The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-16
Where they play Sunday:
Topeka at Sedalia.
Springfield at lola.
Joplin at Pittsburg.
Leavenworth at Fort Scott.

The Saints will return home next
Wednesday for an exhibition game with
a picked nine from the City League.
That is an open date in the schedule.
On Thursday Leavenworth will be here
for a series of three contests.
When Shorty Hurlburt, manager of
the Springfield Midgets, was asked
whether he would keep Sissler, he re-
piled: Nav, that Teller can't run fast
enough to keep warm I'm just usin
him fer a few days till I git another
man. and he didn't play Friday.
Leavenworth and Elmer Smith and
Shorty Hurlburt will have to hold a
conference. Hurlburt sold Smith to the
Orioles. The latter people understood
that Smith was signed for two years
and Hur1burt says that that is true.
Smith, however, declares that mis- con-
tract with Hurlburt was Only for this
season. @s-0 at-4 TsT15l
Springfield has been offered 5000 for
Mig Perrine by one of the best clubs
in the southern league. This is prob
ably the last year of the scrappy little
Midget in the Valley.
Olson is working too fast. That is
the reason for the strange multiplicity
of errors which are being charged up
against the little Swede lately. He
needs coaching. Whatever else may be
said against Abbott, who once held
down first for the Saints, and Arm
strong who was in the cage for while,
it cannot but be admitted that they had
started to train "Oly'' into form which
would have made him a record break
ing snortstop by the end of the season.
With their disappearance ana the SUD
Sequent Reorganization OF the tean'
he has not been coached ana mas con-
seouentIy gone back to his old style OF
playing Hurlburt offered the Topeka
management SIS for him and said that
he would ''give him bring!ng-up IN
baseball which would make him one &
the best in the business
Corr, now catching for Topeka, was
in the army two years and SIX montus-
man enlists for three years, but Corr
bought off six months for $50. He re-
ceived his discharge about two weeks
ago.
Who made the longest hit of the sea-
SON 11p-to-date, where was it made, and
what is the distance? Hetl1ng OF
Springfield in the game with the saints
on Thursday drove a ball for 45V leeI
against the centerfeld renee
The advisability of morning prac-
tice is being seriously considered by
the Topeka management. Ihursoay
morning the team went out to WASH
burn field and worked hard for an
hour. In the afternoon for six in
nings the 1 to contest with Spring
feld made John Schrant declare that,
the morning work was just the
thing" Then the team went up in the
air. and John Schrant wondered "if
the men had not been tired out
Three or four of the best baseball
managers in the league declare
against morning practice, saying that
it is detrimental to not only the con-
dition of the men but to form. They
say it makes a player stale. If this is
true it should not be INDUCED in; If
the contrary is the case, team can
find no better method of getting &C
quainted with itself and learning
team work.
Church, the Saints new second
baseman, is a graduate of the Uni
versity of Illinois, and got his base
ball training under the famous HUFF.
He shows it. The Illfni have turned
out the greatest college baseball
teams in the world-and that state
ment can be proven. Big Stahl, now
with Boston, is one of them; Stein
wede1l, in the American, is another.
church promises to be star. He pro-
claims life and action in his work,
Characteristic of Huff's training. He
says he can get some more of the
Ilini, and the management won't
make a mistake by trying them out.
Joplin is fast getting the reputation
of being the greatest attendance
seem to have less than 5000 people
in the mining town on Sunday, ac-
cording to the official report.
Though its premise is wrong in say
ing that Topeka will not strengthen
up because the season is half over, yet
the Joplin Globe makes some very
pertinent and valuable conclusions
which the Topeka management might
do well to consider:
1.-The Topeka management has de-
cided that it will not strengthen up
any more because the season is too
nearly over. A greater error could
not be made. It takes a long time to
organize ball team. It really re-