The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-02
A CHILLY GAME.
Topeka Team Won From the
Kansas City Blues.
The Few Faithful Fans Witness
an Esquimau Contest.
THE SCORE WAS SsrTO s.
Crutcher, the *. G. Pitcher,
Issued Many Passes.
CooIey's Nine Made q Good I'M
preston by Their Work.

Kansas City, April AT the cOncluS-
ion of a first class exhibition of How
to play ball, though Frozen" it was
found yesterday that the Kansas City
Blues had lost the Arctic championship
to Dick Cooley's Topeka North Pole
Esquimaux at Association park by a
score of to s. Seven Of the eight To-
peka excursions to the covered
plate were made at the expense of
CunneP Crutcner, whose delivery was
SO seriously interfered with by the
various stalactites and stalagmites
that formed on his arm that he could
not make the twisters travel in the
region OF the pentagon with any GER
tainty and thus walked six Cooleyites.
Wright, who superseded the colonel on
the slab, did much better, just as
though he was accustomed to the at
mosphere when It's frigid. One run
and two hits were made off his bend
ers, his cold-Dlooded end sinuous meth
DDS OF hurting, incidentally winning for
him the sobriquet of Snake from the
thirty-one bleacherites present.
Pollard gave five runs and as many
bingles in the six innings he did the
honors, while the rest of the damage
was done at the expense Of Hagerman.
Topeka started its victorious expedi-
ton right off the reel in the premier
period. Wooley, the first man up, re-
ceiyed pass. Farrell stood shivering
at the plate until Crutcher had tossed
over four. more wide ones and then,
when Landreth partook Of the gener-
osity of Crutcher. the bases were ex-
ceedingly inhabited. Kahl became con-
fused by the glare of the ice on the
ball and lacerated the ambient, but
Cuthbert hammered the SNOWFALL far
into center for g. two-sacker, clearing
the bases with the neatness and dis
patch of a man who offers to buy in
a newspaper office Reagan then got
laws, putting man on first and Sec
ond, but Funk funked-through the
agency of a foul Three tallies.
i The Arctic champs added one in the
second on Crutcher's mtsplay with Pol
lard's easy one, felder's choice and
Farrell's singer to left. Meanwhile
the Khan became busy in their half of
the first, getting two runs. After Ken
nedy and Murphy had Travelled the
morgue route. Howard took advantage
of four wide ones. Pollard got Beck
ley's bunt but shot 1t over Cuthbert's
street and Howard perambulated to
the grateful warmth OF the bench
while Beckley got eup circulation by
hiking around to third. Brashear drove
an ice cutter into left for a sack and
"Old Eagle Eye came home. Then
Roy was caught trying to do the Ice
trust act Of second, Brennan to Kahl.
The Blues added three in their half
of the sixth after two had died. Beck
ley's dinky hit toward short landed him
on first. He went to second when
Brashear walked. Krueger's rap to
center moved everybody up and then
Monte Cross came in with a rousing
two-bagger that scored three.
In the eighth session Beckley landed
on Hagerman's frozen shoots for a
double into left, went to third on Krue-
gers single and then when the Boer
was being run out between first and
second, did the Raffles act of the plate.
In the interim, Topeka had added
one in the sixth. Funk, the first man
up. got a life on an error by Kruger,
was sacrificed to second by Brennan
and ambled home on Wooley's warm
soak to left. See the chilly details: