The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-24
PLAYED A GOOD GAME.
But Washburn Lost to Highland
Park Just the Same.

4uG DdSEDdA L6d1Il LIOLu
Park college at Des Adoines took
gabe from Washburn Friday afternoon
by the score of four to two. That was
the before supper game and ended at
o'clock After dinner, on full stomachs,
the same team defeated the st. Mary's
college team in a seven inning game by
the score of to and then caught the
train for Topeka. The Iowaians could
have added another victory to their
string If necessary. probably, before the
sun went down.
The Washburn team started out with
an imitation of the real Is caret fine
article of ball. The Washburn team re-
membered the drubbing given them on
the same grounds by the same team last
year. The score was 13 to l. Mehl, for
Washburn, made the one. Cyclone
Thompson pitched the game and it was
his fault that the sons of Ichabod did
not make any more runs. Thompson
pitched again Friday but he was only
shade of his former greatness. He
was a gentle Kansas zephyr. There was
no cyclone to him. The reason is that
Thompson has had the smallpox, sprain-
ed his right knee and had two inches of
bone removed from his left leg and has
pitched but three games this season. a
year ago Thompson was the wonder of
the season. He arrived on the Wash
burn grounds Friday clad in a pearl
gray dressing sack trimmed in red. The
same sack he wore last season. It cost
$12. The H. P. Q. players have had hard
luck. They have played but three games
on account of rain. At two of the three
games the gate receipts were not worth
as much as Thompson's Wizard of the
Nile" box coat.
In the first inning yesterday the
Washburn players seemed to forget that
they are expected to play ragged ball
and they put up a great game. Cook,
for Washburn pitched an excellent
game and his work in the box kept the
visitors score down to a minimum. al
though he handed out bases on balls
with an abandon that was shocking. In
! the first inning the first three men to
the bat for the visitors, McAllister.
| Thompson and Ellis took first on two
| bases on balls and long fly by
| Thompson. The bases were full and no
outs It looked as if the Washburn bal
loon would go up in the first inning, but
it didn't. Smith knocked a fly and
Kilby in right field gathered it in and
felded it in fast enough to keep the
runners on their bases. Then Cook
/ went to work with a special desire and
he struck out Aaseth. Davidson sent
| one to Backenstoce who helded it well
and threw him out at first. Washburn
had pulled out of tight box and re-
| cefved "a hand" that would have pleas
ed Richard Mansfield.
In the game year ago the only man
/ who crossed the plate for WaShburn
and scored against Highland Park was
Mehl. He was the only one for the
Topeka team who accom- plished the feat
/ this year. He crossed it twice. In the
| first inning Mehl drove a safe one to
left field and got second on sacrifice
/ hit by Moss and stole thY on a. pass
! ball. Dodge drove a safe hit to right
! field and Mehl second. In the fifth Cook
flew out to Peters. Moss hit to Nc
! Allister who slipped on the muddy
/ md crr1f ,.,4 AT.J,I -foI
to steal third and on a wild throw by
/ Catcher Smith he scored. Up to this
! time Highland Park had not scored.
! The man who bet on ssashburn was
/ Park team was from the suburb east
| Of town" he explained, but may win
| yet
It had been prophesied at the begin
/ balloon would go up. It did in the
/ sixth. Davidson struck out. Heilegen-
stein hit to Moss at third who let it
pass. Then st. German sent one past
/ third that Moss made no effort to stop.
/ McAllister got his base on balls and
! Heilegenstein was forced over the plate.
/ Everybod was trying Moss so Thomp-
/ son sent one between his legs Just for
/ fun and another man scored. Ellis
! forced St. Germ ain out al home by a
short hit but Smith sent a hot one
| Skimming through the center of the dia-
/ mOnd to a small lad who could be seen
! just above the heads of the tall grasses
! in center field. Allen his name was an
nOunced. He stopped the ball after two
more men had scored. Highland Park
! 4; Washburn 2 No more scoring in the
| game.
Washburn put up an excellent article
/ of ball for eight out of the nine innings.
It was in one fatal inning that the
| Washburn team went up in the air.
/ Cook pitched a magnificent game and
/ with support would have Won easily.
Moss lost the game for Washburn. He
| was credited with more costly errors at
i third than all the rest of the team put
/ together. The Highland Park players
discovered that he could not stop
! tumble weed and they pounded the ball
/ toward him at every opportunity. Moss
! did not fool them bit but allowed the
| fence to stop it. In the fatal sixth in
ming Moss was credited with three
errors which cost the Topeka team two
/ if not three runs against them. The
| official scorer did not try to keep track
/ of the errors.
Thompson made no attempt to do any
! great pitching. He held the Washburn
| players down to paltry hits and he al
/ lowed his fielderS to handle them. Cook
/ knew better than to leave anything for
hi smen. Kilby. out in right, cheWed
gum like a real lady, kent his white
shoes clean and made outs three out of
four times to the bat. Dodge played a
steady game at first. The official sum-
mary. with the errors not recorded is
as follows: R.H.E
Washburn ......1 0O1 O00-2 5
/ Highland Park. o 0 0 0 0 0 o. 6 8
Summary-Struck out-By Cook, IA:
! by Thompson, 4. Bases on balls-Off
4 Cook, s. Left on bases-Washburn. 5:
Highland Park, u. Stolen bases-An-
derson. Double play-Cook to Backen-
stoce to Dodge. Wild pitches-Cook, 1.
Passed balls-Smith, 2; Mehl, 1.