The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-07-30
Ridgeway Energies From the Cloud.


1t was another of Topeka's lucky
days. The home bunch just threw it
away time or two and then regained
it. The Cooleyites began in the first
inning. when Koerner scored M'sieu
War-whoop La F. We shall call him
La F, because that is safe. OF the
eight different ways of spelling his
name the newspaper gang has been I'M
able to make a choice. But whether II
be La Flam. Flume. Film or F'laum-
Bots. we care not. SO long as he con-
tinues to have lucky streaks. He Is
known to the fans as Pete and
Chief" Three times during the game
suits. and 1t is suspected that he wears
a necklace Of rabbits feet. He 1t was
who harpooned the .peedy Congalton at
the plate with a long ll-placed heave
and. as the audience beat 1t for the
street cars n the ninth. he it was who
caught the third out that closed the
game with Topeka ahead.
Several fairly good stunts were pulled
by the homers. but they were nearly
lost in the cloud Of bone dust that per-
meated the atmosphere.
Ridgeway was almost entitled to u
shutout game. but he lacked several
stitches Of getting it. owing to the
temperamental way In which the in
field kicked THE ball on the neck at
every opportunity. The Omaha pitch
eI, NraDD, seemed 10 nave u CTuSlaCeau
c. lst, but he couldn't pinch off much
OF anything.
1t was in the second instance that
Wakefield scored noisy Mr.. TalliOn,
that profligate conversationa.ist who il
said to speak three words per week
whether he has anything to talk about
or not. And it was about the time
Tally and Wakefield were making h-y
that someone unloaded a rubber snake
IA. the vicinity of the home dugout. and
Bill Rapps j., ID a Brodie with a folding
chair draped around one leg in his wild
attempt to get out Of danger.
Up to this the. 1t looked like Oma-
ha had forgotten to send along the
mascot, but baltimore made a poor
guess at the position OF second base
and two of the enemy snook across
the plate. Came then the old reliable
; McAllister. who hit one on the ear
and scored later when Wakefield
pasted a two-bagger. That left 1t two
and three, but not a sufficient margin
to make the home guard feel abso-
lutely safe. There Is. with the Omaha
contingent. person named Krug. who
has a disagreeable way of stealing
bases. AS a larcenist. this German
! porch climber shines like a hot coal
| in q dark night. He, with Others
clouded up and threatened to drizzle
on several occasions, but failed to pre-
cipitate. This Krug is merely Krug.
The Omaha catcher Is Kruger, but not
q great deal Kruger than Krug. They
also have a Thomas and a Thomson;
likewise a pretzel who revels in the
name of Schlibner. which is not SO
hard to spell, but difficult to pro-
! nounce twice in the same way.
Nothing much was to do for a
while. They waddled along. the
; homers holding the unsafe lead of one
TN until the eighth. when McAllister
| same McAllister who figured in a
| -rner DerfOrmance-friske himself
| md found loose two-bagger 1t
scored Koerner. who ran less like a
milk COW than usual. and crossed the
coffin lid at high speed. Then a single
by Tallion, stretched by a bum throw
], to the plate. scored old man Mac. The
| closing ode was played by the little
red man in left field. Everybody said
it was a good game, and the fact that
the home team won it did not spoil
+ the flavor.
T. The nucleus of q YanniKan team.
which same should be officially known
as the "Old Spavs." Is growing in our
midst. We have with us the Hon.
Dick Brown. who used to perform on
the home lot during the bush period,
and Hon. Spence Art Abbott, also an
ex. BY frisking the village one might
find q number OF other ex-stars and
plenty of spawned non-profesh speci-
mems who feel that they know all
about the game, and a horde Of pro-
fessional advisers. 1t IL proposed that
we make up q team OF this descrip-
ton. go down to Emporta and trim
Walt Aason's pets