The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-06
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WHERE THEY PLAT
02 TOMORROW.
| Webb City at Topeka.
| Enid at Hutchinson.
Oklahoma City at Wichita.
Springfield at Joplin.
There is no game at the local park
this afternoon. Springfield. under the
new management, is getting rather
penuriously inclined and wanted
Cooley to donate half the grandstand
money for today's game. Cooley re-
fused and the game will be played off
! the next time the Midgets come to
town.
Jack Root is now a Topeka pitcher.
| He was released by the Midget man
| agement last night and was promptly
| signed by Topeka. Root was once
| good pitcher and may be yet but he
| hasn't been doing much with the
Midgets. He pitched good ball for
| Joplin last season.
| Larry Milton will bring his
| hoodooers here for three games COM
| mencing tomorrow. The Webb City
| aggregation will be remembered as
the one that took Topeka down the
line so hard in the opening series.
Maybe they can do it again, but prob
I
be as good as will be seen here for
awhile at least
Atchison, the brilliant southpaw of
| the Hutchinson team has finally won
| a game from the Jobbers. Several
| times in the past two years Jays
/ southsider has tried to accomplish
this always coming the second best.
| According to the following dope
Il ~
man, the hustling little manager of
the Joplin Miners. is already dream
| ing of the pennant while fighting to
| retain his lead Of the second division:
| Manager John Fillman of the Joplin
| baseball club is responsible for the
| statement that the star of destiny has
| spotted him out as the next recipient
of the Shively pennant rag. John does
| not bank extensively on the destiny
/ business as he says the idea received
a rude jolt several years past when
| the particular orb owned and
possessed by N. Bonaparte refused to
work at a critical time, struck, quit
the job and left Nap with nothing to
| do but have his portraits done with
his arms folded across his vest and a
| look Of intense displeasure on his
countenance. But John has regained
| something of his confidence in the
celestial decree since his. boys won
| twenty-four out of the last thirty-fiv
| games and believes that he has a
| good, hard working star that will not
lay down on the job until after Tues
| day, September 22. After that John
| says that he does not care whether
the star goes into Information or not.
| Charles Mcfarland, the manager of
| the Oklahoma City team last season,
has been elected captain of the Hous-
4 ton team in the Texas league. Nc
4 Farland renOrfed
| sold to the Washington American
| league team but it's dollars to dough-
nuts that he never sees the big leagues
/ again.
/ No wonder Sylvester Olson was so
anxious to get to Joplin that he left
before the team did on the recent trip.
| For Ole became a benedict while in
Minertown and it is now Mr. and Mrs.
| Sylvester Olson Here's wishing good
luck to the popular Topeka shortstop
| and his bride.
| Rabbit Wiser, the little cotton-top-
ped infielder whom the Oklahoma City
management unloaded upon the Mil
waukee team, has been sent to the
brush. He has been loaned for the
balance of the season to the Fond du
Lac team in the Wisconsin league.
MiIlsap got in the way of Hollings-
/ WOTlnS QeuNeTy Twice IN the second
game. He tried it a third time but
Burke was wise and called him back
to the bat. Millsap is one of the best
players on the Midget team. He hits
pretty good and is a good fielder. A
few years ago he was the best infielder
in the Western Association. He has
been out of the game for couple of
seasons on account of being suspended
by the Oklahoma City team to whom
he once belonged.
The Joplin Globe makes the follow
4 ing comment on the new Springfield
management: What the Hurlburt-
Hayden combination will accomplish
inai success was due to luck rather
than to any managerial ability or skill
in picking out baseball players. With
such talent as Perrine at second and
Shipke on third, the former now star
ring for Louisville among the Ameri-
i can Association second-sackers and
the latter covering third for Washing
ton in the American League, HurI-
burt's club was easily a dangerous
factor in this class of baseball The
equal of Perrine at second or Shipke
i at third has never since been developed
in the Shively circuit, but If Hurlburt
should have the luck to stumble onto
a phenom or two Springfield will like
ly come back to her place among the
/ paying towns of the league. One thing
i must be given to Hurlburt, namely, II
Springfield people support his team he