The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-17
The FIRST IS OURS.
Oklahoma Nets Defeated by the
White SOx.
Game One Of the Best Seen. on
the Athletic Field.
SCORE WASTING TO ONE
Topeka Won by Daring Base
Running.
SCORE WAS TWO TO ONE
Both Halla and -Bandy Pitch
Excellent Games.

homa City Nets at Association Park
Sunday afternoon marked the playing
of the finest exhibition of the national
game seen on the home grounds this
season. Topeka took the contest in a
close race by a Score of 2 to l. Brilliant
plays and fielding were the regular rou-
tine of the game and nearly every play.
was somewhat of a feature.
The visitors outhit the locals about 2
to 1 but neither team was able to bunch
hits with any result. Bandy, the south
paw with the angelic expression and
Sunltt countenanee,7 was on the firing
line for the visitors and pitched the bet
ter game of the two. Big Jack Halla
worked for the homa team and although
he was touched up to a much nvelier
tune, Dame Fortune smiled on his efforts
and although as many as two hits were
made in an inning with no one out the
visitors were unable to score until the
game was nearly ancient history.
Bandy who worked for the visitors
pitched as good a game as has been
seen on the local grounds this season.
He is a short heavy set pitcher with
rosy cheeks and@a smile which was al
ways visible from the darkest corner
of the grandStand, and which made him
a favorite with the fans. He has nice
delivery with curves that resemble a
scenic railway and a vicious drop which
he invariably interposed as third
strike and which the catcher would pull
out of the dust at the rear end the
plate. Had he not made wild throw
to third in the second inning a much
different story might be told in these
pages today.
Halla pitched a great game too. In
the tightsst places he was invincible
and the visitors could do nothing but
roll little grounders around the inf1eld.
The fielding of the locals was the
prime feature of the game. In innings
where the prospects for winning looked
extremely dark double plays were pulled
off, which undoubtedly saved the day.
Topeka played an errorleSS game. The
visitors also played a good game in the
field and but for one error there were !
no bad results of their two misplays:
All that the locals did towards push |
ing runs over the plate came in the
second inning. DaXis started the affairs
with a two sacker down the left field |
foul line. Raglan tried for a sacrifice hit /
but Bandy in fielding the ball to Pendry |
to catch Davis on his way, to station No. |
8 made a low, heaNe and the ball cavort- |
ed off Pendry;s shiHs into left field, dur
ing which time Mr.r Davis stepped off.
the distance to the Mate with the first /
run ~of=the game. 5ReRdry recovered the
ball and threw to the plate but, Davis
was there first On the, throw to the
plate Raglan went to second and while /
Catcher Shocks was holding the ball and
viewing the situation to find out what
happened Raglan went to third. A
squeeze play with Henry sacrificing put |
an end to the scoring of the locals. At |
no other time in the game did a runner I
get to third. ''' II
! The players from the new state me-
scored their lone tally in the
seventh inning. Rabbit" Wiser start:
ed this round for the visitors by rolling
a slow bunt down to Runkel which was
rolling with a retarding motion and
Runkel could not get it to first in time.
Shocks made three whiffs through the
aerial regions and retired to the Wis /
itors' bench. Bandy rolled an easy one
to Halla and was retired at first. But
Pendry was yet to bat and the minla-
ture third baseman put one out to CEN
ter field which Hurfburt helded slowly, |
and enabled Wiser to score from Sec
ond This was all of the actual scoring
of the visitors although it seemed that
they overlooked a couple of opportunl-
ties. In the fourth inning Gill singled
and Rapps duplicated the trick, putting
Gill on third. Rapps started for second
and when Henry threw to Raglan, Rapps
started back to first. A race ensued f
which was the most thrilling feature or
the game. After two-thirds of the course
aad been run both parties stopped for
breath. The second heat was then start
I'd in the direction of second base and
Raglan finally won out. During this
critical time Gill stayed at third In
,emicornatose, condition when he prob
ably could have scored. In the sixth
after Gill had doubled and reached third
IN Rapps' flelder's choice in which mol
,uts were made Raglan started double
oIay which elimfna ted Rapps as a base
.,1lir,er and caught Monte Mcfarland
1t first. White was an easy out.
Umpire Guthrie offieiatedi at the game
yesterday and did the best job he has
lone at the local park this season. Hell
IAN the game fromgthe start to finish
and finished it in record breaking time.
In the third inning Manager Mcfarland
vas removed from he scene of the con-
1ict immedia tely ssafter handing down
an unwritten opinion which dwelt too
with some of "his Jumps"
PERSONAL features
BY far the biggest crowd of the season
attended the game and all were satisfied.
There were in the neighborhood of three
paid admissions to the park
yesterday afternoon.
The glad tidings of another victory in
1gurative form:
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