The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-09
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Sayages Won Their Great Game
of Season Tuesday.
BOstick Scored the Winning
Run i'm Twelfth Inning.

For a dozen and a half innings the
Sioux City Indians and Topeka saw
ages struggled valiantly to break
one to one tie Tuesday afternoon, ana
then in the last half of the twelfth
Mr.. Bostick and Sammy Mayer shot
Pitcher Doyle's defense curves all Iuli
of ventilation and won the game
1t was. by far, the best exhpltlol,
of the old sport that has been staseu
in Topeka this season. IL was t ne
kind of a classic that IL IL had peet,
staged in ancient Grece Homer Woulu
have written an epic immortahzlng II
and Demosthenes would nave orate9
about it in such i way that ne Wou!u
have been known as the world great
est fan. And it is possible tndt even
Zeus would have come down from MI.
Olympus and crowned the Vlctors
with some kind of green stuff. But
as it was staged in Topeka, kan.' IN
this A. d. 1915, the best that can be
hoDed is that I will arouse some of
the lukewarm fans to realization Oh
what they are missing each afternoon.
A Pitchers Battle.
Mostly, the game was a pitchers
battle in spite of the figures. Bugs
Grover allowed nine safe ones, but
he scattered them over the twelve
innings in such a way that only twice
were the Indians able to squeeze Two
in one term at bat. Bugs seemed TO
tighten up the further he went ana
during the last i've innings dllo"eu
only one bingle.
L. Doyle, the Indian twirler, even
excelled our own Bugs in stinglnesS
II was the first complete game he mas
worked this season, and before ne
went to the rubber one of his own
men predicted that he wouldn't last
long But the son of old Erin fooled
'em all. and until the fatal twelfth had
allowed only four hits, and then 1t
took just two to defeat MN.
Cochran. first up in the last OF the
twelfth, grounded out. Mr.. Bostlck
followed him and ratified the boards
on left field fence with two Dagger
Mayer took the bext turn at the box
and singled to left, scoring Mr.. Bos-
tick and ending the game to 1.
This was the second extra inning
game for Mayer to break up by STICK
work since the team returned nome,
and it is pretty safe to say that Sammy
has won q home in Topeka that will
always be his. Also, the little south
ern slugger pulled off a throw to third
in the fifth inning on Young that was
pronounced the best fielding play ever
seen on the diamond
Seven 2-Baggers.
One unusual feature about the con-
test was that seven of the fifteen hits
made by both teams were two bag
gers. Next to Mayors peg, the fea-
ture play of the game was made by
Jimmy Jackson in the eleventh inning
when, after Davidson had singled, he
scooped up the ball and cut down
Crisp at the home plate, thereby pre-
venting the Soos from winning.
In the first of the first inning
Cooney flew out to Jackson and Grow
er famed Davidson and Kane Coch-
ran and Bostick grounded out for To-
peka. Mayer doubled to left, but Lat
timore flew out.
CaI IuI, cd I1a a
double and Hensling sacrificed him to
second. But Young fouled to Mayer
and Clarke flew to Trainer. Jackson
drew a walk for the SavageS and was
sacrificed to second by Roche. but
Trainer and Rapps grounded out.
In this manner the play was con-
tinued with neither side having
chance to score until the first of the
one inefficient run.
Davidson. first up in the sixth,
grounded out. Kane was given a walk
and was forced by Callahan at second.
over second and Young drove out to
center scoring Callahan. Clarke drew
a walk, but Crisp grounded out.
The Score Tied.
The Savages tied the count in the
seventh. Trainer, first to the box, w"
walked. Rapps was safe at first
on Kane's errcr and Trainer advanced.
Grover whitfield out, but Young made
n nasty mess OF cochran SrOunder
and Trainer scored on the error.
Cochran started delayed steal
and succeeded in working Kane
and Cooney into a tag game between
first and second. Rapps tried valiant
ly to make home on the play, hut the
ball was shot to Crisp by Kane and
Roaring Bill died diving for the plate.
Then there was absolutely nothing
doing in the scoring line until the
shadows grew dim in the twelfth. In
the eleventh with two down and three
,ner on bases and the ball hit to CEN
:. field it looked gloomy for the Saw
ages, but Jackson whipped his mighty
peg to the plate and caught Crisp by
a good four feet.
In the first of the twelfth Grover
cut the Indians down one-two-three.
Then, as has been related above. Bos-
tick scored, and the last curtain call
was over. The Savages had taken
three out of four from the 1914
champions. and had won a game that
would stack up well with the best in
the annals of balloon. The lineup,
score and summary:
SIOUX CITY
Players Alb. r. H. 20 A. E,