The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-01
Baseball Notes.

The Cleveland club Is the dark norse
in the race. and must be carefully watch
ed, as the season has two full months t.
run yet.-Bostoni Herald.
Manager Hugh Duffey, of the Milwau-
kee Western League team. has signed
Pitcher Adkins, the Beloit fat boy, re-
Gently released by Manager Collins, OF
the Boston Americans.
President Hart Is busily engaged in
heart-to-heart talks with his players. His
purpose is the gaining of their signatures
to contracts for next season. Most of the
men have already signed.
Harry Blake, erstwhile st. Louis CEN
ter fielder, and one of the best in that
position in the country, is banging the
ball at Rochester. Harry used to be
weak hitter. but his average is now above
the 300 mark.
The Chicago Journal facetiously re-
marks: "A ball team made up OF pawn
brokers should win the nag. Each could
take his sign to the plate when he batted,
and the umpire would have to call only
one ball to give him his base"
1t is said that Umpire Cox. of the
Eastern, and Hasset, of the New Eng
land leagues. are possibilities for the
American next season. Both are ealing
and are said to be able to handle players
splendidly.
The way the American race looks to
most people is that six of the clubs are
pennant possibilities. while Baltimore
and Detroit are eligible for first division
honors Chicago's reverses have intensf-
fed the race. Boston's coming again,
and ST. Louis fall have made positions In
the front division most unstable Wash
ington's get-together and Cleveland's
bold dash have made, race the like OF
which has never been witnessed.
Harry Steinfeldt, of the Cincinnati Reds.
will probably be out of the game for q
couple of weeks. He has been suffering
from charley horse for some time and 1t
has become so aggravated that he has
been compelled to quit. His services will
be sadly missed.
reported having been turned over to
Baltimore. is said to be wanted by the
Chicago Nationals. Pick says until he
is released by Cleveland he is not at lib
erty to even talk business with any other
team in the country.
"Cy''i Hastings, the Worcester pitcher,
has been doing some splendid work re-
Gently He has won ten straight games
for that team, and with Falkenburg, the
giant slab artist of the team forms the
tower of strength that has brought the
Lambs to the front of the Eastern race.
Zip" ONeill, who has had an expert
ence both as player and umpire, made the
following suggestion the other evening
while discussing the roasts that have
been handed the indicator corps Sup
duty and a newspaper man, who was
considered the local authority on the
game. were invited by management and
people to handle the indicator. requesting
him to do the business from the press
box. as he does it every day. how long
do you suppose it would be before the
writer would be q fit subject for an am
bulance corps? Neither the fans nor the
writer's see the game as the umpire does.
and hence the difference Of opinion
OF .Rube" Waddell. the Chicago Jour-
nal says: Ellis endurance is that of m
iron man. His skill, despite the fact that
he is a jay from Jayario and a Wild. un-
tutored rube, is almost great as his
| physical powers. Almost perfect control
is his on the day when he Is at hts best
and the variety of puzzling shoots thrown
in, too, with wonderful judgment as to
how each batsman doesn't like them, is
something almost incomprehensible. I.
| is hardly likely that even Amos Rusie
that husky giant OF the past, could have
pitched such long games as Waddell, and
Amos, even when most powerful, could
not have held his men to fewer hits, fewer
bases balls. fewer talifes- Great II
1 the Rube- Where in all the archives OF
baseball can be found bis equal?"- Jake
Morse makes reply in the Boston Herald
by offering the name Of Charley Rad
bourne. who. Jake says, fairly won q
| pennant single handed. was possessed Of
| unlimited endurance, and had all that 4
| included in the art of perfect pitching.