The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-21
ATCHIsON. 10; 81. JOSEPH. 2.
BASEBALL NOTES.

Breitenstein ranks as the best hitting
pitcher, with an average of 1856.
Donovan thinks Beaumont can beat
any man in the league in 1OO-yard
race.
DeIehanty still leads the league in
batting, but his average has dropped
to .404.
Cincinnati will play off a postponed
game with Washington Friday, Aug
ust 25, in Cincinnati.
Keller is the second player in the
league this season to score 100 runs.
McGraw was the first.
Flick is getting right up among the
leaders in batting. He ranks seventh,
with an average of .361.
There are now four 1eft-handed first
basemen in the league-Tenney,
Goeckel, Donlin and Beckley.
Pitcher Cuppy of the st. Louis team
is suffering with a sore arm. He
strained a tendon pitching a slow drop
ball
The three leading batsmen of the
league are Outfielders, the next three
infielders, then come three more out
Cooley's batting average was .26O
when he layed off. He had scored rs
runs. Goeckel has an average of .25O
for six games.
Knepper is the most successful
pitcher on the staff of the Cleveland
team at present. Cincinnati had him
and let him go.
Joe Quinn of the C1eveIands says that
the BrOoklyns are a much better bal
anced team than the Bostons, and will
win the pennant. Tom Tucker has sim
liar ideas.
Chris Won der Abe and Pop" An
son are said to be interested in the
new league" They were practically
forced out of the National because they
had seen their best days.
There are now only two players in
active service who were in the league
hnf i'm
my Mcclure, Of the BroOklyns, and
Jimmy Ryan, of the Chicagos.
The Philadelphias won nine and Chi
Cages five games in the series between
the two clubs. Notwithstanding. how
ever, the Quakers scored three runs less
total of IS, While Burns players Sc
cured rs.
There is one play that the old BaIti-
mores used to make once in a while
that I don't see nowadays said a
baseball man yesterday, land that is
scoring from first base on a single"
Keller did the trick in Brooklyn this
year.-EXchange
Boston has been shut out five times
this season, twice in the last two days.
Three of BostOn's shut-Outs have been
scored on their own grounds. The
wash brush to the champions are:
Nops twice; Orth, Taylor (Cincinnati)
and Phillip.
1t is rumored that Pitcher Magee is
TO return " TIE LOUISVILLE CIQD. III II
talk with a friend, Magee said he was
not purchased outright by the Phila-
delphia club, but was only on trial I'M
til September Is. If he pitched win
ming bali the Philadelphia management
was to give Louisville the choice of
Cooley or $3.50.
No short-stop in the league is playing
a better game than Bill Dahlen of the
Brooklyns. His throwing is superb, and
he covers more ground than when he
was with the Chicagos- Early in the
season Dahlen's batting was not up to
the mark. but of late he has recovered
his grip. and is now one of Brooklyn's
most reliable StickerS.
Work has been begun on a temporary
stand at the ball park to take the place
of the burned grand stand. The man
agement proposes to put up one of the
handsomest stands in the country for
next season. The plans of the St. Louis
stand have been sent for, and are on
the way. Heretofore the stands have
been built mostly of wood, but brick
and steel will be used in the construc-
ton of the next.-LouisvilIe Exchange.