The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-08
JUST like WOMEN
You Never Know What to EX-
pect at Ball Game.
SavageS and IZZies Demonstrate
,a Variableness of Sport.

Baseball games and women have
many things in common. They are
similar in many ways and singularly
related to each other
In the first place they are two of
The most interesting things man has
ever found when it comes to furnish
ing amusement and entertainment
They are alike in that no two of either
are ever exact counterparts of each
other. And their most striking re-
semblance is that you never know
what to expect from either.
The variableness OF the female spe-
cies of the genus homo has been so
thoroughly expostulated by the geo.
metrical students who confine their
labors chiefly to the eternal triangle
that there is little left to be said on
the subject. But the last two days
have furnished such a glaring example
of the -variableness of baseball games
that comment seems in order.
rsrSr Not Even Kin.
Tuesday the Savages defeated the
Des Moines Izzies to and Wednes-
day they won 10 to Z. OF course there
was nothing extraordinary about this.
The Savages were expected to win
both days, and they are expected to
win today and tomorrow. but to one
unacquainted with the game it would
seem impossible that two teams could
play two games on consecutive days
that would be as different in every
detail these two contests were.
Tuesdays game was played in just
one hour and thirty minutes. the
shortest time that has been made in
any Topeka game this season.
"Wednesday, however, it took just two
hours and fifteen minutes to complete
the nine innings, and this is about as
much time as can be consumed by a
contest unless a player gets killed and
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and pick flowers to put on his grave
in between innings.
However, the games were dissimi-
lar in many ways other than in the
length of time it took to play them.
Tuesday neither pitcher walked or
hit a batter, while Wednesday fifteen
walks were allowed and one batter
was "beaned" on the elbow. Tues
day there was not a stolen base. and
Wednesday the Savages alone swiped
five. Tuesday it took two or more
hits to manufacture every run that
was made and Wednesday the Saw
ages made six scores off of three bin
giles in the first frame.
Pitching Was on.
OF course the dissimilarity can be
accounted for only by attributing it to
different brand of pitching, but even
at that it is unusual with two teams
presenting the same lineup.
Bruiser Baker, the first pitcher
the Izzies tried Wednesday, was lust
a whet two off edge and he
lasted just one-third of the first in
ming, but before he could be removed
he had allowed enough men to get in
the paths to count five runs Mr.
Baker was relieved by Mr. Kinsey
new face in Topeka, and from the
first inning of the game was nip and
tuck with the Izzies getting the best
of the tuckS
Like Baker, Lambeth, the Topeka
pitcher, was not stropped up to his
usual keenness and he Iabored under
difficulties to the very last. There is
no better example of the good. bao
and Indifferent form that he showed
than the first half of the eighth inning
in which he struck out two men
walked three and permitted one hit
and one score. The greatest trouble
with the eX-Emp oria star was that he
couldn't get 'em over when he used
his stuff. and when he didn't use his
stuff they landed on him heavily
However, in the face of difficulties, he
deserves credit for staying on the fir
ling line and made himself a potent
factor in the run getting by driving
in four of the ten runs the Savages
counted.
Eddie Hits EN- Hard.
81 Lambeth and Monroe were. in fact
-fhe batting heroes of the afternoon
Each got two hits out of four times
up, and their combined bingIes forced
seven of the ten runs across the plate
SchWeitzer was the only other batter
on the team who MADE his hits count
scores, and Goodwin was the only
player to count without a hit. In the
first inning Pep-Nat got to first on ar
error and completed the circuit wher
Baker made a wild pitch.
- Although the Boosters were never
able to overcome the handicap Baker
hung on to them in the first session