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

quit that kind of performance it will
not figure eminently in the pennant
race; The Topeka; team IS made up OF
excellent baseball talent but from
Captain Abbott down there is too
much petty pickering INDUCED in to
warrant any prediction of success for
the aggregation. Harmony cuts a con-
spfcuous figure in winning ball.
one more hoodoo story for the
"prexie.' This from the Wichita
Eagle: President Shiveley witnessed
the game today, but left tonight for
Kansas City. Shiveley is proving a
hoodoo to Topeka and wichita. While
he remained in Oklahoma City Topeka
dropped the two games he Witnessed
When he came to Guthrie Wichita met
a shutout. Wichita hopes to fare bet
ter in tomorrow's game.
Another jolt for the Guthrie ball
park. The Wichita Eagle has this to
say: The Guthrie baseball park is a
Joke, and it is no wonder That the
Jobbers are meeting with a littNe bit of
hard luck there. The outfeld is COM
posed of a cotton field and a wilder
ness, while the inf1eld reminds zone OF
the diamond at Podunkville. IT is an
impossibility for the felders to gauge
the grounders with any degree dpf- ac-
| curacy and it is not surprising thaE the
error column has been large sinceN the
under course of construction at Gu16Q-
RE, however, and in justice to tho
/ Guthrie baseball manager it may as
we'll be said that he Joined with Man
ager Kirnmel in an effort to have the
opening games transferred to Wichita.
The appeal to President Shiveley did
no good and the bad start on the part
of Wichita may rightfUlly be at
tributed to the poor grounds at
| Guthrie.
President Shiveley's prediction that
LeavenWorth will figure in the pen
nanf does
been entirely a bunch of hot concen-
trated atmosphere. Allan Nickel will
return to the outfeld. and Hood and
Hahl, inhelders of prominence, will
| try to beat out Luettke and Lyons for
their jobs. The following story in the
Times is on the point:
"A deal is now afoot between the
LeavenWOrth Baseball association and
Arthur Irwin, according to the terms
of which Outfelder Allen Nickel is
to return to the locals and will play
in center field, probably soon after
the return of the locals to this city.
Irwin is coming a little hold-up game
on the local managers, but there is an
express proviso that if Nickel does not
play with Kansas City he reverts to
Leavenworth without purchase. Irwin
has decided that he will carry two
catchers and five or six pitchers, so
that a utility outfielder would be an
extra and unnecessary expense. It is
therefore most probable that the big,
hard hitting outfelder will be in the
night. Kahi, the Colorado Springs aqlss
inf1elder has been telegra phed to be
on hand here next Saturday, and if the
present programme is adhered to he
will appear before the fans in Sun
days game. Little Rock is still carry
/ ing Hood and it will probably be some
time before he is released.
McDilI is the second Western asso-
citation man to taste the displeasure
/ of an umpire. He was sent to the
/ bench on Tuesday at Sedalia for
I "sassing'' Lewison, and a plaster of
SIS was attached.
The four games to have been played
at Guthrie beginning next Monday
| between the Senators and the Okla
homa City team have beer, transferred
to the latter town, because the Guthrie
park is not yet built. The old grounds
make good ball playing impossible.
Wooley, the Leavenworth fielder.
seems to be the fielding sensation of
the year. Almost every place he has
appeared has had lot of compliments
for him.
From the Leavenworth Times: It
must have been a terrifying surprise
in Topeka to learn that the White Sox
really won, and by large margin.
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