The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-10
500 SCALP KAWS
TOWne's Braves VictOrs in
Thrilling Opening Fight.
Locals Play Defensive Game,
But Nerve Is Gone.
TOMMY HITS HOMER.
Brings in Buchanan by Long
Swat Inside of Fence.
Frambes Pegs Nicely to Second
Stopping Stealefs.
an no one stop these Sioux?


For Il days they have roamed the
fields of the Western League with
Chief Towne at their head. On the
first raid here they took and left 2.
The little band of Kaws SORTED out to
meet them Tuesday and all things con-
sidered fought a remarkable defensive
game. The KawS, however, were never
warlike tribe but rather ran along
the streams and their offensive array
was somewhat shy of feathers. They
came in off the Denver trail with their
road clothes on and didn't have time
to use any war paint.
The reVerses suffered by the Kaws
in successive punches seem to have
Slapped their confidence. They appear
to be afraid of criticism and shy at
taking the chances of which they are
capable One marked improvement is
the repeated Snagging of runners at
second. Frambes was pegging in grand
style and Moore featured some sensa-
tional tagging.
One of the saddest sights in many
a day of battling was witnessed in the
closing minutes of the said contest.
Two messengers of victory awaited at
the threshold but there was no one
there who could lift the gates.
The whole thing happened like this
1t was a pitchers dual between Bar
Der and Buchanan and the former To-
pekan had the better of 1t. Each was
caught with guards down in one IN
ming and the scores came in. Barber
was cornered on three other occasions
but keeping an iron nerve extricated
himself twice and was saved once by
a beautiful peg to the plate by Breen.
A fly out saved Buchanan in the ninth.
The fray was fast and even until
seventh when the Soos inflated Buchan-
ans balloon. Neighbors walked and
Wagner sacrificed. Reilly, Breen and
Miller singled in succession and Breen
counted the third run when Hopke
pegged BARRIERS grOunder late to home.
A fast double Hopke to Moore to WHIT
ney brought Buchanan back to earth.
The Kaws rung up two in the eighth
when Thomson pumped out homer
to right center after Wagner had drop
ped Buchanan'S fly. A walk to Moore
and a double by Crompton placed them
on second and third with one down.
err substituted for Buchanan, struck
out. OF course just such things take
place every day.
Moore would have scored on Cromp-
toms hit but it looked for moment
as if Wagner would bag 1T and Fred
was expecting to have. to dash back
to first. Then again, he might have
scored if Frambes had been lucky
enough to get the BAH to the outfield
but the bloomin' bean just popped up.
Or if Frambes had tried for an inf1eld
chance instead of trying to drown the
ball in a distant creek maybe. Moore
could have slipped in with q tie and
the next inning have won it. But there
are too many ifs in baseball.
So there is nothing to do but to glOat
over Tommy's pretty home run drive
out to the center fence and remember
how he legged it around to beat the
throw in. Tommy hit another in the
sixth that looked like 1t would bring
home a run but it didn't. Buchanan
was on second, having made single
out of a high one, which the wind
waited clear of the grab hooks, and
been sacrificed down by Hafford. Tom
my sIashed one down the third base
line and Sabre, who was coaching,
ran Buchanan in. The slab man was
not fleet enough, however, and was nip
ped Gn a beautiful throw in by Breen.
In spite of the defeat and the scarcity
of hits the Kaws looked better than at
any previous showing. Another thing
is they will let Buchanan pitch in this
league this season.
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