The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-16

IT HAS NO EQUAL.
Yeaterday's Baseball Game Set
New Local Record.
Went Is Innings, and Finally
Topeka Won.
ONLY THREE ERRORS.
Wonderful Exhibition of Field
ing by Both Teams.
DIR. Andrews Won the Game by
Long Hit.
ONLY THREE ERRORS.

In the longest extra inning session OF
baseball ever played in Topeka, eight
cen long Notwithstanding innings, the
Topeka pennant winners nosed out the
Tripletts from Webb City by score of
4 to 3. The game required three hours
and twenty minutes for its enactment
and the last two hours OF play were
more conducive 10 heart failure than
anything that has previously taken
place at the local ball yard. About
eight hundred people witnessed the
contest and had the game been adVer
tised as played, the grandstands would
not have held the crowd.
The game could properly be called
pitchers battle for It was a battle pc
tween the two brainiest pitchers in the
association. For the locals Dad Roach
was on the firing line. The famous
splitter of the veteran was going nlie
and breaking in deceptive fashion right
over the plate. The Tripletts straighten-
ed his spitters forthe safe ones iourteeh
times during the afternoon but II dlun
start any bombardment for the veteran
would prove decidedly effective in the
pinches Time and time again ne
would sink into a hole so deep that
stone dropped from the top Wouldn
reach the bottom until october 1otn'
but he managed to crawl out, while the
fans were holding their hearts in their
throats And Larry Milton pitched
great game. too. He is as foxy as they
make them and the locals were Kept
In the guessing class during the greater
part of the game. And talk ABOUT
ieIding-Larry had eighteen assists
and one putout. He was knocking
down everything that came his way
Fast fielding saved the locals on
three occasions. In the eighth with
first occupied and Bill link at the pat
Emory Olson speared one travelling TO
right center at height Of eleven rect
and at the rate of thirty-f1Ve miles an
hour and completed q double. Harry
Cheek tried to bunt in the eleventh.
with a runner on first but Eddie Bren-
nan caught the bunt on the fly ana
completed a double with Abbott on the
receiving end. And S. Olson started
one in the sixteenth, relaying the ban
to Emory catching one man ana nnally
getting the batter at first.
pitchers' battle one of the kind that
single run would decide. Topeka got
a tally in the sixth and this was
thought sufficient by the array OF rams
and fannettes in the grandstands. Cole
singled and took second on Wooley's
sarrifice. Davis singled and Cole
reached third, from whence he was
squeezed in by Andrews.
But just to cinch the game the Cooley
tribe thought is wise to annex another
In the seventh. n Otsoi staA tSu 80
a double which hit the left field fence
and scored on s. Olson's single to right
field.
And then with the game slowed away
for the locals the invaders got busy
and tied the score after the fans had
ordered their peanuts for the second
game In the eighth Milton reached
first on S. Olson's error, the only To-
peka misplay of the game. Rlsley
singled and White sacrificed. Milton
scored when link hit safe to center
field and Cuthbert's single sent Risley
home.
Then with the score tied, the game
commenced in real earnest. Inning
after inning passed but neither team
could score. In the twelfth Larry MIL
ton made desperate effort and failed
by small margin. Milton reached
first on a fielder's choice and went to
second on Risley's infield out. White
hit safe to center and Larry tried Tor
the plate but was cut Oft by perfect
throw of Wooleys. In the fourteenth
It looked as though the Tripletts would
certainly win. With one down Lotion
walked and Kellerman singled. Roach
fielded Millions bunt but no one COW
cred first and the bases were filed.
But Risley flew out to s. Olson and
White hit to s. Olson who caught Mil
ton at second.
Then just to cause the crowds ad-
ditional excitement, the Tripletts
broke through the ice and scored in
the sixteenth. Harry Cheek was
mainly responsible. for he tripled to
left center. A long sacrifice fly to
Cole, back near the fence, was
eAough to score Cheek.
The local cause seemed lost Wooley
few out to Cuthbert. Davis hit one
on line to right field but it only went
for a single. And the clouds grew
biacker than ever when Andrews roll
ed an easy one to Milton. Then it
was Abbott's turn, and Spencer painted
his name in big black letters on the
pages of Topeka baseball history with
a red hot grounder which went clear
TO the right fence and counted for
three bases. Davis scored and Abbott
was nipped at the plate by a quarter
of an inch trying to stretch it into a
homer.
The locals took new heart. Dad
Roach pitched the best ball of the af-
ternoon in the first of the seventeenth
when he moved the three leaders of
the visitors batting order on four
pitched balls. The Cooley tribe got
Brennan on first with two out and
Roach gave way to Root who batted
in his place. Jack produced a single.
but the end wasn't in sight
Hagerman went in the box and held
the visitors in the final inning. Wool
ey got a life when Risley booted his
Erounder. Davis sacrificed. And then
DIR. Jason Andrews saved the day by a
terrific drive to right center which
scored Ldge and won the game.
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