The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-21

norance of the game and circumstances
of ball playing. SIumps are one of the
things that history has proven will
come and they should be looked for and
figured up in the expense account.
Roy Bevis, the Saints left ferIer will
be able to play on Monday against
Pittsburg. Most of the swelling has
/ been reduced from his injured left leg.
/ The accident occurred in a peculiar
way. On Sunday at Sedalia he collided
with Cole in the outfeld and was spik-
ed on the knee. On Tuesday at Joplin
/ he was pitching to the boys before the
l game to give them their batting eyes, =
when Sisler lambasted a hard drive,
which struck .Revis midway %between
4 the knee and ankle of his left leg.
/ While the skin was not broken, the
! blow caused a very bad bruise and ne
cessitated a retirement from the game
/ for several days. Bevis is one of the
/ best Outfielders in the league. Bat
ting at 260 clip, he has also had. 43
chances in the left garden and accept
/ ed them all, giving him fielding av-
i erage of 1000. Ten days ago he was
seventh in Topekas batting list so far
as standing was concerned, now he is
until he will be above the 300 mark
| The Joplin News Herald prints the fol-
lowing about Bevis in the first game
with Joplin:
Up to the seventh it was as smooth
as Standard Oil dividends. Topeka
looked like a charter member of the
/ Which Was club, only two pilgrims
having reached the shrine on Sickening
drives by the bat of BeVis. That BeVis
was a perfect devil, Phoebe, if you
really want to know. The Salt of the
Earth had marketed four fat tallies
and it sure seemed q MONOPOLY. But
the seventh began in the cleaning.
Sisler clOuted one that skipped safely
into right, although Shimonek might
have gotten in front of it without
poaching on Mercury's reputation for
speed. Don't you think so, Phoebe?
Then Cole made three brutal lunges
at the ball when it wasn't and logged
an awful bunch of facial expression
back to the bench Might have killed
the umpire right there, Phoebe, if he'd
had run. Awfully close call; awful
~ angry Cole. Then came that devil,
Bevis, again. What did he do, Phoebe?
Why he hit that ball over to the city
limits of Sunsetville. Sisler romped in
to the plate just like the finish of
horse you haven't bet on, and that
devil, Bevis, was grinning sardonically
at third The magician, Keller, rolled
one down to Johnny Fillman that war
bled you can't hold me-" Johnny
couldn't, or at least, he didn't. Fact is,
Phoebe, Johnny got horribly complica-
ted on that chance and Bevis came
home. That tied the grandstand into
knots of agony; also the score.
The Joplin rooters must simply have
given Gy Stinson fits because of the
fearful swatting-fest which they made
off his delivery in the second Joplin
game. After the agony was over,
RUDE WaddeIl Cyrus Stinson wanted
to Jump and he said so. During the
game, when he found that he could
not get his arm to working properly,
he wanted to be taken out but Al
berts told him to pitch it out even
though they made forty hits off his
benders. They pretty nearly made
them. Just as likely as not the next
time Cy goes on the firing line he will
no aI1rsra he 1,.,4f
mighty hard to tell just what will
happen. This from the Joplin Post;
Ever since the season opened the To-
peka newspapers have been featuring
one Cy Stinson as the RUDE Wadden
of the Missouri Valley league. Poor
old Cyrus never knew a minute when
he could hold his own with a dozen
other pitchers in the league. The
halo the Topeka papers have been
painting around his locks simply
afforded the bleachers a chance to
roast him. For Cyrus vas easy. Hor-
ribly, dreadfully easy. The Miners
then some. They pasted his drops,
they annihilated his slow balls they
jumped onto his curves with both feet
and had the fielders lodging all over
bleacherites were making poor Cy
sore at the Topeka papers for calling
him the phenom of the league
Somehow or other people are chang
ing their minds that Sedalia is too
strong for the rest of the circuit and
it will break up the league.
The Springfield Leader has this bunch
of word pyrOtechnics for the fact that
its team is in the first division But
they are playing the Saints now and
something may happen. The clipping:
The Midgets got up into the first di-
vision yesterday by beating Leaven-
worth The Midgets are self made men,
beginning life in humble surroundings
in the place where Fort Scott now is
BY working hard and studying at
nights they acquired a baseball educa-
ton and gradually they toiled AID la
bored in the face of adversities until by
prudence and skill they got into the
first division, where they. expect to live
happily ever more.