The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-06
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION STANDING
PLAYED IN THE MUD.
But Topeka Lost With as Much Fa-
cility as on Dry Ground

And they rubbed it in. Not satisfied
with getting their FourthofJ ulyhal-
lelujahglorias out of the Saints by
trouncing them on Monday, the cellar
champions took another fall out of
Tom Sheard's false hopes on Tuesday
afternoon by a score of to 1. The field
was much more fit for a mud-bath than
a baseball game. Yet the contest was
one of the prettiest of the year, and a
companion piece to the independence
Day game. And there was just one diff
ference 'twixt Saint and Giant-the lat
ter hit the ball, and Topeka didn't-and
thereby hangs the old tale. And it
isn't the shame, and 1T isn't the blame,
that stings like a wnite-hot brand-But
its coming see. and coming to know
that they never could and never
would - etc. with pardon
to Rudyard KipIing)
The scrap was worth anybody's two
bits. About 100 had chance to prove
that statement. The rest of the fans
staid at home on account of the rain.
Just before the sad matinee began, a
hard shower came, which for a time
threatened more rest for the players.
But old Jupiter Pluvius had more i'm
portant business in some other quarter
of the hemisphere about o'clock and
took the train north. Before the contest
concluded the sun was sporting around
on Burnett's mound, while out towards
Tecumseh there was thick layer of
the black-eye t.nge all over the woods.
The field was cruSted with a concen-
gumbo, sawdust and baseball players.
And yet there were only four errors,
none to be charged to the bad grounds,
and the trouble was all over in one
hour and a half.
Armstrong won the game himself in
the first inning. Graves got on the
sacks through Freil's bauble of an easy
fly. The. exiled Saint. who now turns
pretty slant over the left field fence for
all the sacks and 1t meant two marks
on the score board In the second
inning Horath, Henley and Graves all
whaled out three beauties and made
the third run.
The Saints got a lonely one in the
fifth inning as a present from Blaine
Scott boy wonder" or THE Home
Guard who was on the firing line for
Armstrong. The cnerub is only nine
teen years old and bushes like a school
the bases through Jones' error. Carter
walked. That filled the stations and
the closed track signal was hung up.
Durbin got as wild as a March hare
about this time and after giving Cole
three wide ones. proceeded to belt him
in the back with an uproariously crazy
pitch. The result was that Durand
ambled home-forced-and Topeka
made its only rum Then with the passes
full, SINNERS popped up to second,
Freil grounded out to the pitcher, and
Sisler struck out. The grandstand
kicked when the latter whipped the air
into curds. And so replied sis" La
joie struck out once in mis- life. Didn't
you know that?"
There was. one unique feature in the
game which seldom hobs its head above
the water mark in the general run of
baseball events. In the fifth inning
Carter Oitched lust three balls to the
Giants, that being enough to retire the
side. All three went in the air.
The rest of the contest was like
watching wheel go around-it worked
the same way all the time until the
whistle blew.
The score: