The Topeka state journal., 1911-08-12
Wasn't Kaws' Fault There Wa
Game Friday.
Umpires Made Them Play Five
Innings Despite the Storm.
PUEBLO WON 2 TO 0
Home Team Staged a Lot Of
Comedy to Delay Finish.
PueblO's Scores in First Gave
Them the Battle.

In a game Of five innings delayed by
dust prolonged by stalling and finally
called on account of rain. the Pueblo
tribe took the opener from the ha"s
bv making two runs in the first round
The smelter city boys landed an hour
and rs minutes late by virtue OF tne
T2ocJy Island and arrived at the grounds
near 4:3O. A good deal of comedy was
inserted later on by the kaws IN an
attempt to head off defeat by waiting
for the rain but they could not hold II
inside the five spell minimum.
Altogether it was the worst day OF
baseball ever staged in the SHADOW Oh
4he dome Incidentally there were no
errors and only three hits on sac put
the Pueblos got away fine IN the AILst
session. Then along In the first or the
Fourth the wind rose from the south
and blew across the lot at hurricane
rate. Rain did not come Immediately
and the dust Whirled in dense Clouds
hiding the players The crowd took 70
the higher seats of the stands and the
PLAYERS hugged the ground IN the
grassy outfield.
Rain was sure to follow a lun in the
wind storm and the Kaws planned TO
hold off the finish. Drops began to 1atl
in the last of the fourth but not enoush
TO hinder play. Then in the Lirst OF -I- eIls
fifth, Rickert's tribe of redskins pega1h
to get nervous.
Then They Played Horse.
C1emmons fouled out to Chapman
when he came up first in the inning
and Chapman, with seeming grace
heaved the ball to center nelo' threw
his mask away and then went TO LOOK
for it. King diligently seaIched ,'5 ells
o1Iter Garden for the ball and just When
Knapp and Morgan, who were umplf-
ing the dust and rain Storm got wise
and Morgan started out to help King
the little fielder found the horsehlds-
Seeing Chapman adjusting MS HlaSh
and protector, he naturally threw the
ball to Whitney by way OF keeping
warmed up-only of course, he missed
4ba first saclxer and hit the stand. Mert
was at q loss to see what became OF the
hall but after nosing around in the
dust a while saw it by his 1901 SO ne
threw It to Edmiston, only ne dion L
He threw 1t too high and Chick got
inst one finger to it. That finger quite
reasonably was severely injured and
the whole team had to come in TO pull
ft into place. Knapp ran out to put 70
mt the finishing touches to the repair
work and Gardner went to look for the
hall He found 1t. If 1t had been a
snake. it might once have been said, 1t
would have bitten him. Anyhow he re-
turned it to the pitchers box and
Clark found it to be ready spit-ball-
He didn't want to throw a splitter just
He failed at this for when he pitched
he hit the screen. Schmidt got himself
out by forcing Clark to throw him out
at first and then Ellis came to bat
Clark could not possibly get one within
six feet of him but he swung at the
atmosphere just the same and got the
inning past.
Made Them Play Out Five.
It was raining pretty freely by that
time but the umpires couldn't see why
the game should not be finished and II
didn't take long. When the five innings
were over and the clock struck 5:45, tht
umpires stopped the mill.
AS may have been gathered from the
foregoing, Pepper Clark and Ellis were
matched for mound duty. Davis singled
first up for the Pueblos and Craig go
in the way of one. The two moved VI
on an infieId out Of Belden and theI
the sturdy Koerner slashed a clear
bingle over second which scored th'
pair. Koerner got another hit in thu
fourth and that was all the hits fol
the Izzies.
The Kaws had two fair chances K
count but missed fire both times
Beecher singled to lead off the secon'
round and Krepps sacrificed him ol
down a notch. Chapman struck out
however, and Clark flew to the garden
In the third, King led off with
scratch double, which Belden booted
mile when trying to get position on II
but he was caught off second a littl
later when Whitney hit one smartly t
11llis. Whitney made second on the pla
but Gardner whitfield.
Incidentally the Kaws made tw
pretty nifty double plays which prob
ably figured materially in keeping tn
visitors down.
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