The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-03-30
Players Refused to Exert Them
selves in Least.
AND WHAT A CROWD
Only Nine People Paid to See
the Game.
Weather Altogether Too Cold
for Baseball.

1t was sort of a frost bitten affair
which was pulled off at Association
park Monday afternoon for the benefit
of nine faithful fans who paid real
money, and for the benefit of a few
players on the Washington and Topeka
teams who needed a little practice de-
spite the cold weather.
Washington won the exhibition but
the score was a minor consideration
The main object of the players was to
finish the game as soon as possible and
this was also very pleasing to the fans.
The score of to little tells the real
story of the game. 1t was a smuggling
match in one sense of the word. The
pitchers on both teams tried nothing
of the fanciful merely trying to get
the ball somewhere in the general di-
rection of the plate. The players were
supposed to hit 1t and hit it they did
Not a player was there but preferred
to see the ball hit to some fielder rath-
err than stand the ordeal of chasing
around the bags and prolong1ng the
game. The runner once on the bases
loafed and was loathe to complete the
circuit.
Each side used three pitchers. Hall
started for the locals. went two rounds
and then Scott went in and worked
four innings, after which Cyrus
Reuen Terrence worked two innings.
Kelley took the rubber for the Ma
tionals at the start; Hughes took his
phenom Walter Johnson who promises
to become the greatest pitcher In the
history of the game.
Washington started the run getting
In the first inning. Ganley singled
and Pickering followed suit. Freeman
hi in+n dnuhlo which MT Pickering
out of the running but sent Ganley to
third. J. Johnson walked but was
caught between the bases allowing
Ganley to score.
Four runs came over in the next IN
ming Mcbride was safe on Cullen's
wide heave to first, Street singled,
Kelley hit safe scoring Mcbride and
Gan1ey cleaned up with a triple which
scored Street and Kelley. chickering's
single scored Ganley.
In the third inning J. Johnson's
single and Streets double scored run.
Washington's last was scored by
Pickering after he had singled and
Freeman and Johnson had hit safe:
Topeka started the score late in the
day. Two came over in the third. Hall
Long went to second on passed ball
and came home on Fen1on's single to
left field. In the eighth Long opened
with a single and scored on hits by
WOOleY ana DOWuS. Sullell oldl leu
the ninth with a safe one; Funk
singled and both scored on McManus'
double.
There were a few points worthy of
notice. The game was rushed through
in the remarkably short time OF one
hour Long pulled off four singles out
of five trips to the plate. Lige Wooley
broke into the game long enough to get
a. couple of singles. Cooley made a
great stop OF line drive from Can
ley's bat, stopping the ball with his
cold hands. Then he quit and Red
Downs tok the first base job.
The team which played was COM
posed mostly of regulars with few of
the Yannigans inserted. Cantillon sent
Clymer. Tannehin. Blankenship, ING
laub, Milan, Smith and Conroy to
Kansas City. The regulars Will make
trip to Omaha. and Cantillon wants
to take all ex-Western leaguers there
for the effect they will have on the
gate receipts. The above mentioned ball
players will remain in Kansas City I'M
til the team returns from Omaha when
a game will be played at Kansas City.
The figurative story of a cold day at
fhe hal mark.