The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-07

1t takes hits to win games. That
is demonstrated in the figures given
above. No matter how well team
may field the ball, there are no chalk
marks on the scoreboard at the finale
unless there are black marks under
the letter III in the scorers book
The Topeka management should take
the moral of this table to heart.
lola should be invited to play the
first Sunday game with Topeka. The
Gaslightres were the first to offer the
Saints an exchange date when the new
ball park talk started in Topeka. That
was genuine courtesy and it is up to
President Tom Sheard to appreciate
it by giving lola the initial contest
and the nice bunch of money which
half the gate receipts will mean.
Theodore Church, the Three-I leag-
uer from Bloomington, I'LL, who claims
to be a good third baseman wants
ment will probably try to make terms
with him for a try-out.
Considerable delay has been occa-
stoned in games in Topeka lately be-
cause of the lack of enough balls in
the field at times to continue the con-
test. The regulation three are always
on hand to start off with, but after
a foul fly or two over the fence loses
a. couple, which no one goes for until
the third one is also lost, causes the
trouble. 1t is up to President Sheard
to solve this problem, and no matter
how he does it, he should see that
the game goes on all the time and
is not delayed by any excuse such as
a lost baseball.
Hanley of Fort Scott is on the slate
to be released shortly. A good new
strong is to take his place in the right
garden.
The Springfield team has undergone
a marked change in its lineup. Wood
was brought in from right field and
put on second base, and Elmer Smith,
taken from third base and put into
the right garden. Perrine is playing
short, and Hetling has gone to third.
The change seems to have been a
good one.
Lawrence Milton, after whom Man
ager Hurlbut of Springfield went
with hooks and graphing irons, has
thrown down the Midgets and Joined
lola.
Almost every manager in the league
will testify that lately Fort Scott has
been putting up some of the best
games on the circuit. 1--WE play good
games" adds Armstrong dolefully.
but we can't win EN-" A little con-
fdence infused into the cellar cham
pions would probably help out con-
The most OF them look list
less and act as though they were
fighting a forlorn hope. tits never
over till the last man is out" sang
old Arson years ago, and the Nestor
of baseball is still right
From the Joplin Daily News Her
aid: Mike Welday has been sus-
pended for the balance of the season.
The local management, it is said, has
secured Earl Green to play first and
Dolly Gray will be sent to the out |
field. President Baker, in speaking |
Of the Welday matter, said: The di- |
rectors will back up Manager Fillman
in whatever steps he takes. Discip- |
line will be maintained, even though |
1t costs the pennant.
The Pittsburg Daily Headlight tells |
the details of Umpire Owens trouble |
in the Pirate town on Saturday night: |
Umpire Owens of the Missouri VAL |
ley league who gave decisions upon |
several league games in this city sud- |
denly left town Sunday morning and |
left a 81 panama hat, besides a por- |
ton of his clothes and a board bill |
He was making no effort to get away 1
from the board bill, his hat or clothes
enmity he had aroused. Owens was
what may be termed a big bully with |
4 streak of yellow broad as mans |
hand, but mixed up in one or two dis |
graceful affairs before the one Sat
lrday night. AS usual he was drink 1
ng Saturday night while in attend
lnce at the public dance in Red Mems /
nall slapped one of the ladies, which |
was taken up by Nick Hantz and his |
brother. The three were ordered out /
IF the dance hall and the Hantz broth
ers obeyed, but Owens undertook to