The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-02
/" Hug" Pitches a 4-Hit Game
SAVACES WIN TWO
Omaha Pitchers Were Knocked
All Over Ball Park.
One of Best Crowds of Season
Saw Games.


If every member of Pa Rourke's
Omaha team was an Alibi Ike, they all
couldn't spread enough onion perfume
to kill the smell of the twin bill they
lost to the Savages Sunday afternoon
in the last Western league games that
win be seen here until August 10.
1t was a big day for Jackson's war
riors-one of the biggest they nave
had this season-and the picking was
so good that every member OF the
team tried to gormandise-
The first game was won by the
score of g to and the second II TO .;
In the first the Savages accumulated
10 hits and in the second IA. Every
Omaha pitcher except North was USED
in an effort to hold them down, put
base hits were as common as Iunsoes
IN a training camp and the SaVages
knocked so many balls lOpSlded tnal
new supply would have to be ordered
If the team had another series Ut
home.
The Ditchine for the Savages was
done bv the two Hs-Hugglns ana
HaIl-and the team backed them up
with the kind of peppery praying ma
kept Topeka in the lead uurlhS 'ho
first of the season.
In the first game Higgins held the
Rourkes to four hits and tanned eV-
cry hitter who opposed MN except
EOTSVthe.
individual playing of the AFTERNOON
and it would be hard to find person
among the $500 who saw the game
with pessimism enough TO ten you
Hug doesn't look like the nkeI1est
Young twirler in the league In the
third inning, which was the only time
he allowed as many as TWO mus III
one frame, ne pulled out without
score and in the fourth, with the bases
full and only one out, he would nave
retired the side without a run had 1T
not been for Bostick' S error
Hall Was Lucky.
ON the other hand. Hail propapIy
would not have won his game II the
team had not been batting about 800
per cent above par. He was NIT Tor
from one to four bingles in every IN
ming and was a bit wild, but the team
nJaved errorless ball behind him and
piled up enough runs to have won
with nothing but the ashes OF Rube
Waddell in the box However, be II
said to. his credit Hall seemed 10 get
better the further along the game
Drogressed and he showed the ear
marks of being a hitting pitcher, get
ting a double and singfe~out OF fiVe
With Geisel helping him, Umpire
Abbott was a bit better than he was
Saturday. but at that he missed
enough balls and strikes to thu Justly aE
pense of a visit to an ocul1st
Big Seconds.
The Saya ges made the second IN
ming of both games their banner turns
at bat. In the first game they took
the lead in scoring py MAKING SIX
who hit .666 during the afternoon,
started the frame with a double TO
center. Brown singled. baltimore
walked and Rapps hunted for
snneeze play that scored Tydeman.
Rams was caught off first and Mon
roe struck out. but Higgins walked
and Bostick was safe on neloer
choice that failed and permitted
Brown to cross home plate. cochran
then slammed out a double that
counted baltimore and Higgins, and
omaha relieved Pitcher Blodgett by
sending in Everdon- Jackson singled
and Tvdeman, who had started the
birr session. ended it by popping out.
In the third the Omahogs touched
Higgins for a single and double put
were unable to manufacture run
from them. In the fourth they scored
their first without a hit and in the
fifth Breen walked and was scored by
Forsythe's 3-bagger. krueger MT a
home run in the sixth with NOBODY on
and after that the Rourkes were re-
tired in order.
The Savages scored triplets in the
last of the eighth. Cochran beat out
an infield nit and was sacrlf1ced TO
second by Jackson. Tydeman placed
chaser after it that scored Cochran.
Tydeman was thrown out at third and
baltimore walked. Then Hi and
Brown pulled a double steal that
scored Brown and Bill Rapps singled,
bringing in baltimore.
The Second Game.
The second game started out like 1t
was going to be a twin brother to the
first, the Savages making five runs in
the second frame.
AS in the second of the first. Tyde-
man led off and was awarded a walk.
He went to second on a passed ball
and after Brown had singled took
third on Krueger's error and came
home on Smiths wild peg to the plate.
baltimore placed a 1-bagger in center,
scoring Brown, and Rapps walked.
Monroe sacrificed.
After all this had happened. Marty
Krug decided that his Ingersoll pitch
err was not in the proper working or
gett taking up the burden. Hall i'm
mediately hit Blodgett for two bases,
scoring baltimore and Rapps and
Bostick doubled bringing in Hall.
Cochran fouled out, Jackson walked.
and as in the first game Tydeman
retired the side.
Omaha made two in the third on
four hits and the Savages added two
in the same and four in the fourth
the sixth, seventh and ninth, and the
only other one the Topekans made
was in the seventh.
The 1ineups. scores and summaries:
First Game.
OMAHA
Smith, Hb ,s . J 2 9 9