The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-27

What is the matter with the White
Sox?" There is a question that would
stump the "sages of all ages" A lot
of high-priced fellows, with pedigrees
and regulations longer than a climb up
the highest mountain in the Himalayas,
they have absolutely proven themselves
incompetent to demand anything better
than an attempt to pull Springfield out
of the cellar championship. One day
the players are at fault with errors and
the next day the pitchers wouldn't take
the BOBBY prize against the Polk Street
Kids They have demonstrated them
selves to be n1onstrous joke. There
seems to be nothing else for Mr.. Sheard
to do but fire the whole aggregation
and start all over again. I'VE are now
firing kilograms into the defunct Cotton
States lea que which went up two weeks
ago. said Secretary Logan today, "but
as yet have received no satisfactory re-
plies. Blackburn is tending to that.
We have made up our minds to
strengthen the team at any point with
any better men obtainable'' The opin-
ion that the other towns are getting of
the White Sox is fearful to think about.
Just read this COB on Mondays game
with the Jobbers from the Wichita
Beacon:
yates of butter factory ready to be
Know Known ig as the Topeka baseball club viii
baseball bats. filed with basehits.
WANTED-12 BASEBALL PLAYERS
who lzaow how to bat and run bases
when they get on: will pay good price
today or tomorrow for a dozen players
that can beat Wichita.
A bunch of manfacs turned loose in a
fireworks supply store to celebrate In
dependence day, couldn't have furnish
ed a more effective catastrophe" than
befe1I the White Legs OF Topeka at AS
sociation Park yesterday. The score
was IA TO 2
rro,,, esbaord,e I1asohoI1 4aar, 4I,e ,r;de
of Topeka, headed by one Sir Felix
Blackburn, overweighted with ideas of
his own significance, as well as avoir-
dupois, figured about as much in yes
| terday's game as Sir Felix himself
would have figured in race with
Scotty's special on a boys velocipede.
| Mr.. Heiny Gehring, the little German
boy from ST. Paul, dispensed the slants
to Sheard's aggregation, and such an
assortment of twists and curves has
never been seen in these parts since the
| wellington cyclone.
Nicholas Carter, he of the detective
story fame and blood e1rdIing adven-
| lures was the opposing deIiverer. He
ed around helplessly throughout the re-
mainder of the performance, trying to
catch his lines. The Jobbers made a
grand total of sixteen safe ones, and
| cut of thirty y-eight times at bat, only
two men were struck out by the sleuth.
But at that they should be soundIy
scolded for not hamnering Mr.. Carter
worse, as he had nothing, absolutely
nothing, but a dignified method of
+! handling the ball. He issued passes
| like a railroad president at a meeting
of the legislature and his fielding also
was on the pass" order.
| The one particular star of the To-
peka line up was Mr.. Felix Blackburn,
much touted by the Topeka papers as
the individual sinner of the Western
association. Felix quit shining yester-
day and let the sun do the job.
| A description of Blackburn would be
worse than one of Billy Baxter's letters.
| Suffice it to say that he looked like a
| tame steer in an alfalfa patch when he
was in action. and his fielding, when he
chased the little pellet around the dia-
mond, much resembled a steer chasing
billy goat around a 160-acre pasture.
over. at Wichita they declare that
| Blackburn would make a good walking
advertisement for THE Stuff that Made
| Milwaukee Famous"
From the sedalia Sentinel: Field
Manager Milton did the unusual but
| right thing in the game Friday. Roy
/ Bevis loafed in running out a ground
| ed he had knocked to White and per-
| 1nitted double play. Milton sent him
! to the bench and played the remainder