The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-17
FLAG IN DANCER.
Topeka Dropped Two Games to
Webb City Wednesday.
Only So Points Ahead of
Wichita Now.
HOODOO WAS WORKING
First Game Was Lost in the
18th Inning.
Frog" Taylor, Webb City
Pitcher, Was Effective.
HOODOO WAS WORKING

There are no paeans of joy in To-
peka town today. A mournful silence
pervades Topeka fandom. Wherever
there is a loyal Topeka rooter there is
a Iachrymose .countenance. And all be-
cause the pennant which has looked so
near Topeka has faded away for
time at least and the chances of having
the shively rag floating in this little
settlement upon the Kaws banks have
been placed in jeopardy. -.
To be brief the despised Tripletts
from the zinc mines of Missouri took
both ends of a double header from the
Topeka Hopefuls in the closing events
of the local season. The first game
vanished by a score of 2 to 1, in hard
fought thirteen inning battle. Some
say there is nothing in superstition
but the old gag about the number thir-
teen was working overtime at the To-
peka ball yard in the first game. The
second game was lost in the seventh
and final inning with q. finish that
netted the hostileS 4 ta1lies While the
locals had accumulated but one.
Hoodoos travel with baseball teams
as well as in other walks of life. To-
peka certainly has a hoodoo team, and
that team is Webb City. A hopeless
second division team, team that is
all the other six teams of the circuit,
comes to Topeka and displays true
championship form. A team of major
league stars wearing Topeka uniforms
would have to fight like demons to de-
feat Webb City.
The main trouble with the Topeka
team Wednesday was the inability to
hit Pitcher Frog Taylor of the Webb
City team. He worked all the first
game and most of the second. In the
thirteen innings of the first game he
gave the locals ten hits. just twice the
number secured off Hagerman but
they were all segregated and could not
be produced when men were on bases.
Taylor is a young amateur whom Mil
ton raked in from the brush some three
weeks ago, but despite his lack of ex-
perience, has something the Topeka
boys can't solve. Hagerman was as
steady as a clock in the first game I'M
til the fatal thirteenth.
The home talent counted in the sec
ond inning, DR.. Andrews walked, went
to second on Abbotts sacrifice, to third
on z. Olson's infield out, and scored
grounder.
The visitors scored in the third.
Risley drew a walk after two were
down, stole second and scored when S.
Olson dropped Whites fly. The win
ming run i'm the thirteenth started with
Taylor's single. Taylor was the first
man up. Risley singled. White hit to
Hagerman forcing Taylor at third
Pokorny hit through the infleld and
Risley scored, slow fielding being
somewhat responsible.
Both Pitchers Went Back
In the second game Hagerman and
Taylor both went back. Neither side
scored until the sixth inning both
pitchers working effectively until this
round. Taylor walked Cole, and the
latter went to second on Wooley's out
Taylor showed symptoms of unsteadi-
ness and Milton took him out. Burnum
took the rubber long enough to fill the
bases with passes. Milton went in and
Root went to bat for Abbott. Root hit
a long one to Lotion and Cole scored.
It looked good for the locals, but Bad
Bill link sent a scorcher which was
too hot for 8. Olson. Then followed
comedy of hunts, bonehead fielding,
and an error which allowed the visitors
to send four men across. Bunts to
Hagerman went for safe hits, and the
locals seemed to be moving skyward
when the Tripletts came to the rescue
and oblig1ngly went out.
There were q few interesting stunts
pulled off which varied the monotony
Of the successive defeats. In the first
game Bad Bill link and e. Olson were
the stars. Emory jumped up and
gpeared with his bare hand a drive by