The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-27
Saturdays Ball Games Bad..fo
the Saints.
Pirates Help Out Their Average
Considerably.
PROSPECT is POOR
Apparently Team Stands Little
Chance to Win.
Nearly 1000 People Witness
the Humiliation.


There is no true love without
pain says the ancient adage- The
baseball fans are certainly ready to
man to swear that this is true. Al
most one thousand showed their love
Saturday afternoon-and the same
thousand were panied. Twice did the
Pirates from the Pittsburg. mines
wave their black flag and bloody en-
blem above .Washburn field and left
their mark on the score board where
you can read IL yet: First game,
Pittsburg II, Topeka 8; second game,
Pittsburg 9, Topeka 6.
All afternoon did Baldwin's gang
advance arguments that Topeka must
have a better team. They tried to
show the fact in every way. The first
method employed was to give the
Saints chances so that they could
show their possibilities in the error
column. Then they clOuted the pitch
ers. Then they stole bases. Then
they played a good run and hit game
the TOpekans the same chances and
put them out The grand stand and
bIeachers risked being fined for con-
tempt by Umpire AlbertS, by alter
nateIy roasting players, officials, and
then booming them, all in the hope
that somewhere out OF that mess
few runs could be boiled to the sur
face. WelI-the grand stand got so
hard up for something for which to
cheer the Saints. that they would
stand uD, wave their hats and give
a Republican national convention
demonstration, if a Pirate did such an
Insignificant thing as strike at a ball
and miss it.
Resurrection day viii come by and
by. The team left Saturday night for
Pittsburg. These were the parting
words of the management: It'll be
a different bunch when it returns"
The Saints were outplayed at prac-
tically every point In the IL innings
of the double-header, Pittsburg made
Is hits, three of which were home
runs one a three-bagger, three two
baggers. and all the rest good straight
safe ones. In the same length or tlIae
the Saints managed to scrape up II
hits but they were scattered ike KIDS
at a Sunday school picnic. In the
fielding the visitors were both the pet
and scrap. Topeka had none of these
virtues. And Pittsburg is considered
one of the weakest clubs of the
league.
The first game was called at 2:S9
o'clock The visitors kindly retralned
from making anything the first inning
but took four in the second These
came off a tWo-bagger by Abbotts--a
Murray and Cope. In the third,
base on balls, a three-bagger by BaeI-
valid and a single by, AopotI ianueu
two more. In the fifth two Dagser
a
other home run by Terrence summed
IN a brace In the ninth two more
were tackled on They were porn OF q
hit by Murray, one by Howell ana an
error by Thompson
The Saints started off with rush
nv making three the first time up. a
base on balls and hits by Freil, olson
and Randolph did the business HITS
by Schrant and olson gave ano 9ll ~, ~
the third. In the ninth inning the
Saints made a great effort 10 oVertake
the Pirates. Four runs were mace ON
a single by Cole, three pager Dy
and Lining. But the lead was too big
and before enough could be gathered
together the jig was up
Fifteen minutes later the seco conc
game was started off. The visitors did
nothing in the first, but made hve IN
the second. MacLear, Abbott, Tor
renee and Halla knocked the ball
galIey-west and Freil made an error
This did the business. In the eighth
the Pirates made four more Mac
Lear, Kane and Howell singled, and
Terrence knocked another one over
the fence. incidentally thompson
dropped a fly and Olson made bad
throw, materially aiding the chances
of the visitors.
For Topeka nothing was doing I'M
til the fourth inning, when John
Schrant knocked a home run. In the
seventh another attempt at a Garri-
son finish was tried and pretty nearly
worked rive EuIlS were ultluE III a
bunch off hits by Sisler, Freil, Olson,
Lining, and HOWE, putting the Saints
in the lead for a few blessed moments.
But these hopes died with the eighth
advent of the Pirates to the bat To-
peka scored no more.
1t is useless to detail the agony at
any further length. Topeka cannot
play ball with its present aggregation
and it is a crime to keep them alive
with the recital of their shortcomings.
The big feature of the game was
the hitting of Terrence, Pittsburgs
all-round ball player, who can pitch,
catch, play a base or go to the field.
In the two games he made three home
runs and a two-bagger. Abbott, the
ex-Saint, gets into the Terrence cate
CORY, although not quite as far He
made five hits during the afternoon,
one for two bases In the box at the
second game he demonstrated not
that he is a good pitcher, but that the
Saints are bum batters: but it was
agreed to stay off that territory.
Carter was ineffective, the visitors