The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-07
NICE RAIN FALLS
Management Picks Up Few Dol
lars and Corn Is Helped.
oh, Yes, There Was a Ball Game
at the Park.
PUEBS WIN CONTEST.
Jack Haskell Gets Freshly
Creased Uniform Wet.
Score six to Three After Nine
Muddy Innings.
PUEBs WIN CONTEST.

The Kaws, the Puebs, the ticket
anatchers and the umpires went out te
the ball yard Wednesday, got little
of the coin of the realm. saw nice
rain and came in again about o clock
The late corn, It is claimed, viii be
helped materially.
The players all got pretty well soak
ed their gloves and bats were drench-
ed but Umpire Haskell, chief OF
O'NeilPs alleged arbitraters. took to
the water like a duck in spite of his
freshly pressed uniform and kept them
in 1t.
a drizzle began almost as soon as
the Pueblo boys went to bat and con-
tfnued about all the way to the END
of the fifth at which point it became
downpour. There were no rain
c-tecks out so the thing had to go four
and a half innings to einch the
shekels and then it was decided 1t
might as well go the five innings to
cinch the game. A short intermission
was called here with Pueblo holding
to / lead to allow the rain to run
its course.
A little of the dry. thrown around
the batters' and pitchers boxes. suf-
feed to fit the ground for further play
and the contest was continued until
the end of the ninth when the score
The Kaws really looked the most
likely at the first instance, Manning
getting on through foozie at hrst;
<inP sacrificed him and Dali tramped
but Emory nit lulO d uOUbAc anu IAAO
opportunity escaped
The south Coloradoans located
Blaine Durbin in the third and by
working their jinx oozed over three
runs Schmidt was out but Edniston
pegged bad for Jackson, erstwhile
pitcher. formerly of the COoleysox-
Then Craig and Berger poled safely
and Belden raped a hot one out to
Dali in the right pasture for three
sacks Tt might have been a single but
Dali wasn't where the hop was and the
bali got away
Hurry Through Fourth.
Both teams hurried through the
fourth and first of the fifth to close
the cash box The kaws tried to tie tel. II
IN the last of the fifth, Durbin leading
off with his second hit King followed
soon after with a. far three-sacker to
center and Durbin waded in. Dali and
Emory failed to count King
A double by Hughes and single by
Cfemmons scored the former in the
sixth and a combination of hitting and
mud ball throwing gave the visitors
two more in the eighth With two
gone in this spasn, Hughes hit and
stole. Claire hit and Hughes scored
Then Claire advanced to second on
wild pitch and scored when Ciemmons
hit to left by beating the ball in.
Schmidt added a small bingIe to left
but Clemmons was held up at second.
Jackson hit down to Emory who tag
ged his sack, forcing Clemmons out.
Opportunity returned TO knock at
the Kaws' rear door in this same
eighth inning but they didn't drag him
IN. King and Dali singled and Emory
walked. Whitney whitfield the damp
ozone with the sacks crowded and
Emory hit to Jackson but the play was
delayed by his dropping the ball,
forcing him to make it to first while
King skidded over the pan. Krepps
flew out
In tho ninth Pueblo grew erratic
and the Kaws got another. Koerner
was pulled off the base on the throw
Of Edmiston's grounder. Durbin and
Manning both flew to Craig. but Ber-
ger mussed Kings. Then Dali insert
ed a single. scoring Fdmiston. Emory
arrived safe on a muddle by Koerner
but was forced at second by Whitney
for the last out.
The scOre-