The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-06-04
FRIENDS WON
IN HOT GAME
Territorial NormaIs Defeated
by Score of ! to O.
WON ON TWO ERRORS
Was Fastest Game Ever Played
on Local Diamond.
WON ON TWO ERRORS

ers out Of the caps OF the Northwest
ern Territorial Normal School team and
led them into camp TO the tune OF to 0.
1t was victory after one OF the hard
est fought battles on the diamond in this
| CITY For eight innings neither side was
able 10 get man farther than second
| base, and for seven innings the Friends
. were not able 10 get a man TO first
II was battle between the best pitcher
OF Oklahoma pitted against a team OF
comparatively green" men and the best
pitcher in southern Kansas against the
/ heaviest hitting school team in either
l Kansas or Oklahoma, and every man
/ with at least four years experience on
the diamond and some OF them three
years with the same team. Every one OF
/ the Nornals was brown from long
practice and playing on the fields this
1 year and IT is safe 70 say that the COM
/ blned ages of the team would be as
much and then half the number more
than the ages Of the locals. Every one
/ OF the visiting team is a man and ball
player by years Of experience. while
1 some of the Friends never PLAYED in a
/ match game before this season. and for
this reason they are more than proud
I OF their victory; and well they might be.
The game was won on two errors By
Alva. In the last half OF the eighth in
| ming Woodland sent a grounder down the
third base line which Shay handled but
threw short to first and Woodland got 10
the initial bag before Boyer could re-
cover himself Woodland stole second on
the first bail thrown to Pierce and stole
third while Smith was stargazing
Pierce tapped the ball and McCully. the
Alva shortstop, missed IL and Woodland
crossed the plate. These two were the
only errors made by the visitors IN the
game. and but one is charged against
the Friends. In the seventh Davis let a
grounder slip through his fingers. but il
only let the man 10 first base.
This is the third game the Northwest
ern Territorial Normal School team has
played In this city. and the first time
they have met defeat. Two years ago
they played the Friends and won the
game by a score of 3 to 3, and last year
they piled up II runs while the Friends
could work but three men around the dia-
mond. This is the first shut-out for the
game they have lost out of fourteen
played They have an enviable record
for ball playing and their school is
proud Of tho team. for they have always
been considered invincible for any com
mon college team. The best ball tossing
talent Of the greater part of Oklahoma is
at the school. and from this lineup the
team Is taken. There is not another
school in the west that has such an op-
portunity TO pick a winning team as the
Alva institution has.
There is not another school west of the
Missouri river that has the pitcher that
Alv5 has Smith has pitched winning
ball for many years and two times he
has won his game from the West Side
boys. and ne won his game yesterday.
but poor support lost him the game. He
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the entire game and eleven Friends had
to walk back to the bench without touch
ing the ball. The Friends could not hit
him for anything like a long drive or
even hot grounder that might be work
ed into a safe hit. He throws with Won
derful speed and his curves arc sharp
and his combinations are almost irwin
chile. he plays his game with the cool
ness OF an old-time player, but his speed
seems 10 give out toward the last OF the
game IN the first inning he famed two
men and in the next three. in the third
two. one in the fourth and two in the
fifth. and only one man laid down the
willow from here 70 the end OF the game.
Cornelison. the little twirler Of the
Friends. looks big in the eyes OF the
fans who witnessed the game. He held
the heavy hitters from the Territory
down TO five measley little hits and these
worth but little TO the visitors. In the
sixth inning ne allowed one hit-hit a
man with a pitched bah. and then IN a.
fine an exhibition Of twirling as has ever
been seen in this city he struck out three
men and prevented a run. For this he
was loudly cheered as II shows that he
IS developing into one OF the fastest
pitchers in the state. When he did his
work the Friends were on the anxious
seat. Tor the least mispiay would have
sent man across the plate. and the fans
for once stopped roofing and watched
in silence the work of the little man IN
the box. II was wonderful how he gath
cred himself for each bali he threw ard
with what precision he threw e. Ten
balls was all that vas necessary % make
the three men lay down the willow. Every
ball he threw was a strike. but the men
were unable to make connections, even II
three OF the heaviest hitters OF the team
were facing him.
The Friends made one beautiful double
play In the second inning. In thar IN
ming Springer came up ard lined ont q
nice single over second lie stole second
when McGnl came up and pounded out
a grounder 20 Pierce at thisd. who threw
the leather 20 first insine to catch Mc
Gin. and Young tossed i back 10 Pierce, .
doubling up Springer
n the next inning Cornelison made
fine run Tor foul away back - the
crowd and sixty feet north Of the third
base line II was q hard run and a long
one ard Corneiison let the bail drop right
into his nit but the ball bounced W. i
and the crowd Eroa ned ore long. mourn .
fui zroan II seemed too bad 70 lose a
bali after such a Ere run. baf tie little
pitcher dif nor lose Il. He caught K IS
Il came down again. and the xroar WAS 4
Immediately changed % great cheering
X vas as fine a running catch a. has
ever been made on a local fed.
In the ssseath and eighth Innings TIE 4
So-nals made two fre double PLAYS r. .
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