The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-16

lthis bunch and consequently it is rath-
er hard to tell what kind of a bunch
Dalrymple has for this season.
Here is the way one little newspa-
| per in the association has it signed up
for the pennant race of this season:
| Wichita, first with Oklahoma City,,
Joplin and Hutchinson in the first d.
vision while Leavenworth, Topeka.
Springfield and Webb City running a
close race down the toboggan to the
cellar championship. 1t is good
thing for the guesser of the above
| position of the teams that his job
/ does not depend upon it or he would
likely lose his job in a hurry. As it
| looks at the present time, there are
seven other clubs that may win the
pennant but if any one of them are
successful they will know that they
have played great ball if they get
very far ahead of Topeka: -
frsThe players of the Joplin team this
year will not 1Ieok aupon anything
wetter than water. AS soon as one OF
them breaks over the pledge "a seat
Will be reserved for him on the bench y.
says Manager Lou Armstrong of the
Joplin team. If Old Army means all
he says it augurs much for the success
of the Joplin team. A boozing team
never did win a pennant.
Manager Pierce of Springfield is
using his axe quite freely these days
and has already caused it to fall upon .
ten of his tryouts who were from tln{
Ozarks. He has whole lot lefR
however, and still expects to gather
together a good team.
The season in the Western league
opens tomorrow. At the present time
the chances seem to favor Des Moines
with Omaha and Lincoln close sec
onds in the pennant race. However
the race in the Western will be closer
before in its history, with it's present
circuit This is the league that To-
peka might have been playing in if
How delighted the Wichita papers
will be to print this little story told
today: Lincoln IT, Wichita o. Wich-
tia, by the way is the team that in
their opinion is faster than any team
In the Western league and has the
pennant in the w. A. this season al
ready captured. Dix and Speer pitch
ed for Wichita and Jones and Cfcotte
worked for Ducky Holmes bunch.
Several critics have said during fhe
past winter that Mig Perrine was NOT
fast enough for the American league
Here is what he did yesterday. a
single, a double and a triple out of
three times up. These hits were SCI
cured from Pitchers Keefe and CyIarIr
son of the New York team and won
the game.
The Western association remnant
which will be unfurled at the local
park two weeks from Thursday wnen
the season opens here will be on dis
play in the store window of the
Drechsel shoe store ina few DAYS. and
will be left there until the season.
opens.
Spec Hurlburt and Jack Henry spent
yesterday at the farm of the former
near Maple Hill. Spec had some cab
bage plants to set out and took HACK
along to help with the work. BY work. =
Ing hard yesterday they were able ~
have all their work completed in time
to get back to Topeka last night.
The Joplin team have new uniforms
this season for the games that they will
play on the road. The uniforms are of
gray with slight tinge of red woven
into. them. The uniforms were selected
in Chicago by Johnny Killing and Lew
Armstrong.
Joe Woods, the seventeen-year-old
shortstop and substitute pitcher of the
r Hutchinson saltpackers. has never
played on any professional team, but
last season he toured the country. pIay-
ing on team Of Bloomer girls.
President Murphy of Chicago has an
nounced that he will hang onto all the
men he now has on his squad for SONIA
time This will mean that SeabaueI1 =
will stick awhile longer with the team,
Larry Kean. young o1Ifhe1der ,,to
tried out with Topeka two years ago,
has come to life again and is pIavinS
the outffeld for Bloomington in the
Three-Eye League.
Piles Cured in 6 to IA Days. ..-
case Of iiohF t b,gS to cure
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