The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-07
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JOS|ES HIT HARD
Honolulu Johnny Wins Another
Game for MiSsOurians.
Tony DEBATE Goes on Hospital
List With Bad Ankle.

Today. if the weather permitted. the
Savages and the Drummers were
scheduled to battle thru a douole-
header at Savage park to make up an
early season postponement and tomor-
row the Josies end their seasons ap-
pearance here with a game scheduled
to start at 2:30 o'clock. Tomorrow
will be ladies' day, and the game will
be called early so that the Drummers
can get out of town on railroad tickets
that were purchased before they came
here.
Like the Savages, the Drummers
are playing real baseball when it is too
late. for them to accomplish anything
In the opening game of the series
Wednesday, they flashed some real
playing,and with easy pitching to face,
won by the score of IL to Z.
Hall Hit Hard.
Hall, who started the game for the
locals, was knocked all over the pas
ture, and when he was finally relieved
by Burwell in the sixth inning the
game was already lost.
If Hall had been anything like as
effective or as efficient as his opposition
it would have been an altogether diff
ferent story. Hall had had a. good rest,
ent, was working his sixth game out
of the last twelve the Drummers have
played. But Williams was much more
effective, and, even tho he showed the
effect of his recent Overwork, he was
tight in the pinches and finished the
game stronger than he started it.
Hall, on the other hand. was good
blew The game might have been
saved if he had been sent to the club
house in the third. fourth or fifth
innings. But he was allowed to stay
until the disastrous sixth and when he
was finally pulled from the mound the
game was lost.
BurWell Not Bad.
Burwell took up the task in the sixth
when there were three in, one on and
two out. He permitted one hit and
one run and then retired the side, and
after that held the Josies to four hits
and one run. But before Burwell en-
tered into the fray Hall had permit
ted IA hits and was responsible for
10 runs.
One run, scored by Goodwin in the
first inning gave Eng1e's men tenn
porary lead, but Kirkham's home run
in the third with two men on ahead
of him put the Drummers in front.
Goodwin drove r. Lathrop in for an
other run in the last of the third, but
the Missourians offset this in the
fourth, and again in the fifth Kirk
ham hit Hall for a homer that scored
two and Otto Williams pounded Sulli-
van across the home rubber.
The last of the fifth was the only
really bad inning Johnny Williams
had He allowed five hits and one
walk and the Savages came within
one run of tying the count. But Hall
allowed McCabe and Jourdan to sim
gle in the first of the sixth and was
hit by Sullivan for the second triple
of the game Hall was then relieved
by Burwell. McCIelland doubled
scoring Sullivan for the second triple
of the game. Hall was then relieved
by Burwell. McClelland doubled,
scoring Sullivan and o. Williams
whitfield. But the game was lost and
the Savages were never within strik-
ing distance again.
1t Was a Mean Day.
The whole game was played under
very trying circumstances. A regu-
lar March wind blew constantly, and
this, along with the dust, made prac-
tfcally every ball that was hit in the
air good for safe blow. Time after
Time the wind carried the ball out of
reach of fielders when it appeared
that they were going to have easy
chances, and several times balls that
appeared to be going foul were picked
up by a gust of wind and carried to
fair territory
DEBATE, who was back in the game
for the first time since last week. hurt
his ankle again in the fifth inning and
Manager Engle wa$ forced to go back
to his old make-shift line up, with Bill
Lathrop on first base. Agler in the