The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-29
WEAK AT The BAT
Savages Lose Game to Denver
in Ninth Wednesday.
Both Pitchers Uphold Dignity
of SOuthpaw Breed.

A dry squeeze play in the seventh
with Rapps on third, Roche at the bat
and only one out that failed rniser-
ably when Ingersol Mitchell wasted,
cost the SaVageS a run Wednesday
afternoon and a home run by Spahr
In the fifth and bunch of hits in
the ninth gave Jack Coffeys Denver
Demons a 4 to 2 victory in the second
game of the series.
The affair was more or less left
handlers duel throughout and both
Animal Dashncr and Mitchell pitched
a variety of ball that ought to win
any game. pashner allowed only 6
hits and Mitchell only 5. Mitchell
walked 8, Dashner 1 Mitchell struck
out and the Animal 4. The Saw
ages played errorless ball and the Wis
1tors only Numbered twice.
For the first four innings neither
side got within smelling distance of
a run. Dashner retired the Bears
1 -2-3 in the first. Cochran, the first
man up for the Savages, hit the first
ball pitched to him and registered a
single over second ba Sc. But Mitchell
chopped the next three. Again in the
third inning Cochran drove a two bag
ger down the left field foul line, but
he was caught off at second and put
out by Messrs Spahr, Kelleher and
Galloway.
Spahr Gets Homer.
In the fifth Matthews drew q walk
on balls that were closely akin to
strikes, and Spahr, the two-bagger
specialist of Tuesdays game, put a
homer over the fence in about the
same place baltimore did when he
was batting for a hat and a pair of
shoes, etc.
But the Savages held their nerve
well and Dashner frightened. In the
sixth they tied the score Dashner
latter made a wild throw to first and
hit the dog pit, thereby giving Dash
ner an extra base. Cochran failed to
connect, but Tallion hit a sky sweeper
into right and Whelan muffed it. al
lowing Dashner to score and Tallion
to take second. jackson, the next man
. at bat, hit one through second base,
scoring Tallion, but was forced out
at second by Forsythe.
Then, in the seventh, the chance
that might have been was allowed to
KeIleher's error and stole second. He
was advanced to third by baltimore,
who went out Matthews to Fisher.
The signal for a squeeze play was
given when Roche came to bat.
Ingersol Mitchell wound up and
Rapps started for home. But the In
gersol must have been expecting it,
for he wasted a wide one, and made
it so wide that Roche did not even at
tempt to strike at it. The result was
that Rapps died in his tracks between
single to right field that would have
made the score an easy one. But the
pod pills had already been spilled.
The Blow Up.
In the eighth inning it looked like
a prolonged session was about to be
dealt, but it proved to be only the
calm that precedes the storm. Dell.
of the kiss me once, darling. daisies
won't tell fame, smacked out u single
through second in the first of the
ninth. Whelan, the ex-Kaw, sacrifice
ed him to second and Galloway
pushed out a three Dagger that scored
him. Kelle-her fouled to Monroe,
who caught the ball at whiskers dis
lance from the wire in front of the
press box, and Fisher found a single
that was good enough to score Gallo
way. The visitors took the fie1d two
runs ahead and the Savages came to
the bat for the finish.
Manager Jackson was the first man
up, and singled to left. Cy Forsythe
sacrificed him to station No. 2. Rapps
was honored with a walk and for
brief instant it looked like a ninth
inning rally like the one at Wichita.
But baltimore grounded to third and
forced Jackson out and Roche flied
to Galloway, ending the afternoons
presentation.