The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-19
Western
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Citation
Gossip
WHERE THEY PLAY
TOMORROW.

ESQ TOMORROW.
Hutchinson at Topeka
Joplin at Enid.
Springfield at Oklahoma City.
Wichita at Webb City.
Jack O'Conner. the st. Louis Brown
scout. will arrive In Topeka Saturday
and will watch the local team perform.
If Cobb and Wanner brought $500 as
Is alleged, Dick Cooley ought to be q
millionaire before O'Coner gets away
from here. O'Conner comes primarily
to watch Hagerman work.
Trainer, the new second basenan OF
the Packers who comes from the brush.
failed to show any class yesterday He
had one easy fielding chance and
handled it clearly but on a ground ball
he made a miserable showing. And he
didn't hit at all.
Murphy, another brush graduate who
was signed by the Packers to replace
Jay Andrews. has Jumped his Job, And
ing life in the Western association q
proposition too strenuous.
Doc Andrews is about the bummiest
third baseman seen on the local dia-
mond this year. 1t is quite clear why
Hutchinson let him out.-Enid Eagle.
Let's see. the same Doc Andrews made
twelve trips to the plate during the
series at Enid, and secured six hits.
making batting average of 800. Bum
work, that Is.
The Joplin Globe says that Trivett.
the new Hutchinson pitcher, is the
widest seen in that town this season.
He must be pretty bad, if he can beat
Beckenbaugh for the latter gave To-
peka ten walks in one game.
Charles Brooks, the little outfieider
of the Joplin team who was signed by
Baker simply because he was friend
of Paul Cobb, has been turned over to
Enid, by the Miners. He needs lot
of seasoning.
The Louisville team has bought
Pitcher Dick Kaufman from Spring.
field Hayden receiving a thousand
dollars for Dick. Kaufman has left for
Kansas City to Join the Night Riders.
The sale of Wanner to the st. Louis
Browns has provoked no little dis
cussion since the price was said to
have been $4,000. 1t is the general
verdict that Wanner Isn't worth 1T.
His fielding is what brought the
price, and wanner is sometimes a
faults that have been evident every
time he plays in Topeka. One of
these is that he can't start a double
play. He is a sure fielder and covers
lots of ground but when he has a
chance to get two men instead of one
he fails. And the worst fault about
him is that he is what is commonly
known as gutter. When the Miners
are tagging along in the rear Wan
ner puts up a iistless, bum game. All
his good work is done when the
Miners are ahead. e.,
Roland Atchison, the Hutchinson
southpaw, has been sold to the KAN
sas City Blues for $500. He will re-
port to Monte Cross at the end of the
Western association season. He ought
to make good easily.
Dick Cooley has arranged series
of games with the Kansas City Blues,
three of which will be played In To-
peka at the end of the season. The
dates as agreed upon will be Septem-
Der rs, &c and 81. The Cooleysox
will also play a series in Kansas City.
| Omaha will play here sometime after
| the season ends. The Omahogs are
generally conceded the Western league
pennant winners and a series between
these two teams would be Of moro
than passing interest.
This paper a few days ago errone-
ously stated that Spec Hurlburt had
been released by the Wichita team, but
the information at hand was incorrect.
Spec retired from the Wichita team or
his own accord in order to look after
his farming interests at Maple Hill.
HurIburt still belongs to the Wichita
team and Manager Jack Holland would
welcome him with open arms. Hurl-
burt has played great ball for Wichita,
but announces that he is through with
baseball.
The Joplin News-Herald is bewail-
ing the present class of the Joplin
team. The sporting column is filed
with little paragraphs some of which
are pathetic. Here are q few Of them:
Joplin has been in the Western asso-
citation four years. Prior to that her
fans dished out their coin daily to
Missouri Valley league baseball for
two seasons. But-Joplin has never
seemed Joplin would take a pennant.
Occasionally she would get on top and
occasionally fall into the cellar. But
at the end of the season somebody
else would cop the rag. But life
or death the Joplin fans would like to
see a rag land in the local barnyard.
and with little strengthening it isn't
too late yet for the Miners to get in
on the calico. Somebody wfis-
pered that it ruins a town for base
ball to give 1t a pennant-that 1t
would kill the sport in Joplin IL she
got a pennant. ..Give us some
put the ball over in a pinch and keep
from being batted out of the lot.
PENALIZING THE TROTTERS.
High Ball. Sonoma Girl and Sweet