The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-18
TOPEKA LOST TWO.
Baseball Team Defeated in st. JosenI.
and AtChison.

Baseball Team Defeated in st. JOSenI'
and Atchison.
St. Joseph. Mo, April 1s.-The st.
Joseph Western League team manag-
ed to bunch hits on the Topeka Mis-
souri, valley League team Saturday.
and with the aid of errors. succeeded
In defeating the kansanS by the score
of 2 to 0. Moore and Carter were on
the rubber for Topeka, with Lining
in the cage.
Considering the fact that the To-
pekans had no practice and are out
of the class of the st. Joe Leaguers
their showing was very strong. The
weather was chilly and less than 200
fans witnessed the contest.
The score:
e. Eons J2seDh. 9 "a : al 2
Atchison. Kas.. April 1s.-In
hotly contested game here yesterday
at Forest Park. Earl Green's semi
professionals defeated the Topeka
Missouri Valley League team by the
score Of 4 to 3. It was a pitchers
battle throughout Four twirlers
were used, StinsOn and Carter for To-
peNa and Anderson and Mcnamara
for AtchisOn. OF these big Cyl
Stinson for Topeka was by far the
best, striking out nine men in the five
innings which he pitched. Topeka
earned two runs and Atchison one
All the rest were made on errors, of
which however, considering that it
was one of the first games, there were
The score:
Atchison. 80 o OIL 0 81
Topeka. p 0 0 Is
The two games which the Topeka
MISSOURI Valley League team played
on Saturday give the first opportunity
for the fans to judge what the local
ball tossers will be like. Yet neither
of the contests should be Judged by
the In the ina
practice the totals say very little, but
Judgment must be made up from the
way which the men play at occasional
times, Showing the kind of form they
viii have as soon as the warm weather
opens I'D. and all of the stiffness is
worked out of their muscles.
1t was very cold at St. Joe Saturday
and good ball playing was out of the
question 1t was the first time that
some of the players ever saw one an
otherand team work was consequently
out of the question. Yet they went in,
10 the contest with vim and held the
Webster pennant chasers down to u
runs. The St. Joe team is ready to
begin it's league season tomorrow.
What is more it stands a good show
of coming out at the head of list.
Every team in the Missouri Valley
league has this year met defeat at the
hands of St Joe, and the Kansas City
American association suffered the same
sting by score of to 1. That shows
pretty cOnclusively what the TOpekans
went up against.
When they trotted out on Forest
Park field at AtchisOn yesterday, most
of them were stiff and sore. The tenn
perature stood up pretty well, how
ever, and with a half hour of hard
preliminary practice the boys were
WhoOping around on top of the hill
like a lot of Comanche Indians.
The game started off nicely. with
the TOpekans getting two runs in the
first inning, off hits, and errors by
Atchison. For three innings not an
other man crossed the plate. Stinson
was invincible until the sixth striking
out nine men, when through three bad
errors the Corn Carnival people piled
UP three runs. In the ninth Topeka
got another through hitting Anderson,
who took McNamara's place in the
box for Atchison. Carter, who did the
twriling for Topeka after Stinson
went to the bench, pitched effective
ball and allowed no one to get to
second base.
Yesterdays game was in reality
practice for both the Atchison and
Topeka teams. The aggregation which
Earl Green has gathered together will
De heard from yet before the season is
over. They would be ready today to
take a place in the Missouri Valley
league and fight it out with the best
Of them With Anderson, Green,
thurman, Little and Mcnamara as a
nucleus the Atchison people have a
pennant chasing collection.
Gus Alberts for Topeka has gathered
a squad of men which will make good
in the Valley before the season is well
under way. Some wedding is neces-
sary. That will take place. Several
players, Olson, Cook and McKelvey
have not vet reported. That will help
out. But in general the local tossers
win hold their own
In the pitching staff, Carter Moore
and Stinson are very strong, and ought
to prove the stumbling block for many
a team before the season is over. Few
better pitchers will be seen in Topeka
this summer than Cy Stinson, and they
will have to come with glObe-trotting
pennant winners after the season is
finished Behind the bat Lining is
away above the ordinary. Webster
the manager of the st. Joe team
passed one compliment after another
on his playing. In his games both on
Saturday and Sunday he displayed
midsummer form, both in catching
and throwing to second.
Mansfield showed uD we'll at first.
Kellar and Myers were a little slow
at second and short, but this Manager
Alberts attributes to the fact that
neither has attained his form. Miller
at third is a wonder If he doesn't
make a matinee idol something will
have to be radically wrong He works