The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-03


This apologize variation on the
pathetic tale about the mighty Casey
means something to the fellow who
sat in the bleachers or grand stand on
Friday afternoon at Association park
and saw the White Sox TOgoed by
Johnny Fillman's Miners by score of
to g.
Some time ago Arthur Irwin, man
aver Of the Kansas City BIooz. hung
the following sign in his club house:
zone hundred dollars per day win be
given any player who can make hit
when needed" That is just where
Thomas Sheard ought to follow suit.
His very best ones hattened out Fri
day afternoon just when they were
needed worse than a sailor needs a
port in a typhoon.
Ineffective" was spelled out in big
black letters by the last half of the
seventh inning when Topeka was on
the mat The round started off like a
thoroughbred under the whip. Brown,
the first man up, fractured his hitting
ho0doo by smashing the pellet into
right field for a single. Jack Henry,
who batted one thousand in the con-
test, let the atmosphere between sec
ond and third right over Fillman' S
head swallow another safe one. Then
Dwarf Durbin proceeded to hand out
Nick Carter a. nice bunch OF cOmpIl-
nentaries, and the big twirler walked.
stations full" came the gladstone
cry from the bIeachers. Durbin
promptly planted the horse-hide into
ouigIey's food arbitration apparatus
and forced home Brown. That made
the score 8 to s. Joplin ahead, but no
one out.
Abbott came to the bat. He fouled
of a bigger bunch than Hans Wagner
ever did, and then proceeded to lift up
a little one foul which Tony Wander
hin promptly smothered.
But Dunn-Topeka's Casey-was
next in line. The way those fans
prayed to the big fellow for a hit,
would make a stone melt into mo-
lasses Durbin landed over three balls
in succession. Then he threw one
that just clipped the plate What did
Bert do, but swing at it, though he
had three balls and no strikes, and
Just showed it into Johnny Ffllman' S
hands in the shape Of a little ground
er The JOp captain slammed the
sphere home where Henry was nat
urally forced out. Quick as a flash,
Van whirled to first, and hit the
groove in ShimOnek's glove, just in the
nick Of time to kill Dunn and com
plete a double play.
The side was out. The fans groaned
and bewailed their fate. They lifted
up their hearts in courage that some
thing might come in the eighth and
ninth, but both were barren OF runs
as jfmpson weed is of strawb FERRIES.
Topeka took the lead in the second
inning by scoring Persch from a field
er's choice, by successive bits by
Brown and Henry. In the sixth Abbott
singled to first and Crum doubled him
home. The last tally in the seventh
was the one in which "the light
failed"
Joplin got a bunch of three in the
fourth. Fillman walked. Baerwald
BayIess and Olson singled in success
sion and Dutch Persch made wild
throw home after catching Shin
onek's fly. In the sixth Crum drop
ped Baerwald's fly and Abbott lei
Pendry's grounder pass between his
legs. This sent Baerwa1d to third
shimonek drove hard to center. Persch
captured the fly, but Baerwald scam
pered home ahead of the throw-in
In the seventh Sullinger singled tc
first, was sacrificed on a notch by Dur
bin, and came home on Fillman's
single.
Gus AIberts umpired and did a great
Job. Deprey was again absent from
the game. Old Spartacus ran things
with "neatness and dispatch"
The score: