The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-09
OVER THE WESTERN ASSOCIA-
TON.

What is the matter with the White
Sox?" That is the question OF the hour
with the Topeka fans. Almost every
one has an answer. Some of them try
to blame the management. Others are
blaming the pitchers. Petty bicker-
ing among the players" comes from
other sources. The latter has evidence
because it was one of the despoiling
factors last year, and the towns in
which the Sox have played this season
are also mentioning it again. Hard
luck" is the apology offered by Pres1-
dent Sheard. But all of these are in a
sense untt1nely 1t is too early in the
season to get out the hammers Which
were laid away last fall. Practice dates
for the anvil chorus must not be set
now. The team should be given
chance 1t is true that they are not
coming up to snuff, that they are in the
rut at the tail-end, more than a hun
bred points behind the seventh team. 1t
is true that they are not coming up to
the predictions which President Sheard
and Captain Abbott made for them. It
not fall out of the first division. I'VE
will win more than half the games on
our first swing on the circuit" said
Captain Abbott as he boarded the train
for Oklahoma on April %. ''or I'll be
badly disappointed" While neither of
the statements were extravaganza they
should not now be called up in a spirit
of criticism. Patience is the virtue
which the IODGka IanS SnOQlQ pIaCIlCe
now. Give the team an opportunity. If
they fall down after the season is four
or six weeks old, then a roar and a
loud one ought to be made, because
then there is stll a chance TO retrieve
lost fortunes But the season is scarce
" begun. 1t is fair to say that the
teams on the southern end of the cir
cult are in a better condition than those
farther north-the weather has been
warmer down there and they have had
~ get practice ana
round themselves into shape. That IS
a factor that should not be lost sight
of 1t is discouraging to the rams
dOubtlessIy to have a Dennant winner,
or a one-two-three team promised them
and then find their pets in the last hne
of the standing, at the first. Sheard
and Abbott think they have a team.
Sheard says that if Abbott does not
produce a first division bunch, he Wlll
have to go, and some other man pc
given an opportunity. 1t IS 1alr ana
nothing more than fair for the fans 10
lock up their tool chests and wait
little while. The delay may JUSTLY Justify
hopes, and if it does not. other players
can be scored who will come UP to the
scratch.
The loss of Morgan and Milton is al
ready being walled over by the Okla
hOnaa City team. The pitchers of the
Nets are not of the quality of the
two stars of last year. Gene Barnes
NAV consider himself fortunate that he
has Halla-
From the Joplin News-Herald: I'M
nire Deprey was hit in the stomach by
3 foul bali in the eighth inning This
81 lin, ont of business for a few min
hes but as soon as he was able to
sneak he said, Strike one Grit, is It
not2
cor,a comparisons by the Oklahoman:
~ cor gan9es of the Topeka
0 o. si5e city series Second Baseman
9ae1-iead If the Nets made a fielding
percentage Of $50. accepting q out out Of
% chances, with stolen pase ana
r,,rs and eetting 2 tWo-base hits. Dunn