The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-15
3 O'CLOCK GAMES
Majority of Topeka Fans in
Favor of Earlier Baseball.
Wolves Were Easy for Sayages
- Sunday Afternoon.
From Everywhere.

In the future all Western league
baseball games played in Topeka will
be called at o'clock The loyal fans
who attended Sundays game voted
for this hour in preference to 3:15 or
$40. and the majority was so over
wheIming that there can be no ques-
ton about their demand for earlier
baseball. The count of the votes
showed that the o'clock advocates
Communicated the BIS and $3.50 advo-
Gates by almost 10 to l.
And it goes without question that
the 1900 fans who were out Sunday
afternoon to see the Savages trim the
Jimmy Jackson Wolves by the score
e'of to 8 are the most loyal fans in
Topeka. 1t was raining a half hour
before the game began and it was
raining when the umpire called play
ball" but the crowd continued to pour
into the grandstand and bleachers,
and oldtimers said it was the biggest
rainy day assemblage the park ever
sneld.
=, Once during the game the down
pour became so great that the UNI
pires had to call a truce and SEND the
.eplayers to the dog pits, but even the
hIeacherites stuck to their seats, ana
swhen the hostiHties were renewed they
twere rewarded with better exhlbltlon
of baseball than is generally seen on
a sloppy field
: The first three innings of the
game were scoreless. and the only ex-
--eitement they furnished was "hen
Jimmy Jackson was sent to the bencn
-sfr, the second when he was called out
by Umpire Anderson on close de-
ist.isfon. Jimmy proceeded to dish out
some of his celebrated hot Ian
-zuage" to Anderson and the latter
promptly benched him. For the rest
of the game he stayed in the DOG
house. When his team began to lose
some of the fans feared he would tear
@.3oyn the structure, eat up the WOOD
work and come out a-fightin', but he
did not cause any more dlstur oahces'
wolves scored First.
r1z The Wolves opened the score board
in the first half of the fourth inning
when. with man on third, Han let
"a wet ball slip out of his hand LOT
-txiid pitch and allowed the man On
ethird to score.
The Savages threw off their reserve
Kand stepped to the front in the last OF
The fifth when they made three SIN
giles and two doubles good for pair
of runs, but the Wolves added two
more in the sixth on two singles, a
walk and a sacrifice fly.
1t was in the old lucky seventh that
baltimore and his men made their
big charge and got their full wreeking
crew to working, driving Pate from
.z4he-rnound and scoring a total o. seven
-.fans.
Agler, the head of the batting order,
led off in the seventh Pate aimed
couple of wild ones at Agler's head,
making him mentally sore. and to
make sure that he would not get hit
with one that would give him the same
physical feeling, the ex-Fed first sack
-er pushed out a safe single.
Cochran in 1t.
or e,.s Cochran then doubled and Goodwin
got his third hit of the afternoon, q
double that brought both Agler and
Cochran across the plate. Pate was
then removed from the firing line and
-'BulP' Durham took the mound and
shot one into Tydeman's short ribs
1.-THE first thing. Kruger flew out
baltimore walked and Schweitzer sin
gled. Goodwin scored on Schweitzer':
nit and Tydeman romped home wher
s,-Litschi threw wild to the catcher
monroe kept up the bombardment
getting a single that scored baltimore
Hall grounded out. but Agler agar
singled counting Schweitzer and Mon
roe and then Cochran famed, giving
the Wolves another chance to bat.
No More Scores.
-. Hall, however, kept his e'-- clear
for the remainder of the game and die
not allow a hit. Halls work through
4-out was exceptionally good. To hin
goes the credit for having pitched tn,
first shit game of any Topeka pitches
on the home grounds this season. AL
of the five bingles collected from hin
were singles and they were scattered
over three innings.
The Savages left Sunday night a
midnight for Lincoln where they NEE