The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-22
SMALL BITS OF SPORT


Tecumseh, Kan, July 22.-Nearly
200 Topeka people and all of the local
fans saw the shawnee Mill Midgets
defeat Tecumseh for prize of 800
here Sunday. The hackers of the Mid
gets were strongly in evidence. The
game were the hitting of the Midgets
and their fierce rally in the eighth in
ming when five scores were made.
Simpson held the locals to seven hits.
Score: R.H.E.
Midgets Il 0 0 0 0 o. 10 2
Harrington, kan, July 22-The third
meeting were good ones
Results: First race. 2:15 trot: Ro-
seta, Hochensmith, L, 1, 8, /; Lulu
Williams, Viers, 2, 2, 2. 2; Frank s..
Second race, 2:11 pace: Minnie
Chimes, McVey, L, 1, 2, L; Kewanee
Queen, Seeley, 2, 2, /, 2; Miss Omar,
Britenfield 3, 8, 8, 8; Arthur A. Gas
A. 6, 5, 6; Helius, Sanford, Z, Z, 6. 5;
Oakland Bell, DonaIdville, 8, 5, dist.
Time. 2:12A, 2:14A, 2:151k, 2:16.
ia. Morrison. l. |; Lady W. C.. Gas
ton, 8, 2; Silvia Bar, Roberts, 2, dist.
Time, 2:34, 2:35A
Amarillo, Tex, July 22.-The To-
peka Apprentices defeated Amarillo
here in a fast and interesting game
of ball, score to A. Topeka knocked
Pitcher Plat out of the box in the
second inning. The feature of the
game was a home run by Diehl with
rilIo-Platt, Richardson and Hill;
Topeka-Thomas and Copeland.
Fredonia, Kan, July 22.-Fredonia
IN min n
inning finish by a score of to 5.
E1Dorado, Kan, July 22.-The Ell
Dorado Athletics won their eighth
successive victory of the season from
the Brown Progressives of Augusta by
a score of / to 0. The Progressives
outhit the Athletics but they We're at
the wrong time. An error. sacrifice
and a single gave ElDorado the win
ming score. Score: r. q q =.
ElDorado -. 90 o o7e1 o o O-1
Batteries-August, Smith and Long;
ElDorado, Keller and Forney. Time
1:25. Umpire-McVilvian.
Copenhagen, July pa great
crowd witnessed the games at the
stadium here in which several mem
bers of the American Olympic team M,
Angeles Athletic club won the pole
vault with a vault of 10 feet, inches
and the running broad jump with 20
feet inches. Donoghue was seceno
in the high hurdles, which was won
by Bull, a Dane
BartIesvilIe. Ok, July 22.-The Bar
tIesville Elks' team who claim the
amateur championship of northern OK
lahoma lost a fast eleven-1nnlns
game here before the original BosIoai
Bloomer club, by score of to ..
The Boomers won yesterday by de-
feating the fast Ramona club score 10
to 2
Galena, Kan, July 22.-The Carthage,
Mo-, trolley team beat Galena in hard
game. to 2 Burnett, a Kansas lily
pitcher, worked for GaIena six innings
and asked for relief. Carthage ham
mered him hard and got one nome run.
Bunk held up throughout the game:
SCORE. R.H.E.
Carthage ........2 0 80 IA
Galena .0 0 1 0 L 0 0 o. 3
Batterie5-Blunk and Reinker; Bur-
nett, Barnett and Bell Umpire-Har-
rington. Time-1:56.
Berlin, July 22.-Thirteen members of
the American Olympic team and the
Greek champion, TsicEitiras, met the
best of the German athletes in a series
of games arranged by the Berlin Sport
d
test.
The greatest interest centered in the
100 and 800 meters events, owing tc
the assertions of the German cham
pions that they had been victims of I'M
fair tactics at Stockholm.
The delight of the spectators was un-
bounded when the German Splinter.
Rau, whose defeat in the semi-fnals
of the 100 meters at Stockholm, was
ascribed by him to the repeated false
starts of Ralph C. Craig, of the De-
troit Y NJ. C. A, finished ahead of
the Americans, Donald F. Lippincott,
of Pennsylvania, and P. c.
Gerhardt, Olympic Athletic club, in the
100 meters and Braun defeated James
E. Meredith, Mercersburg academy,
who won the 800 meters at the Olym-
pic.
Meredith laid the pace over the whole
distance, fighting a strong wind in the
back stretch. He tired at the finish and
Braun won by five yards in minute