The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-21
Baseball Notes.

1.-THE Senator are playing the fastest
ball in the American league at present
The o'Neil battery of the St. Louis Car
and It looks better than ever.
Pop Foster. now with Providence and
once with Washington, is leading the east
up in the line of batting, too.
Joe Kelly. sizes up the situation in the
just open your mouth in this league and
you're on the bench before the echo dies
kid" Nichols likes the looks of the
White Sex. whom he declares the best team
picks them to land the American pennant
this season.
a game this season. His work has been
superior to that of any previous season;
In him the Pirates have have the star of
the National armament.
Compiled records for the season to date
give the Senators the lead IN team pat
pitcher and Clark the leading catcher and
Carey the first baseman
Not to be Outdone by the New workers.,
who signed young Hendricks grandson
of Vice President Hendricks, Connie Mack
ant of Admiral Porter
Rather nice piece Of business that
which the Athletics pulled off at Cleveland
on the last day there when the team pre-
scented Flick. LajOie and Bernhard with
canes and umbrellas.
Mccain. Williams and Kelly are the on
" members of the OriOle outfit batting
above 300 The secret of the teams VIC
/ tories is their gifg gerry work on the bases,
where they are always moving along
1t looks as though Jimmy Collins would
pitchers Merle Adkins of Beloit college
Joined the Hubites at Chicago Saturday
and is said to be wizard with the
Bonner will do for us" says Connie
Mack. He is great Improvement over
Castro, and look to see our infield play
faster bah from now on" Frank can GER
tainly deliver the goods both in the field
Of the "a men in the American league
who are batting above the 300 mark
| Washington has five Cleveland TOUR, Bos-
ton two Baltimore three. Chicago one
/ Philadelphia four Detroit one and St
" inning four out Of five games is a
/ pretty good record for a released pitcher
( That's what Thielman has done Tor the
/ Reds, who took him when dropped by New
/ York Monday he rubbed it into the
Giants. beating Mathewson.
Jesse Burkett holds the enviable record
past two seasons Jesse has played in
games when he should have been in bed
/ But the Human Crab" likes the sport too
/ much to miss single game
bag. according to the box-scorers. He is
accepting plenty of chances and the stories
tell nothing of anything that gets through
his territory. Bnly's stick IS usually in
/ evidence in a pinch.
St Louis papers join in the following re-
frain: How that bunch of binglers from
Washington manage to stay down in sev-
enth place is wonder. If they could play
in St. Louis all summer ths season would
be a long picnic for them;
Barney Drey1uSS OF the FlTateS says MS
team hasn't begun to play its real game
yet He figures that about August l the
bunch will be hitting the path with a
] stride calculated to make it almost I'M
interesting to watch the National race,
ChioagO's repeated victories are rapidly
placing it beyond the reach of the other
teams in the league race. 1t looks as
though it would corral enough victories
/ at home this time to allow q few defeats
| around the circuit on the next trip.
In the nO-run games of the American,
Powell leads with three won. Griffith and
| Harper have won two each SEWERS,
| Wright, Joss, Garvin, Taylor Plank, Moore,
/ Hughes. Young Orth, Patten. Patterson,
Piatt and Shields have won one each.
/ Patterson. Reidy, Sudhoff, Moore Piatt,
Carvin Carrick. Mullin. Griffith, Wiltse
and Miller have lost one each while Joss
/ and Dineen have suffered two losses in
shut outs. Sewer and Mercer have each
dropped three.