
ers and all went down in defeat before
the delegation from the Missouri State
Normal school. of Warrensburg. on the
Washburn grounds Saturday afternoon
by the score of 8 to 4. SON ething was
the matter with Washburn- The play
ers did not seem to be able to exactly
diagnose the case bat the crowd decid-
ed early in the game that the stumb-
ling block to victory with the Topeka
team was Thomas, the pitcher for the
A1issOurians.
He started off with a briskness that
looked unfavorable for the Washburn
batters. Got a good deal of speed" re-
marked fan oh. not much. he
won't last long anyway said Worse
ley as he made ready to go to the bat.
He has to pitch all their games that
they want to win. He can't stand the
pace" continued the player as he picked
up his bat for the first time in the
game and forthwith proceeded to strike
out
Thomas did last, however much as the
Topeka college players tried to lambast
him out of the box. All during the nine
innings Thomas kept letting out a little
more speed and a few more curves. He
seem ed to have whole reservoir full
and it would not run dry. When Wash
burn came to the bat for the last time,
just to show what he could do, Thomas
started to strike out all three of the
batters who faced him He struck out
the first two up in easy style and sent
the last one out on little pop up fly.
Thomas is the best pitcher seen on the
home grounds this year.
Then for Washburn DOhn had a hard
time of it. He tried his best but the
Missourians had no respect for his
wishes and after six runs had been
made off of his special A. D. T. delivery
he was sent to the shady end of the
bench. But although Dohn evidently
suffered a knockout, he was not so bad.
He had five strike outs to his credit If
Washburn could have hit the ball as
Well as the visitors the tale would have
been different. For three innings Dohn
held the red shirted fellows down to two
runs but in the fourth inning the bal
loon went UP with all hands on board.
Every man on the Missouri team was
at the bat and four runs went in. Then
Billy" Baxter went into the box and
gave the visitors two runs in the fifth
inning and no more.
The visitors were an aggregation.
They were the tallest, slimest, most i'll
fed looking ball players Imaginable.
They We're an abnOrmally thin lot Of
fellows from normal school. They
wore all kinds of faded and mismatched
hosiery but they spat on their hands
and played the best ball in their stock.
Baxter nj AIDE four of the seven hits
given Washburn and he had a two bag
ger to mis- credit. For the first time since
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ten. Anderson made a costly error in
the field by allowing d hot grounder TO
pass through his hands and legs to be
stopped by the fence with a couple of
runs going in d the same time.
Thomas struck out q dozen Washburn
men and his smile was particularly ir-
ritating to the fellows who wanted to
ring the chapel bell for victory and not
as the kneH of defeat.
Lawrence Banks umpired the game
like Wyatt carp would a prize fight
What he said went. see" He made his
decisions and he paid no heed to objec-
lions. He told the players that if his
decisions We're wrong and that if they
would produce the authorities to prove
him wrong, he would change them The
specta tors liked his rulings, and ne
knows how to umpire.
The summary of the game. was as fol-
lows;
R. HE
washburn ....1 100000 5
NJ. S. N.........0 2 4 , 0 o 0 0-8 II 5
Summary: Struck out-By Dohn. 5:
by Baxter, 4; by Thomas, u. Two base
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