The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-04
Baseball Nofes

Nine out of twelve for the Nationals
on the trip. Good!
Thirty-one points behind Detroit anG
only 81 away from Boston. Sick 'em,
Nationals!
Rather odd that two of the weakest
hitters-Isbell and TannehiIl-should
get all the hits off Hughes.
Fielder Jones has a wholesome re-
spect for the Washington club. He
says it is likely to beat any team at
any time.
Besides winning from the White
Sox, who threw Boston down six times
in row, there is great deal of salts
faction in knowing that Frank Smith
wasn't 'it'' this time.
Some big league club will be coming
along one of these days and grab Bate
man. He is on his toes all the time for
Milwaukee.-Detroit Journal. Haven't
noticed that Cleveland has gobbled
him?
Oscar Jones, two years ago the best
pitcher on the Brooklyn club, has
drawn a release. He was dissatisfied
at Brooklyn, but may turn out all right
for another club, where the conditions
suit him better.
The city of Syracuse has set aside a
goodly portion of land as a public park
and playground and dubbed it ''Dineen
park" after the famous pitcher, Bill
Dineen, who claims Syracuse as his
home town.
Dave FuItz is going to begin the
practice of law this fall and will play
no more professional baseball. Pitcher
Powell and Left Fielder Dougherty are
to be disposed of and Griffith will have
three places to fill in his team.
Tip O'Neill. last year with Washing
ton, and has been purchased by the
White Sox. to be turned back to Mil
waukee after the drafting season has
expired. Tip has just had the plaster
cast taken off his broken ankle.
Ed Barrow does not like the politics
of the American association, with Geo.
Tebeau as the car, SO he has given up
the management of the indianapolis
club TO return to the Eastern league
as manager of the Toronto team
Treasurer Rapley thinks it would be
about the proper caper to pitch FaIk-
enberg in the homecoming game Sep
TENDER 5. Fans always want to get a
glimpse of a new player, and Falken-
berg would serve as a magnet at the
gate.
Pitcher Ruelbach. who defeated Phila-
delphia in a twenty inning game This
leads Philadelphians to remark that
Ruelbach is deteriorating, for earlier
in the season he could beat the Phillies
in nine innings.
President Bryce of the Columbus
club has announced that he has sold
Pitcher Gus Dorner to the Cincinnati
club, to be delivered after the Arneri-
can association goes into winter quar-
| ters. Jake Stahlis bait failed to tempt
the Columbus nagnates.
Arthur Irwin of the Kansas City
| club claims to have gone over the Tri-
State league with a fine tooth comb
and failed to find a single player who
amounts to anything who is not claim
ed by some club working under the
national agreement.
With long winter before them and
| the coal bin harder to fill than ever
the Washington players are thinking OF
the bonus money they will get if they
beat out st. Louis and Detroit If
| they accomplish that task they will
split up $500 among them.
| Charley Frank, manager of the New
| Orleans team. which has practically
won this years Southern league pen
nant, has confirmed the report of the
! sale of Pitcher Jimmy Dygert to the
Philadelphia Americans; also of Out
fielder Eddie Hahn to the New York
Americans.
A number of players will be drafted
by the Washington club today, which
is the first day of the draft season, and
when about all the drafts are sent in.
There will be a lot of players claimed
by one or more clubs, which will ne
cessitate sending them to the national
commission to straighten out.