The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-23


- INCE Oklahoma has succeeded
in landing four straight games
from the Midgets the fans
who were condemning them
~ SO roundly while their streak
of bad luck was on are back
ing up and are willing to concede that
they have a more than fair team and
are circulating pennant talk.
The constant knocking of the home
fans has at last had its effect on the
management OF the Joplin team and as
result Harry Ellis, who was on their
pitching staff, has been released. A
pitcher from an amateur team Will
have a tryout and if he is al le to make
good viii be used to I'LL the place
made vacant by the dismissal of Ellis
The White Sox were second raters
for just one short day and then they
won while Joplin, who has been
croWding them for second place, drop
ped a game and likewise the place of
honor at the head Of the Western as
sOciation.
The game between the Salt Packers
and the Cooleycrows at Hutchinson
yesterday was anybody's until the
eighth inning the score standing one to
two scores VILE the Hutchinson team
were unable to again cross the home
plate.
The Leavenworth Time is charitably
inclined towards Twirler Ashley and
says: Pitcher Ashley, who leads off
for LeavenWorth, has been having
hard luck record all season though he
has pitched excellent ball all the way
through. It has been Ashley's luck to
pitch in games in which the locals
went against twirlers they were unable
to hit and Ashley in consequence has
lost number of games which,
through an even break, he should have
won. The long twirler also seems to
have been unlucky in the way his hits
have fallen the last two weeks at least.
Generally he has pitched games of
four to eight hits. Under ordinary cir
cumstances he should have got away
with the games were it not for the fact
that what few hits he gave fell in
bunches. This pitching may seem
erratic, but Ashley has performed so
well generally as to warrant the belief
that it is simply a case of hard luck
It was hard lines that Hutchinson
should be compelled to lose the first
game played on their home grounds
but the White Sox needed that game
and needed it badly to reinstate them
at the head of the association from
which they had been nosed the pre-
vious day by Joplin. The game was
fast and snappy at all times though
devoid of thrilling feature plays and
suited the Hutchinson bunch of fans,
with the exception of the score. which
stood three to one and against them.
Hutchinson turned out en- masse to
do honor to their recent acquisition in
the form of a ball team, and two
thousand of the city's thirteen thousand
people saw the game Friday, and this
does not include those who witnessed
it from the tops of a long string OF bOX
cars which usually line the side track
near the right field fence. A petition
was circulated among the business men
Of the city and they almost to man
signed it. and closed their places of
business and went to the ball game
With such enthusiasm and support as
they are receiving 1t will be wonder
if the team does not pull itself togeth-
er and give the Salt City good baseball
for the remainder of the season.
Sammy Morris. the aborigine who
has been twirling for Joplin this sea-
son, when in condition, has gone back
to the wilds of Idaho, and is now at
LapWai leading the simple life and
preparing himself for another try in
the pitchers box. Sammy has num-
ber of failings which make him very
uncertain quantity and he has caused
the manager of the team on which he
has played more than a handful OF
gray hairs, but at that they always
know where to find him when he fails
to show up for a game. Just before
heading for the tall tirAber of Idaho, he
met with an accident while visiting on
Union avenue, Kansas City, and his de-
sire for the simple life resulted from
his experience in that wicked city.
wichita which modestly admits that
IT is the best town in the Western as
sociation does not like the system OF
players acting as umpires and writer
on the Beacon says: Umpire Brennan,
who worked at Association park
throughout hte Spring ngfield-Wichita
series. has been released by President
Shiveley and is working in the Western
league on the Des McineS grounds No
Indicator man has been assigned to
handle the Wichita-Webb City series,
so far as Manager Kimmel Of the Job
bers has been able to learn My IS
the best town IN the Western associa-
ton forced to submit to the unsatisfac-
toryrWork Of player umplreS2 Bren-
nan requested his release from the
efforts of President Shiveley, berth
was secured for him in the Western
league He was instructed to work
throughout the Springfield series, then
to report for work at Des MOines. Be
fore the close of the series, he was re-
the Webb City games Monday night
he left Wichita and no relief man
showed UP here.
It is evident from the following
from the Joplin NewS-H Herald that
Goodman, who was failure in To-
peka as an umpire, has not improved
to any great extent. It says:
Umpire Goodman gave his usual
general dissatisfaction, though on the
whole his work was better than in
previous games. The trouble with