The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-18

\ E1elS. Joplin ...-....... -535
/ Hite. ......- LeavenWOrth -. -z9y
! Lowell. Joplin ...-...--.. ~-SW
/ Hughes. Pittsburg $500 .0O
i Halla- ..-... Pittsburg .--.-- ~
| Baxter Springfield 800. 0g0
! Schaff- .--... Fort Scott goo
xWoodbury Fort Scott GO
| Grooms. 80 Fort Scott. 900
| Fredericks- Fort Scott 100
/ Durbin. Fort Scott 1900. COO
+Taylor. Leavenworth - 900
*Released.
xSold to Leavenworth.
Iola's pitchers lead. Morgan, Root
| and GOOdear1 form triumvirate
which Will make great stand for the
pennant this year. All three are
| heady pitchers, hard to rattle, untir-
| ing workers, and have good arms. Sc
dalia ranks next and Topeka third
| Joplin, LeaVenwOrth, Piitsburg,
Springfield and Fort Scott follow in
the order named 1t would be hard to
pick out the best pitcher, for that can
only be done by considering form,
/ fielding and support with his average
! Yet a pitcher has much to do with
/ losing his own game, as Stinson did
! for topeka to Sedalia last Saturday
by passing two men and pitching a
no-hit game, and Carter on Sunday,
] by letting in two runs on oVerthroWs,
which should have been easy put
/ outs. Consequently it is fair in the
long run to give a pitcher just such a
record as the score card shows after
the game, won or lost 1t is too early
to enter into the individual merits of
I the twirlerS, but just as an eye opener
it would be we'll for the fans to watch
Davis of Sedalia, Goodearl of lola,
Root of lola, Stinson of Topeka, Gates
of Leavenworth, Morgan of lola and
Groom and Durbin of Fort Scott.
Hurrah! There is no road without
a turn The morning paper probably
accidentally had Topeka in its right
place in the Standing of the Clubs"
this morning.
Here are three all in bunch from
the Leavenworth Times. That paper
is still kicking itself because it called
its punk team an "all-star" aggrega-
ton earlier in the season.
Over in Topeka baseball ardor and
newspaper venom have been mingled
| in an incongruous, curdled mass. The
| two leading papers of that town are at
war. They usually are, but not over
such trivial matters. The Capital, not
without grounds, accuses the journal
of being unable to discriminate be
! tween a hit a fielder's choice and an
error and the Journal not without
| equally good reason says that the Cap
ftaI force does not know how to fig
ure standings. The Capital IS not alone
for the Kansas City Journal rides IN
the same punt.
TIE Topeka Journal has the impu-
dence to fiaunt in the faces of such
men as Gates, Curtis, Morgan Root
Ford, Baxter and many others. the IN
suit that Cy Stinson, poor old Cy, is
reputed to be the best pitcher in the
! Valley League. Out on a limb
The Topeka Journal again has some
inside information according to when
Leavenworth has offered 500 to Rom
/ for Schrant. Big JOnn is a desirable
player, of course, but Gates is not so
! foolish as to think that he can buy
him Where'd you get it anyway Jour-
nal?
Answer: Dick Rohn.
Lee Gramley, who is playing second
base for Sedalia under the name OF
1 Lee and who is also an ex-W ashDurh-
tie. evidently stands ace h1gh with the
Golbugs While Dick REIN is absent
from the game most OF the week on
account of the death of one OF MS rel
atives, Gram as they knew him mere
| is rnanag ger captain of the Golopugs-
There are two kid pitchers in the
league this season. Goodearl of lola is
iusf past Is and B. Rurbin of Fit. Scott
will be Is his next birthday. Both boys
are wonders and are on the straight
path to faster company WITHIN the next
few years.
Fort Scotts predicted brace is on
| 1.-The come" Cheatwood of the Western
league reported yesterday a shortstop
/ named Rummey of St. LOUIS VIII De
| in this week; Woodbury. has been trad
/ ed to Leavenworth for Myers VINO Is
| a good catcher, and Swaers mas Deeh
secured from Joplin for Jimmy craven
1t won't be long until HornadayVllle
will be in the running, and somebody
/ will have some work to keep the Bene-
stalks out of the first division.
Mcconnell of Sedalia is the fastest
sprinter in the league. He has eight
! stolen bases to his credit I'D to date.
1 His team mates kept tab on his work
/ last year and say that he can get 10
/ first base three times in five before the
/ shortstop can get the ball to the initial
sack.
Gill. formerly with the Fort Scott
! Valley Ieaguers was touched up for
sixteen hits the other day while pitch
/ ing for Cedar Rapids against Rock
/ ford In the same game Nandine,
/ erstwhiie of Sedalia, and Meek, once
with lola played the first and third
sac ks. respectively. The first got four
+ hits and the second three off the big
Wash burn football player.
The record shows that UP to date
the attendance at the ball games all
over the league has not been as good
as last year. The weather is respon-
sible, but none of the towns are talk
ing of quitting
Now the morning paper finds fault
with the Kansas City papers because
i they call the Topeka ball team The
/ Saints" a name selected from 500
suggestions by a committee of plain
4 Amorfcau citizens and accented nv