The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-14
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IX8n SPoRTlNGNEws6AS@aH
| ZN@ From Everywhere.
NO, NOBODY Home!
Big League Clubs Overlook
Good Bet in Paul Musser.
He's Regular Slicker in Box;
Strikes Out 13 Savages.

Dodgers, the Tigers and the Browns, i
and every other big league club that
has so much as a speaking acqua1nt-
anee with a chance to cop one of the
big league pennants and horn in on
the worlds series pie is badly In neeo
of pitching talent
Anv one of the clubs that have
a daylight ghost of a show could win
hands down if it only had reliable
pitchers Yet Paul Musser is pitch
ing his fool head off down here IN
the Western league for Des MONIES, 8
club that hasn't chance in mil
lion of finishing one two. Can you
beat it?
We'll. if YOU nave seen Musser pitch
recently you will admit that II IS IN
beatabie Surely, the ivory of the
Ivory hunter must be thicker than has
been suspected. Undoubtedly every
big league scout who has visited the
Western league needs to go to see an
eye doctor.
He Has Everything.
=, Musser has beer showing pretty
conclusiyely that he has the earmarks
of a pitcher all reason. But Wlthth
the last few weeks he mas peeh eA
hfbiting more than the earmarks, ana
in his game Wednesday in which ne
defeated the Savages to he looked
like Walter Johnson with Grover
Cleveland Alexander diploma
In a recent game Musser deteilted
a
three hits, and it was reported at the
time that every Omaha player VINO
went to bat called for an examlna-
ton of the ball in an effort to find out
ifs some Illegal substance We're not
l1eine used to make it act so queerly
No wonder they did! Several saw
ages did the same thing Wednesday,
The old American Apple was acting III
am obsreperous and uncanny hl3 3la
every time Musser turned it loose
travelling with u frightful speed ana
taking hops and drops in manner
that was calculated to make bats
man suspicious
No Dope Visible.
PIT If " dope" was being used.
iA.Uas being applied internally, and
not even Manager Engle could detect
a trace of II.
In all Musser struck out thirteen
Savages, and to one who could not
see the stuff he was putting on the
bali. it looked as tho the Topekans
we're not trying to hit him. But to
those back of the plate, their taking
the count of three time after time was
very simple,
Rut for an error the Izzy curver
would have had shut out, and he
deserved one. After having held the
savages to three scattered blows for
eight innings Pep Nat Goodwin
connected with one of his. fast ones
in the last round and made three bases
on it, Engle then hit a fly to left
center that both Cass and Mclean
went after and Cass dropped it. allow
ing Goodwin to count the only Topeka
score of the game.
Sanders Had Trouble.
Sanders opposed Musser for eight
innings. and, despite the fact that he
was in trouble most of the time
pitched average ball. He allowed q
double and single to count one in
the first inning and then escaped
punctures until the sixth, when two
more were made. Then, in the
seventh. he lost temporary control and
two walks, three hits and a sacri-
flee fly that he allowed put the con-
lest in the Des Moines win colurin
without a question of doubt. Sanders
was relieved in the last of the eighth
to allow "Pinkey Bill Burwell to bat
for him, and Felix Cooper finished
the game, being scored on without a
hit.
Agler. Engle and Goodwin were the
only locals who were able to touch the
nnystifying, twistifying delivery of
Musser for safe blows, and Lathrop
and Sanders whitfield every time they
wandered up to the plate. Aside from
the pitching of Musser. the only fea-
ture of the game was the base stealing
of Mclean, who pilfered three clean
ones.
The second engagement of the series
was booked for this afternoon. To-
morrow will be ladies' day.