The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-16
ARNOLD THE HERO
Youthful Pitcher Holds Wichita
to Two Hits.
Not a Visitor Reached the
Second Station.
PLAYED CLEAN BALL
Dick Pitched a Good Game for
Rabbits.
Errors and Bunched Hits
Caused the Trouble.

it took the Topeka Champions buI an
hour and a half to place the crepe on
the door of Jack Hollands Wichita job
bers and to encase the crepe in neat
| oval of pallid whitewash. This makes
| the third consecutive time Topeka has
forced the Jobbers to tag along on the
losing end of the rope and SO far this
season the local aggregation Of baseball
/ athletes have dished up seven sour doses
/ to the merry ball chasers from Wichita
| town. May It continue thus.
| Big Roy Arnold whom some of the
| fans of Topeka have pronounced n. G.
worked in the center of the square and
by heady pitching allowed but four of
Hollands held apparents to the pen
nant to reach first base and none of them
had the nerve to try to get further ex
cept Augustus Hetling and his trolley
slipped ell route and Erwin's throw beat
him there. Two solitary blngles were all
the heavy hitting aggregation from
western Kansas could negotiate. These
came in harmless times and in both
cases after two men were out. Roy also
surprised the fans in the grandstand by
opening the bottle in the seventh inning
with a scorching single to center field.
This is the first hit for him on the home
grounds this season. Mr.. Arnold nearly
scored. The novelty of running bases
was entirely new to him but he acquit-
ted himself in this capacity with good
gracefulness. This makes two victories
for Arnold over the Wichita bunch in
three days. At the rate he Is going at
the present time all of General Sher-
mans synonym for war cannot stop him.
Frank Dick dished up the pellets
for the visiting team. Dick started
out with the speed of a Rusie and the
curves of a Matthewson. In the first
inning three of the Topeka batters
gave up the ghost after gently charg-
ing on the atmosphere with an unduIa-
10 dniT7 ffTn
much. 1t lasted but two innings. It
so happened in the fourth inning that
Ole Olson, the premier second base
man of the Western association was
the first man to bat. His appearance
before the delivery Of Mr.. Dick was
the cause of the first crimp in the Of
ferings of the pellet dispenser OF the
foreigners. Arnold attempted to sacrl-
flee Olson to second but he popped the
ball right into the hands of Dick, who
tried to catch Olson before he return
ed to first The ball was an elevated
heave and did not reach terra firma
until it had passed Holland some sixty
feet BY this time Olson had reached
third LAWYERS 1attemptyte bring Ole
in on the squeeze play was frustrated
and the runner was caught between
the bases Lawler hit safe as soon as
the squeeze fizzled and was forced to
second by Dicks generosity to Cap
tain HurIburt Abbott came TO bat
with two men on bases and two down
and a hit needed to break through the
crust of oblivion for a score. spencer
inc delivered the goods and Lawler
reached home with the first run of the
game which alone was suff1c1ent Tor
Victory. Erwin hit to left field, but
CAPTAIN HurIburt's visions of score
were punctured at the plate by a
throw from Milan which caught Hurl-
burt a country block. Poor coach1ng!
ant the run wasn't needed anyway.
In the following inning Red Davis
MANAGED to sneak around through the
courtesy of Mr. Dick and other gen.
tIemen on the visiting team. Red
started off at first on a pass. Raglan |
pulled off neat little sacrifice hit
which advanced His Redness to sec |
ond. Runkel tried to bring him home |
but evaporated from the redlghts via
the Dick-Holland route. Olson laced
out a long fly to right field which land
ed souarely in the waiting hands OF
Becker but the ball Wouldn't stay ana
Davis scored from second.
AS to the scoring and tabulation OF
the visitors. their efforts to cross the |
Mate were so futile in their execution |
that no mention will be made at this
time and their feelings will be spared. |
The best piece of work was com
nitted bv Olson in the first half OF the |
second inning when he threw Bayless
ont at first after falling over In the !
mud in his efforts to field the ball and |
he duplicated the trick later. Olson |
simply can't be beat playing second.
Yesterdays result reduced to the |
official figures: