The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-18

thought It stood better chance TO WIN
at home than at Topeka
Winning four straight games in two
days is the record for the season and
the fans ought to turn out in large
mum bers Thursday to welcome the
White Sox when they open a. three
game series with Springfield at Asso-
citation park.
The four victories by the White sox
in two days bring to mind the great
stunt performed by the Chicago White
Sox last season when that team in
August won six straight games IN three
days from Boston on the Chicago
five out of six games played in three
days from Collins team in Beantcwn.
thereby playing six doubieheaders and
winning eleven out of the twelve
games.
Eight games won, out of twelve play
ed. This is the rather remarkable rec
ord made by the White Sox on their
trip which was concluded yesterday
with the winning Of another double
header at Webb City. Surely this ought
to convince the fans Of Topeka that
they have q team which is just little
better than the best of the teams in the
association. The verfest martinez of
manager in the national league is quite
willing to say, well DONE" if his team
gets an even break on an out OF town
trip ana the crankS at nome applaud Il
this Is done.
But the White Sex have done q third
better than to break even and this Is
record which the other teams viii have
to hustle to beat on an out of town
trip And best of all the White Sox ar
rived home today with a good deal
stronger lineup than when they went
away and every man Of the team has
his eye on the ball and is hitting bet
ter than at any other time during the
season, as is evidenced by the hits they
have made in the last four games
against the strong twir1ers of Webb
City. They went away third IN the PEN
nant race, dropped to fifth place. and
they have returned at the head of it by
a fair margin over Springfield, whom
they meet in a series of three games
beginning tomorrow There seems to
be no reason. unless old hard luck turns
up, why they should not take two out
Of three games from Springfield in
view of the ball they are playing and
that will give them good lead once
on this d-breaklng trip the
White Sox started off by losing two
games to Oklahoma City and taking
one. They made it three straight from
Wichita, the tailenders, and then lost
two games to Springfield and finished
the trip by taking four games from
Webb City in two days During the IL
games the White Sox made 80 hits, an
average Of over seven a game, and dur
ing the last four games they averaged
over eleven hits a game They were
rather strong in the error column, max
ing 80 muffs during the II games. But
at that, this averages less than three
errors a game and in the last four
games they only made a total OF six err
rors, which shows that they have their
fielding clothes on as well as their bat
ting eyes working. All Of the men on
the team appear to be in the best pos
sible condition and Dick Cooley is de-
terrnined to push his luck with the
ball his team is now playing and ex-
poets to win enough games at home
during the present series to put the
White Sox where they belong, some 70
or a hundred points ahead Of the other
teams in the association. But next to
horse-ra icing, baseball is the most I'M
certain sport in the world and the team
lot of hard luck and lose a few. games,
and If they do the fclxle fans viii for
get their fine work of the last ten days
and declare the team to be the punkest
aggregation of ball players on earth,
when as a matter of fact It has the
other teams in the league beaten sew
eral blocks.
Announcement of the release of Bill
Howey by the White Sox management,
which was made yesterday, has been
received with regret by great major
ity of the local fans HoWey has been
with the Topeka team ever since it was
in the Western Association with the
exception Of a brief time last year. No
man on the team has been more popu-
lar with the local fans than Howey,
even when he has pitched poorly To
be sure Howey has not been pitching
what may be called winning ball this
year, but st that he has been in the box
when a good many games were lost
II .@e-t. ~ his fhrrr1