The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-05
AND HARD.
Springfield Topeka Game Goes
Fourteen Innings.
COOleysOx Bat Out a Victory at
the End.
GILT EDGED BALL.
FOrrester's Pitching Was Easily
the Feature.
Held the Visitors to Five Scat
tered Hits.

For IA innings Monday afternoon the
Topeka team, and the Springfield
Midgets fought for supremacy on the
local diamond and the Topeka team
finally was lucky enough to win out.
The entire game was pitching duel
between Jack Forester and "Ikey'
Kaufman, and the light complexioned
lad won a great battle. In fact the
pitching of the tow headed one was
the great factor of the victory. After
having given a wild weird exhibition
of pitching in the game of last Friday,
Forester showed an entire reversal of
form and pitched as good game as
the association will see this season.
Forester gave but five hits in the
entire IA innings and allowed two men
to get as far as second base. Murray
doubled in the second and Cole hit
safe and stole second in the fourth.
But the remarkable feature of Forces
ter's pitching was his almost perfect
control. One ball got away from him
in the first round when he poked An
derson in the ribs, but it was not I'M
til the thirteenth inning that he walk
ed man. And in addition to his gilt
edge pitching he received faultless
support from the local aggregation.
Forrester's splendid work, however,
was but little ahead Of that of Ikey
Kaufman who halls from Kansas un-
y
is working better than ever this sea-
son and his out has a much wider
shoot on 1t. He was touched up ivelier
than Forester but managed to keep
his hits scattered Topeka got on
bases and put him in deep water on
several occasions, but from these he
always emerged with his head above
water. His work was good all the way
through and he would have won an or
binary game.
The demise of Mr.. Kaufman took
place in the first half of the four
teenth inning. Cooley has inaugura-
ted the habit of taking his first bat
Landreth beat out a little infield hit.
Davis made two attempts to sacrifice
Cyrus and then missed an outshoot.
But it was just as well for Cyrus stole
second. Kahl hit a grounder to An
derson but the adipose third sacker OF
the visitors made a poor throw to first
and the ball hit the wire fence a rod
east of first base. Landreth was on
third when the ball was recovered and
Kahl had reached second. 1t looked
like a snap when Cooley came to bat
as the big captain had already garner
ed two blows of Mr.. Kaufman. But
the best Sir Richard could do was to
popup to Tommy Smith and another in
ming looked probable. But Olson was
yet to be disposed of and what Ole
did to the ball will probably be re-
membered by Kaufman for many
moons. Olson picked out nice one
and sent the ball to the northwest cor
ner of the lot for two sacks and scored
Landreth and Kahl. This hit won the
game but Eddie Brennan, who had re-
placed Raglan, wanted to be sure of 1t
when he came to bat and just poked
out another little double over LAWYERS
head and Olson scored. That was all
the scoring of the game but 1t was
enough.
Three times before the Topeka team
had men on third base waiting for
chance to come home but the efforts
in the scoring line were always frus-
trated by the work of Kaufman. 1t
was about as pretty game as the
fans will witness this season.
The field was a muddy one but the
game was fast notwithstanding. The
work of the two umpires was critics.
ed by fans, players and all who wit
messed the game, but though the de-
.cisions were rank In some cases both
sides suffered about the same Davis
was undoubtedly robbed of hit in the
first inning by Umpire Pokorney.
Yesterday was the first appearance
of the Springfield team in Topeka.
| There was but one unfamiliar face In
| the lineup yesterday in the person of
| Third Baseman Anderson. All the 9TH
| ers are we'll known in Topeka, having
| PLAYED on other teams in the Western
| Association during seasons passed.
| The two teams are struggling again
| this afternoon in the ladies' day al
| FRAY and tomorrow comes the closing
| epoch of the series.
| Yesterdays glad tidings:
| TOpEKA