The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-02
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Sundays Ball Game an Exciting
One.
In Last Inning Topeka Nearly
Won.
THE CROWD WAS LARGE
Twenty-four Hundred People
Cheer the Locals.
New Pitchers Tried and Show
Up Well.
CROWD WASLARGE

Twenty-four hundred people saw
the st. Paul American association
team nose out q victory over the To-
peka White Sox at Association park
on Sunday afternoon by the close
score of s to A.
! A hair raising finish closed the
melodramatic performance. As
Cooley's- squad came to the bat in the
last half of the ninth. they faced a
score OF s to 2 against them. Big
sections of the crowd were rapidly
melting away, eager to get cars. But
something happened that CONCEALED
the rapidly evaporating fans and
froze them in their tracks.
Two were out before business
picked up. CLANCY popped up into
Joe Sugdon's NIT. and Cole gave Dick
Padden an assist and Kemmer a put
out with an easy grounder. Murray
slipped unnoticed to the bat
"Cracki'-it was that old delight
full sound, the collision between wood
and leather. The departing crowd
turned on its heels and looked. Way
out in the left field a. tiny black speck
had bounced against the fence, and
Murray was at second.
That looked encouraging. Downs
pushed an easy one to Ferguson,
which the pitcher should have han
died readily. But he whisked the bull
let too low to first and it caromed off
into the side lines. In raced Murray
Downs was at third.
Up came Cooley. He waited and
gloated lovingly at some of Fer
! guson's SLOW ones. Then he swung
and great was the sn1ite. Once more
the ball was to the left field fence.
Downs came home and Cooley went to
second.
Andrews, always a dangerous hit
ter, was deliberately walked. Henry
was hit in the slats=and the bases
were full. The crowd howled for a
hit.
Spencer Arthur Abbott took the
willow. He tried hard. dug his feet
into the sand about the batter's box
until they were buried to the ankles,
doubled himself up into a question
grounder down the first base line. But
Kemmer was squarely in the way
and the game was over.
The contest was nip and tuck up
to the fifth inning, the score standing
one to one. st. Paul got a run in the
second, through Ragan's error. The
ball rolled into the crowd at the foot
of the south bleachers and the runner
went all the way round. In the third
/ Topeka scored MURRAY got his base
3
his attempt to head off a stolen base.
Cooley furnished the necessary single
to bring him home.
But the fifth and sixth innings
proved Topeka's undoing. Rand and
Sugdon singled, Mccoy and Van SAINT
did the same in order. and the sum
total was three runs. In the sixth
Rand got to first on a fielder's choice,
Andrews let a hot one roll between his
legs off SugdOn's bat, and Mccoy drove
them in with a. double.
McInnis and CLANCY were on the
firing line for Topeka. the first working
four innings and the latter five. Three
hits we're made off Macs slants, while
CLANCY was bingled for seven. Both
boys showed great form, neither cut
ting loose, however, to an extensive
repertoire of curves. McUnnis' is a sea
soned pitcher, and will prove a great
stumbling block to many a Western
association batter this summer. Cha
ney's great strength gives him wonder
full speed, and puts him strong on
the s'probabIe' list Stovall. Coy and
Ferguson worked for st. Paul. All
three were kept busy all the time that
they officiated in the box.
The st. Paul team is headed by the
veteran Dick Padden. He has a good
bunch of men behind him. Sundays
game was the first real workout. Head
quarters are being made at Leaven-
worth. but the bad weather has made
good practice over there an impossible
ty. Today the st. Paul team played at
Manhattan with the Agricultural col
Iege Tomorrow they return to Leav-
enworth for practice. Friday they will
be back in Topeka for another prac-
tice game.
The crowd was on the regular sum
mer Sunday order. About 1900 ad-