The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-24
Western
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Topeka at Joplin.
Wichita at Enid
Hutchinson at Oklahoma Citv
webb City at Springfield.
Inc Topeka kids must have been
numbering the ball yesterday. KahI
ana Davis both secured home runs.
Soies MT safely four times. one of his
enough hitting to have won the game.
Selby pitched a good game yester-
Gay. He didn't have to work very hard
ana ana when the locals had secured big
iead he let down a little bit He is a
good man and Cooley is mighty fortu-
nate in getting him. He was Enid's
pest and Just why they let him go il
matter OF mystery.
In the fifth inning yesterday the
Miners got the bases filled with none
out Selby famed two and Reed made
the third out by hitting an easy one
10 second base-sure death.
Landreth and Kahl worked a double
steal yesterday and 1t was we'll that
they did as they got in position to
score moment later when Stevie Ra-
gan made a bobble.
The Railroaders must have taken on
new life. 1t took the Jobbers IL in
nings to defeat the cellar champs even
with the mighty Scott in the box.
Down in Webb City the fans are not
giving the team much patronage. Cot
feyville is putting UP a fight and would
like to take the place of the Webb City
team. meeting was held Monday
night and committees appointed to try
to save the franchise for Webb City
The following is the way the webb City
Sentinel sizes up the situation: Joplin,
from that towns leading newspaper
on down to the measliest fan is said
to be openly knocking Webb City as a
baseball town, working on President
Shively, urging umpires to incite Webb
City fans. and otherwise trying to make
this city loose it's baseball franchise
now that the Coffeyville proposition is
ripe. AS an Offset, the following call
for q big mass meeting is issued by
President Moseley of the baseball club.
To men in business and lovers of the
sport a meeting in the interest of base
ball will be held at the commercial
club rooms Monday evening at 8
O'Clock, June %. The Tricity team is
one of the strongest and best baseball
teams in the Western Association and
deserves the hearty support OF every
one in Jasper county. Come to the
pared to talk baseball and give it your
hearty support. good ball team we'll
supported is the very best advertise
ment that city can have 1t is for
you to say whether the franchise is to
remain here or be transferred else
where. There are three cities bidding
for the franchise.
Roy st. John will again cavort on
Western Association grounds. He has
he T.x1e vx-I1,
he has been playing this season with
uniform success. Anderson, the pres
emit erratic third baseman of the Midg-
cts goes to Tulsa in exchange for st.
John.
. Manager Vanderbilt. of the Spring
field team, announces the signing of
Henry Karsten of Holland. Mich, who
is pitcher. Karsten is a collegian
but has been cutting considerable ice
in the region of the Great Lakes.
Stoffer, who played on the Hutchin-
son infield for several weeks and was
later displaced by Casey, has been Sc
cured by Springfield and will take his
place at the Midgets' third corner.
Nichols who has been playing the in
field will be shifted to the outfield to
make room for St. John and Stoffer.
Here is the way the Minneapolis Jour
nal tells of the pitching of Jack Halla
In last Sundays game when he out
pitched Fiene the Chicago White Sox
twirler: Young Jack Halla came into
his own today when he defeated the
Minneapolis Millers at a score of5to 0.
Not only did the big south-paw let the
locals down without run, but during
the nine innings he allowed but four
hits, much to the disgust of a large
crowd of rooters.
Halla has been pitching in the tough
est sort of luck ever since the cham
pionship season opened, and MS COM
plete success today was the source of
much qualification to his many friends
in this city. This afternoon he was as
mysterious as the timecard of big
railway, and he had shoots and speed
to burn He was steady throughout the
contest, and the fielders behind him
backed him up in a splendid fashion.
A few days ago the Oklahoma City
Times was handing large crates OF
lemons to every team on the circuit
players were lauded to the skies. But
the Times has taken different vein OF
thought since then as the following
apologizing effusion in Mondays
Times will show: The Oklahoma City
Metropolitans returned this morning
from a disastrous trip around the east
ern half Of the circuit, playing thirteen
games and winning only four. This
afternoon the Nets tackle the Salt
Packers in the first of series of four
games and expect to at least break
even with the Kansans.
Manager Mcconnell says that the
pitchers did good work on the trip. but
that the team played in hard luck in
several games.
An injury to Jack Love in the games
AT JopIin crippled the team consider
ably. and boneheaded work on bases
and errors assisted in the loss of 9TH
err games
In others the boys were simply out
Tucked, failing to get hlts When hits
meant runs and making boobies at
critical times.