The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-25
Baseball GOSSIP.

Baseball Gossip.
Thirty-one league players have a bat
Clark Freeman and Stahl are the only
Boston players on the list
Lacquer. has good bunch Of speed and
a stfw cross-fre His record in the South
ern League in winning twenty-five out OF
kance by old-timers.
OF late Muggsy .McGraw has not been
chance of leading the league in stick
work grows less every day However. he
will have the pleasure of knowing that he
leads the league in run-getting.
A month from last Saturday the base
ball season OF 1900 will close. Just now
the battle between Ptttsburg and Brook
lyn- The Pirates still have chance to
cut out the Superbas from first place.
It is announced by Manager Stallings,
of the Detroit team, that Ducky Holmes
and Richard Harley. helders. have left
Holmes to kansas City. while Jones and
Nichol take their places in Stallings' club.
Hamilton, Stahl, Tenny. Long and Collins.
not a PLAYER on the Boston team has pur-
agone Hamilton himself had record of
eighty. bases and upward to show for
seasons playing.
The wrath OF the defeated has fallen
upon poor Windy Arlie Latham, and his
chances of returning with the Reds from
reused the ire of the Reds by several bad
decisions against his own team during
game az pTolE1nence snade the hesf of t6e
deal
The positions of the teams of the boss
and McGraw~do not warrant the assunp-
ton that snarling, peevish growing wins
a Observation-Disclosures Telegraph
The Bostons club does not intend to use
Pitcher Steel. secured from the Terre
farmed to an Eastern League team in or
der that he may develop
1t is announced that the Brooklyn club
for doing the remarkable amount of extra
work which he has accepted 50 willingly.
The Brooklyn team hasn't a left-hand-
pennant race. Find the moral" says a
vet.
trick to save the Brooklyn team from fall
ing out of the nice soft bunk they have
been occupying is certain
Comiskey has won all kinds of bets on
his pennant victory. Wagers made during
the season with rival managers are now
bearing fruit, and as q result he has suits
of clothes. hats and other plumber to burn
Harry Wolverton. the Philadelphia third
recent railway accident. However. he will
hardly be able to play again this season
handlers. shut teams out without solitary
hit during the American League season
John McGraw has declared himself, and
openly asserts that Baltimore will have q
club in a new league next season, and
that he expects to lead the recolored
Orioles
Pitcher Piatt is improving. but slowly.
He will not be able to pitch again this
season.
If Hickman could cover third base like
he can hit he would be one of the great
est ball players in the league
Roy Patterson, of Chicago, is the star
pitcher Of the American League. He won
10 games and lost S-a percentage OF 81
and allowed but 2.96 runs per game in the
battles which he pitched. the best record
in any league, National League or Amer
fcan-
Griffith. who is usually seen only when
he pitches. amazed the crowd and livened
up the team at New York by putting in
an appearance on the coaching lines, keep
ing up noisy chatter and registering
kick two when needed.
The star base runner of the American
League was big John Anderson, whose
clumsy frame shot over the ground for
AZ steals during the season. AS in the big
league, the base-running records were ex-
tremely poor.
''Pink' Hawley is now looked upon as
the Giants best twirler. Hawley has won
five of the last six games. He proved con-
clusive1y Friday that he is still the great
twirler he was few years ago. He al
five men, With three men on bases in the
sixth inning, and one out, Pink struck
out Dexter and Bradley. Great pitching
this.-New York World.
There will be no post-season series of
games between the two Chicago teams
contingent, has formally declined the
challenge on the ground that it would be
impossible to keep enough good players
together, and in condition to play on ac-
count Of the late ending of the National
Leagues season.