The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-02
IN SECOND PLACE
SavageS Stage a Great Come
back Against Omaha.
Mayer Wins Game i'm Tenth
With Home Run.

For ten long innings they fought
the Omahogs and the Savages at West
err league park Tuesday afternoon
and the Savages came back to second
place after playing one of the most
variegated games a team could posi-
bly, play. The final score was to 8.
and the winning run was made by
Sammy Mayer when, with two down
in the tenth and two strikes on him.
he hit a home run over the centerfield
fence. making one of the longest HON
ers ever seen at the park.
Both sides used four pitchers dur
ing the elongated affair. But Marty
Krug needed more than four, and fur
thermore he needed better baseball
tactics than were displayed in critical
stages. On the other hand, the Saw
ages played brilliant ball when moth
ing short of brilliant ball would have
saved their skin, and the credit for
winning belongs to the team as a
whole rather than to any one man.
A Nerve Shaker.
The nearest description that can be
riVen of the game is that it was the
kind that would make Topeka a city
of nerve-wrecked fans if all games
were like it.
Omaha made a good get away in the
initial frame, walk and a single net
ting a run. The Savages came back
with a walk and doubles by Cochran
and Jackson and made the score to
1. Then, the game rocked along like
any ordinary game until the fourth in
ming when things began to happen and
from then on there was absolutely
nothing ordinary about it.
In the first of the fourth, Kruegcr,
the first Omahog up, smashed out
two-bagger. Krug got to first an
infield hit and Kruger scored when
Bostick made an error on Thomasons
grounder. Schliebner singled to CEN
ter. scoring Krug. and when the side
was finally retired it had collected
three hits and two runs.
Roche. the first man up for Topeka
in the fourth. drew a walk and was
sacrificed to second by Trainer.
Rapps also walked, as did Cochran
and with the bases full and two outs.
Pitcher Larson was relieved of his
Onerous duties and Johnson was sent
to the rubber. Bostick singled, scor-
ing Roche, and the bases were still
full, but Mayer flew out and the best
the Savages could get was a tie score
of to 8
Dashner Out.
In the first of the fifth, Animal
Dashner lost the kink in his tail.
Smith. first up, landed on him for
sythe doubled and was scored by
Krueger's single. That finished the
Animal and Swede Wideman was
drafted into commission, and the on
slaught was temporarily stopped.
baltimore was hit by a pitched ball
jackson flew out to Forsythe and
Roche singled, scoring baltimore
Trainer hit one to Forsythe's circus
grounds that should have been a afe
one, and then johnson was jerkei
Clossmar taking his place and retiring
the side.
In the sixth Omaha added two more
and Topeka only one, leaving the
Savages two runs behind, but in the
old seventh things picked up. After
Omaha had failed to score baltimore,
the first Savage up, flew out to Smith.
Then bedlam broke. Two walks, a
lone lonesome hit, a hit batsman and
six stolen bases Melted three runs.
1t was little short of a circus. After
Jackson had been given a walk. Gloss
man was taken from the box, and
Everdon, Krug'S fourth pitcher, was
q walk. Roche and Jackson negoti-
ated a double steal. Trainer hit
single scoring Jackson and Everdon
hit Rapps, giving him free base.
At this stage a panic hit the Oma-
hogs. They all went up in the air,
and Catcher Kruger and several 9TH
ers rushed up to Everdon to talk mat
tiers over with him, and while they
were talking Roche stole home. Then
Bugs Grover was sent in to bat for
Wideman. He negotiated first on a
fleIderS choice that failed. Then
playing off. he kept the opposition so
busy that Rapps stole home and in
. cidentally Bugs stole second. Cochran
retired the side by foul to Krug, but
Topeka had forged to the front by a
margin of one run and things were
looking bright.
Growers arm being sore. Lefty
Clunn was sent in and neither side
scored in the eighth. 1t was only nee
essary to hold the visitors in the first
half of the ninth and the game would
hold and double by Kruger and a
single by Krug put over another run
and tied things up again.
In their half of the ninth the Saw
ages couldn't produce. Then came the
tenth. BY heady work, Clunn warded
off a score, and the Savages came to
bat. Cochran, first up. hit an easy
one to Forsythe. Then Southern Sam
my Mayer ambled into the batter's
box. Twice he swung wide at Ever
don'S offerings and an eleventh inning
looked certain. But Everdon grooved
one and Sammy landed solid sending.
the soggy pill over the fence for one
of the prettiest homers Sammy will
ever make if lie plays a million years.
Thus ended the agony. The score and
summary are as follows:
PLAYERS Alb. r, H; Pc A, E.
s s%isn. a Is b;'',: Q J ! ! 9
Forsythe rf......... 8 o
Kruger. c...-......-. 3
mug, 3D.. ;--.-...-- ) o
Thomson. cf........ O 3 o
Schliebner h..
Whalen, ss.--.....-. . o
Larson. p.----...... o /
Johnson p-.-....--. o