The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-17
old Time SCORE
KaWs Beat Ottumwa by One
Lone Run.
Three Errors in Eighth Helped
Visitors Score.
''TESSlE" WHITES 3.
"TESS1E''
Walks Two Men in
Three Sessions.
HaffOrd, KatZ and Moore Star
With Bat.

The Kaws won Sundays game from
the Ottumwa club of the Central AS
sociation in a poorly played exhibition
by the score of IL to 10. By touching
Al Leak. the army man, for five hits
and drawing on the Kaws for three
errors in the eighth inning, the visitors
ran in six scores and almost tied it
up. Outside of the one session the OF
tumwa team did not have good look
in.
Tessie Alderman opened on the fir
ing line and staid three innings, dur
ing which time he struck out three men
and walked two The three strikeouts
were in the first spasm. Two singles,
double and triple were collected off
him and these were good for two runs.
Leak slid along safely enough with
the exception of the seventh and
eighth. An error by. Topeka let Pitch
er Melchim on in the seventh and
Sturgeon drew a pass johnson sin
gled, scoring Melchim. Johnson then
stole second and Kerns pegged with no
body covering the bag. The ball rolled
into the field and Sturgeon scored from
third. The eighth inning farce started
with a bad throw to first on Lostut-
ter's ground ball. Cooper, Witt and
Elkins all singled, the last one rolling
on through Breitenstein's legs nearly
to right field fence. Three were in and
Elkins, drew up at third. Plympton,
who had replaced Melchim on the slab
drove. out a triple. Sturgeon whiffed
and on Johnson's fielder's choice
Plynlpton was caught at the plate by
Hopke. Senno singled and went to
second on the throw in to head Off
Johnson. A moment later kerns threw
to third to catch Johnson, missed Haf-
ford mile and the two baserunners
ambled home. That was all. LoWthers
hit into Leaks hands.
Melchim was not very effective. Dou-
bles by Hafford and Thomason and a
single by Moore drove in three in the
first. Singles by Moore and Matz and
three walks let in two in the second.
Brettenstein, hit by the pitcher and as
sisted by a wild pitch, scored in the
third when Katz singled again. In the
fifth Katz, Hafford, Moore, Whitney all
singled and Leak doubled which added
three more runs. In the sixth hit
by pitcher, a passed ball a double by
Katz and a single by Kerns let in two
more. No runs and only one hit were
made off in the two innings pitched by
Plympton.
Three fast double plays were uncork-
ed to help the exhibition. Moore started
the first one when he took hot one
from Lowthers, touched second, cutting
down Senno, and whipped to Whitney
ahead of the hitter. Hafford to Moore
to Whitney cut out Cooper and Witt
in the sixth. The visitors also staged
one in the sixth. -Melchim to Lowthers
to Elkins, wiping Kerns and Leak away.
Umpire Jerry O'Day Johnstone fea-
tured in the show when Pitcher Melchin
clouted a three-base line drive drive to
the right center fence and went home
on the throw in through Hafford. His
Jumps couldn't see where the runner
had touched first base so he called him
out when Whitney called for the ball.
The Kaws all fattened up their bat
ting averages, Katz, Moore and Haf-
ford especially. Katz gathered in three
singles and double in five trips. Moore
got three singles in four and Hafford,
two singles and a double in four times
at the plate.
The score: