The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-18
CALLS GAME TIE
Umpire Moss Evens Up Tor
Water Bucket Incident.
KaWs and st. Marys in a l to l
Contest.
M'GRATH SCORES RUN
Crippled Pitcher Holds Locals
to 6 Hits.
Wind Storm in Operation
Throughout Game.

David Starr Jordan, who mas put tAl0
ban on baseball at Leland STANFORD De
cause of what he termed systematic
nuckerisn.' would have curdled up
wors, than that if had heard the 1rlsn
collegians at st. Marys yesterday a
league club usually eats that STUN up
but they had nothing on the amateurs
I'D the line. The professionals boarded
the return train with the firm convic-
ton that one day at college was
plenty.
No such noise, rag chewing between
spectators and players and players ana
PLAYERS. or wordy thrusts ever reacheo
the ears of Dave Jordan and IL Is
safe bet he never even guessed at IT.
Comiskey himself, in his OLD coAeSe
town, could not have attracted haiI tue
crowd which followed Eddie SABRE
around after he got chance TO SIP
over a few of his choice ones.
oh, yes, the game. The score was 1
to l. The affair lasted only seven IN
nings. Quigley came around to say the
laws better leave at that point IN Or
der to catch their train. Then tney
waited 40 minutes for the tram
Not that Moore cared about the score
for he took the men up just for q
workout And then there is no chance
to win anyway. Nobody can beat 81.
Marys at home-not if Frank Moss
knows it. He has umpired for the 81.
Marys boys so long, he can't see any
other club with a pair of field glasses
But that was only one of the reasons
The other was that Moore's Indians
could not hit the ball. Mahoney, /
young pitcher who is handicapped with
a crippled leg, held the Kaws to SIX
bingles and those came one in an IN
ming. He walked only one.
McGrath and Beecher worked on the
mound for the KaWs. Barney, because
of his nationality, thought he would get
a fair shake but later said he never
saw so small a plate in his life. he
srooved them straight into Hawkins
mitt and still they would be bans; he
whitfield nine in his five innings Tnese
were counted out on their swings.
McGrath scored Topeka's run in the
third. He hit safely, moving up law
kins who was on by error. 6aIoro
walked and Moore hit into Kelley s
hands and Hawkins was out at the
plate. McGrath advanced to third dur
ing the excitement and counted a mo-
ment later on a passed ball
A strange coincidence gives Mahoney,
the opposing pitcher, the st. Marys run.
He got on through a fielder's choice.
Then his runner stole second and Ben.
nett drove a double into the garden
scoring him.
KATE won the game for Topeka in the
seventh but Moss couldn't adjust him
self to that result SO he declared a tie,
the best he could do. The st. Louis lad
singled to right field and sped on to-
ward second. Then the collegians threw
the ball everywhere from Maine to
California. 1t bounded back off the
California fence beside third base. Ben
nett pegged to Catcher Malone just as
Katz drew up at the plate. Moss
called Katz out and gave as his very
good reason that, earlier in the game,
Hawkins had held a runner on first
when the ball had been stopped by the
water bucket. Like a good umpire he
was just evening up the unfortunate
occurrences and incidentally he was
saving st. Marys defeat which would
have meant a great deal to them and
very little to the Kaws.
A wind storm swept the diamond,
blowing directly into the batter's face.
Rain started to fall at the opening of
the game but ceased.
Tho