The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-13
SPORTING NEWS.
The Topeka Club Finds st.
Mary's Nine Easy.
At the End Ofthe Eighth Inning
the Score Stood IA to 2.
CASE OF STAGE / G
Pitchers HOWie and Hughes Do
Fine Work.
Catholics Couldn't Under
stand How 1t Happened.

The hopes Of Sheard. Logan. Abbott
and Co. Ltd licked the best college
baseball team in the state, to the
smithereen stage on Wednesday after
noon at Association park. After the
fracas was over, Coach QuigIey, whom
the Topeka fans will remember as one
Of the Elk stars in the game here last
summer when the local herd pertur-
bated the atmosphere with Nit Will
hite's bunch from EmpOria, gathered
up the fragments, and but two were
coming his direction, while Captain
Abbott trailed a total of fourteen be-
hind his kaleidoscopicaIly dressed
band. But eight innings were played.
The Catholics had to catch the 6
o'clock plug. One of the rules of
their institution is tina every student
has to be at the college every night.
If we miss the train,'' said one of the
players, I'VE would have to drive
back. That is all there is to it."
Coach Quigley's postmortem yer
the contest was his handful: Our
boys Just simply had a bad case of
stage fright. 1t is the first time hat
they ever played away from home.
Why, two weeks ago, with Lundgren
IN box for the leaguers, we held
the Chicago Nationals down to eight
runs. We had Downey and Young
pitching, the same boys who played
today in Topeka. I wish we could get
another Whack at the Topeka team"
You may said Secretary Logan
who heard the statement. So the two
put their heads together and ar
ranged for another contest in Topeka
to be played on mex Tuesday.
Topeka simply played a high grade
quality of midsummer baseball-15
hits-errorless=nO bases on balls by
the pitchers. 1t did h business.
Kean and HOWE alone had to go home
WithOu their bingles. Cole laced out
three-and Dick Brownies, Dick
Brown, got three of them. It looks as
if the peerless third baseman has
again found his clouting optic. Quig-
ley, Abbott and Persch all helped
themselves to the pie with a brace
each. And then to top off h bou-
quet, Quigley. Cole and Persch all
registered th-ree-baggers.
Downey and Young were in h squar-
ed circle for the ~collegians. Both were
batted mercilessly-and yet you cannot
Kiplingize all the SHANE and the
blame onto them, for their support
Smeared up nine big errors, all Of them
of the sailor-drunk, variety.
The visitors two runs were made off
good. hitting, both from the bat and
Pitcher Tom Hughes. To a young man
by the name of ISCrUggS, must after
/ Grady of the St. Louis Cardinals, be ac-
corded the honor of having mad the
longest hit on the Topeka grounds
home-run to be sure. Young Mr..
Scruggs, who is not much bigger than
a minute, got hold of one of Long Toms
high ones in the seventh and whaled
the pill with a screaming smash. The
bullet whistled over Dutch Persch's
head in the center field, and before the
ex-Midget could get to the fence to pick
it out from the clods, Scruggsy had
scanpered in and was holding a recep-
ton on the bench Then n O'Dona-
hue got hit in the floating rib by Mr..
! Hughes. He skated to first base on a
clear track as a premium Then ICY"
Young, who pitched, picked out a pref
ty one and sent it crashing over Kean's
head for two bases and S'Donahue
knocked the second and last kink into
the pan for st. Mary's.
HOWE and Hughes, who were on the
slab for Topeka, both did brilliant work.
HOWE shows more speed n greater
control than last year, and Hughes is
firing the pellets over the warming pan
so that the batter thinks the plate be-
side him isn't even a whistling station.
Alderman started to do the umpiring-
Origley roared at one Of his decisions
and Old Spartacus Alberts finished her
out. About the most important thing
he did was to tell several Of the players,
when they started to beef, to tend to
their part Of the game, and he would
take care of his own 1t was a little
liberal education for h visitors.
NJ 1900