The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-05
WESTERN ASSOCIATION GOSSIP.
" n~9A LIN ASSOC1AIION GOSSIP.
WHERE THEY PLAY TOMORROW:
Topeka at Joplin.
Webb City at Leavenworth.
Springfield at Hutchinson.
Wichita at Oklahoma City


The local aggregation of ambitious
baseball players will leave tonight
over the Santa Fe for Joplin Tomor-
hght it out. Four games will be
played there. A postponed game will
be played off Sunday afternoon. It is
Hallasss turn to work for the locals.
An even break withsthe Miners would
not be- So bad considering the past
| performances of the Champs in the
Miner burg. We may even do better
than that. Monday is an IF day. and
Wichita. The game will be played in
1.-THE morning on account of the races
at the fair grounds in the afternoon.
Earl Reyes, sporting editor of the
Oklahoma City Times-Journal. who
saw the Oklahoma series of last week,
sums up the local situation in the fol-
lowing paragraph: pennant- win.
ming team for Topeka has proved the
undoing of baseball irs that town all
most. The attendance has been far
from the record breaking crowds of
last year and the team at home in
stead of making moneyNiss hardly pay
ing expenses For some unknown
support that it did last year and still
it has practically as good "a team as
the Champions of last, year. Luck has.
not been breaking right at Topeka.
ca ptaincy. Topeka In the Western
league would prove a dismal failure
if the attendance this year is any
criterion of what it would be in a
much faster league.
Joplins Globe: Joplin's loss of a
double header yesterday and Okla
homa Cityss double gain places the
hopes of the locals for second place
fleeing to the customary seven winds
& al icfl "a nr1fi left
there is scarcely any show now for the
Miners, and decided brace must be-
made to enable the locals to keep out
Of the also rams. And Joplin might
have finished well UP in the race, too.
Jack Brown, who will be remem-
bered by some of the fans as a catcher
who alternated with Art Queisser on
the Guthrie team in 1905, has been
drafted by the Pittsburg Nationals.
Brown has been catching for the In
dependence team in the Kansas State
league.
Oklahoma Times-JournaI: Bill IIof-
fer, who in his palmy. days was con-
sidered the worlds greatest pitcher,
and Warren Gill. the big first base
man, have the best records of any of
the local twirlerS. Hoffer has won the
eight games he has twirled and has
not tasted of the dregs of defeat since
joining the Nets. Gill worked in one
game and won it. Then he stopped
while his record was good. Manager
Mcfarland has won % of the 26
games in which he has twirled and
the best record in the number of
games in which he has worked.
Buchanan won and lost games;
Eddie Page won 4 and lost 2, Lewis
Woods won none and lost 1, Killillay
won none and lost L, and Ralph Glib
son won 8 and lost 1. Bandy has an
nexed 81 of the 81 games he's has
pitched, while Charles Bemis has won
10 and lost 5 games.
Topeka is probably destined to have
more trouble with the little towns in
the o. A. K. league. This time it threat
ems to be with Coffeyville. Early this
spring big Frank Moore who tried out
with the locals was sold to Coffeyville
with the understanding that the local
team was to have the right to repurchase
him for a stated sum on or before Au-
gust 25. The 25th has passed and the
CoffeyvilIe mana cement refuses to come
through with their part of the agree
ment. A few more such deals as the
Moore and Cheney deals and the West
ern association will have no more play
ers left to farm out to the o. A. K.
towns.
Eddie Goes will never serve his sem
tence in the Topeka city Jail if have
to even carry the appeal to the United
States supreme court" says President S.
c. Heyman Of the Oklahoma City team
in recent interview, land what is more
if the Oklahoma City club owners can
prevent Topeka from getting into any
faster company you can bet on it that
we will block their move"
Leavenworth Times: That Leaven-
worth will try to have a ball team
again next year is to be taken from the
fact that Hughie Jennings, manager of