The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-22

some baseball players IN UNIFORM. 90 I
not forget Milton of Wichita. He is |
an Adonis of the real type. Quisser of |
Guthrie looks like tub boat beside |
him.
Oklahoma City threw away its sun |
burned daisy colored uniforms Sunday |
for gray and blue.
Springfield has a new pitcher by the |
name of White. Heavy Hurlburt is up |
against q hard row of stumps this |
year He started out with a good team |
but seems to be giving his men away, |
three Of whom are Cope, Maryott and |
Speer. The former two went to Wich- |
tia after being in Shorty's camp, and |
the latter has been sent to the Wood |
peckers at LeavenWorth. The High |
landers are not to be tabooed, however. !
They make ball players out of clothes |
pins in that neck of the Missouri
woods.
Jimmie Reagan, the man who is
umDiring the present TOpeka-W Wichita
series here, is one of the best fellows
in the baseball business. He lacks two
things, voice and nerve. His gray mat
ter is as good as any that might be
wanted on a diamond. But he hates to
take money from a ball player. The
idea of plaStering a man, except in an
extreme instance, is diStaSteful to him.
He is a good clean umpire, straight as
a string and absolutely fair. But he
much. He ought to sit in the grand
stand sometime and watch Brick Owens
umpire a game and make eyes at the
belligerents. Jimmie is a perfect gen
tleman, but it won't knock any of the
gloss off that quality for him to paste
mouthy players when it ought to be
done. It is a business proposition and
nothing else.
Roy Bevis. last year with Topeka,
has made. but one error this year. Cole
made his first one on Saturday-or
rather his first two, for he got brace
of them.
Green, Wichita's right fielder, owns
a good ranch at Cheyenne, Wyoming.
He had not touched a ball this season
until he joined the team at the Jobber
town last week He likes baseball as
a sport good deal better than bossing
a lot Of cattle punchers.
Close scores, and games won and lost
in the eighth and ninth innings, indi- |
cate pretty plainly without a diagram |
how good a league the Western Asso- |
citation is this year. A margin of one |
or two points has been a very common |
thing in most all Of the towns since |
the season has opened.
The Guthrie Leader: TT is rumored /
that a, few people are continually open |
ing their pates about the Guthrie ball |
club and saying that they drink too |
much. Every time that the Senators |
lose then some one starts the report /
that they have been drunk. Now the |
truth of the matter is that there isn't
a fellow on the team that drinks. They
played four games with Topeka and
won three. The fourth one they lost.
drinking on Saturday night before the
game
From the Wichita Beacon: owens is
in his element in Topeka. The Clark
street find can blow his bazoo among
his own kind. Umpire Reagan. who
succeeded Owens here, is a gentleman
and when not engaged in his duties he
can't be found on the corner letting off
his surplus gas for the amusement of
kid fans.
Wichita is to have new suits, to be
used entirely for home games. They
are white flannel trimmed in dark blue
dark blue socks and sweater vests and
Boston style caps with blue trimmings.
The uniforms are the gifts of the adj
miring Jobber fans and cost $500.
Here is a COB of baseball chuck-a-
luck from the Chicago Journal:
Smith-solemn Smith, slabman-
showed superb style, sending swerving
shoots. seldom seeing swats secured
and slamming the sphere a soulful
soak to settle the struggle. Lajoie's
lions landed lightly; Hess held his
hostilities heroicaIly, hard hits hardly
happening; the bleachers beloved
bull-voiced, the stand shouted stento-
rian stunts. Twelve times the two
tribes trotted to the tussle; twelve
times they returned to their trenches,
thrown down and twisted. Twelfth
trip, 8 to 8, darkness deepening dread
fully. Mcfarland mauled nightly,
moving majesticaIIy to second station.
TannehiIl took ticket to trayel-pass
presented by the pitcher Dundon
denied delivery, landing on the
leather, letting Lajoie land him help
Iessly. Smith strobe steadily slab
ward. smote soundingly. spanked the
spit ball, pelted the pellet, gated the
globule, pasted the pigskin, hashed
the horsehide and gained the glory!
And that was how AIliterative Alice
watched the warfare.
Now Peanuts Ford has been re-
leased from the Sedalia outfeld. He
couldn't hit.
Here is a libation on the heads of
the Wichita rowdies from the Wichita
Eagle: If the Wichita Baseball asso-
citation desires to retain the patronage
of the ladies at the games, throwing
of cushions must cease. This species
Of rowdyism is not to be tolerated for
moment and to the credit OF the
management be it said that strict or
ders have been issued to those in
charge of the grandstand to cause
the arrest of offenders If necessary
The practice began in fun at one of
the first games, but it has already
proved serious. causing injury to the
eye of a man in attendance at Sun
days game. While it is dangerous to
all who come in line with the cush
ions, it is especially disagreeable to
the ladies'. whose patronage is valued
by the association Rowdies are in
evidence everywhere. and they never
miss an opportunity to show their
hand. Many ladies have made com
plant of ruined hats and gowns and
some harm has already been done by
| the practice, which is still in its in
! cipiency. Now is the time to stop It.
and the management will have pub
/ lie approval in any effective measure