The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-01

Leavenw0rth at Joplin
Sedalia at Springfield
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Chicago at Cincinnati
Pittsburg at st. Louis
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Detroit at Chicago.
Cleveland at st. Louis.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
Milwaukee at Columbus.
Kansas City at Louisville
st. Paul at Toledo.
Minneapolis at Indianapolis.
Oklahoma City, Ok. May 1.-suffer-
ing from the sting of the almost OBJ
literating defeat which was administer
ed against them in the opening game
of the season on Saturday afternoon,
Topeka fought with leonine courage
Sunday for eleven innings. and though
twice even with, and twice ahead Of
their anita gonists, Oklahoma City cross
ed the goal of victory again, winner by
a. narrow margin. a score of 6 to 8.
The end was an uniting climax TO
brilliant game which bristled with mid
summer form. With the score to
in favor Of the White SOx the followers
Of the House of Risley came to the
swatstick in their half Of the last round,
the eleventh inning Big George Seigle
swung his willow against one of
Howie's wide ones, got it on the nose,
and away the pea sailed, good for two
sacks Halla, who had supplanted
Root in the box, lifted a screaming
single over Dick Browns head and in
came Seigle and tied the score. Dud
Risley pushed Halla to third with an
other single Soggins flew out to
Dunn F'rick smashed a hot gTOunder
to Abbott. The White SOx captain run
in on the bail, dove for it, but it missed
sticking in the clamps, and rolled out
Crumward in the right field. In came
Halla with the winning run.
Bing! Biffl Bangl Grape. canister,
gatling, cannon! Twenty-seven hundred
people packed the grandstand, the
bleachers, and lined the north and
south fences-and every mothers son of
those 27OO OkIahomana went mad.
Coats hats canes. umbrellas every
thing that could be waved famed the
atmosphere. 1t brought back memories
Of 1s years ago, when the Run was
made Before many minutes the dia-
mOnd was q sea Of fans-and wilder
than a brOnchO still untouched by bril-
die. 1t was the largest crowd which
ever attended a baseball game in this
city and President ShiVeley's prediction
is assured that it would make one of
the banner baseball towns in the west.
The seating capacity of the bleachers
and the grandStand is limited to 1880
people. Twelve hundred stood on the
edges of the field. 1t was necessary to
invoke the ground rule that not more
than two bases could be taken on q hit
which went into the crowd.
Bill Howie was on the slab for To-
peka. Though touched uD for four
teen safe hits, he kept them as far
apart as rich and poor people who are
relatives. Tt was his am bluOn- aided
and abetted. by his boss, Mr.. Sheard,
to win the contest. but the Nets got
next to his benderinos twice. in the
sixth and eleventh innings, and with
some ragged fielding thrown in, the
chip was knocked off his shoulder.
handled the trigger for Oklahoma.
For seven innings he got away nicely
save for a couple of back yard spats
with Catcher Seigle, over which both
sulked, and then in the eighth he ex-
plOded, and was supplanted in the
middle of the round by Halla. Jack
handed out two free passes in this
whirl, to the first brace of White SoX
up. For this charity Dud Risley read
him the riot act The smiling sOrrel
top got mad and sul5y again, and
stuck them straight over the frying
pan, none of them tied into knottY
curves Bing! Ringi went Crum and
Brown when they came to the bat
Brown getting a single and the ex-
Miner tWO-bagger. In came two
runs. Also in came Halla and out
went Root, per General Order No 1,
(signed), Risley. Halla tried to Duh
out of the hole, but Wilson dropped
Howie's fly in right field and a third
run came in for that inning But one
hit was made off the ex-Pirate, and he
gave but one complimentary.
When Topeka Scored.
The White Sox. scored in their first
inning Dunn nailed out double and
PersCh sent him along another notch
with single. While Abbott was at
the bat, Root threw a wild one which
hit the grand stand and Dunn scored.
Until the last half of the fourth
nothing was going on. A big bunch
of Easter eggs We're put away in the
incubator from which President
Shiveley viii figure his averages next
November. In the fourth round the
Nets tied the score. Big Speck .FTurI-
burt got hit in the kidney ana wab>
lbled to first base shumeyer sacrificed
him on a notch. Cecil Bankhead
nailed a double into the crowd on the
south side of the field and home raced
Hurlburt, kicking the first dent into
the rubber for Oklahoma
In the last half of the sixth. Mr..
HOWE pitched balls which must have
looked as large as balloons to the
Nets Hurlburt cracked out single
Shumeyer again sacrificed him on