The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-14
THEY'RE DISCOURAGED.
White Sox Return Very Sore and Dis
heartened.

81 have four or five youngsters COM
ing in tonight or tomorrow. There are
both inflelderS and outf1elderS among
them. do not want to give out their
say what am going to do, think that
we can lose games with cheaper men
anyway, and 1 may follow that plan to
the end of the season. "-Presiden
| Tom Sheard of the White Sox.
"Guess we won't make any changes.
Think We'll just worry along to the
end of the season with what we have.
Don't seem to be any use to try on the
road with the gang we have. AT home
| they got plenty of ginger, but out on
| the road they don't show any more
than jackrabbits. Cole and Quigley
open up once in a while but that is
about all there is to it. Guess We'll
just have to worry her through. One
of the pitchers will have to go because
we have too many now. L don't know
who it will be.'-Captain Spencer Ar
thur Abbott.
Absolutely failing to make a single
| trade with the exception of one, and
| that of a questionable nature as to its
| advantage and consequently not con-
summated the White Sox returned
home this morning, from the most dis
astrouS trip in their history, the loss
of six games out of seven, a percentage
of .144. That is pretty nearly the
| BOBBY record.
When Captain Abbott led his troops
on Springfield he saw visions of a trade
| by which he could return with Gus
Hetling on third base and probably
| Bobby Byrne on second. When he
got to the Highlander town, with the
statement of Manager Joe Zoellers
ringing in his ears: 81 guess we can
fix you up all right" he thought surely
that something would quickly be doing
| to throw reviving ice water on the
falling fortunes of his gang. After
| the first game, which "our boys won
by the way, he preached this PROPOSE
ton to the Springfield owners: "I'll
give you Brown and HOWE for Het-
| ling and Byrne'' Nay max. Twas the
answer. -'Well them replied Abbott.
I'll give you'll Dunn and Howey for Het-
| ling and Byrne." Again the Highland
ers' magnates wagged their heads
negatively and smiled big broad ''glad-
deners."
SCI couldn't do a bloomin' thing with
EN- said Abbott this morning. "They
turned me down cold on both of those
propositions So we went over to Jop-
| lin in the hopes of doing something
with the Miners. But the best offer
made to us was to to give us Center
fielder Lefty Maggie for Cole. That
didn't look good to me, however, and
I turned it down. He is an old one,
and we have too many of that kind
already. That is one of our bic trou-
bIes right now. We were unable to
make any trade at all or to get any
new men of caliber. / understand that
Sheard has a young fellow from An
thony, an infielder, coming here to-
night or tomorrow for a tryout. He
says he can bat over 800 and fields
about $50. Well give him chance,
although I haven't any hopes. I guess
Wen worry through the season now
with what we have
1.-THE trouble with our gang is that
out on the road they haven't bit of
pepper. Here at home they'll play
good ball and show enthusiasm. but
| get them on foreign grounds and the
| jig is all up. At Springfield we were
| out1ucked, and over at joplin Umpire
Reagan gave us the worst of it. The
day we forfeited that game Black
Carter had pitched the day before and
| was not in uniform. McKelvey had
gone home to see his relatives, Howey
was at home, and when Reagan order
| ed Dunn out for back talk we simply
| couldn't play. Reagan said after
wards that If he had known we were
short he wouldn't have done it. Shive-
I ley came down the next day and gave
Jimmie the deuce. We protested the
game"
heard was in don't care sort of
a mood. He was asked about his fu-
ture plans for the Sox and replied: 81
got some youngsters coming in here
tonight or tomorrow. There are four
or five of them, both infielders and
! outfielders. I don't want to give out
know just exactly what We will do,
but I think that we can lose games
with cheaper men. I haven't anything
else to say"
/ On Tuesday afternoon Oklahom
City will start series of three games
with the White Sox. to be followed by
Guthrie for three more. Lewinson will
do the Jmpiring.