The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-11

J. Evers, the boy marvel of Troy,
landed on a soft looking one and drove
it down to Isbell amid general excite
ment Icy froze to the grounder and
tossed It lightly at the second bag 10
head off the feet-fOOted Steinfeldty but
at that moment Mr.. Tannehill, who
should nave been perched upon the
canvas, was suffering from rigor NOR
It's some ten feet away, and the ball
rolled gaily athWart the frozen field,
while Steinfeldt capered home with the
first tany of the eyentful day. DR..
White viewing this narrowing spec
tacle, began to ascend in full view Of
IL, sos special tors and gave King a base
on balls which did not help bit at
this time. Schultz in half nelson lock,
sacrificed, scoring Tinker.
Mad cheering indicated the presence
Of several parties from the West side
when this happened and while DR..
earth. Circus Solly'' Hoffman thought
fully cracked out single that brought
Evers home, making three in all. It
was a very large and obstructive three,
however, and nobody worried because
John King was an easy out to close
the inning.
The third inning saw the finish of the
dentist. The White Sox. .rootets IN
belted a yell Of hope when NTowne went
to bat for White in the end Of the third,
indicating that a new pitcher had been
flushed among the blankets on the play
erS' bench and was to be driven from
his warm nook to the chill blasts of
duty. Frank Owen was the hapless
one elected and in the fourth inning he
took up the white mans burden.
If he had been in one of the cold
storage plants where they keep the
unspeakable chickens, Owen would not
have looked colder than he did when
he faced the anxious Mr.. Sullivan He
blew on his fingers, slapped HE legs,
stamped his feet and threw in a few
seamless bells to try his arm. But
they should have had him in a conven-
lent Turkish bath before trotting him
out for those slaughtering clubs. Tinker
took a base on balls without saying
thank you" Evers vent out on a little
pop fly and then J. king, burning for
revenge upon the SOx, crashed dead on
into one Of Owens choicest filings and
sent it to center field for two bags, just
/ to show what he thought OF the new
/ pitcher The next two up were easy
outs and Owen went back to have his
arm jOllied by his worried team mates.
It was a complete form reversal for
| everyone except the weather man. His
wretched performance was consistent
with that Of the previous contest only
a little more SO Chances men, Jared
by their defeat of the day before on
their own grounds, keyed themselves
up to midseason form and ran more
rings around the losers of the opening
game. While the Southsiders, beaten
almost. from the start, looked as bad as
/ lOOsers usually do
Reulbach. steinfeldt and sheckard
/ shared the days honors. The bride
/ groom pitcher and the star outfieIder
I glowing brightly in the defense, while
4 Steinfeldt was captain of the attack
with his three clean singles and a sacri-
/ fee out of four opportunities to do
! things
I One clean hit and a scratch double
4 Ruelbach allowed the White Sox IN
nine rounds and he would have shut
them of the plate entirely but for an
| excusable error by Tinker
It was Reulbach's eurn to receive
! fast dashing and almost perfect sup
port and he got it from all corners Of
/ the diamond Tinker making UP for
his one slip by grabbing everything
/ else within reach. It was the SOx's
1 turn to boot things and it is but justice
TO the SOx hurIers to admit the score
would have been somewhat lighter il
! Isbell had not tried one of his famous
4 backhand passes at no one in par
/ ticular and If Sullivan's throwing arm
had been better protected from the
1 lake breezes to keep the icicles off it.
| But with everything erroneous cut out
/ Of the score. the best the South siders
/ could have made out of it was a I to
0 defeat for themselves with only two
safe hits.
But the game itself was not Of the
sizzling kind dished up at the start Of
the season. It was all over inside of
fifteen minutes and became so one
sided that not one-half OF the crowd