The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-07-27
RALLY IN THE NINTH WON
Eccentric Pitchers Hit Scored
Tie-Then He Scored.
Cochran Was q Fiend Against
This SOuthpaw Pitcher.

The Topeka and Des Moines CLUBS
divided q double header, Sunday. Inc
visitors won the first game wnen
Pitcher Ridgeway weakened IN tne
seventh inning. and the home boys
won the second game IN the NM. -.
inning when Pitcher Reisigl patteo II,
the tie run with a two-bagger ana
scored a minute later on cochran :
long single to center field. The score
of the first game was IL 10 o. anu the
score Of the second was TO 2.
The first game was good contest
until Ridgeway weakened in the sew
enth and allowed the visitors to make
seven rms. The second was pltcn-
ers' battle between Lefty Mogrloge
and Herr Reisigl, which was not de-
cided until the last half OF the nihth
inning. Ridgeway. in the hrst game,
had the Boosters standing on tneir
heads until he took that awful asceh-
sion. He had held them to three bin
giles in the first six innings. In the
sixth inning they coupled a scratch
hit with a base on balls and two sac
rifices and showed one run across the
PAN but the seventh was awful.
That ..wful Seventh Inning.
Ewoldt led off and he and Breen
singled. Andreas sacrificed. Shaw,
batting for Turner, Hahn and Auhter
each drew a base on balls; buren,
Tex Jones hit for three bases. Jones
relieved Rid. way and Haley hit a
home run. Ewoldt came up for the
second time and singled again. Breen
went OFT. Cochran to Koerner, and
ended the inning. Ewoldt's first nit
was a fiuke. Pete LaFlamboise. play
ing in right, lost an easy fly in the SUM-
Jones' three-base hit also was nuke
Rapps. playing in left Overran the
bali, which was only good for single
He did not attempt to recover 1t. and
Forsythe came over from center and
threw it to the infield.
The Boosters scored three more In
the ninth when Hunter led on with a
pass. Burrell tripled. Tex Jones
scored Burrell on sacrifice fly. Haley
singled, Ewoldt doubled,s Breen was
hit by pitched ball. and Haley scored
on a fie1ders' choice.
Topeka Had q Lead.
The Topeka club had a two-run lead
before Ridgeway faded. Hits by
Koerner and McAllister, and Rapps'
sacrifice. scored Koerner in the Sec
ond In the fourth. Tallion drew a
pass and scored on Lattimore's double.
In the sixth, Forsythe singled. Koerner
sacrificed and the former scored on
Eapps' single to deep left.
With the Boosters five runs to the
good in tire eighth inning the Topeka
club scored a brace of runs when La
Flamboise singled, Forsythe walked,
and Koerner drew a pass, filling the
bases. Hahn dropped Tallion's fly in
right field and LaFlamboise scored
Then Forsythe scored on Lattimore's
sacrifice Cy. They scored their last
in the mint. when. with two out
aFlamboise walked and scored or
Forsythe's double to right field.
Second q Pitchers Battle.
Herr Reisigl and Lefty Mogridge
locked horns in an awful pitchers
battle for the second game. Reisig
was even On pitching honors and his
two-base drive tied the score. He
scored the winning run by taking two
bases on Cochran's long single tC
center.
Both pitchers were in superb form
Reisigl got away in the first two in
nings without allowing a hit, but the
visitors got two in the third which
were good for one run. Mogridge lee
of with a single. Hahn sacrificed
Hunter scratched a single through
baltimore and Mogridge scored wher
Tallion booted" Burrelrs grounder
That was the last run for the visitor.
until the ninth inning, and during tn,
interim four hits were wasted
The Topeka club got one hit in tn,
first and another in the second and on,
IN the third innings. but they wer,
wasted. Mogridge held them to ;
shutout until the sixth inning, when