The Topeka state journal., 1908-07-14
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"a. WHERE THEY PLAT
TOMORROW.
Topeka at Enid.
Webb City at Oklahoma City.
Wichita. at Springfield.
Hutchinson at Joplin.
Tom Murphy, a brother Of Charles
Murphy. President of the Chicago
Worlds Champions, is in Webb City
and is watching the work Of Burnum.
the Triplett southpaw whose work has
season has been uniformly good.
You wouldn't know it from his field
ing but Bob: Kahl- is having q lot of
trouble with his right wrist. He went
fishing one day last week and develop
ed a bad case Of ivy poisoning. His
wrist Is badly swollen but Bob IS
staying with the. game.
Paul Cobb of the Joplin team is lead
ing the Miners with the stick with
an average of .313s Other mining aver
ages are Wanner .2sS, Corkin .274,
Fillman 1862. Reed ESQ. and Ragan
.23S All the others are below the 200
marx. = & 9r
Y The Springfield team this afternoon
is opening on new, grounds in White
City, the amusement portion of the
Midget town. DIR. Shively will be
present to attend the opening.
T-c 49,
George, the cast of Midget south
paw, has gone TO. California where he
will play with Los Angeles in the Pa
cific Coast league.
rr.....- I'D. T.
spiked by Walter Boles while the To-
calls were in Springfield recently, is
back into the game again. Tommy Is
a good inf1elder and would help any
w. A. team.
The Suspension on Jack Love Of the
Oklahoma City team has been raised
but he is still out Of the game with a
bum wrist. Kelsey is under suspen-
sion yet but the Nets management is
trying to get his suspension out of
the way and he may be in the game
this afternoon.
The Webb City Sentinel tells of raw
umpiring at the recent Webb City-To-
peka series IN this city. Among other
things which the Sentinel prints the
Topeka manager is referred to as
"smart-aleck-Cooley."
Jutzi the Webb City utility catcher,
is slated for release. He hasn't shown
very much as yet and Milton isn't Civ
ing him chance. Harry Cheeks
place. is a mighty hard ~one to fill for
Harry is abodtIAs good a catcher as
there is in the league. =
. Nearly every one Of THE seven other
teams in the leag4efis picking up some
players and f1llips th9lesf with Spring
field castoffs. Topeka took Cole; Jop-
lin. Murray; Webb City, Kaufman and
WiaS|fa Klsisyi MI1Isss 9nIasss fin Nichols and
The followifngg from the Hutchinson
News relative te rthes Enid. team tells
the truth and brings to the recollection
Of Topeka fans a similar team in 1905:
1t Isn't hard to figure out why Enid
is at the bottom There. are. a. lot Of
good players on the team and they
could get jobs with other clubs with
out asking. But the team Is mostly q
bunch of old stars: who have seen bet
ter days, and who are too old to play
under a manager swfth no enfore ex-
perience than themselves. Each one is
jealous of the other SO instead of play
ing together, they play individual ball
and hence seldom win a game. Nine
managers on one team is too many.
The Oklahoma city News attributes
the position of the Nets in the present
race to base running, one or two slug
gers, great pitchers, pinch fielding and
last but not least, the great work Of
George Kelsey behind the bat And
the News is about right regarding
Kelsey. for George is a mighty heady
player and always working his best.
Topeka once had a chance to keep
Kelsey, but poor management in
charge of the team at that time let
him go.
The pitching staff Of the Jobbers is
again suffering. Speer Is getting into
his stride, but Scott is losing nearly
every game. The big fellow is over
worked or something at any rate he
is not showing the form he was dis
playing at the opening of the. season.
Dick is still pitching consistent ball.
Fogerty didn't lasg very long. -gEL-
Dud Risley has been gobbled UP by
Manager Larry Milton and will adorn
the first sack for the Tripletts during
the remainder of sthe season. Jimmy
Cuthbert has been placed in left field
instead of Frank Lotion, while Pok-
orny, who has been making boobies
at second goes to rightfield instead Of
Downey, who will take regular turn
in the box. ..-~t,
The addition of Toman at second
for the Jobbers- makes pretty swell
infield for Holland. -Toman is a good
fielder and good. hitter and will fill "a
weak place in the Jobber inf1eld.
Manager Cooley and his baseball
tribe left last night for Enid. Three
games will be played in Enid and a
like number at Oklahoma City. Cooley
expressed much confidence in his
team before leaving and said he would
do better than break even on the trip.
The locals leave op. this trip with the
best team thus far this season. For
the first time. Cooley has pitching
staff. There are two or. three others
besides Rip Hagerman' upon whom
Cooley can depend for victories. Selby
has won six straight, Jack Root is
working fine and Roach ought to fiji