The Iola register., 1902-07-11
Springfield Takes Two

Springfield Takes Two
The Springfield team got mad and
walked of the field in the sixth inning
Saturday, although the score was in
its favor. The umpire gave the game
TO lola 0 TO O.. Sunday the visitors
won by the close score of 8 tot4 in ,.
game which would have been Iola,s
for safe hit in the ninth.
The tirstgame was slugging m atch.
Jarvis pitched good game for lola
but received ragged support Jones
started in for Springfield but was
taken out after four innings in which
lola got seven runs, Cohen going in
Cohen is the California pitcher whom
Springfield has paid a lot of money
TO get and pays pile to keep. He is
very much impressed with Cohen. The
score by innings was
go" 70 '. RH L
Springfield 0s011 II 7 2
lola i'it "A 3O302 9 10 10
1t was in the third inning that lola
went up in the air. Six errors we're
made, the, optfeld dropping dies ana
the infeld missing easy ones. Speck
had two, eaph optfelder an error, and
four safe hits in this inning allowed
Springfeld!to make eight runs. Then
lola tightened and got three more. To
cinch the game Cohen was put in. He
had been Sitting in the grand stand
boasting TO the crowd about what a
pitcher he is, how Red Morton feared
him and what a monkey he would
make OF Meek. In the fifth inning
lola got two hits of him but no scores,
In the sixth he hit Harvey who took
first, Wilson running for him. Wilson
stole second. Meek came to the bat
and knocked home run, clear over
toe north gate, losing the ball Oswald
came up and hit two bagger to left
field that was fair by foot and the
umpire so called it. Cohen didn't
like this at all and left the diamond,
the team following him. There was a
little wrangling and the visitors went
up town. So the game was given to
lola 0 to 0. AS no umpire showed up
here, Craig and Morgan umpired
most OF the game. Buck Kuran sue
ceeding Morgan after three innings.
lola lost the second game through
errors. Oswald missed q fly. in left
that he should have held and Gibson
failed TO grab hot grounder at a
critical moment. 1t was a pretty game
for five innings neither side scoring.
Then Springfield got run in the sixth
lola coming back with three. With the
the bases full Allison hit two bagger
clearing them. The visitors landed on
Heinz's twisters in the seventh for
three runs and got one IN the ninth.
lola got one in the ninth and had a
man on second and third But for the
crowd pressing close TO third base the
score would have been tied and lola
might have won. AS it was Iola's
runner was stopped at third when he
could have scored. The crowd was
close behind third base and when a
fielder threw to catch a runner at third
the ball hit one OF the players and
bounced into the crowd. Had the
crowd been away it woOld have gone
many feet farther, Speck would have
scored, Morgan would have been on
third and the game tied with a chance
to win. But the crowd was there OF
course And some misguided fan
anxious to win held the Springfield
player when he tried 60 pick mp and
throw the ball, For this the umpire
ordered Speck back to third, when he
could easily have scored. That third
base crowd lost lola Mondays game.
C'aig pitched for Springfield and
Heinz for lola. Craig Is good one.
He has lost just two games since he
arted in the league, but he nearly
had another Sunday.
Here is the. fight by rounds;
'lIrt IA .,r.. IL ii
b SpringfeidO 90 90 301 2 10 4
lola lit',l o o 90 b S'001'"4 7 2
Umpire Quie egley was here for the
game, being Sent here from Joplin.
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