The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-16
CLOSE SCORE OF 6 TO5
MissOurians Had 1t All Their
Way at the Start.
Prettiest Play of the Day a
Long Fly Catch by Cole.
Pitcher Carter Practically Lost
the Contest in First Inning.

Sedalia. May 16.=Again Sunday the
Topeka Saints played the Sedalia
Czoldbugs to a standsuH, but lost be-
cause the Goddess of Luck gave
them the cold shoulder. They made
more hits and fewer error sand had
almost twice as many men on bases,
and yet the coveted winning runs
would not come forth, and when the
heavy batting rallies, the sensational
in and out fielding was over, DICK
Rohn's three-year-o lds had romped
off with six TALES, while the visiting
IIansans had been able to make the
complete circuit but five times.
1t was anybody's game to the nm
ish In the fifth inning the score was
tied to 5, and from that time on
until the last half of the ninth, with
two men out and two strikes on the
batter, not a man for either side had
crossed home plate. With the two
missed ones against him on the UNI
pires indicator, Stoner, the Goldbug
catcher, who was at the small end
of the willow, whipped pretty single
across first base, scoring Billy White,
who had landed on the second station
with a two-bagger just before Stoner
came to the bat, and the contest was
over. The Sedalia fans let off steam
like a railroad train on down grade.
The old-timers say that it was one of
the best roofing demonstrations ever
seen on the grounds. After they got
over their first few explosions of en-
thusiasm they took occasion to fire
bouquets at Topeka and wish for sew
eraI more series of games with the
Saints.
Carter pitched a heady game for
the visitors. but practically lost the
contest himself in the first inning. He
let Bauers, the first man up, walk.
White grounded to Carter, and the
latter overthrow second in the at
tempt to cut off Bauers Schrant laid
another one right into Carriers hands,
and this time he overthrow first base,
and in came run Rohn. whipped a
high fly to the left and big DR..
Schrant beat the thrOw-in home. Not
a man in this inning earned the first
station, and Carter himself was prac-
tically to blame for both runs. Then
he settled down to business. From
that point on he pitched an article
of baseball which would be a recon-
mendation for any twirler. Though
he struck out but four men,, and seven
singles were made off his benders, it
was plainly demonstrated that he was
playing each man according to his
weakness per the instructions of one
Captain Armstrong, who was in the
cage.
Bunton was on the firing line for
Sedalia. Ten times did the Saints
clout him for fair, hitting almost at
will. Yet they couldn't get home. In
three of the innings marked with
goose eggs against them they got a.
man to third base. Bunton, however,
settled down little more towards the
last and hit a steadier pace, making
it a pitchers battle in the last three
innings on a foundation of almost
faultless support.
The first two innings did not indi-
cate a neck and neck finish At the
close of the second the score was 5
to in favor of the Goldbugs, and the
Sedalians settled back in confidence of
a game already won. Only two one
base hits were necessary for this quin-
tet of scores, four errors on the part
of Topeka doing the rest. But in the
third the scene shifted. The Gold
bugs went out one, two, three, on high
ones to Olson, Armstrong and Bevis.