The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-07-06
Mr.. P-m-m-feffer:

or why the game was lost, but the con-
lversation il depressing. These fans for.
get the beauty Of the first game. and
| get out their hammers and pans for the
weak companion piece. Hereafter.
when there Is a double header and one
game is to be lost, 1t shall be. the first
lone. We, shall speak to Dick about that
right away.
The ge-lorious Fourth was q lovely,
day for the national hard work, some.
times miscalled '.pastime." A lone
Wichita rooter. probably marooned
travelling man. besought the Redlegs to
go to it. They did. by pushing over a
run while the pushing was good. And
that was ali. Properly punctuated. the
Wichita score was just a hundred mil
lion. thusly: 100000 900. The Kawbirdtes
retaliated by frfsking the visitors for
| four in a bunch. and three, one by each.
later in the game. An hour and q
minutes from the first ball, Topeka was
| game to the good. In this incident.
Mr.. Ridgeway made hay for the home
| talent. and Mr.. Durham performed for
| the Jobbers. ..s.
| Among star performers for this first
incident. may be named Mr.. baltimore
who pushed one over the bread sign into
the plowed field. and the newly acquired
| short stop. Mr.. P-p-p-pf-f-f-ff (make
noise like threatening fire cracker)
feffer. He poled out something, and
nothing nat. This little COOP runs like
perturbed coyote when he gets start
ed. and starts without visible effort.
| During the long afternoon. he made
| some bungles and some bingles and
some hot plays. He made a bum shot
''Koerner') pocket. Outside of that he
was more or less all right. +,aa-
! With the exception Of a few ounces
intermingling. the audience of a couple
a thausand. was a decent, resemble au-
dience and representative Of Topeka
An occasional outbreak by a crab was
| not sufficient to mar the show, and
clever stunts pulled by visitors got pro-
longed applause. even when said stunts
| were removing cuticle from the home
hopes The Bills person in center field
came in for a major portion Of this ap-
probation. by making a couple Of one
hand scoops or the fence.
The first game was lovely, but let us
sketch over the details Of the sordid
| crime known as the second game. Mr..
Cooley used three pitchers, Jones,
Brown and Higginbotham. The Red
legs didn't seem to note any particular
difference between them. They were
all perfectly satisfactory from the visi-
tors view point. The visitors pitched
Mr.. Scott, the gent whose nanny was
acquired by the home gang during his
brief one-inning stand on Friday. When
Mr.. Scott tired of the entertainment,
in the fifth. he was relieved by Mr..
Baker. In the seventh. the home con-
tingent began to show signs of life, but
the pulmotor ran out Of oxygen, and
the finish was too sad for words.
Figures will be used instead. thus: 1876.
The Redlegs were all tired out from
toting their uniforms around the beat
en- path: the Kaws had kicked the in
offensive pill three ways from the jack
and had practically soured on the job
when they were relieved from their
agony by the arrival Of quitting time.
1t was this final game that left the bad
| taste and caused Mrs. Cooley to OBJ
serve, while beating 1t homeward on a
street car: well, hope the team has
all the errors out of its system now
In fact, the last game should have been
buried In some secluded spot and the
location of the grave forgotten. A
punque decision by the Jump who was
jumping bases, pushed Jones up in the
air. and he had to be pulled back by a
leg. Everybody was on the job but
they didn't play ball. they simply
fought it.
AS predicted, the ee-leet Of our vii
lage was in attendance. About $500 of
the 400 and a number Of newspaper
people, deputy sheri1s and other dead
heads were present The ee-leet, of
course, covers Dick Thomas and Oh
Kay Swayze, because, although they
were formerly newspaper men they
have reformed.
Games: First. IL Topeka
So-called second game. 1916 Wichita.