The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-23

~ Citation |
| I.A Gossip
WHERE THEY PLAT
/ ~ ~ TOMORROW.
Hutchinson at Topeka.
| ! Joplin at Enid.
Springfield at Oklahoma City.
| /, Wichita at Webb City.
| The Hutchinson team with Jay
Andrews as the leading attraction
| will be here tomorrow and will at
| tempt to win from the Topeka team
| five times in four days. Cooley thinks
Hutchinson is our most dangerous
rival A double header will be played
| Sunday, the first game being called at
2 O'Clock. AS long as Jay is here
there will be plenty of amusement
Roach may pitch tomorrow. His
face is much better today and he says
he is in good shape to stand an at
ternoon's toll. Pretty pIucky for an
old man.
Landreth was taken sick in the sec
ond inning yesterday while in the out
field. He was not feeling well before
the game and while on the way in to
the bench in the second inning fell
down. He saw stars galore and was
bilious all the rest of the afternoon.
into the outer garden. Wooley was
into the outer garden. Wooley WASH t
hardly in shape to play on account Of
his hand but did mighty good work
just the same.
Cole seems to be playing better ball
than he ever did when In Topeka be-
fore. He is hitting with consistency
and his outfield work is way above
par. He gets on the bases too with
frequency and adds many runs for
the team.
Hutchinson Gazette: The best all
around player of the Western associa-
ton is Walter Boles, of Topeka. Boles
can turn a turn at carcnfng, pitching,
first or short. always with equal effect
spectacular variety too.
Joplin Globe: According to a story
told here by Umpire Eddie Finney,
Ted Sullivan, the famous scout of the
Boston Americans, is watching closely
premier second sacker of the Shively
league. While Finney was at Okla
homa City he talked with Sullivan and
the latter told him some Of his i'm
pressions of Western association play
ers. Sullivan told me that he was
watching the work OF Wanner es-
pecially, because he considered the
lad a conner" said Finney last night
I'VE talked for some time about the
work of Wanner, and Sullivan said
that he had peen told all over the CIR
cult of the .,reat work or the Joplin
second sacker. Sullivan himself saw
Wanner play on one occasion and was
much impressed with his work Sulli-
van also said that he had his eyes on
Scott, the big Wichita pitcher, and
Pettigrew. thea fast Hutchinson out
fielder" Finney's story bears out the
report that Ted Sullivan was around
the Western association circuit re-
Gently. The Boston American league
scout is not highly communicative
sort, Of fellow and usually slips into a,
town unobserved and leaves in the
same manner. Sullivan is not the only
major league scout. TO be in Shively
league territory of late, for A. Maui,
scout for the Philadelphia Americans,
recently passed around the circuit.
Whether Maui spotted any players is
not known.
Wichita Beacon: The trouble with
the Jobbers is in the pitching staff.
The team makes enough runs in prac-
tically every game to win with any
kind of pitching.
At the beginning of the season the
Jobbers' pitching staff was picked as
the strongest in the league. 1t has
proved to be one of the poorest dur
ing the past three weeks. Speer,
Dick and Bolin. are working well but
the latter never gets a chance ex-
cept to relieve one of his team mates
after the game is lost
Here is the way the Oklahoma CITY
Times sizes up the present pennant
race: Speculation is rife among the
fans and baseball players all over the
circuit at this time as to who will win
the 1908 pennant. The fans in Topeka,
Joplin, Hutchinson and Oklahoma, City
are all sure Of getting the rag while
in Wichita. and Webb City hope is
waning and fans have become knockers
Dick Cooley and Johnny Filiman de-
clare that there is no chance to lose
and the fans in those towns are so
wrapped up in the belief of what the
club managers say that they are will
ing to wager on the result. In Okla
homa City Manager Mcconnell is play
ing his cards without making any un-
usual fuss and says: II have a good
ball team and believe that we will win
the pennant." President Moist is con-
f1dent that he will come out on the
top rung of the ladder. but the fans
are not so sure that the Nets will win.
Players around the circuit all agree
that Oklahoa1a City had the best pitch
ing staff in the league. They know,
too, that during the past two weeks the