The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-13
Pirates Went Down to Defeat
in Smuggling Match.
Costly Errors by the Pittsburg.
ers Aided and Allotted.
O'BRIEN KNOCKED OUT.
Topeka's Credited Four Two
Base Hits In Fifth.
Stinson Called in Sixth to Stop
the Slaughter.

The spirit of Cain and his club was
in the heart and hand of every Saint
and Pirate in the hOrse-hide bruising
fest on Friday, afternoon, the former
getting a bakers dozen of fair ones,
while latter only could corral orthodox
twelve. That important little fact
placed in juxtaposition over against an
other fact, namely that Pfttsburgs err
rors were costly as an extravagant wo7
man with her husbands last pay check
after an Easter bonnet, spelled victory
for the haloed crew from the hamlet on
the Shunganunga by score OF to 5.
Everybody hit as though he meant to
ruin the sphere and with it Spalding' s
reputation as a maker of good base
balls. A bunch of ripped ones lay under
bench after the melee. Dunn and Muir
Cole, Schrant, HOWE, Olson, Garter, Mac
Lear, Cope and Reid. each got a brace.
That's hitting some. 1t made the kind
of a game that the crowd likes. Ac-
ton six feet deep was stretched all over
the field. Some games recently in To-
peka have looked like s"doll-baby'
rack with a girl throwing at it. but
Fridays didn't trot in that bunch.
The neck was knocked off the vine
gar cruet right in the first inning.
Pittsburg was BANKED. The Saints
started in with a chunk of good luck.
Howell made two errors, thus giving
Hurlburt in, and HOWE did the same
for Cole. Olson singled Dunn across
the gutta. percha. But Jack Friel tried
to take a nap on Billy O'Brien's curves
Schrant punched singles in the third
and. scored another. In the fifth O'Brien
was connected to q big bunch of crepe.
Schrant, Dunn, and HOWE knocked
Olson singled and Carter whacked an
other one in the blue far away. All
this meant three runs, and also that
Pittsburg had to put in another pitch
er. 1t was Cy Stinson. The Saints on
ly got two hits of this "Rube Wadde1l
of the Missouri Valley league They
came in the sixth and brought with
them run After that there was moth
ing doing. The trouble with Cy was
that he didn't take a chew of tobacco
until the seventh inning, which made
the territory around his mouth look
like a miniature range of the Rockies.
Everything was lovely for "Old Pecu-
har'' after that. sr -t
Pittsburg made one in the second off
a bunch of hits by Murray, Howell and
Reid. In the third, Tommy Cope
knocked a home run into the corner OF
the center field fence. HOWE was lost.
relays got it to the plate, by which
time Cope's bellows were normal again.
In the fifth the Pirates took the lead
and scared the crowd into visions of
off hits by MaeLear, Kane, Cope and
O'Brien. But Abbott was about as
much responsible for this as anybody.
O'Brien knocked a warm grounder to
the right of first base. Abbott got it,
but he was too far to himself to kill
O'Brfen who as hitting the dust for
first like a race horse. Carter should
have been at the bag so as to have per-
mitted Abbott to throw the ball to
him. But he wasn't. That made Abb
bolt sore. He sailed into Carter with a
bunch of abuse. Nick got mad and
fairly lobbed them over. Schrant tried
to tell MIN to pitch and incidentally
told Abbott to stop his fussing. The
latter handed John an order to get
back and catch.'' The celestial doctor
got mad, threw his mask on the ground.
pulled off his protector and indicated a
big desire to leave the game. Abbott
came in and honeyed things over. John
pushed the dent out of his cage and
went back to work. Abbott shut his
face, Carter got down to hard work,
and the team pulled together. But it
came mighty close to being another
house divided against itself.
The score.