The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-04
ON SEASON
Savages Won 6 and Lost 4
With Wolves in Topeka.
Little Chance to Drop Lower
Than Wichita Now.

By taking both ends of SATURDAY
doubleheader from Jimmy Jackson
Wolves bv the scores of to and
to 5, and then by splitting even on
Sundays twin bill, Manager Engle
b Savages succeeded in taking the last
Wolf series of the season in Topeka,
and, incidentally, made it pretty GER
tain that Wichita will not be able to
finish above Topeka when the end OF
~ the season arrives.
= The Savages have held eleven en-
gagements with Jimmy Jackson's team
lin Topeka since the opening of the
- season. and the victory in the final
game gave them the edge, Topeka
having won and Wichita ..
AlthO Engle is handicapped by haV-
ing both Cochran and DEBATE out OF
the lineup and by having to use pitch
ers and catchers to fill in, the team
has been playing practically as good
ball as before Tony and George were
.-put out, and a little better pitching
Sunday would have made a clean
sweep of the final Wichita series.
Pitching the Problem.
In Saturdays games Henning and
= Sanders were fairly effective, and the
balance of the team hit hard behind
them, but Hall had hard time of it
Sunday and the blame for the loss of
the first game rests entirely upon him.
He did not make a very favorable i'm
preston in the first inning, and after
allowing five hits that counted three
runs in the second, he was relieved
- by BurWell in the third after Litschi
had touched him for a homer Bur-
we'll did fairly well, but the game was
already lost and the only thing that
prevented Davis getting a shut out
the fact that Burwell and Agler
punched triple and single in the
seventh, and these with the aid of an
infield out counted pair of runs. In
&. no other inning did Davis allow more
than one blow.
The second game, which the Saw
ages took 10 to T. furnished the real
entertainment of the afternoon and
was chucked full of excitement and
diversions from the first. Hall was
again sent to the mound by Engle.
and he gave a better account of him
self than in the first game, altho at
times he was punctured rather ruth
lessly. Craig, a Texas southpaw, dug
up in a mattress factory by an auto
salesman, was pitted again Hall by
until the team went to pieces behind
him. Then he appeared to give up
and became reconciled to his fate.
Litschi Repeats.
Hall was niched for two blows and
a run in the first inning. In the sec
oud, Litschi, who had gotten a homer
In the other game, poled one over the
fence in the same place and trotted
all the way around with no one OF
ahead of him.
The Savages scored ter first run
IN the second round an error by
White and single by Allen. The!
added two more in the third whei
White booted two more chances anC
so thoroly Disguised Jackson that tn
latter took him out of the game anC
sent Pitcher Griffin to plav short. An
other was added in the fifth, Goodwin
getting on by the four ball route ant
crossing the pan on Bill Lathrop'
twoba gger.
Bill Rapps came to life in the sixth
inning and with two runners on tn
paths and two out, he kissed a lon
double to right field that tied tn
score. Just previous to this Allen ha
hit Dolly Gray in the back of tn
head with the bail and Dolly was car
ried from the field unconscious, Grit
fifth going behind the bat for the re
mainder of the game, while Rapp
took up the first base duties and 81
James himself went back to his regu
lar place in center field.
Savagcs Get Busy.
After Rapps haG tied the score
looked as tho the game might e
longer than the seven innings agree
upon but the locals suddenly foun
their hitting stride and they mad
certain that there would be no extr
innings by hanging up half doze
counters in the last of the sixth
Monroe. first up. was safe on Gri
fins error. Allen singled, Hall Doppe
out and Ralph Lathrop walked. AS
Ter then delivered the winning pune
when he doubled to center, scorir
Monroe and Allen, Goodwin drew
walk and Engle killed the last hoI
that Jimmy and his men cherishe
when he walloped d three bagger thl
cleaned the bases. Eng1e then coun
ed the last run of the afternoon c
Bill Lathrop's infield out, and quic