The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-19


and he was in continual trouble with
Umpire Guthrie on that account.
Pitcher Buchanan, who pitched for
Oklahoma City yesterday afternoon is
man with lots of pitching experience.
Few years ago he was pitching out on
the coast where he attracted consider
able attention and received a tryout
with the ST. Louis team. He worked
with the Cardinals for a couple of
years and then went to st. Paul in the
American Association. From ST. Paul
he drifted to Nashville and later to
Little Rock. He was recently secured
from Little Rock by Manager McFar-
land. He has one of the incest slow
balls seen here this season.
The reproduction of the Wichita-To-
peka series will commence at the Nov
city theater tomorrow afternoon at $780,
The games will be reported exactly as
they occur, every ball thrown by the
pitcher and every play being exactly
reproduced. Every play that is made
will be known within fraction of
second after it happens. This will be
the first opportunity of receiving an
account of a game in this manner for
Topeka and if successful, arrangements
will undoubtedly be made to make it
permanent feature. This plan of re-
producing games has been tried in
other cities in the big leagues and the
fans in those places have always APP
prec1ated the reproduction.
Nothing has been heard from the
Fort Worth management in regard to
Pitcher Markell who was to join the
White Sox. 1t is not unlikely that no
effort will be made to secure him until
after Wright has been tried out by the
team. The big Louisville pitcher is
scheduled to report al Wichita in time
to work in one of the games there and
if he gets away good Merkel will not
report A right handed pitcher is need
cd fhT0n al he
ent time.
The White Sox leave tonight for
Wichita where they will try their hand
on the leaders for the first time this
season. This will be the biggest series
of the season yet played. Other teams
have all failed to stop Wichita on their
home grounds and now it is up to To-
peka. In many ways the Topeka team
is superior to the Wichita bunch and
good games ought to result from the
series. The Oklahoma City team re-
turns home where they will meet the
to the top and with good results at
Wichita ought to show up strong.
The last game of the Wichita
will be played Sunday afternoon. This
will draw one of the biggest crowds in
the history of the league. The Santa
Fe will run an excursion to Wichita,
who hope to see the White Sox trim
the Rabbits on their home grounds.
The train will leave here Sunday morn
ing and return Sunday evening. There
will be a Wichita excursion to Topeka
July IA, and it is up to the fans of the
two cities to show which are the most
loyal to their teams.
Old Paul Companion, the erstwhile
White Sox pitcher, pitched a game the
other day at Dubuque in which he held
his opponents down to a solitary scratch
hit and then lost his game through
nonsupport. Camp is pitching great
ball. He always could as long as he
could keep away from one thing.
1t may sound strange to some of the
fans but it is true nevertheless that
Bunton has so far this season made
the best record of any pitcher in the
Western Association without an excep-
ton Yesterday he annexed his sew
enth straight game. Jones Is also
working in great shape and is regarded
as the best southpaw in the associa-
ton.