The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-10
OF Games Won From Waspish
Wichita Winters.
|NHELAN PASSES EXAMINATION
After Giving Him the Once or
Twice Over
Topeka Fans Decide That He
Will Fill the Bill.
(By Harve Parsons.l

When the series opened. Dick Coo
ley was asked what per cent of said
series would be satisfactory to him.
"a hundred and two per cent re-
piled Obese Richard-just like that.
The only worry Of those who like to
see the Fat One satisfied is how the
heck he can get that other two per
cent. Having won four out of five.
with a prospect Of closing fair and
warmer this afternoon, he is doing
fairly we'll but a flock Of expert bank
clerks are now on the job trying to
figure the other two per cent.
The Sunday Offering included a
hair-raising game. Twice had Fra
Richards character assassins gigged
the defenseless Sandhillers without
visible effort. and they started the
Sunday stunt with the Idea that
and growing on the lower branches.
And they were shocked-almost pain
ed-when Mr.. Slagle, the well-known
tosser for the Witches, frightened up
like the hoops on a barrel Of damp
breakfast food. and famed some of
our most pr minent ball-playing cfti-
zens- OF course Mr.. Ridgeway, home
guard, was doing something Of q like
nature. but the enemy scored one in
the second and another in the first
end of the ninth, while the barefooted
boy continued to hang horse collars
oA LILO IOW 1dOSlcO topeka. II was
a peevish, nerve-racking game. The
visitors saw a chance to win one by a
squeak-so they squeaked. They also
roared. Every play called for a talk
fest. hey filed demurrers in every
decision. They not only chewed the
fabric with the Jump person. but they
tried to pick raspberries. quarrels, ct
cetera. with the perfect gentlemen
who represented Topeka. Graham,
catcher. spoke feelingly to Forsythe,
and Cy retaliated by hitting a two
Dagger. And then they yipped some
more at the Jump. But the Jump is
much like ex-senator Curtis. He
In the ninth. when it looked like a
two-to-nothing game for Wichita, Herr
Reisigl came up to hit for Ridgeway.
He didn't. but there were others. For
sythe hit for two, scoring Cochran from
first; Koerner walked.-(they were
afraid of him) and Whelan. the new
short stopping person. squared himself
with Topeka fans for quite while. The
enemy passed Koerner so they could
get" the easy mark The "easy
mark drove one into the fence, scoring
Koerner and Sy. Il course he could
have scored. but there was no occasion
for il, and the score looks better to
than it would otherwise.
The red-hot finish got the first real
rise out of Topeka fans for quite a
while. A couple of thousand steady
patrons stood up and announced that
WheIan was all right, and the an
nouncement was heard on Kansas ave-
nue., three-quarters of mile away.
The second Sunday game was not ex-
citing. Dashner, pitching for the home
contingent, had a left-hal ded brand of
something that was a foreign sub
stance, SO far as Wichita batters were
concerned. The home guard scored one
in each of the first pair of innings. two
i'll the fourth and two in the sixth. The
visitors got one in the seventh, and then
the homers lay down and let them make
three more in their end of the ninth. 1t
was in this game. fourth inning. that
baltimore made hay by pushing one
over the fence with Whelan on. In the
sixth, silent Willie Rapps. who caught
the first game, came back without
requisition papers and relieved Nc
Donough, the new catcher, who was
more or less all in. McDonough is soft
and squashy from being out of practice,
and blew easily. Tough Willie was
there like cake Of ice. He wanted to
go home after the first game. but Fra
Richard told him to stick around. so he
did. And he came in handy. His first
effort WAS 70 hit for two, scoring Noise
less Tallion, then Cochran hit two,
scoring Bill. 1t was not close game
by any means. and the homers were
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